The Unbelievable Horrors of the Old City Jail

Oh my god, what was it? I don't think he'll be the same after tonight. The infamous old

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looks horrible. A warm welcome to us. Another curious fact. We are about to pass by where the gallows was. They hanged people on the spot. That's a cheerful no really either not cheerful this balcony doesn't look like an old witch's hat let's walk across it eh that sounds good whoo I feel horrible this week on BuzzFeed unsolved we investigate the old

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in Charleston South Carolina as part of our ongoing investigation into the question are ghosts real.

You are taking pride in yourself. I tried to inject some seriousness. This former city jail was built on land where a cemetery once stood and on the same block as an asylum, if that's not some kind of creepy hat trick. Don't know. I know what old prisons are. It's a lot of fun to visit and that's all I have to say about it. Nothing about demons. I mean, I'm sure there won't be any demons. There will be dust. There will be noises. Yes, you know. pee your pants oh we all have the story we have the cemetery there is an asylum at the end of the block there has also been a cast of characters that have rotated through these bars what is this?

Greetings, I don't know why you laugh better. You couldn't even get it out of your own mouth. There have to be characters spinning around the bar. Well, let's get into it, how about that? Yes, the city's old jail has been called the most haunted building in South Carolina, a ghostly sanctuary to the city's darkness. past before the Civil War, innocent and free African American sailors would be unjustly locked up if they passed through Charleston once the war ended. Confederate soldiers and their sympathizers were also locked up in one scenario, we have people who were unjustly imprisoned and then in the other scenario, the people who were imprisoning them were now behind bars.

True, I received a low dose of IDO, but people who were unjustly imprisoned are still unjustly imprisoned. That's true unless he gets released, which I guess probably didn't happen. Completed in 1802, the original building was four stories high and had a two-story octagonal tower, due in part to a series of escape attempts. Robert Mills, the architect behind the Washington Monument, reinforced the old city jail in 1822, but on August 31, 1886, an earthquake struck Charleston later estimated at a magnitude of 6.7 to 6.9 while the walls bricks fell around them the 64 inmates who were held captive in the jail begged for freedom they were finally taken to the exercise yard they were led away by a convicted murderer 43 of the prisoners quickly jumped over one of the high brick walls leaving only 21 inmates as the dust settled.

The two-story octagonal tower along with the entire fourth floor did not survive the earthquake, leaving the structure as the three-story building it is today. I just like the idea. of being in the prison yard, noise grounds, yeah, the bricks are falling, a lady stands up and says, hey, let's get out of here and your friends say, hey, I like who she is in the course of the old city jails, 137 years in operation, the count on how many men, women and children perished within these walls, Berry's savagely, some say between 10,000 and 14,000 people died trying to survive, quote, eat a dirty place, filthy, unfit for human beings to live in and quote, but researcher David C Scott found records of numbered deaths.

In hundreds, not thousands, most probably died of wounds or disease during the Civil War. Scott's statement confirms what an inmate said in 1864 that the old city jail was the most unpleasant, dirtiest, most disgusting place, spurs in a quote true to that statement, one of the most active parts of the Jail is a room where prisoners would be tortured and punished. Illume which has since been used for Ouija board sessions. A room that the tour guides believed had a portal. Wow, this is definitely a jail, so right now. We are going to walk to a room where they used to torture and whip misbehaving prisoners, as you can see this place is a nightmare, but this is the room here.

The tour guides who run this place say there is what they need to do. There are believed to be inhuman entities inside this building, whether that means demon or not I have no idea, so it feels like a good place for a demon, sure let's find out, okay demons, oh oh damn , they call me Shane, he's magical, Shane and I'm here to send you back to Arrow oh wow and for any possible inhuman entities residing in this room, we're here to communicate so let's rock, if it's in you, you're a kind of ghoul demon, we would especially love to talk to you. you, we have experience with morons like you, we got a bridge, derogatory wiki, since we own a bridge, a cow with topless hands, what turbos said, right, we have a beatboxing demon here, another, my name is Ryan and I'm here. say we're the baddest ghost hunters in the US, running ghouls and being cool - like the old city jail, their spirits are violent and vengeful on the third floor, construction workers say they saw the Appearance of a jailer holding his rifle before disappearing through the cell block. bars, ghosts will supposedly whisper in your ear when you walk past them, sometimes they even shout your name, others have said they felt a sensation of suffocation or suddenly losing their breath, okay, that's it.

I believe in ghosts if in the EVP we collect chu chu. pickle pie so you'll notice this room has iron on all the walls and that's because people were escaping so they had to fortify this was known as death row they kept some of the worst inmates here, maybe they kept the pirates here. Actually I mean it would be easier to get out of the wooden walls if you have a big old hook, maybe they're like jokes here, oh you don't like jokes here, well maybe yes, whoo, what happened Yes, what you have. you have a pull, yes we recover, we have a hug here, all my blood is pumping very fast right now, yes, I will tell you it's a lot of fun right now, but if that happened to me when I was alone, you would go back crazy.

I'd probably jump out that window and by the way, if you want a little more once with the Bergmeister here, oh, he'll be here just soon enough to back off, you'll keep that speed going through the door behind her. closed, did it work the way you wanted? This is a stupid season. Also on the third floor is a wheelchair from the 1820s that still stands sentinel right where it has been for decades. Some believe that the person who died in that wheelchair succumbed to cholera and that his spirit is still connected to the chair to this day and no one is allowed to sit in the chair, you will sit in that chair, we can't do that , yes, we are the paranormal bad boys of the Internet, that's right, we are planning to preside on the cheap. a baby you're not going to style me I'm going to high five my butt yeah that's not going to happen I'm not going to sit on that oh it's like a death trap I thought it was like they were throwing down the gauntlet like saying oh this one It's a very creepy chair, don't sit on it, that way it could happen to you, when in reality you could get tetanus or something.

Tours have been known to detect cold spots and orbs around the chair, as well as witnessing the chair suddenly spin around and hit an unsuspecting visitor in the lake. What would happen if you walked into that room? I entered this room. We gave him What was that? Did you want to talk to us? Because we are up here for whoever sits in this wheelchair. We will give you the opportunity to talk to us. Why do you remain in this prison? What was that? Whose prison is it? Whose house is It? This is the piece. You're going to need to speak a little more clearly.

We're just trying to figure out why you're here last chance why you're still in this prison okay leave it while you continue there how it happened there the old morgue located in the basement of the prison is said to be the domain of the ghost of a boy tragically named Jeremiah Jeremiah passed away at a young age, presumably from cholera, it is said that he will try to hold the hand of a tour guide and some guests have mentioned feeling cold spots that end only at waist height, about the height of Jeremiah is also known to have , nine years old, throws rocks into the crowd or even slips rocks into the pockets of unsuspecting visitors.

Supposedly, an unseen force in the basement also ripped sunglasses off someone's face, but whether Jeremiah is responsible or not. Because this is unknown, this jail also held Union soldiers from the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the same all-black unit that was depicted in the 1989 Oscar-winning film. He said the soldiers' presence had been detected here during the spiritual box sessions asking. for morphine, up here on the left is the morgue, which is said to be a pretty active place, you know, the normal stuff, but there's also a boy here named Jeremiah, another group of people who are often here.

They collect people who were part of the 54th regiment that appeared in cinematic glory. After reviewing our footage, we discovered that our motion alarm went off right outside the morgue. It appears that the motion alarm was activated by this light orb during testing. Objects as small as insects won't set off the alarm, so is this strange orb a spirit setting off the alarm? My name is Ryan, I'm Shane, how are you getting up to his level? Yes, we are here to communicate with you, Jeremiah. I would love to be your friend. Communicate. You probably didn't have many friends around here.

No good. You know you have two friends. You have two great friends. Here we have a device that you can manipulate. I have some pebbles in my hand. oh, you love those pebbles, don't you? And I heard you can't resist them. These pebbles look real. You could take these pebbles and throw them right at his eyes, yeah, yeah, throw them at me I don't know, I guess if you hit. my eye is pretty hard it's kind of a soft spot maybe you could get to my brain or you could go right through the nose you'll be dead in a matter of minutes we'll all be better yeah oh no it's a smiley face Jeremiah could you turn that face smiling on a frowning face?

I also have my EMF detector here so I can see any disturbances at this time. We're in oh oh, there's a huge spike. Jeremiah, if you want to communicate with us, please make a noise. could you say something can you move something in the room could you touch one of us we just want to talk to you in particular I want to know why you are in the morgue what are you doing down here what is your story why are you in jail if you weren't related to the family who ran this place and also lived on site, which is frankly a little strange now if there are soldiers who served in the Civil War here, particularly soldiers from the 54th regiment in the first place.

Thank you for your service, you did something incredible for our country and now I'm going to ask you for another favor. You can talk with me? Well, that's over. Remember that the pebbles are in a smiling face, at any point you can move them however you want. The most infamous inmate said to still haunt these walls is that of the woman often called America's first serial killer Lavinia Fisher Lavinia Fisher along with her husband John were held in the old city jail from 1819 to 1820 , while the records of the time say so. a different story The legend of the fishermen has been passed down in Charleston for generations.

This gruesome story begins in the six miles at a hotel six miles outside of Charleston that the fishermen ran. The inn was popular with travelers coming and going from Charleston selling goods. Lavinia was reportedly extremely beautiful, a trait she used to ensnare victims of her. Lavinia and John poisoned their victims by adding oleander to their tea, so the story goes that a lever allowed John and Lavinia to drop their victims from their beds into a chamber below. where John killed them and dismembered them, we can say that tea is not that impressive, that's also just child's play, there it screams, play, yes, but the trapdoor yes, pretty good, yes, and dismember is okay a little , but at least in terms of serial killers, the other kind of do.

That same success, these people are like comic book villains. Yes, on February 18, 1819, the sheriff arrested the fishermen. Some stories put the body count at between 20 and 30, while others speculate that there could be as many as 120 men who were victims of Lavinius's deceptions. Reports suggest that no one was ever murdered as no bodies were ever found implicating the fishermen. The fishermen were taken to the old town jail and the six miles inside and everythingwas there was burned to the ground in January 1820. The fishermen were found guilty not of murder but of highway robbery. They were sentenced to death by hanging until the end.

Lavinia did not believe that she would be hanged. She thought that the governor would not let a woman died on the gallows as legend has it, an old law in South Carolina said that a married woman could not be hanged, so on the day of her execution Lavinia arrived at the gallows dressed in her wedding dress only to see them hanging her husband. husband first like this then she will no longer be married yes oh that is the lawyer between Lavinius the last words were quote cessation I will not have any of this save your words for others who want them if you have a message you want to send to hell give it to me, I will take it and I will quote and then the video Fisher jumped from the gallows and hanged himself.

I would love to talk to this. Lady, turn on my little spear box and I can, we can talk there, I can't wait, we'll put it on the horn spear if you give us a choo-choo pickle pie that'll be a get what if you told him hey I have something to tell you to hell Jim to pickle pie and she says that's what you want to say to hell I'll say you're absolutely right Lavinia's screams are said to be heard echoing through the jail visitors to the jail have said they have felt Lavinius' presence others They say that they had actually seen her inside through a window, some statements that she sometimes manifests as a tickle on the skin or even a scratch, in fact, it is said that three scratches together are her mark.

Well, here we are. This is the cell of the infamous Lavinia Fisher and her husband John Fisher, let's see if she has anything else to say. Oh. imposing once again my name is Ryan I'm Shane point two on the meter Mel if you would like to contact us to clear your name and erase all the red from your ledger in the history books this is your chance, now what? About you John maybe your wife is tired of people yelling at her maybe you want to clear your boy's name, okay? Lavinia, I'm going to talk to you one more time, the quieter you are, the worse he will look for you.

I'm trying to help you to, I'm not going to do it, that was you, let's keep it up, it could have been me, so I could have tried it or not, once again, one word, although I'll need more than one word, I really thought that your legend would do it. precede you, but it turns out that it's all a bunch of nonsense, what didn't you like? Didn't you like it when I told you that you weren't so big and bad and the scariest story would turn you into Lavinia? What are you trying? Yes, what if? my shirt started again why guys Wiley is what you see, that's my belly button, you like that and if that wasn't hot enough, ah, that's so innie, it makes a little noise when you have it, mara, turn off the box, you'll hear It's a little better wait, get a load of this Lavinia, you want some, look at these juicy little holes mm-hmm, a couple of wet little man craters for you hmm, you could plant your flag on this bad boy.

I think we have Now he's clearly not amused, well we gave it our all, I mean really, it's the first time we've tried to seduce a ghost and failed, who could have seen it coming right after reviewing the footage we discovered in one ? from our static cameras what appears to be a figure moving just outside Lavinius' cell is this the ghost of Lavinia Fisher I think this is the biggest evidence we've caught on this show it's not good how do you think that's not good ? I mean, it looks like maybe a car goes by somewhere or something, a car goes by someone, it could also just be someone walking outside and that couldn't be any of us, there's no one down there.

I thought you'd ask that, so I see I synced. above timelines yes I know where we are in the building okay I think it's a ghost we had all the staff accounted for in front of us maybe there was a third staff member they didn't know was walking around. I don't think so, maybe a homeless man came in. I think that's pretty solid evidence of a ghost. I think we caused something very, so it's exciting here, with this shocking evidence in mind, we now move into the final phase of the investigation for the first time. are we ever going to explore the whole prison individually it's a nightmare i don't like it it's very nervous i've seen you before as an individual and it's been quite a while now hey, well we've never done anything where we locked down the whole building and now it's just us grunting , do it please, I'd like some privacy, just me and the demons, now it's okay, normally I'd say this job is a lot of fun, but it's cute like these, I really hate this job, it certainly is cute.

Infernal mm-hmm not suitable for anyone down here there are demons here you have a great guy to mess with I'm happy to be the guy if you're terrorizing come on, chase me this is probably one of our most formidable enemies and the fact that I'm going to have all that hellish hell to myself I can't make any promises that I'll stay there for the full ten minutes, okay, keep going, okay, I could be walking up the stairs here in a moment, that would be a lovely opportunity. I'm going to leave that in case Ryan trips. I think it would be kind of fun.

I would say normally when I do this, I'm furious at how Cavalier Shane is in there, but right now I'm just going to say I'm impressed if he's having a good time in there right now there's something really wrong with his brain well now this is a beautiful beautiful room with wonderful acoustics, I mean look at this, who wouldn't be in their right mind? excited to be there alone, you know how psycho you have to be to enjoy that god. In fact, I would recommend that you don't waste your ghost energy on me, I'm just going to be honest with you, you're going to want to save it for The other guy will come here right after me and whatever you do it will be a riot of laughter, he makes very funny faces, it won't be a guarantee, but if you do something depending on the severity of your actions, it's possible that poop will happen if you do it.

I'll probably blame it on the wind or say it was an owl that dropped a nut somewhere oh, I heard someone down there, I guess that means what we're doing here. Damn, it's been a really fun time with you, right? as was? I don't want to scare you, but there's something a little weird about this place, yeah, no, I think I heard something. What do you mean? Do you think you heard some things? Nothing, it's here, tell me what you think you heard, we'll compare notes later. I don't know if I could do this man, there you go, you're a ghost hunter.

I know you have to do it. That's why you came here, isn't it okay just me alone? His brain looks like a special kind of putty. right now I don't know if I could do this holy, okay, this is horrible, this is really horrible, suddenly it smells like the ocean, how about that? What's up here with me when he asked me where the sounds were coming from? I told him above because it feels like a good final boss for him, I'm sure he'll walk in there and hear a lot of things on the first floor, look, the pebbles are still in a smiley face, walk to the end of the first hallway, No, I won't if you do. 10 full minutes I'm going to be very proud of him What am I doing?

What am I doing here? All the hair on my arm is standing up. I'm standing alone in the middle of the old city jail. the only person in this building what kind of idiot would do this to me I realized I'm the dumb one make some nonsense noises baby here we go an hour or two ago now I'm going to run to the warden's room yeah this sucks I hate it, I hate this, it's a big reaction. I think we are making some progress. You think you're crazy. You haven't seen a crazy person on the third floor marching down the hallway yet.

Where are you? I will give it to you. This is the scariest building I have ever been in in my entire life. I think I've broken myself. My plane crashed. Keep in mind that an hour ago I was hitting his navel. I don't think I'll be the same after tonight. Where are you? What was it? Who did that? Who did it again? Holy, I felt like something ran past me twice, once on the right side, once on the left side for context, this place where I felt something rush past me is the exact place. our static camera captured the figure the human mind if he is looking for something he will find something and he will find something and he will destroy it if I am going to be here what that trip that made that movement is gone Quiet now and I'm afraid he is dead.

My God! Holy Chassé, burn the gumbo. He must have had a heart attack. Where were you? The thing that happened next to me. Where are you? Yes, charge. I'll see this place in my nightmares for years, so thank you. That's why you thought the door was going the other way and forever it sounded like you went through some things there that go, okay you heard something, I didn't hear anything but I felt good things once I was standing on the second floor. I stood still and felt a gust of wind pass by my right side. I turned around and then he passed by my left side in the opposite direction.

I hated it, I didn't really hear anything there. I just wanted to really psych myself up. are you willing to do it don't you look good i started growling like a dog we heard you did it yes oh i think the whole neighborhood heard you oh it really was that loud yeah i think we have to go okay let's go yes or no you think a building can really embody the sins of the past must acknowledge that the old city jail was the site of cold-blooded brutality, however, I dare say that tonight some light was shed on that subject with strange noises, physical sensations , unidentified movements and a possible The appearance of tonight's investigation brings Shane and I closer to completing our ongoing investigation into the question of whether ghosts are real, but for now and perhaps forever the question remains without resolving.