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Haunted House-Themed Attraction Opening In Former Women's Prison
Patch ^ | 5 Aug 2021 | Dan Shalin

Posted on 08/06/2021 7:05:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The attraction will be housed in the women's prison site, 401 Woodruff Ave., across Collins Avenue from the Old Joliet Prison property. The women's prison building, built in 1896,

"in the buildout phase," ahead of the scheduled opening on September 18. The attraction will be open on select nights until Nov. 6, according to its website.

Haunted prisons have proven particularly popular in Joliet and the surrounding area in recent years.

In 2019, the Joliet Area Historical Museum began offering guided and self-guided walking tours of the Old Joliet Prison property, including the men's prison yard made famous in the movie "Blues Brothers."

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Not Stateville but close.
1 posted on 08/06/2021 7:05:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT; dfwgator
The attraction will be open on select nights until Nov. 6, according to its website.

How was Joliet.

Oh it was bad. Thursday night they'd serve a wicked pepper steak.

2 posted on 08/06/2021 7:12:45 AM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m only scared of the zombies, and the old methed-out woman!


3 posted on 08/06/2021 7:13:26 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I wonder if the place is purported to be actually haunted? If so, being that it probably housed murderers or other violent and dissolute inmates, those would be some angry ghosts or at least some residual demonic activity. I wouldn’t step into the place or allow my children in there.


4 posted on 08/06/2021 7:14:33 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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—”so, being that it probably housed murderers or other violent and dissolute inmates, those would be some angry ghosts”

Notable inmates
Floyd Cummings - Served 12 years for murder and later became a noted professional boxer, tying in a fight with Joe Frazier.
John Wayne Gacy – Serial killer and rapist convicted of the murders and rape of 33 boys and young men in 1980. Transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to Stateville Correctional Center for execution by lethal injection on May 10, 1994, and declared dead at 12:58 a.m. the following morning.[9]
Jordan Hill – One of the four participants in the 2017 Chicago Torture Incident of a mentally disabled man that was captured on Facebook live.[10]
Nathan Leopold – Transferred from Joliet. Half of the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb case.
Richard Loeb - Transferred from Joliet and killed by another inmate. Other half of the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb case.
Paul Modrowski – Convicted February 17, 1995 of first degree murder of Dean Fawcett.
Richard Speck – Convicted April 15, 1967 of murdering eight women.
Edward Spreitzer - Convicted April 2, 1984 for his participation in the murders of an estimated 18 women at the hands of a satanic cult known as the Chicago Ripper Crew. He was formally given the death penalty on March 20, 1986. Governor George Ryan granted him clemency in 2003. After 17 years on death row, his sentence was reduced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Correctional_Center


5 posted on 08/06/2021 7:40:27 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If you want a real haunted place, check out Searcy Hospital in Mt. Vernon, Alabama. I actually can’t say if it’s still standing but I went and looked around it a few years ago. That place is haunted with a capitol H. There are some relatively modern buildings and some from I think the late 1800s.

https://www.al.com/living/2016/09/the_curious_history_of_rapidly.html


6 posted on 08/06/2021 9:06:56 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thanks! Them are some bad players!


7 posted on 08/06/2021 9:35:15 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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