Ghost Walks
Feature Locations: Moundsville, West Virginia, USA – –
HOSTED BY GHOST GUIDE DANIEL – With a history reading like a Horror Movie Script, West Virginia Penitentiary is a truly haunted place. This episode is dedicated to a lighter spot, but the history is dark in a much stranger and terrible way.
Dark history of the prison. What it’s like to visit, and the State’s storied past around executions.
This week is a combo based on haunted prisons (dark history and ghost story) from West Virginia Pen and Toronto’s Don Jail – –
“A Haunted Prisons Episode” because it won’t be the only one. My goodness. So much dark history… so many ghost stories inside historic prisons. Starting with a dark story from West Virginia Pen, an American haunt with horror movie like history. Daniel talks about his visit to this place, along with using hopelessness to create ghosts. All ending with a ghost story out of Toronto’s Don Jail.
This week is on History Saved by Ghosts with Mansfield Reformatory —
Daniel discusses the phenomenon of ghosts saving historic buildings. Getting in the value of opening an abandoned building. The beautiful energy of real history. Then using a prime example, Mansfield Reformatory, aka the Shawshank Prison. With 2 of his favorite ghost stories.
First ever Live Read from the Ghost Guide Daniel Podcast YouTube Page…
First ever Read featuring an article written by… me! Dispelling the rumor of this killer. That he ever stayed at this famous haunted location, Moundsville’s West Virginia Penitentiary.
With 20 years in the Paranormal… Ghost Guide Daniel’s unique experience as an investigator and ghost tour guide allow for interesting tales. Dedicated to the Real Ghost Story. These raw, unedited and spooky discussions are bound to change skeptics to believers.
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It’s become an infamous rumor. Saying the murderer Charles Manson stayed at West Virginia Penitentiary.
He didn’t. But his connection is strong. Through his mother, Kathleen Maddox.
Ghost Guide Daniel – – RD Wall s was a prisoner, maintenance clerk and popular inmate inside West Virginia Penitentiary.
Calmly serving his time. Getting along with both prisoners and guards. As happy as an inmate can be… until some new transfers arrived.
Warning… things get brutal
June 19 1931, Frank Hyer was about to be hanged for killing his wife. Seeing the condemned before his execution surprised officials… he was happy.
Ghost Guide Daniel – – William “Red” Snyder was a violent man. Born in 1946. Starting with arson in his 20’s. Then, it escalated. And he served time in many prisons.
Released on parole from West Virginia Penitentiary in 1967. One day later, he killed 2 men, returning him to the storied prison, and… leading to his murder.
Only 10 years open when stories of inhumane punishment and torture was told to the newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 30, 1886. Former West Virginia Penitentiary Assistant Superintendent named Wilkerson had seen enough.
After leaving he exposed accounts of violence done on inmates.
Two notable dark tourism sites stand across the street from each other in Moundsville, West Virginia.
On the west side is North America’s largest native burial mound at 65 feet high. On the east side, the United States most haunted prison, West Virginia Pen.