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Historic haunted jail for sale


Still Waters

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The asking price — $749,000 — includes gallows, nooses, handcuffs, the everlasting handprint of a hanged coal miner, and possibly some ghosts who have good reason to be ticked off.

“Oh, we have ghosts here,” Betty Lou McBride said last week. “Tons of ghosts.”

McBride, 84, and husband Tom, 87, purchased the former Carbon County Jail in Jim Thorpe in 1995 when it still housed prisoners, and took over once the county moved the last of them to a new facility in Nesquehoning. The McBrides have spent the last two decades running the imposing, 147-year-old stone building as The Old Museum Jail.

“We’ve been saying we were going to sell it for a long time, but it’s hard to let go,” she said.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/molly-maguires-haunted-jail-for-sale-pennsylvania-irish-miners-pinkertons-jim-thorpe-20180816.html

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Sorry Still Waters. I didn't see this when I posted. The handprint is real. Alexander Campbell put his left hand on the wall as he was being led to the gallows and said it would always be there to show they hung an innocent man. No matter what they do, it comes back. Incredible story. It changed the labor laws and reinforced unions for coal miners throughout Pennsylvania. At the time, the town was known as Mauch Chunk.

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