This Thanksgiving, Phoenix ghost hunters are traveling to nearby states to check out the nearby hauntings. Folsom Prison, east of Sacramento, has been found to be one of the most haunted prisons in California.
Be careful as you enter the property. Visitors have seen a ghost walking around the front gate. They say the Folsom Phantom is the spirit of a prison guard killed during a 1927 prison riot on Thanksgiving Day. Hopefully it wasn’t over the holiday meal. Two Folsom prison guards died during the November 1927 uprising. On Thanksgiving Day, Ray Singleton was stabbed to death as he guarded inmates leaving the prison library after a movie. Prison guard, Charles Gillies had a fatal heart attack while he manned his post at the prison’s front gate. The riot lasted two days. The police and local law officers ended the disturbance, in which three prisoners died.
Ghost prisoners have been seeing walking along the exterior catwalk. They thought it was one of the prisoners. One of the guards ordered the inmate to stop walking, and of course he did not. The residual haunted specter continued his march. Guards fired bullets at the ghost only to see the man keep on walking and eventual vanish.
Most of the reports come from the morgue, old hospital, the old Death Row cells, and Building 5, the prison’s oldest cellblock. Back in July 1897, unruly convicts at Folsom Prison were given the “Spook Treatment.” The cell nearest to the scaffold was said to be haunted. Prisoners were thrown into this chamber witnessed terrible paranormal events while locked up this “dark cell”. The inmates say terrible threats were delivered by sepulchral voice through a telephone transmitter. Two of the worst characters under Warden Aull’s watch were compelled to yield up a secret that bothering the officers of the prison for several weeks. Now that’s a way to get the inmates to “talk”.
Stop and visit the museum. Cameras are welcome.
The Retired Correctional Peace Officers Museum at Folsom State Prison
312 3rd Street
Represa, CA 95671
916-985-2561
Debe Branning nazanaza@aol.com
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