Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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by As we moved forward, prisoners, guards with malformed, scarred, really scary faces jumped out on us. There were also some ugly looking statue-like creations which looked so real when our flashlights lighted them. Things happened so unexpectedly, that even if you proposed to yourself that all this isn’t real, and you shouldn’t be scared, it just run through all your determination. What really made the adventure so real was that the whole building was exactly as it had been a few years after when it was closed. Nothing was changed.
And the decaying walls, furniture, the smells, the sounds, all these contributed to the creepiness of the whole place. I may visit the Penitentiary again at Halloween just to see if it is as scary as it was the first time, now that I know what I’m throwing myself into.
Address:
2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA
Price:
Prices vary on days and ticket types.
Opening Hours:
Daily in the daytime and at night until 11pm.
On the web:
http://www.easternstate.org/
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