Moundsville Prison and "The Hole"

Continued from Visiting Moundsville Prison

The tour ended with the entire group standing around "Old Sparky," the famous electric chair where numerous prisoners said their final prayers. The room also held makeshift shanks and other tools fashioned into killing devices. Personally, I'd rather die from electrocution than a shank in the side. My luck the shank would get stuck halfway in and I'd be left with a permanent disfigurement; even in death there's vanity.

The tour operator informed us pizza would be available shortly and we could either wait to eat, or start out on our own, and eat later. The entire group waited but the three of us headed out. You can eat pizza any time but a date with a ghost only happens every so often.

We walked out the electric operated gate into the dark hallway and nothing could be heard but the sound of the door clicking closed behind us. This was it, we were on our own. We huddled close and began to walk.

"It's a little cold in here," I said.

"Come here, let me hold you," Trainwreck responded with open arms.

"Get the hell away from me! I'm sure the gay ghosts just took note of you," I said and we all giggled as we made our way down the hallway.

"Where should we go first," asked Ples.

"Let's fuck with Red. I have a can of chew in my book bag and we can taunt him with it," I said.

We all agreed and made our way towards the cell block where Red had been stabbed to death. We arrived in the hallway and Trainwreck said, "Sit there and act like you're sitting on the toilet and I'll snap a picture."

"Ok." I agreed and we took a very interesting picture of the cell. We began to call to Red.

"It's no wonder they stabbed you to death, you big puss! Come out if you're so big and bad! We'll give you something to cry about!"

Trainwreck began to wander off and make his way through the hallways by himself. Ples looked at me and said, "Isn't it funny how comfortable Trainwreck seems to be in prison, as if he's done this before?"

I laughed, observing how Trainwreck did seem to be comfortable with his surroundings.

This continued the entire night. We visited each haunted location, stepped over the paranormal investigation teams. Let me correct this, they weren't so much teams as they were a few ladies with homemade patches sewn on their sleeves. We actually observed them with a crystal ball and doing some weird seance and we looked at them strangely as we made our way through the old psyche ward. We thought about giving up on the entire ghost hunt and turning our efforts towards something a little more fun, like messing with the other ghost hunters.

The only scary thing to happen is when Trainwreck wandered off in the Sugar Shack and I hid behind a wall and jumped out at him. He screamed like a woman, we laughed and aimlessly searched the hallways. Eventually we walked the hallways with no flashlights to make the experience scarier, but it never really got scary. We never did get back to "The Hole" where RD had been killed, because the bats prevented us from doing so. They buzz your head throughout the entire prison and it's about the scariest thing about the place.


We were sitting in a hallway, drinking our 2nd 8hr energy drink in two hours, when something clanged off the floor. Pleas jumped and I didn't move because I already knew who was responsible for it and it wasn't any ghost, unless you consider Trainwreck's pale legs a ghost.


"This really sucks," I said.


Trainwreck and Ples both agreed when a bunch of girls started screaming off in the distance. They were screaming and running through the hallways with small bulbs of light from their flashlights dancing on the walls off in the distance.


"Fat girls are so annoying," Trainwreck said.


"How do you know they are fat," said Ples.


"Because only fat girls make that kind of noise," Trainwreck said.


"Then why do you always steal their underwear," I asked Trainwreck.


"Because it's funny," he said and laughed.


"What do you think they're screaming about?" Ples asked.


"Somebody must have told them all the pizza is gone," Trainwreck said, "and it scared the shit out of them."


We ended up staying around 4 hours out of the 10 hours allotted.


Ghosts seen - 0


Times anyone was scared - Trainwreck once


We left the prison and all agreed that our days of ghost hunting were over. The trip completely ruined all the reality shows and and spoiled all other plans to visit different scary locations. We went into the prison a little nervous but we all agreed we'd have slept by ourselves in one of the cells if need be, because there were no ghosts in the place. We did get a few t-shirts out of the deal but as for ghosts, none!