In Pennsylvania, for sale prison haunted

147-year-old stone prison from the gallows, handcuffs, eternal consciousness hanged miner and a bunch of ghosts can be yours for only 749 thousand dollars.

"Oh, we have ghosts,' said Betty Lou McBride last week. - Tons of ghosts."

In 1995, the 84-year-old Betty Lou McBride and her 87-year-old husband Tom bought the former jail in Jim Thorpe, a town in the County of carbon in the North-Eastern part of Pennsylvania, and during the last two decades turned it into a veritable Museum.

A two-storey prison with 27 cameras positioned in an old mining town, formerly known as Mon-chunk on the Lehigh river, is in the National register of historic places because of its ominous place in history of the miners ' unions of America.

In the late 1800s, Pennsylvania was flooded with immigrants heading to the mines for the extraction of anthracite. Faced with low pay, dreadful living conditions and discrimination, the Irish miners, along with fraternal trade unions tried to force the mine owners to treat them with respect.

Blood was shed on both sides, and the killing of miners by order of the coal barons led to the uprisings, after which June 21, 1877, the day known as "Black Thursday", four Irish miners were hanged in the carbon County jail for the murder and another six - in Pottsville. Three Irish miners were executed in the prison after the "black Thursday".

The film "Molly Maguires" with Sean Connery and Richard Harris in the lead roles, released in 1970, was one of 10 films about these events.

On the right wall of number 17 see the handprint of one of the members of a secret society of Irish miners, the "Molly Maguires", which is allegedly impossible to wash off, to paint or plaster.

"This fingerprint will remain a proof of my innocence," according to the legend, cried the prisoner, before he was led to the gallows.

"Nobody wants to go, or to stay the night in this chamber, - said the owner of the Museum. One former prisoner, Walter Rodriguez, who was put in a chamber 17 in connection with the murder of a teenage girl, pleaded to transfer him to another cell because of fear."

Thanks to its grim history and paranormal activity, the prison has become a very popular place for Ghost hunters and their followers. So, put up for sale this unique property, the owners hope that the buyer will try to save the Museum is haunted.

"It's not the brain stem, is good business, said Betty. I saw things here that are not. Many people feel touching their hair or someone's hand on his shoulder."

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