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As Halloween gets creepily close, the season for famous haunts is heating up. Recently, I took a trip – my second one actually – to Eastern State Penitentiary<\/a>, a historic landmark in Philadelphia that was, in its prime, the world’s first actual Penitentiary.<\/p>\n If you’re into famous haunts, I recommend Terror Behind the Walls, a haunted house event at Eatern State Penn that runs now through November 7<\/a>. guaranteed you’ll have a good time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n But, if you’re really <\/em>interested in the real, genuine<\/em> spookiness of this place, then you might want to take a day tour<\/a>, which is offered daily, year-round.\u00a0The concept of this place of rehabilitation was straightforward and earnest<\/a>, but its history leaves a lot to wonder, as does the creepily dilapidated nature of the structure as it stands today.<\/p>\n Many a photographer has tried to capture the true, haunting nature of this place. \u00a0Now, it’s my turn to try. \u00a0The gallery of photos for Eastern State Pen appears after the cut:<\/p>\n \n As Halloween gets creepily close, the season for famous haunts is heating up. Recently, I took a trip – my second one actually – to Eastern State Penitentiary, a historic landmark in Philadelphia that was, in its prime, the world’s first actual Penitentiary. If you’re into famous haunts, I recommend Terror Behind the Walls, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[197,194,196,195,47],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-stuffs","category-photography","tag-esp","tag-eastern-state-penitentiary","tag-halloween","tag-terror-behind-the-walls","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}