The Warden Who Never Retired: Ghosts of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco
The ferry from Fisherman’s Wharf takes twelve minutes to cross San Francisco Bay to...
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Prisons & Jails
The Governor’s Curse: Haunting of Port Arthur Penal Colony, Tasmania, Australia
On the Tasman Peninsula at the southern edge of Tasmania, Port Arthur was established in 1830 as a...
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The Last Photographs: Inside Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng, the School Where 17,000 People Vanished
The building that would become Tuol Sleng — “Hill of the Poisonous Trees” — was a...
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The Warden’s Wife and the Loaded Gun: Inside Ohio State Reformatory
The Ohio State Reformatory rises from flat Ohio farmland outside Mansfield with the gravity of a...
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A Thousand Years of the Condemned: The Haunting of the Tower of London
The Thames curves south past the ancient walls of the Tower of London, and six ravens — legally...
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