Eastern State Penitentiary ‘07

There is little we can add to the many lengthy pages and hours of video dedicated to this amazing structure. As America’s first “preserved ruin” the prison has captured within it’s 30 foot walls the hope of its designers as well as the ultimate hopelessness of its prisoners.

We recommend a visit to the facility, and participation in an investigation for any and all serious Paranormal Researchers. The links below will bring you to our formal field reports and the single evidence capture that is worthy of GSPR: An EVP caught on a video recording. We’ve also listed links to the prison itself, as well as other write-ups of ESP. Finally, we recommend the book “Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions” by Norman Johnson. Available at the site.

Here are copies of our Field Reports. (Note: Typically we would produce only 1 inclusive report per investigation team, but NJGHS required separate submissions of Reports of Findings for the CPI evaluation.

GSPR Field Report: GSPR ESP Investigation Field Report Nov 07.pdf

John B Report of Findings: JB ESP ROF.pdf

Mark B Report of Findings: ESP Mark ROF.pdf

Finally, here is a short video clip containing what we believe to be an EVP voice. In order not to prejudice your review of this evidence, we will not publish here what *we* believe is on the tape. Please feel free to review the clip and email us at info@gsparanormal.com. We will send you a note back with how your analysis compared to ours. You may also download this clip, strip out the audio, and examine it further, and we’d love to hear what you come up with. We will be stripping the audio out of the entire 4 minute video that this clip came from and we will be submitting that to Haunted Voices for analysis.

This was taken in Cellblock 12, 3rd Floor. Halfway down the right catwalk something about the cell I was in front of was compelling. I entered and taped a quick 4 minute EVP session The red light in the video is my headlamp. The obvious voices that can be heard is the rest of the team about 4 cells down. What we suspect as the EVP should be obvious almost exactly halfway thru this short clip. Let us know what you hear!

Further study about Eastern State:

Here’s a good place to start: With ESP’s own site: http://www.easternstate.org/history/genealogy.php

Troy Taylor has a good write-up: http://www.prairieghosts.com/eastern.html

Here is the bibliography Troy used for the above article:

SOURCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY

ADAMS, CHARLES J. III - Philadelphia Ghost Stories (1998)

ASFAR, DAN - Ghost Stories of Pennsylvania (2002)

EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY (www.easternstate.org)

JOHNSTON, NORMAN - Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions (1994)

NIGHT VISITORS (Documentary - Impact TV / 2000)

PERROT, MARK - Hope Abandoned: Eastern State Penitentiary (1992)

PHILLIPS, BEN - Eastern State Penitentiary: 140 Years of Reform (1996)