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True Crime Haunting: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Oddity Poddity: A Paranormal Podcast
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- Comedy Fiction
For 113 years, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary housed some of the country's most violent criminals and claimed more than 10,000 souls. Many believe that their ghosts still linger there. In this episode we look at Brushy's deadly history, profiles of some of its most infamous inmates and evidence of the hauntings that are still happening there today.
Sources:
https://tourbrushy.com/history
https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20the,explain%20most%20of%20this%20increase.
https://www.leagle.com/decision/1977792556sw2d2361784
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/2018/10/25/brushy-mountain-state-penitentiary-haunted-prison-reporter-faces-paranormal-flashlight-tour/1675065002/
https://www.probationinfo.org/the-hole/
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-mlks-killer-escaped-from-prison/85736/#:~:text=State%20Patrol%20Col.,Mountain%20Penitentiary%20in%20Petros%2C%20Tennessee.
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/tales-from-brushy-mountain/article_8515430f-4f97-54db-8102-acb7e787eaf8.html
Ghost Asylum, S4, E10, The Travel Channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushy_Mountain_State_Penitentiary#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%20Brushy%20Mountain,diagnostic%20center%20for%20East%20Tennessee.
https://energyhistory.yale.edu/coal-creek-war-erupts-tennessee-1891-1892-dozens-are-killed-both-sides-and-more-500-miners-are#:~:text=The%20Coal%20Creek%20War%20erupts,than%20500%20miners%20are%20arrested.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28390374/the-tennessean/
https://apnews.com/article/7b5dc5b9c4617ac5e9ab637a52cc0f12
https://casetext.com/case/state-v-reid-224
When Nashville Bled: The Untold Stories of Serial Killer Dennis Reid, by Judith A. Yates
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For 113 years, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary housed some of the country's most violent criminals and claimed more than 10,000 souls. Many believe that their ghosts still linger there. In this episode we look at Brushy's deadly history, profiles of some of its most infamous inmates and evidence of the hauntings that are still happening there today.
Sources:
https://tourbrushy.com/history
https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20the,explain%20most%20of%20this%20increase.
https://www.leagle.com/decision/1977792556sw2d2361784
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/2018/10/25/brushy-mountain-state-penitentiary-haunted-prison-reporter-faces-paranormal-flashlight-tour/1675065002/
https://www.probationinfo.org/the-hole/
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-mlks-killer-escaped-from-prison/85736/#:~:text=State%20Patrol%20Col.,Mountain%20Penitentiary%20in%20Petros%2C%20Tennessee.
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/tales-from-brushy-mountain/article_8515430f-4f97-54db-8102-acb7e787eaf8.html
Ghost Asylum, S4, E10, The Travel Channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushy_Mountain_State_Penitentiary#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%20Brushy%20Mountain,diagnostic%20center%20for%20East%20Tennessee.
https://energyhistory.yale.edu/coal-creek-war-erupts-tennessee-1891-1892-dozens-are-killed-both-sides-and-more-500-miners-are#:~:text=The%20Coal%20Creek%20War%20erupts,than%20500%20miners%20are%20arrested.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28390374/the-tennessean/
https://apnews.com/article/7b5dc5b9c4617ac5e9ab637a52cc0f12
https://casetext.com/case/state-v-reid-224
When Nashville Bled: The Untold Stories of Serial Killer Dennis Reid, by Judith A. Yates
Support the show
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