True Crime Haunting: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

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

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