Mansfield Reformatory (Mansfield, Ohio)

Chrissy also informed me of this wonderful old prison: “We have a very old prison, a place where many terrible events have taken place, and many of those energies are said to still remain. It was shutdown several years ago because it’s condition was too horrible for inmates, overcrowding, murders from even the prison barber.” Sounds splendid to me! The prison, which incidentally served as the set for the Shawshank Redemption, is open for tours – see the official site for details. I’ve been on a couple of the all-night ghost hunts myself and they were a creepy good time (though there was nothing ghostly to report, naturally).  Check out my Flickr feed for some photos I took with my Holga camera during my visits.