#brushy mountain state penitentiary

[lesgenouxdanslegif]

LE RETOUR.

C’EST LE RETOUR DE L’INCROYABLE BARKLEY. 10 raisons de suivre ce film d’horreur aussi adoré que détesté :

• 1. Un tour d’environ 42 bornes à faire 5 fois en moins de 60h pour entrer dans l’histoire. 210 bornes en 60h, c’est du 3,5 à l’heure. Ajoute environ 20000 mètres de D+ et t’arrives à ce constat délirant : seulement 17 types ont terminé le truc depuis 1995.

• 2. Laz, le créateur de cette boucherie. On dirait un mec complètement bourré alors qu’en réalité c’est un type brillant d’une finesse rare. C’est pas ironique.

• 3. Un parcours infâme dans une forêt immonde, le tout hors sentier et sans balisage. Pourquoi ? En 1977, l’assassin de Martin Luther King s’échappe de la prison « Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary ». Il est rattrapé après 55h et… 13 bornes. Laz, solide coureur à l’époque, le troll en disant qu’en 55h il aurait fait 100 miles. La Barkley était née.

• 4. Un parcours qui passe sous cette prison désormais à l’abandon. Crise d’angoisse is coming.

• 5. Un départ donné quand Laz allume sa clope. Pas de musique épique, on n’est pas chez Mickey ici.

• 6. Des bouquins avec des titres évocateurs comme « No time for tears » dont il faut arracher la page qui correspond à ton numéro de dossard pour prouver que t’es bien passé. Sublime.

• 7. Une météo changeante mais globalement exécrable. Compte pas sur Laz pour sortir un parcours de repli.

• 8. Aucun matos obligatoire. Évidemment, les GPS et téléphones sont interdits. Si t’es dans la merde, t’es dans la merde.

• 9. Pour la sécurité, Laz a un jour filé des « clickers » aux coureurs. Mais le souci c’est que les clickers n’étaient reliés… à rien.

• 10. Un prix d’inscription : 1,60$. Si tu vas au bout, c’est 0,007$ du kilo. Ça va.

Cette course est donc un cocktail réunissant du grand n’importe quoi, des ronces qui lacèrent les guiboles, des montées répugnantes qui flinguent les cuisses, des chevilles martyrisées, du poulet, un froid de canard, des brutes qui pleurent, des lignes à haute tension, des types modestes, une forêt aussi hostile qu’une piscine de piranhas et un créateur qui fait jouer de grands enfants. Alors jouons.

Photo Alexis Berg

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.10 (after 1940)

1940 – World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France. 1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. 1940 – World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends. 1942 – World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. 1944 – World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France. 1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. 1944 – In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game. 1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. 1947 – Saab produces its first automobile. 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government. 1960 – Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashes near Mackay Airport in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, killing 29. 1963 – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. 1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage. 1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. 1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. 1982 – Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub. 1987 – June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government. 1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities. 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009. 1994 – China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report. 1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin. 1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members. 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. 2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa. 2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom. 2003 – The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. 2008 – Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people. 2009 – Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended. 2018 – Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019. 2019 – An Agusta A109E Power crashes onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, sparking a fire on the top of the building. The pilot of the helicopter is killed.

[xtruss]

Jasmin Paris First Woman To Complete Gruelling Barkley Marathons Race

— Saturday March 23, 2024 | By Angie Brown

Jasmin Paris Slumped To The Ground At The Finish Line After Running for 59Hrs 58Mins and 21 Seconds

A British runner has made history by becoming the first woman to finish one of the world's hardest ultramarathons.

Jasmin Paris from Midlothian completed the Barkley Marathons in Tennessee with just one minute 39 seconds to spare of the 60-hour cut off.

She told the BBC she was "overjoyed" and had a "strong feeling" during training that she could complete it.

She was so exhausted she slumped to the ground after finishing the race which is inspired by a famous prison escape.

The course, at Frozen Head State Park, changes every year but covers 100 miles involving 60,000ft of climb and descent - about twice the height of the Mount Everest.

Only 20 people have ever made it to the end of the race within the allotted 60 hours since it was extended to 100 miles in 1989.

The 40-year-old vet had to navigate through extreme and often pathless terrain, continuing to run through the night.

Pictures at the race finish line on Friday show her legs scratched from pushing through sharp bushes and scrub in dense forest on steep slopes.

Having lost her voice from heavy breathing during the race, Jasmin was unable to speak but told BBC Breakfast by text message she was "overjoyed" to have completed it.

She said: "It still hasn't really sunk in that I've finally done it.

"This year I had a strong feeling in the months of training and run up to the race that I could do it.

"Those final moments have redefined for me what I am capable of."

Jasmin Paris out on the race trail

David Miller, a professional photographer at the race, told BBC Scotland he had witnessed the "greatest ultramarathon achievement of all time".

"There was a lot of anticipation at the finish line and three minutes before the 60 hour cut off we heard shouting and a roar and it was people cheering Jasmin on.

"She was sprinting and giving it her all as there was no room for error because otherwise she would not have made the cut off.

"She touched the gate and collapsed in exhaustion. It was the best thing I have ever seen, it was unbelievable.

"Obviously I was very focused on trying to capture Jasmin and a moment in history but at the same time I could feel a tear behind the lens because it was such an emotional moment."

David Miller, a Professional Photographer at the race, told BBC Scotland he witnessed the "Greatest Ultramarathon Achievement of All Time".

The race is not only known for being physically gruelling but also for its odd traditions.

The course changes every year but is roughly five loops of 20 miles with only 35 participants allowed each year.

The Barkley course was created by Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell and Karl Henn.

The idea for the race came when they read about the 1977 escape of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, from nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.

When they discovered he had only managed to travel eight miles (13km) in 60 hours before he was caught the keen ultrarunners mocked the distance.

Mr Cantrell believed he could cover at least 100 miles in the time it took Ray to be found so he set about creating the race.

The Barkley is almost as tough to enter as it is to complete.

Those who are able to acquire a little-known email address have to file an essay - "Why I should be allowed to run in the Barkley" - on the right minute of the right day to stand any chance of bagging a spot.

Jasmin Paris at a checkpoint during the race

The race, in Tennessee, traditionally begins on the weekend nearest April Fools' Day with an entry fee of just $1.60 (£1.27), plus a licence plate for Barkley "virgins".

There is no official start time, with those who make it to Frozen Head State Park campground on the correct date notified one hour beforehand by the sound of a conch shell horn.

The race officially begins when the race director lights a cigarette.

On every lap, runners have to collect a page corresponding to their race number from the 14 books hidden around the unmarked course - which includes a tunnel at the now defunct prison.

They have no GPS, only a brief time to memorise the map and with limited notes on where to find them.

They take them to race creator and director Mr Cantrell, otherwise known as "Laz", at the end of each lap.

He waits at the yellow gate made iconic by the 2014 documentary Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young.

The first and third loops are run clockwise, while the second and fourth loops are run anticlockwise. The first finisher of the fourth loop gets to decide which direction they go on the last loop.

The Barkley Marathons race starts when Laz Lake Cantrell is seen lighting a cigarette

Jasmin, who was born in Hadfield in Derbyshire, had previously completed what is called a "Fun Run" on her debut in 2022 by getting through three of the loops.

Despite its title, the race is still 60-miles long. In 2006 nobody managed to finish it in under 40 hours.

Last year Jasmin became the first female since 2001 to embark on a fourth loop.

Jasmin Paris stopping for a drink during the race

Previously the best women's achievement was Sue Johnston's 66 miles (106 km) in 2001 when more than 30 competitors failed to reach the first book (two miles).

In January 2019 mother-of-two Jasmin expressed milk for her baby during a 268-mile race along the Pennine Way to break the course record by more than 12 hours.

She completed the Montane Spine Race - from Derbyshire to the Scottish borders - in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.

Her previous sponsor, Inov8, said her achievement was "one of the greatest stories" in the sport. She has since co-founded The Green Runners.

Jasmin Paris: I Ran 'Toughest Race' To Inspire Women Worldwide! Jasmin arrived back in Edinburgh on Monday and was greeted by her father Jeff (left) and husband Konrad (right)

The First Female Runner To Complete One of The World's Toughest Races Has Said She Did It For "Women Worldwide".

Jasmin Paris is one of only 20 people to have finished the Barkley Marathons in Tennessee, USA, since it was extended to 100 miles in 1989. She crossed the finish line on Friday with 99 seconds to spare before the 60-hour cut-off. Jasmin, from Midlothian, Scotland, said she wanted to test the limits of what she was capable of and inspire others.

The annual race at Frozen Head State Park involves five loops of roughly 20 miles (32km), with 60,000 ft (18,000m) of ascents and descents - twice the height of Mount Everest from sea level.

The 40-year-old told BBC News how she realised she had just minutes to spare to make the allotted 60-hour completion time as she neared the finish line.

"I only had like a few minutes to get up that hill. So I ended up sprinting at the end of the end of 60 hours of burning through the forest, which felt really hard," she said.

Her arms and legs are covered in scratches from the brambles she had to push through on the route, very little of which is on a path.

"Brambles would get you and it was like having somebody cut you and that would happen loop after loop and it was like doing it back over the same scars," she said.

Jasmin's arms are covered in scratches from running through brambles

Jasmin slumped to the ground as she crossed the finish line, and said she felt "overwhelming relief" that it was finally over. But she said completing such a challenge was "mind-opening" and inspires you with confidence for your whole life.

"I did it for me and I'm super happy that I achieved what I set out to do after the three years of trying", Jasmin explained. "But I'm glad that I kind of did it for women worldwide as well - not just runners - but any woman that wants to take on a challenge and maybe doesn't have the confidence.

"The idea that I might have inspired them to believe in themselves… that's huge, especially all the young girls - you know how hard it is to keep young girls in sports." The Barkley course was the brainchild of Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell and Karl Henn, after they heard about a famous escape nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, eluded capture for more than 50 hours, but only travelled about 12 miles (19 km). Mr Cantrell is said to have commented he could have run 100 miles in the time.

Jasmin, who was born in Hadfield in Derbyshire, said the isolation of the race was one of the biggest challenges.

"You're totally on your own out there and most races will have checkpoints where they have, you know, some volunteers or checkpoint staff to feed you and give you a bit of a cheer and send you on your way. But this is not like that at all."

With her history-making race completed, Jasmin already has her sights set on her next challenge, the Scottish Islands Peaks Race on 17 May, followed by the Tor des Géants in Italy in September.

Now enjoying some much-deserved rest, she said: "I'm really looking forward to getting back to see the kids tomorrow and pick them up from school and nursery and give them a really big hug."

[paranormalunderground]

A NEW issue of “Paranormal Underground” magazine is now online at www.paranormalunderground.net.

 In this issue, our Case Files of the Unknown section features haunted Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, why ETs won’t allow a nuclear conflict, and ominous Hat Man encounters. And in our Special Report, we spotlight spiritual visitations during the Great War (of a two-part series).

Also in this issue, we spotlight spirit medium Rob Thompson, “The Skunk Ape Experiments” docuseries, and Down South paranormal encounters. Plus, in our Ghost Hunter Case Files, the Spectre Detectors team investigates the Jack the Ripper murder sites.

And don’t miss articles on the Ariel School UFO encounters, the pharaohs’ use of white powder gold, how to energetically clear your gemstones, and more!

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[theabandonmentissues]

Episode 5 Sources

This episode is a bit of a bummer, but we hope you enjoy it anyway! Inspired by a recent field trip to Petros, TN, Zack gives us the history of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, a former prison that has since reopened as a museum (begins at 14:45). If you would like to see some photos we took of the premises during our trip, check out our cited sources below. Next up (beginning 53:20), Em tells the story of the Harlan County Coal Wars, a.k.a Bloody Harlan, a labor strike in Great Depression-era Kentucky that is known to be one of the most violent in American history.

Photos used of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary were taken by Zack Holloway and Em Johnson. All other photos are credited below.

Visit the Linktree in our bio to listen, and read on to learn more.

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushy_Mountain_State_Penitentiary

https://tourbrushy.com/

https://www.morgancountychamber.com/brushy-mountain-state-penitentiary/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Creek_War

https://twitter.com/issues_podcast/status/1422031698024337409?s=20 (source of above photos)

Bloody Harlan:

https://www.msha.gov/check-check-out-system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_River_Basin

https://miningglobal.com/supply-chain-and-operations/infographic-3-types-coal-mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Reece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Industrial_Recovery_Act_of_1933

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2019/08/brief-history-harlan-county-usa

https://www.yahoo.com/now/frito-lay-workers-strike-protest-145500757.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAEbr2JqFUnkeHwMrchWLsDoJ8h7UpM9Z7pN5NeGaQEX2Jw_3STD4VI5qp8ov7aay_McWUVOH56cY0qCqHzUu8gko1WGllbblIJ2rQU1QiUYFTncpFkLWl1p2OvhLR9j1hIgWofcWHhu8G5KsSeKTfqP4G-rVDK-n80O8bcVX7bm

https://www.unionplus.org/page/what-union

[thesehauntedhills]

BRUSHY MOUNTAIN STATE PRISON

TRIBUTE TO ALL THE INMATES STILL TRAPPED INSIDE,

IN THIS LIFE AND BEYOND.....

༺༉ 🌒🌕🌘 ༉༻

[thecrimsonarcher]

It happened around 7:30 in the evening, just as the sun was beginning to set over the mountain. Around this time, the prisoners were conjugating in the exercise yard after suppertime under the watchful eye of the guards. Now, there were 9 guard towers that stood on the outer walls of the prison. 8 of those 9 towers were ever used, with the 9th tower only being used for emergencies. The wall stood at 12 feet high and was topped with barbed wire that had an electrical current of 2300 volts coursing through them. Little did they know, a fatal flaw that had not been addressed would make the escape possible--after many years, erosion from the past mining that had occurred on the prison property had caused the wall to settle, creating a gap that was big enough for a grown man to slip through. Waiting for them at the bottom of this wall was a big pile of dirt that was a direct result of the erosion after 40 years. This would soften the blow to any fall. After a scripted "fight" broke out in the yard, Ray and several others ran to the area and rushed to put together their ladder in the midst of chaos.

And so began a 58 hour manhunt that would grip the entire nation. As the night fell, the sound of hurried footsteps and the frantic barking of bloodhounds pierced the veil of silence while the clock ticked away those precious minutes. Time was of the essence here and every moment counted. No one was going to get any sleep until the men were found and Petros was not under their threat. After two and a half days on the run, Ray was eventually found hiding underneath a pile of decaying leaves, drenched in sweat and caked in mud some 8 and a half miles away. He was unhurt and calmly surrendered himself to the authorities, thus ending the largest manhunt in the state of Tennessee.

[delux2222]

On Oct. 31, 1891, during the Coal Creek War labor uprising to protest convict leasing, a group of miners seized the Knoxville Iron Company stockade at Coal Creek in Tennessee.

The “convict lease system” was a private-public partnership in which prisoners were leased to private companies for their labor. The convict lease system was used to undermine union organizing and perpetuate a form of slavery by imprisoning African Americans on false charges and forcing them to provide free labor. Of the 120 men brought in to work in the mines for the Tennessee Iron Company at Coal Creek, only five were identified as white.

Over the course of the convict wars, striking miners freed hundreds of convicts. In some cases, the miners provided them with fresh food and civilian clothes.

What the marker below does not mention is that while this contributed to the official end of convict leasing in Tenn., inmates at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary were forced to mine coal for the state. In fact, the mine mouth opened within the prison walls and coal was shipped via a convict-built railroad spur. [Zinn]

[jason-lanier-photography]

My Conversation with a Confessed Double Murderer, and my visit to Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, new podcast released! Check out Episode 24 now by visiting: www.jasonlanier.com/podcast This is a really unique one where I had a long conversation with a bonafide double murderer on his property where the murders occurred about the incident. To say it was fascinating is an understatement. I then give more in depth behind the scenes information on my shoots at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary that serve as a companion to the new videos I've released of the shoots. I hope you like them! #jasonlanier #rotolight #masteroflight #titanx1 #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #prison #mystical podcast #black (at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPHqgIhFc5e/?utm_medium=tumblr

[evilbuildingsblog]

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee

[lesgenouxdanslegif]

C`EST LE RETOUR DE LA BARKLEY.

10 raisons de suivre ce film d’horreur :

• 1. Un tour d’environ 42 bornes à faire 5 fois en moins de 60h pour entrer dans l’histoire. 210 bornes en 60h, c’est du 3,5 à l’heure. Ajoute environ 20000 mètres de D+ et t’arrives à ce constat délirant : seulement 15 types ont terminé le truc depuis 1995.

• 2. Un parcours infâme dans une forêt immonde, le tout hors sentier et sans balisage. Pourquoi ? En 1977, l’assassin de Martin Luther King s’échappe de la prison « Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary ». Il est rattrapé après 55h et… 13 bornes. Laz, solide coureur à l’époque, le troll en disant qu’en 55h il aurait fait 100 miles. La Barkley était née.

• 3. Un parcours qui passe sous cette prison désormais à l’abandon. Crise d’angoisse is coming.

• 4. Laz, le créateur de cette boucherie. On dirait un mec complètement bourré alors qu’en réalité c’est un type brillant d’une finesse rare. C’est pas ironique.

• 5. Un départ donné quand Laz allume sa clope. Pas de musique épique, on n’est pas chez Mickey ici.

• 6. Des bouquins avec des titres évocateurs comme « No time for tears » dont il faut arracher la page qui correspond à ton numéro de dossard pour prouver que t’es bien passé. Sublime.

• 7. Une météo changeante mais globalement exécrable. Compte pas sur Laz pour sortir un parcours de repli.

• 8. Aucun matos obligatoire. Évidemment, les GPS et téléphones sont interdits. Si t’es dans la merde, t’es dans la merde.

• 9. Pour la sécurité, Laz a un jour filé des « clickers » aux coureurs. Si t’es en danger, tu clicks. Mais le souci c’est que les clickers n’étaient reliés… à rien.

• 10. Un prix d’inscription : 1,60$. Si tu vas au bout, c’est 0,007$ du kilo. Ça va. 

Cette course est donc un cocktail réunissant du grand n’importe quoi, des ronces qui lacèrent les guiboles, des montées répugnantes dans la boue qui flinguent les cuisses, des chevilles martyrisées, du poulet, un froid de canard, des larmes, des lignes à haute tension, des types modestes, une forêt aussi hostile qu’une piscine de piranhas et un créateur absolument génial qui fait jouer de grands enfants.

Photo Alexis Berg

[ghxstadvxntxres]

Destination Fear: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary (October 26, 2019)

[laresearchette]

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THE GOLDBERGS (CTV) 7:30pm NANCY DREW (W Network) 9:00pm (Party of Five airs at 10:00pm) S.W.A.T. (Global) 10:00pm THE MAGICIANS (Showcase) 10:00pm 68 WHISKEY (Paramount Canada) 10:00pm IN PURSUIT WITH JOHN WALSH (ID Canada) 10:00pm LISTING IMPOSSIBLE (CNBC Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL (PBS Feed) THE CW DOG HONORS (CW Feed) GOOD TROUBLE (Premiering on January 22 on ABC Spark at 9:00pm) NEW TO AMAZON PRIME/CRAVE/NETFLIX CANADA/CBC GEM:

NETFLIX CANADA EYE FOR AN EYE (QUIEN A HIERRO MATA) GRACE AND FRANKIE (Season 6) KILLER INSIDE: THE MIND OF AARON HERNANDEZ

NCAA HOCKEY (TSN3) 7:00pm: Maine vs. Connecticut

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 7:30pm: Chicago at Habs

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 8:00pm: Raptors at Thunder

BURDEN OF TRUTH (CBC) 8:00pm: Reeling from the sudden apprehension of Kodie's children by Millwood Family Services, Joanna sets out to win back custody, but in order to win in court, she must conduct a thorough and potentially revealing investigation into her old friend's life.

HAUNTED HOSPITALS (T&E) 8:00pm: A teenage girl confronts a malicious entity in the basement of an asylum; a ghostly nurse comforts a man after a terrifying encounter; a psychiatric technician is cornered by a patient who is more animal than human.

ART OF CRAFT (Makeful) 8:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Paper: Celebrating four incredible crafts and craftsmen that use ordinary paper to produce extraordinary works of craft.

FORTUNATE SON (CBC) 9:00pm: The committee works to free the jailed peace protesters as Ralph and his new girlfriend, Destiny, take matters into their own hands.

HELP! MY HOUSE IS HAUNTED (T&E) 9:00pm: Friends of the homeowners have reported ghostly children, a ghostly monk lurking by the ornamental lake and the presence of the former lady of the house; the team looks into the Manor's illustrious past to find evidence of these uninvited guests.

CHECK IT (Out TV) 9:00pm: Gay and trans teens in Washington, D.C., form a gang to protect each other.

OUTBACK VET (Cottage Life) 9:00pm:  Dr. Rick's daughter Dr. Lu encounters a midnight emergency with french bulldog Rainbow, rushed in with a dangerous and possibly fatal snake bite.

DESTINATION FEAR (DTour) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Dakota meets the team in Tennessee to investigate the dark corridors of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary; Chelsea has a confrontation with an entity inside James Earl Ray's cell; Tanner is threatened; Dakota's fear experiment takes a turn.

PARANORMAL 911 (T&E) 10:00pm: Campus police officers find a male student whose head has been smashed into his steering wheel and a female cowering nearby; a firefighter arrives on the scene of a car crash, only to realize that the car passed him a few minutes earlier.

CBC MUSIC: THE MIX (CBC) 11:30pm

[talltalestogo]

The days Bars stand vertical / Days scratched straight, then strike at four / The wall bares my time. . . #haiku #poem #poetry #writing #writer #wednesday #october #poet #tennessee #brushymountainstatepenitentiary #time #bars #days #wall #davidebooker #poet #writer (at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4RHdTogCSB/?igshid=6ul5jcoy8p1r

[covers-on-spotify]

“Folsom Prison Blues”

Original by Johnny Cash

Covered by Mark Collie and his Reckless Companions

[thesehauntedhills]

FELON GHOSTS AT THE END OF THE LINE

Now, for those you don't know me, let me tell you, "IMMA CHICKEN". I believe in the Holy Ghost and that leads me to believe in other Ghosts. Satan is a copycat master of deception, ya know. So, two places that I will not visit because after hearing of family and friends accounts of their visits to these places, I won't go. The two places are both in East Tennessee. One right here in Greene County, The Old Greene County Gaol. The old jail is located behind the Greene County Courthouse. The other place I will not go is located in Morgan County in the tiny town of Petros. Yep, that's it the former Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. I've heard accounts from reputable, professional people of their visit to the former Prison and they share tales of being on the Ghost Walk tour and "something got on" them. Scared enough to go wait in the car for the others! Here follows is some information about the Prison . . . . and the Convicted Ghosts who demand their acquittal

Brushy State Penitentiary. Operating from 1896 to 2009, the penitentiary was known as the Alcatraz of the South. Brushy State once housed James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. The vacant prison is surrounded by a rock wall.

The penitentiary stands in a notch in the Cumberland Mountains, hemmed in on three sides by the forbidding Frozen Head Wilderness. Over the years a surprising number of convicts escaped from the prison and headed into the hills -- but NONE ever made a successful escape . Hundreds of its inmates died anyway, worked to death in the prison's slave-labor coal mines or simply murdered by each other. The penitentiary produced so many dead bodies -- no one knows how many -- that it had its own morgue and crematorium.

I would say that Brushy has seen more than her fair share of death. She has seen some of the most brutal deaths that one could have imagined. She has seen the worst human behaviors, she has seen pure hate and sadly pure evil. That kind of evil will forever leave a negative “impression” on an environment. That kind of horror, trauma, negative energy, sadness, hate, bad and evil can crawl into every wall, corner, crook and cranny. We then must throw in the natural environment. Paranormal researchers have found that certain natural properties such as water, limestone and other stones can energize spirits. Well, Brushy Mountain has all of those in abundance all around them. There have been many ghost hunting teams to do investigations inside the prison since it’s closing in 2009 and the evidence that has come out of there has been extremely convincing. From one ghost who supposedly smokes a cigarette if you leave one as a gift to one who is named Jack Jett a prisoner who was murdered while talking on the phone

Today, the walls of the prison have been reopened, revamped. For one hundred bucks you can go on a ghost walk through the pentinuary.

A former Inmate recalled one night when a convict was stabbed to death, then was skinned, gutted, and flushed down a cell toilet, piece by piece, to hide the evidence. In the morning, all that was left was a garbage bag of human bones. "There was some bad, bad boys in here," said the former inmate. Prisoners who failed to mine their daily quota of coal, or who otherwise angered the guards, were tied to the exercise yard whipping post. The former inmate added that his granduncle was one of them, whipped so hard through his prison uniform that the cloth embedded into his flesh. Others were banished to The Hole, a lightless cellblock where each inmate was given two buckets: one for water and one for a bathroom. "You'd try to make a mark on one bucket so they wouldn't get switched around," he explained. "One guy was locked down in there 29 days. He put his head through the wall to kill himself."

Brushy Mountain State housed some of Tennessee’s worst criminals. The violence inside the prison was a problem that the prison guards had a horrible problem controlling. It was said in that at one point they averaged one murder a week. On Feb. 8th, 1982, a hostage situation occurred fueled by racism, two black inmates were killed by white prisoners. The white prisoners sawed through their bars, using a gun that had been smuggled inside took four guards hostage. They then went upstairs to where the black prisoners were housed and started shooting them as they went down the line. The prisoners then surrendered to the guards quietly. Nearly 100 executions also took place at Brushy State by electrocution, "Old Sparky".

All I'm saying is, "I believe" . I believe that many ghosts found the end of the line in this life here, but it never really ended . . . . .

Thanks for reading! SpOoKy !

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Might ought to head to Morgan County mmmmm hmmmmm!

The former inmate now works as a tour guide in the prison like any good prison tour guide, is a nonstop monologue of horror tales. "People think a lot of these stories are made up, but I've seen things," he said. He recounted one time that a prisoner was beaten dead in the gymnasium bathroom. Another convict was deliberately crushed to death on the exercise yard weight bench. A third was burned alive in his own cell by a molotov cocktail tossed through the bars. Even the non-fatal stories are unsettling. He added that his prison blanket turned black from roach poop, and that one time it was so cold that it froze to the wall of his cell. "It'd get colder than a wooly-wooly bugger in here," he said. It's true: the unheated prison is closed to tourists from December through March because it's so cold.

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