Moundsville (west Virigina Penitentiary)

Moundsville a.k.a. West Virginia Penitentiary opened its doors in 1866, building upon land previously owned by the Adena Indians. This tribe had used the lands for their burial mounds. Rumor has it that the prison was built directly over the top of one of these highly religious and sanctified places. 

Moundsville closed its doors in 1985, leaving behind 119 years of extremely negative energy, as the United States Department of Justice said it was on their top ten most violent correctional facilities list. Setting aside the legitimate business of death in the from of hangings and electrocutions performed by the State, as in any prison system, there were bouts of internal violence so heinous that it left a definite imprint of that still lingers within the building today.