Terror Behind the Walls
It's hard to truly be scared in a haunted house. Fake blood, peeled grapes, a smoke machine--it's just too easy to see through. But there's a haunted house in Philadelphia that might break the mold. Eastern State Penitentiary, where solitary confinement was invented, closed in 1971 and is now a museum. And for six weekends a year, it turns into a haunted house overrun by possessed inmates and guards. In this piece I attempt to answer the question, What's more scary: the haunted house, or the prison's real history? Aired on Weekend America, 10.27.07.

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