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You difinitely don't want a man up in the tower with high-caliber, semi-automatic weapons who is hallucinating throughout the night scenes like from a Stephen King movie transpiring in the yard.
Since the prison shut down in 2005, it has been taken over by the Federal government. The place is still lit up at night with some kind of ongoing operation strictly off limits to the public. No one can go there now and take photographs. Homeland Security patrols around the outer perimeter and will quickly accost you if you dare to try. So if this ET activity, which Gil swears he witnessed, is still happening at Old Jeff State Prison, it's now fully under the auspices of the U.S. government. Did Gil stumble onto a glaring loophole in the UFO cover-up? One thing is for sure ; you will never hear about this on CNN or Fox News.
Originally posted by esteay812
reply to post by Gawdzilla
Gawd,
He calls it Old Jeff State Prison in the article. Maybe there is a couple of state pens in MO?
Maybe they opened the new one in 2004 because of the closing of this onein 2005?
[edit on 13-5-2009 by esteay812]
The Bloodiest 47 Acres in America
Throughout its history, the Missouri State Penitentiary gained a reputation for the violence that took place inside its walls. As the prison population continued to grow, more and more inmates were being housed together. By 1954, the overpopulation had grown to the point that it was not unusual to find six to eight inmates confined in a single cell. Coupled with the deteriorating state of the prison, the overcrowding led to a violent uprising on September 23 of that year. The riot began in the maximum-security "E Hall" of the prison, which housed some of the prison's more violent criminals. When order was restored, four inmates were dead, three guards and over thirty prisoners were injured, and around eight buildings were either destroyed or heavily damaged by fire. Though the riot was quelled, two more minor riots would break out a month later on October 23rd and 24th that would again cause the death of one more inmate and injure 36 others.
Its violent reputation would come to head in the 1960s when a series of violent assaults made national headlines. It has been reported that between the years of 1963 and 1964, there were around 550 separate accounts of serious assaults, including hundreds of stabbings. The violence led to outcries of lack of administrative control by the prison warden, E.V. Nash, who ironically was given control of the prison following the riots of 1954 in hopes that he would be able to restore order. The scandal led to an administrative review, which issued a report recommending removing Warden Nash from his position. On December 18, 1964, in a house directly across from the prison, E.V. Nash took his own life with a gunshot to his head. The resulting controversy led Time Magazine to give Missouri State Penitentiary the unfortunate moniker of the "bloodiest 47 acres in America" in 1967
A Haunted Prison?
Perhaps not surprisingly given its notorious past, the remaining prison structures on the campus of the former Missouri State Penitentiary are slowly gaining a reputation for paranormal activity. Perhaps interestingly enough, the reports of odd or supernatural activity seem to have only emerged following the building's decommissioning. The reports have varied from sightings of apparitions to disembodied laughter or the sounds of cell doors slamming when no one is around. The reports are still quite vague in context of where the sightings are occurring or noting any in particular structure or specific witnesses. However, now that the facility is now open to the general public (see below), it is quite possible that more and more reports will emerge.
Originally posted by esteay812
reply to post by Gawdzilla
If you get a chance to ask them, find out if they knew the Gil guy and if he was a nutcase. Ask them if they ever saw, or heard of, anything like that going on.