The Ghosts of The Squirrel Cage Jail

Overview

EVIL SPINS in America's Most Unique and Haunted Jail! The spirits of former inmates and guards are said to haunt the bars that once confined them, and Ryan and Dave will stay the night to find out if this Jail still incarcerates some of Iowa's most feared criminals even after death. There is no other Jail like the Historic Pottawattamie County Squirrel Cage Jail. It was one of 18 revolving (“squirrel cage”, "human rotary", or "lazy Susan") jails built. It is the only three-story one ever made. Built at a cost of about $30,000, this unique jail has three floors of revolving pie-shaped cells inside a cage. The front part of the building had offices for the jailer, kitchen, trustee cells, and quarters for women. In 1969, the jail closed it's doors for good, but when the Pottawattamie County Historical Society purchased the building in January 1979 stories began to circulate about paranormal activity that plagued the volunteers who were restoring the jail for it's use as a museum. Still to