The Haunting of Cresson State Prison

Overview

On this adventure, we were invited by @AmysCrypt to one of the most haunted prisons in America... Cresson State Prison in Cresson, Pennsylvania. This place has seen tragedy, headache, and pain unlike any other place in the country. When it closed in 2013 it was a state prison, but it was built as a tuberculosis sanatorium that lost thousands of patients. Then for 30 years it was a psychiatric hospital, and finally became a correctional institution in 1987. From 1990 - 1996 it was the home to a notorious inmate... a monster named Joseph Kallinger. This man manipulated his teenage son into helping him take the lives of at least 3 people, and when he was caught, he blamed it on hallucinations that plagued his mind. The voice of god telling him to do harm. These phantom voices controlled his every action and made him do the most terrifying and terrible things. In 1996, after decades of incarceration, Kallinger met his end here at SCI Cresson. Now, it's believed his spirit still roams this