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Yuma Territorial Prison
Yuma Territorial Prison is a location reputed to be haunted in Arizona, US. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is Yuma Territorial Prison?
- Location
- Arizona, US
- Type
- Prison
- Coordinates
- 32.727, -114.615
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Why is Yuma Territorial Prison said to be haunted?
Yuma Territorial Prison opened on July 1, 1876, in the Arizona desert and quickly earned the nickname 'Hell Hole' for its brutal summer heat, cramped iron-barred cells called the 'Dark Cell' used for punishment, and outbreaks of tuberculosis that killed dozens of the roughly 3,000 inmates who passed through before it closed in 1909. One escape attempt in 1887 ended with several men shot dead in the yard. After serving briefly as a local high school and then standing abandoned, the site is now a state historic park, and staff and visitors have long reported cold drafts inside the Dark Cell despite the desert heat outside, along with the sound of chains dragging on stone at night. Former park rangers say motion sensors in the empty cell block trigger with no one present, something they've never found an ordinary explanation for.
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