Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Author:Colin Dickey [Dickey, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf, epub
Tags: Horror, Supernatural, Nonfiction, Ghosts, History, Travel, Adult
ISBN: 9781101980194
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2016-10-03T23:00:00+00:00

No matter your crime, once you were in Moundsville, your life was pretty much forfeit. The place was underfunded and understaffed, and there was no room for pity. The world of the penitentiary is one of lawlessness, of anarchy, which is in part why it’s so frightening. By one estimate, at any given time in Moundsville’s operating history, inmates outnumbered guards by at least 20 to 1. Designed to hold 650 inmates but often holding in excess of 2,000, it was staffed with fewer than 50 guards on shift at any given time during the day.

This chronic lack of guards and resources led, as one might expect, to a level of violence among the inmates that approached pure anarchy. In November 1992, a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, “Red” Snyder, was stabbed repeatedly by his neighbor Rusty Lassiter. The two had been good friends, but a price on Snyder’s head by a rival proved too enticing for Lassiter.

This betrayal perhaps accounts for why Snyder’s restless ghost continues to haunt his cell, calling out to the former guards who now give tours of the prison. But his murder is only one of many instances of horrific brutality that have transpired behind the prison’s walls. Its history is filled with savage violence by inmates—prominently involving rival gangs making examples of each other. Moundsville is perhaps most notorious for the underground recreation room—the Sugar Shack, as it was known—which was unsupervised and played host to countless beatings, rapes, and murders.

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