Ohio State Reformatory

Escape from the Blood Prison.

Plunge yourself into the Ohio State Reformatory's real prison hellscape, where violent inmates, some never left, even in death, have claimed the cell blocks.

Each Halloween, the gates open to this twisted hideout of escaped psychopaths.

Survive deranged clowns and unsolved murders, failed jail breaks, enter blood prison if you dare this is an all indoor attraction so it is in the reformatory they do have food and concessions there yeah

It was a great turnout, a lot of fun, a lot of great vendors.

And it's at the historic Mansfield Reformatory, the haunted prison where Shawshank Redemption was filmed.

So we're going to come back next year, May 22nd.

So we're going to come back for our second year.

And that was true at other penitentiaries we were looking at.

I mentioned the Ohio State Reformatory.

Eastern State was another model in Philadelphia that we looked at closely.

And that was really what they were doing there is just kind of opening up the gates, letting people tour and slowly reclaiming the site.

Yeah.

I read that the Shawshank prison that was Ohio State Reformatory.

And it was closed, the class action lawsuit, due to overcrowding, inhumane conditions, diseases, rats, and inedible food.

And the prison closed in 1986.

you know, who's been doing this a long time.

Some of these haunts are the hits, the Queen Mary, the, you know, Ohio State Reformatory, like you said, those are the hits.

Those are the big hits.

And I think you should play the hits.

No, no. I'm like at Shawshank.

I'm like at Mansfield Reformatory.

There's still a shot I could be Andy Dufresne.

I could escape.

Indiana State Sanatorium is absolutely one of those places.

The Ohio State Reformatory is where my ghost, my ghost story is.

And Hillview, Haunted Hillview Manor in Newcastle, Pennsylvania is definitely one of the places.

But my ghost story, which put me down a permanent rabbit hole forever and has literally changed how I look at any sort of like visual paranormal experience for the rest of my life.

And I don't even know if it's in a good way because I'm such a scaredy cat.

So I was at the Ohio State Reformatory.

My husband and I are on the resident paranormal team there called Tri-C Ghost Hunters.

And funnily enough, you had a podcast before Ghost Bunny and Greg Feketic was actually on that podcast before.

Mm.

You gotta keep in mind, uh, a lot of prisons, like you'll hear a lot about prisons, like when we did the Ohio State Reformatory.

Mm-hmm.

It had good intentions starting out, all right?