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He’s never believed all the superstitious
stories about the place.

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No matter how creepy and empty it might have
been, a building is still just a building.

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Isn’t it?

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But now, watching in abject horror as the
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Seeing it floating closer, the Investigator
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It all starts the way most cases do, with
a client and a sad story.

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By now, the Investigator has long since become
accustomed to how things play out.

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Someone whose case has been thrown out by
the cops, left unsolved, and without a resolution,

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they find themselves turning to him.

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And his most recent Client is much the same.

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It’s a missing persons case.

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The police have already given up the search
for the Client’s son and a close friend,

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who have both vanished under mysterious circumstances.

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With the Client in tears, saying she just
wants to know if her son is alive or not,

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the Investigator agrees to take on the case.

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He tells her he’ll do what he can; even
if the answer he winds up uncovering isn’t

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the one that brings happiness, it could at
least provide some closure.

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The Client hands over her son’s computer,
and it doesn’t take long for the Investigator

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to happen across his first lead.

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As it turns out, the son runs a channel right
here on YouTube.

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The Investigator takes a closer look.

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It seems to be dedicated to discussing and
uncovering the existence of the paranormal.

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Spirits, seances, sasquatches, trying to decipher
how much of it is real and what are just flat-out

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stories.

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The Investigator shakes his head and sighs
– he’s never been the superstitious type.

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Ghosts and gremlins were usually just myths
that distract from the very real wrongdoings

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in the world.

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But then he notices something, a recurring
series of videos on the YouTuber’s channel.

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Each video has a similar format, he and a
Cameraman venture to a run-down building that

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is allegedly haunted, and then proceed to
stay the night there, or try to commune with

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spirits.

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While the jury was still out on a ghostly
abduction, the Investigator feels certain

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that the YouTuber must have been out filming
another of these paranormal explorations on

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the night he and his Cameraman went missing.

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And sure enough, the Investigator doesn’t
have to look far to be proven right.

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There’s a log of direct messages between
the YouTuber and the Cameraman, discussing

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ideas for videos that might potentially boost
their views and engagement.

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The YouTuber points out that videos about
haunted prisons tend to bring in an interested

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audience, and the Cameraman discovers the
location of an Abandoned Federal Penitentiary

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after some research.

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They both agree to head there and plan to
film a new video when they do.

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There’s even an address in their chat log,
and they even arrange to meet on the same

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night their disappearance would take place.

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So, the Investigator gets in his car and makes
the drive towards the location.

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By the time he arrives, it’s already dark
out.

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Haunted or not, the sight of the desolate
prison complex at night even gives the Investigator

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the creeps.

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He ventures inside, the echo of his boots
on the ground cutting through the eerie silence.

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Each step is slow, and carefully placed to
avoid stepping or tripping over any hazards

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that might be strewn about on the ground.

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But also so the Investigator can cover every
corner of the Abandoned Federal Penitentiary.

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After all, anywhere around could be clues
to the mysterious disappearances.

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He knows he probably won’t get lucky and
stumble upon both the YouTuber and the Cameraman,

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alive but just trapped somewhere in the empty
prison.

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But then, he hears a sudden sound: it almost
sounds like a voice.

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A person screaming.

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The Investigator looks around, stopping and
waiting to see if he hears it again.

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A few moments pass, and nothing but the silence
of the old prison, with the occasional breeze

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from outside its old walls.

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Must’ve just been the wind playing tricks
on him, the Investigator rationalizes to himself,

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before noticing that the hairs on his neck
are all standing to attention.

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He quietly scolds himself for getting spooked
at nothing.

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He’d be getting scared of his own shadow
next…

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He ventures further into the abandoned penitentiary,
passing vacant cells that once would’ve

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housed thieves and murderers.

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It makes the Investigator wonder, as he quietly
walks on, if anyone he ever got arrested made

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it to this prison.

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He’s not broken many cases that involve
violent crimes, but a very select few from

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his career spring to mind.

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Not every case he looks into has a simple,
straightforward answer.

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And sometimes, a missing person isn’t just
someone that’s skipped town, or come out

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to a creepy old prison to film a YouTube video.

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As the Investigator walks carefully into a
cell block in the deepest part of the prison,

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he almost trips.

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Something is at his feet, its weight shifting
as his boot knocks against it.

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Taking a closer look, the Investigator reaches
towards the ground to retrieve the object.

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His fingertips brush against it, and he picks
it up: it’s a camera.

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And not a cheap camcorder either, a far more
impressive piece of equipment than an average

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person would own – and certainly one too
expensive for its owner to just leave it lying

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around.

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It looks like a miniaturized television studio
camera, complete with a microphone and a small

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LCD screen that flips out of its side.

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Fairly confident that this belonged to the
missing Cameraman, the Investigator turns

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the device on… not realizing how grave of
a mistake he’s just made.

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The camera’s screen blinks to life, with
an icon in the corner displaying how much

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charge the battery has left – only a quarter,
the Investigator realizes he needs to get

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as many answers as he can from this thing,
and fast.

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He hits play on one of the most recently recorded
clips, and the display presents him with footage

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of the YouTuber.

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The video’s timestamp confirms it’s from
the fateful night of the untimely disappearance.

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And in it, the YouTuber is excitedly welcoming
his audience to the Abandoned Federal Penitentiary.

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He explains that the prison has long been
rumored to be haunted, and that he and the

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Cameraman are going to determine if the rumors
of ghosts in the cells are true.

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The clip cuts, and the next starts playing
automatically.

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Most of them are brief, B-roll shots taken
by the Cameraman, showing the creepy, unsettling

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atmosphere of the vacant prison.

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Bars without anyone behind them, the moon
visible through the decaying ceiling, and

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other clips intended to be edited into a longer
video.

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There are takes of the YouTuber as he tries
to explain the history of the haunted prison,

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only to trip up his words, being forced to
start again.

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It’s all rough, imperfect, and evidently
left unfinished.

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Little much of note takes place, until the
YouTuber and his Cameraman reach the spot

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where the Investigator would inevitably find
the discarded video camera.

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On screen, the YouTuber explains that they’re
standing in the death row block, the place

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where convicts were sent while awaiting their
executions.

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As he’s recounting exactly how many met
their deaths, calling this particular block

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the most haunted in the whole prison, a sudden
noise distracts the YouTuber and the Cameraman

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filming.

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They wander deeper into the cell block, until
they come across a foreboding room with faded

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lettering over the doorway.

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The camera’s microphone picks up the buzzing
of electricity, coming from the other side,

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and the pair venture through to a grim sight
awaiting them on the other side.

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The YouTuber is in awe, perhaps thinking of
all the views it will garner from his morbidly

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fixated subscribers.

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The Cameraman doesn’t appear on screen,
but his reaction is easy to gauge from what

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he says as they step into the room: he’s
horrified.

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The gravity of what the place is and what
it was built and used for hitting him at once,

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and it isn’t hard to see why: the pair are
standing in the execution chamber.

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In the middle of the room is an old chair,
with worn leather straps on the armrests and

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the front two legs.

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Rusted metal apparatus is affixed to the top
and back of it, too, giving a clear indication

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that this isn’t exactly a comfy recliner
– it’s an electric chair.

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Of course, this doesn’t stop the YouTuber
from excitedly sitting in it, slipping his

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hands through the straps, and then shaking
erratically – he’s pretending to be electrocuted.

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The Cameraman urges him to stop, making it
known how distasteful he finds the mocking

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action.

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But moments later, both of their attention
is suddenly drawn to the back wall of the

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chamber…

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Something is dripping on the wall, catching
the low light from the video camera and the

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torch on the YouTuber’s cell phone.

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The camera pans closer, only for the Cameraman
holding it to recoil in shock as he sees what’s

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on the wall… it’s blood.

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Fresh blood.

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Still wet.

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He panics, and starts accusing the YouTuber
of arriving early to smear fake blood on the

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wall as some kind of prank, all to add to
the horror factor of the video by making the

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Cameraman believe it to be real.

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But the YouTuber insists he’d done nothing
of the sort.

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They take another look at the bloody mess
on the wall.

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It looks like a diagram of some kind, that
someone has put great effort into painting

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on the back wall of the execution chamber.

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Immediately next comes a flood of frightened
questions from the Cameraman; if it’s real,

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then whose blood is it?

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Why would someone do something like this?

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And were they even safe anymore?

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The YouTuber doesn’t answer; the color has
drained from his face as he stares up at where

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the ceiling meets the top of the wall.

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He’s frozen to the spot, all his bravado
and exaggerated, ostentatious presenter persona

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has fallen away, leaving only one, real thing:
fear.

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The Cameraman whips the video camera’s lens
to the spot where the YouTuber is looking,

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then he sees it for himself.

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The seam, where the highest point of the wall
connects to the ceiling… is bleeding.

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Long crimson drops start to rapidly spill
from the wall, and cause the pair to turn

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heel and run out of the execution chamber.

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Back out in the death row block of the Abandoned
Federal Penitentiary, the YouTuber and the

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Cameraman go into a full-blown panic.

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Neither one of them can believe what they’ve
seen.

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The idea that someone else was pranking them
is quickly thrown out.

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Nobody else knows they were coming here, and
the blood seems too authentic.

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The YouTuber is familiar with using fake blood
for cheap scares in videos – it's hard to

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fake the metallic smell of the real thing.

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Suddenly, a loud cacophony erupts from nearby.

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It’s deafeningly loud, the clanging of metal
on metal.

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The Cameraman whips the lens over to the cells.

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Despite being abandoned, death row worryingly
seems more alive than ever.

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The rusted doors to the cells are swinging
open and shut rapidly, crashing as they slam

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completely of their own accord.

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The pair begin to run back the way they came,
towards the entrance of the cell block.

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The YouTuber trips, but as the Cameraman turns
back to look at him, something inexplicable

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is happening.

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He’s being dragged back across the floor,
like someone is pulling him by the ankle,

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his hands desperately clawing for something
to grip on to in order to save himself.

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In a second, the YouTuber is gone, dragged
screaming into the shadows.

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The Cameraman turns to run again, when something
causes the camera to tumble to the ground.

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Through the tiny screen, the Investigator
hears the dying screams of the Cameraman,

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while only his shoes are in frame.

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He hits ‘Pause’ on the footage and notices
the time stamp: just over twenty minutes.

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Combined with the duration of the previous
clips, he deduces the pair were only inside

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the prison for around a half hour.

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As to what happened to them, that question
still perplexes him.

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A wild animal attack seems possible, but that
doesn’t explain the bizarre bleeding walls

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in the execution chamber.

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A troubled thought suddenly causes the Investigator
to check his watch: he’s been there for

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just over twenty-five minutes himself.

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A figure has appeared in front of him while
he’s been distracted.

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The Investigator thinks it’s a trick of
the light… until he sees, or rather doesn’t

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see the legs.

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The figure is hovering off the ground, missing
their legs.

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It can’t be… surely it couldn’t be an
actual…

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It floats closer, and that’s when he sees
the same grotesque face he’s seen before.

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He still remembers the day they caught the
Killer; his mug shot was printed in every

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newspaper.

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His scarred, twisted jaw reminds the world
of his crimes… and now, so does his ghost.

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There’s something sharp and pointed in its
hand as it gets closer, a rudimentary blade…

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and it’s the only thing the Investigator
sees as the Killer claims yet another victim.

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Exploring any abandoned building in the pursuit
of internet virality is usually not an advisable

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course of action.

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Even less so when that building happens to
be SCP-450, the Abandoned Federal Penitentiary.

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Now, you might be forgiven for thinking that
there’s nothing inherently dangerous about

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a building.

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Naturally, after so many years of neglect,
it has seen better days.

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Much of the now-empty prison is in a pretty
dire state of disrepair, and collapsing masonry

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to the head can prove to be fatal if you’re
standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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However, we all know it wasn’t designed
to fall into such disuse.

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Things often decay with time, left to rot
like… well, like a prisoner in a cell.

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Structural hazards aside, it might seem on
the surface like there’s nothing unusual

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about the penitentiary itself.

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Naturally, any empty building becomes a little
creepy when it’s been abandoned for so long,

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particularly after dark and especially in
a place that was once designed to be filled

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with inmates and guards.

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And while it might be true, that the empty
building itself doesn’t pose much of a threat.

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But nobody said SCP-450 was empty.

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Some of the prisoners that were remanded there
during its heyday were no doubt made to serve

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life sentences for heinous crimes – and
some of them are still serving their sentences

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from beyond the grave.

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The SCP Foundation’s extensive exploration
into the Abandoned Federal Penitentiary has

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determined a number of factors relating to
its anomalous properties.

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For one, the encounters with supernatural
phenomena are confined to only one particular

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cell block of the entire prison.

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Sounds at least a little bit more manageable,
doesn’t it?

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After all, at least if you were to venture
around other parts of the prison, then the

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only creepy part would be how run down and
vacant the place is.

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But over on death row, things are far, far
creepier.

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It seems only fitting that the most haunted
area of SCP-450 is the portion of the prison

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where inmates were held before execution.

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These cells are those that were once reserved
for the most diabolical criminals, who were

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deemed so dangerous and guilty of such horrific
crimes that they were sentenced to death.

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And it seems that, for some of them, this
solution wasn’t as permanent as you might

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think.

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Traversing from the entrance of SCP-450 into
the cell block, one will reach the execution

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chamber just over one hundred and sixty meters
away.

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Much like the rest of the place, this too
hasn’t seen much use in a long time.

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Although the sounds you might here inside
could fool you into thinking otherwise.

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Occasionally, the sounds of crackling sparks,
deadly voltages of electricity will ring out,

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along with the long-forgotten screams of those
condemned to death by the electric chair.

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Upon closer inspection, those brave – or
foolish – enough to venture into the Abandoned

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Federal Penitentiary will notice a pattern
on the wall, directly behind the old electric

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chair.

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What might look like just a complex inscription
is, in actuality, a map of the entire prison…

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and it’s drawn in blood.

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SCP Foundation researchers have discovered
that this map has a tendency to degrade over

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time, thanks to the amount of natural wear
and tear SCP-450 has undergone.

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For that reason, and perhaps so the… inmates
can find their way around, the bloody diagram

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is regularly maintained and repainted when
needed.

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Speaking of the inmates, you can surely imagine
what they must’ve been like while they were

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still alive in order to be held on death row.

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Now try to picture how much worse they are
after having been executed.

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Descriptions of the numerous entities inhabiting
SCP-450 are scarce, and perhaps that’s for

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the better if you happen to be faint of heart.

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However, one thing the Foundation knows for
sure is that they’re all hostile.

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An encounter with any one of the spectral
prisoners is inevitably fatal.

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The Foundation is able to determine a few
specific criteria that will cause one of the

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ghostly convicts to appear – if one or more
of these is not followed, then it’ll lead

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to a much quicker death sentence than those
once served at SCP-450.

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Firstly, using any other entrance to gain
access to the haunted cell block other than

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the main door.

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That means no trying to get there by doubling
back through empty corridors and taking shortcuts

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up stairwells.

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And while you’re at it, it’s best to keep
your movements slow and steady – traveling

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through SCP-450 at a speed faster than 0.25
meters per second will attract some unwanted

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and undead attention.

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Any personnel the Foundation tasks with performing
maintenance within the Abandoned Federal Penitentiary

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need to follow specific instructions in order
to make it in and out in one piece.

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By walking silently at a reduced pace, it
takes them approximately eleven minutes to

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make it from the main entrance of death row
to the execution chamber.

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But they will need to account for the journey
back too.

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Anyone present inside the cell block for longer
than twenty-five minutes at a time will invariably

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attract the presence of the prisoners.

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With the journey taking eleven minutes both
ways, that leaves personnel with only three

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minutes to repaint the blood-soaked map and
make it back out to safety in enough time.

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And trying to rush back is hardly advisable.

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The faster you move, the louder your footsteps
are likely to be, and sound seems to be yet

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another thing the infernal inmates are drawn
to.

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Noises louder than twenty-five decibels are
known to attract them, as is operating any

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electronic devices and returning to SCP-450
more than once every twenty-four hours.

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Of course, it’s hardly smooth sailing for
those that the Foundation does send into the

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Abandoned Federal Penitentiary.

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Personnel will often report similar experiences
of being inside the haunted cell block.

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They will frequently experience hallucinations
of spectral, translucent figures.

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Often, some of these poltergeist prisoners
will appear clearer than others… and some

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still look more human than others too.

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Auditory hallucinations are also recurringly
experienced by those who visit SCP-450, many

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being a cacophony of imprisoned screams, the
desperate cries of those who are still trapped

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in the prison, now with no guards around ordering
them to keep quiet after lights out.

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But the Foundation likes to assure its staff
that anything they experience within SCP-450

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is perfectly normal.

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There’s no cause for concern, no matter
how many spectral voices one might hear.

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If the walls start to bleed, don’t worry
about it.

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And if personnel encounter any dead, rotting
remains, they are advised not to investigate

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for their own safety.

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It certainly seems that, while SCP-450 no
longer houses any living convicts, the Abandoned

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Federal Penitentiary is still very much in
active use when it comes to keeping its poltergeist

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population imprisoned.

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Then again, the Foundation can only really
keep the doors locked and occasionally head

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into SCP-450 for maintenance.

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Anyone who accidentally enters the building
– be they civilians or personnel – are

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to be considered lost, and no attempts at
rescue are to be made under any circumstances.

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It seems that these days the inmates are running
the penitentiary.

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