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H.H. Holmes — The Murder Castle
paranormal locationMoyamensing Prison Site, USA
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H.H. Holmes was hanged at Moyamensing Prison on 7 May 1896 (historical record). The prison operated 1835–1963 and was demolished in 1968; the site is now commercial. No verified paranormal evidence or established haunting tradition attaches to the former prison site (Philadelphia's famous prison hauntings centre on the separate Eastern State Penitentiary).
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A well-known piece of American crime folklore holds that, before his 1896 hanging at Moyamensing Prison, Holmes pronounced a curse on all who helped convict him. As catalogued by crime writer Rebecca Frost and the Weekly View, the legend points to a string of later misfortunes among the people involved: Moyamensing's superintendent reportedly killed himself, a juror died by gas, a priest who attended the gallows was found dead in an alley, the detective Frank Geyer fell suddenly ill, and informant Marion Hedgepeth was shot in a holdup. Frost and others note these deaths were collected after the fact into a curse narrative and treat it as folklore.
Area: Everyone connected to Holmes's trial and execution ('the Curse of H.H. Holmes')
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1400 S 10th Street (approx, former prison; now commercial)
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