Eastern State has five haunted houses: Delirium, Big Top Terror, Machine Shop, Nightmares and The Crypt. Each has its own theme and backstory, to which the character actors are wholly dedicated.

Eastern State has five haunted houses: Delirium, Big Top Terror, Machine Shop, Nightmares and The Crypt. Each has its own theme and backstory, to which the character actors are wholly dedicated.

May 01, 2019 PHOTOS: This guy just climbed Eastern State Penitentiary But it wasn't to make an escape.

September 03, 2024 This fall at Eastern State Penitentiary's Halloween Nights, brave souls will be given a puzzle to solve From Sept. 20 to Nov. 9, a new haunted house experience sends visitors on ...

According to Eastern State, the penitentiary welcomed 17,000 visitors during Bastille Day’s inaugural year of 1995 — in 2017, it saw more than 250,000 visitors.

It's now owned by the city of Philadelphia and operated by the nonprofit Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc. that maintains it as a "stabilized ruin" and runs tours every day from 10 a ...

Mr. Capone spent a lot of his life in prison, but his first time in prison was at Eastern State. He got caught with a gun at a movie theater, which carried a maximum sentence of one year in prison ...

Upon entering the eerie threshold of Eastern State Penitentiary, visitors are greeted by two larger-than-life gargoyles looking down at them. The intimidating stone walls once housed Al Capone and ...

Eastern State Penitentiary’s Halloween Nights Festival features professional Hollywood special effects, makeup, and props. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) “Big Top Terror” taps into the collective fear of ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Eastern State Penitentiary will reopen later this week after being shut down for almost a year due to COVID-19. The historic site in Philadelphia will be open to the ...

During the 1800s, when Eastern State Penitentiary first opened in Philadelphia, much controversy surrounded its practice of changing the behavior of inmates through confinement in solitude with labor.

At the rate it’s going, Eastern State could be a century-long, multi-million dollar project; one that will leave in our midst a fully restored, inoperative 19th-century prison.