Apparently there was a time in America when punishment for your crimes was that you get to go live in a castle for a bit. Of course it was not all that glamorous, but the exterior of the Eastern State Penitentiary is stunning. Eastern State created the penitentiary system in which inmates were kept in…
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Count Von Cosel; A Key West Ghost Story
Call it the Halloween spirit, but my takeaways from Key West seem to be mostly ghost stories. Next door to Robert the Doll, about whom I wrote my last post, I discovered the strange tale of Count Von Cosel. Now, this is a ghost story that’s right up my alley and I’m not sure how…