Sources from Episode 106

  1. “The Devil and the Art Dealer,” Vanity Fair, March 2014, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-munich-apartment.

  2. “18 Prisoner Demands Studied,” The Weirton Daily Times, 3/22/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/49114343/?terms=Prison%2Briot.

  3. “3 Murderers Dig Out at Moundsville Pen,” The Pittsburgh Press, 2/20/1992, https://www.newspapers.com/image/143664657.

  4. “200 Convicts Seize Section of W. VA. Prison,” The Weirton Daily Times, 3/21/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/49114121/?terms=Prison%2Briot.

  5. “5 State Prison Guards Held Hostage.” The Charleston Daily Mail, 3/20/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/36765228/?terms=Prison%2Briot&match=1

  6. .“A Hell Upon Earth,” Said to be a Mild Description of the West Virginia Pen,” Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 5/31/1894, http://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3901.

  7. “Adkins Falls Twice Through Gallows; Faulty Trap, Laughs Mark Hangings,” Charleston Daily Mail, 3/22/1938, https://newspaperarchive.com/charleston-daily-mail-mar-22-1938-p-1.

  8. Charles H. Ambler and Festus P. Summers, West Virginia: The Mountain State, 2nd Edition (Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1958).

  9. Sherri Brake, The Haunted History of the West Virginia Penitentiary: Afterlife with No Parole (Raven Rock Publishers, 2011).

  10. “The Haunted Prison,” Mental Floss, 10/17/2013, mentalfloss.com/article/53239/haunted-prison.

  11. “Disturbance Breaks Out at Moundsville Prison,” The Raleigh Register, 3/20/73, https://www.newspapers.com/image/47921017/?terms=Prison%2Briot.

  12. “Letter from the West Virginia Penitentiary Warden,” 1/23/1905, wvpentours.com/about/history/articles/letter-west-virginia-penitentiary-warden.

  13. “Civil War,” History.com, 10/15/2009, https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history.

  14. West Virginia State Penitentiary,” AtlasObscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/west-virginia-state-penitentiary.

  15. West Virginia Penitentiary,” Ohio County Public Library, www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3896 and www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3897.

  16. “Charles Manson Requested Transfer to Moundsville Prison in 1983, Wheeling Intelligencer, 11/21/2017, www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2017/11/charles-manson-requested-transfer-to-moundsville-prison-in-1983.

  17. “Haunting History: Moundsville Penitentiary has many Stories to Tell,” Charleston Gazette-Mail, 10/23/16, https://www.wvgazettemail.com/life/haunting-history-moundsville-penitentiary-has-many-stories-to-tell/article_cc19cdc2-d849-5695-b5f2-4c074fce1980.html.

  18. “Man Decapitated by Noose; Head Bounces on Floor,” The Coshocton Tribune, 6/20/1931, https://www.newspapers.com/image/11658766/?terms=frank%2Bhyer%2Bexecuted.

  19. “Haunting Ghost Stories of West Virginia Penitentiary,” ThoughtCo, 3/17/2017, https://www.thoughtco.com/haunting-ghost-stories-west-virginia-penitentiary-972979.

  20. “Moundsville’s Haunted History,” Travel Channel, https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/moundsvilles-haunted-history.

  21. “West Virginia State Penitentiary—Part of the Top Ten Most Violent Correctional Facilities List,” Abandoned Spaces, 7/22/17, https://www.abandonedspaces.com/public/west-virginia-state-penitentiary-part-of-the-top-ten-most-violent-correctional-facilities-list.html.

  22. C.J. Plogger and Jordan Gray, Life at the West Virginia Penitentiary: The Story of Maggie Gray (2017).

  23. “The Haunted Prison in Moundsville, West Virginia,” Haunted Places to Go, https://www.haunted-places-to-go.com/haunted-prison-2.html.

  24. “Under the Lash,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, 11/30/1886, https://www.newspapers.com/image/34581676/?terms=kicking%2Bjenny.

  25. Bert Useem and Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

  26. “West Virginia State,” Scary For Kids, 2/4/10, www.scaryforkids.com/west-virginia.