Case file · Haunting
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
A grim prison in a hollow at Petros, opened in 1896 for convict coal miners and closed in 2009. James Earl Ray escaped from it in 1977. It now runs ghost tours and a distillery.
1896 CE · 36.11, -84.45 · status: claim
The sceptical view
The hauntings are tourism claims.