Exploring Everyday Philadelphia

Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829 with a standard of strict isolation to reform its inmates - a model that impacted prisons worldwide. In 1971, the prison was abandoned and became a state landmark.

Now, every October since 1991, Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary has offered the city’s most popular haunted attraction, Terror Behind the Walls. Featuring 11 acres of abandoned prison with gothic architecture and grisly history, Eastern State Penitentiary provides the perfect backdrop for Halloween thrills.

The attraction includes tours of the cells, 140 hired actors, acclaimed art installations, and a seriously scary reputation as one of the most haunted areas in the US. The Penitentiary was featured on the Travel Channel’s Most Haunted Live, Fox’s World’s Scariest Places, TLC’s American Ghost Hunters, and MTV’s FEAR. New in 2008, the Intake feature attraction is expanded to include a new layout, animatronic props, high-tech effects, digital sound, and large props from Transformers 2, filmed at Eastern State Penitentiary.

Terror Behind the Walls runs nightly throughout the month of October.

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