The
Public Gaol
The Gaol, or as we know of
it as "Jail" was at the end on the corner of a lonely road. Said to be the place of BlackBeard's Pirates, who were captured
and hagged at the Hanging Tree for all to see.
As I entered into the Gaol,
It was very eerie. Sparsley furnished it had a mirror which I could never focus on. Always looked blurry, so I took a picture
of it, because it had a reading of .7 milligauss. Yep, the picture was blurry as well.
The tour guide, who was interested
in what I was doing with my meter, took me aside after the tour. She was a young girl, in her late 20's. She said, "I've only
just started this job about a month ago, but I know there is ghosts in here. When I'm changing into my garments, I hear laughing
upstairs. They say, they used upstair for the lunies/crazy people. I would hear a bagging on the walls, like someone bagging
their head on the walls. It freaks me out."
She let me up the stairs,
where my meter went off the chart. She only let me up there for about a minute, but it was dark and strange. They used
to chain people to the walls so they wouldn't escape. Especially the criminally insane.
Outside, there was the public
stalls or cells. They were outside to enflect more punishment. Sometime they were forced outside the cells and chained to
the post of the fenced in area. Rain or Shine, they would have to bear the elements till their deaths.