Exploring Haunted Gothic Jail in DeRidder

become a 25 patri [Music] today at the time of the Louisiana Purchase this section of the state was essentially a No Man's Land criminals would come far and wide to seek Refuge as an answer to quell more lawlessness this imposing jail was built so it would send the message crimes will not be tolerated [Music] here two men would soon find out this was very true let me uh see if I can find some lights there oh there we go we have light now the Jailer and his family would live here this is a pretty large apartment yeah [Music] $25 patreon [Music] [Music] today so they had a little bathroom that's neat I mean all this you can see actually so this would have been divided off there was some sort of a like a wall on both sides of here but and also drop sea leg you can actually see around see other the Rapters and then this is well hang on a second okay this so This continues as a wall but there's this is a window correct unless there was a wall and there was a doorway here yeah true and maybe a doorway the other side yeah I do know that that was a door cuz that led out that was the back door where people could come and go it's blocked off now you can't access it but uh that was a door right but I mean like you said even still very spacious very massive yeah so this was captured by a photographer a local photographer called Christine Smith during an area shoot via a cherry picker she was uh taking photos and caught this on the balcony and then this picture that was captured is believed to be the ghost of the Jailer now the jailer's been see walking around with a big bushy mustache drinking a cup of coffee in his bibed overalls and what gives this a little bit more credibility cuz people have tried to disprove it obviously uh this was actually taken on film so you can do like the double exposure thing what have you this doesn't appear to be like that and it is a lot harder to mess with film rather than digital of today yeah pry cool and then it continues through here this was the kitchen now there was a wall yeah you can see where they've chipped out around now I do know that back in those days they didn't ever have the kitchens or they didn't like having the kitchens right in the house because of the fire but with walls this thick made of concrete mhm and you can see kind of too I guess mirroring the floor look like there was a wall here and that's where they stopped chipping they chipped all this out but this part is smooth so there's another doorway see from here to walk to get to that so look at this sink I love these old Butler sinks yeah we've I think seen a sink and combo just like this at a mining camp one time same handles everything and oh look at the stove that's a beauty it's gorgeous isn't it little bits and pieces this stuff is so neat and then of course you have the dumb waiter would you take a look at this now oh wow so there's some bones it's a little animal animal dead animal bird or something and some coins so these were all legitimately found here in the dumb waiter yep now that's amazing look at these what date is it you dropped that one I don't think you should touch anymore 1900 okay so the the the jail was built in 1914 I can't take you anywhere so there we some bones yeah bones a stone dead rat stew bone some kind of a steak bone perhaps and then so well I would imagine this would be for food and laundry possibly definitely food yeah because they'd have a tray you put your food on then the tray would go through right cuz the bars so you can't you know so people couldn't get in and out that is really cool amazing okay you ready to go upstairs yep I just hope there's no old coins up there so the second and third floors each had four cells this one actually had a woman's Cale we'll go into that later um and each each cell had four one 2 3 four doors to open it you had this one which you had to unlock then you walk in you got this one this one and this one so this unlocks this interior door okay and these walls are between 13 and 21 in thick and it was laid with concrete poured into wooden molds right you can see the steps each step the different poure all the way up uh-huh now although these were it was actually quite a posh gel in a lot of ways because this was the only jail ever known to have its own toilet shower and Basin in each cell oh but the prisoners still had to lie on these bunks right and there was 12 prisoners to a room all the rooms had Windows facing outside which was another so they had light and here's there no trip would be complete that a trip to the L here's their L their Basin and the shower and you think this was built in 1914 so to have indoor plumbing back then yeah most people didn't have that in their houses yeah it's true now this would be the women's section and there's a funny story behind this so the women's bars the tables are original there used to be just like in the men's cell cells here with the beds these windows look out over the Main Street cour houses over there the women used to stand in front of these windows and Flash everyone that went by so they had to change it up put pars along the outside so that when they would still try to flash people nobody could see in true story and this is the rest of the cell pretty much identical to the male cell it does have a l and it does have a basin and it obviously does have a shower now this C was was n crowded like the other ones normally maybe one or two ladies at a time Y and that was because they were ladies of the night ladies of the evening typically or may be drunk right hence why they would have tables and everything so it was like their [Music] own well hang on then how come the men didn't have own tables in there cells too many of [Music] them so this is the solitary and this is where Joe and Molton spent 18 months while they were waiting for their sentencing wow so you have to unlock the lock box to unlock the jail so again three doors and uh boy you can imagine how hot it would get in here totally somebody's written something on the wall here inside these chambers of death I will dwell forever more more I lost my heart my mind my soul just because of a bolted door this is an incredibly uncomfortable well you're not here for Comfort mhm it's not the Ritz you know and then the other cell is identical this one does actually have the toilet in place and the Basin y okay one more floor [Music] now the crime which Joe Jenner and molon Brasso were accused tried and found guilty of was termed by officers as the most dastardly the most brutal and the boldest ever perpetrated in borgard Parish or for that matter in the whole state of Louisiana so this is the uh Infamous Gallows huh yeah so these aren't the original ones and the hangman's noose isn't the original noose but this is where the hanging took place double hanging on that fateful day in 1928 so these were the only two hangings ever in this jail and that's why they got it its nickname The Hanging jail now they do say that the spirits still haunt this place but did you also know that because their crime was so horrendous which is why they were hung here they wanted to be made examp yeah their bodies weren't allowed to be buried in the parish because they didn't want to dirty the ground so the the two bodies were buried outside the parish oh wow true story so also on this top floor you have four more cells now these cells were for people who didn't do really bad crimes or they were on good behavior this is the cell that they actually found things in hidden behind the wall and prisoners had staffed these bottles letters notes [Music] it's got a 40 I don't if that's a year or and look at this I don't want to tiny little medicine bottle of some sort that's been wrapped up the paper's disintegrating yeah and all of these newspapers and everything were also pulled out of the wall the date on one oops that 19 May May 2 1914 mhm wow and I think this looks like this is an Old Lantern of some sort that looks like a yeah Gas Lamp and then you got good old Prince Albert now we've seen loads of these before and all of this was found in the walls that's pretty incredible and then oh and Checker sport now what happened here is when they were cleaning up the G the the jail they hosed High pressured the the ground and this appeared it had actually been painted over they didn't even know this existed but but you can see [Music] how the squares yeah every other one's got some kind of a and you can see this the the gray paint which was they think painted over yeah they didn't know that existed and the last thing that I want to show you in here that they found and it's such a shame it's not complete but it's a handwritten letter from a prisoner to whoever that is incredible these are those little pieces of of history that we say you know people's genuine stories it kind of brings it to life you know somebody was actually here you can see their the remnant of them [Music] [Music] now this is where they used to take the prisoners to go to the courthouse and the tunnel used to go right the way through unfortunately because they rebuilt part of the courthouse they put an extension it does only go where this fall but you imagine how many prisoners walked through this tunnel yeah over the years awaiting their feate and this is actually meant to be very uh have a lot of Paranormal Activity down here apparently okay oh wow look at this is that a footprint it's like the outline of a footprint maybe not CU that appearance though on that one yeah and then soon as over slay another door H there you have it what an amazing building isn't it just recommend anybody to come here absolutely W incredible it's a good one Louisiana on what's next excellent there are many ways you can help show support for pin watch their videos in full see if there's something on their Amazon wish list you'd like to send them maybe donate to help fuel Tanto or even become a patreon they even provide a mailing 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