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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! Some places carry the weight of history. Others carry the weight of the dead. The Old Charleston Jail manages to do both. Standing for nearly two centuries, this foreboding structure in Charleston, South Carolina, was built atop a burial ground and went on to become one of the most feared prisons in America. Within its heavy stone walls, both the guilty and the innocent were imprisoned during some of the darkest chapters of American history. Torture, despair, and death seeped into every brick — and it seems the energy of those years never left. Long after the last cell door slammed shut, the spirits remain. Visitors and investigators report the unmistakable clanging of chains echoing in the dead of night, disembodied whispers drifting through musty corridors, and shadowy figures lurking just out of sight. For those who dare step inside, the sensation of being watched — or even followed — is nearly impossible to ignore. But why does the Old Charleston Jail remain so a