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Eastern State Penitentiary Reinvents Popular ‘Terror Behind the Walls’ Attraction for Halloween

By Peter Crimmins | WHYY
Published October 8, 2021 at 6:15 PM EDT
Gargoyle Gardens is part of Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary. This year’s event features all ten acres of the historic prison and fifteen attractions and opened September 24, 2021.
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Gargoyle Gardens is part of Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary. This year’s event features all ten acres of the historic prison and fifteen attractions and opened September 24, 2021.

The popular attraction Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary has been scaring people for 22 years. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports this year, the historic prison museum will turn Terror into a Halloween festival.

(Original air-date: 10/8/21)
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