When there's something strange ... in your cell block ... who you gonna call? Not TOM BREEN, for starters.
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. _ Paranormal investigators spend their time in places where most people wouldn't dare set foot: forgotten cemeteries, dilapidated houses, disused mental institutions and the like.
In West Virginia's Northern Panhandle, the hot spot for ghost hunters is the forbidding Moundsville State Penitentiary, which was closed in 1995. The 140-year-old structure attracts investigators from all over the region, who hope to capture sounds and images that will help establish proof of supernatural activity.
TOM BREEN, the kind of person who watches horror movies with his eyes closed, tags along in a vain effort to conquer his overpowering fears for this asap podcast.
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asap contributor Tom Breen is an AP newsman in the Charleston, W.Va. bureau.
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