Newgate Prison Murder Everyone knows Newgate Prison here in London is haunted. There were too many strange and unexplainable things that went on there. The rumor is that the ghost of Jack Shepherd haunts the Prison to this day even though it has been shut down.
I worked as a prison counselor for fifteen years at the prison, and the prisoners would have the strangest things to say about the ghosts. I knew half of the prisoners were just crazy to begin with, but there was this one prisoner who told me a story about something that had happened to a prisoner named Scott Williams before I came to work at the prison. His story chilled me to the bone.....
Late one night he was in his cell trying to sleep, but couldn't because it was raining. All he could focus on was the leak in his ceiling, and the sound when it hit the cold concrete floor every second. After a while, his eyes started to get heavy and he was almost asleep when he heard chains and heavy footsteps. He was wide awake when he heard that. He got up to look out his window, but didn't see a thing. He knew it couldn't be anybody inside the prison because they do not wear chains, and it was the middle of the night; all the prisoners were sleeping. He listened for the sound again, but didn't hear anything except for the rain dripping down from the ceiling. He went back to bed thinking that his mind was just playing tricks on him because he was tired.
The next day it was gloomy and wet from all the rain the town got the night before. He looked out his window into what the prisoners called "the cage." "The cage" was a small gated-in area between the prison and the Old Bailey courthouse which was also known as the "Dead Man's Walk." It also happened to be the location of the lime pits where the remains of executed prisoners were buried. While Scott looked out his window between the bars he thought of all the prisoners that were executed and buried there. He knew that later that year he would be one of those prisoners buried in the lime pits.
Later that night, Scott was trying to fall asleep when it started to storm. The drip started. He then heard the chains and the footsteps that he heard the night before. He quickly got out of bed, and looked out his window into "the cage."
I worked as a prison counselor for fifteen years at the prison, and the prisoners would have the strangest things to say about the ghosts. I knew half of the prisoners were just crazy to begin with, but there was this one prisoner who told me a story about something that had happened to a prisoner named Scott Williams before I came to work at the prison. His story chilled me to the bone.....
Late one night he was in his cell trying to sleep, but couldn't because it was raining. All he could focus on was the leak in his ceiling, and the sound when it hit the cold concrete floor every second. After a while, his eyes started to get heavy and he was almost asleep when he heard chains and heavy footsteps. He was wide awake when he heard that. He got up to look out his window, but didn't see a thing. He knew it couldn't be anybody inside the prison because they do not wear chains, and it was the middle of the night; all the prisoners were sleeping. He listened for the sound again, but didn't hear anything except for the rain dripping down from the ceiling. He went back to bed thinking that his mind was just playing tricks on him because he was tired.
The next day it was gloomy and wet from all the rain the town got the night before. He looked out his window into what the prisoners called "the cage." "The cage" was a small gated-in area between the prison and the Old Bailey courthouse which was also known as the "Dead Man's Walk." It also happened to be the location of the lime pits where the remains of executed prisoners were buried. While Scott looked out his window between the bars he thought of all the prisoners that were executed and buried there. He knew that later that year he would be one of those prisoners buried in the lime pits.
Later that night, Scott was trying to fall asleep when it started to storm. The drip started. He then heard the chains and the footsteps that he heard the night before. He quickly got out of bed, and looked out his window into "the cage."
The other prisoners believe that he saw the ghost of the former prisoner Jack Shepherd who was hanged in 1974 after escaping custody three times for burglary and murder. All the prisoners had heard that he walked in "the cage" late at night as a lost soul, but no one had ever seen Jack.
The prisoners say he must have been Shepherd because Scott was found dead in his cell the next morning with chain marks on his throat. He had been strangled to death.
Bibliography: The Institute of Paranormal Reseach (2005). Haunted London.
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