Inside Brushy Mountain Prison at Night - Abandoned Train and Secret Cave / James Earl Ray Escape

0:04 welcome everyone Adam Lao Wu here

0:04 today's adventure brings us to beautiful

0:06 eastern Tennessee where a couple things

0:08 are going to be taking place some during

0:11 daylight hours

0:11 and some as darkness rears its head it's

0:16 gonna be fun

0:17 join me shall you trying to stay clear

0:20 of this this puddle if there's some

0:22 thorns ow

0:24 if you having into my side and right

0:27 here just gotta push him out of the way

0:29 and carry on I think it got me by

0:35 following the tracks panning just to the

0:39 side of it you'll notice there is an

0:42 epic train just sitting here under the

0:47 elements climbed up top I'm gonna step

0:50 into where where the magic happens oh

0:53 yeah but there hasn't been anyone in

0:56 here in years it's a tight squeeze as I

1:02 wander through high voltage gotta be

1:06 careful it's good to know that I'm the

1:08 first person in quite some time to

1:10 wander these premises yeah Jacob the

1:15 carpetbagger I brought a friend with me

1:16 you a Frick John from exploration

1:21 unknown I don't you want me to show you

1:23 around

1:24 yes why the heck was this just left out

1:27 here to rot right in the spot

1:29 well museum on this train and they used

1:31 it for tours and one day just broke down

1:33 and that couldn't afford to fix it so

1:34 they said to leave it the doors wide

1:37 open they're kind of a little train hop

1:39 in here there's a couple lady bugs

1:41 crawling around on the broken glass

1:43 they're still holding strong that piece

1:46 even though it's been shattered still

1:48 connected to the window first-class

1:51 looking very desolate at this particular

1:54 moment to be careful

1:56 that slams quickly now I know you opted

2:01 to sit but I was told there's raccoon

2:04 dung on that seat

2:14 Jacob didn't said either even if this

2:14 was running have a hard time getting

2:16 down the tracks the trees have grown

2:18 over it it's pretty amazing this is just

2:21 sitting out here all by itself and with

2:24 that got to be moving on to the next

2:26 spot

2:26 just up the road a few miles something

2:31 very impressive

2:32 the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

2:34 established 1896 before heading in

2:39 stopped off at the graveyard where the

2:42 inmates were buried after their death

2:46 the headstones have been removed but the

2:48 bodies still only ground destination

2:51 straight ahead a little Valley there

2:54 below the mountains that's the prison

2:57 itself going in even though it's no

3:00 longer active the security tower still

3:02 stands for now the gates locked

3:04 we're about to be let in for an

3:06 all-access nighttime tour all right this

3:11 is it first impression I think it's

3:14 going to be a quite an experience

3:17 heading inside here and meandering

3:35 oh whoa while there's still a little

3:35 light left head out into the courtyard

3:38 area basketball court there and the

3:42 hoops are still up as well

3:44 this was the laundry facilities and

3:46 everything still inside a unit press

3:50 machine that's the old school right

3:53 there you can put quite a big amount of

3:56 clothing

3:56 in these washers and the dryers are even

4:02 more massive look at the size of these

4:04 things

4:05 they look of the entire room from the

4:07 side angle standing in the corner

4:09 looking on this is different you place

4:12 the article of clothing on the left

4:14 there and then it just drags itself into

4:17 the mechanism on the right as the Sun

4:20 Goes Down temperature of the weather is

4:22 dropping it's quiet out here eerily

4:29 quiet barbed wire everywhere out here

4:35 for obvious reasons and the chapel used

4:39 to sit right here

4:40 signage are still there as well as the

4:42 cross this is the hole the infamous hold

4:59 what happens specifically in here so

4:59 this is almost like solitary confinement

5:03 the prisoners that's their names

5:06 counting down the years that they've

5:10 been here leaving their mark just Louis

5:17 of their variety of others

5:21 plenty of time in here to whittle away

5:25 at the walls the outside staircases four

5:28 stories and look just off to the left

5:31 side you see that razor wire just kind

5:35 of protruding upward and on the roof as

5:42 well starting on ground level and

5:45 looking upward when did they add the

5:48 wire mesh when the prison was still open

5:50 oh yeah just as a safety tactic thank

5:58 you yeah

5:59 going from 40 feet up straight down

6:02 would be not good right in here the man

6:18 that killed Martin Luther King spent

6:21 quite a bit of time laying right there

6:24 on those bunks using that toilet washing

6:29 his hands and that sink wow that is

6:34 pretty amazing I was noticing if you

6:39 point the light over towards this wall

6:41 this almost resembles a traveler a man

6:45 with a like a backpack of some sort like

6:50 just kind of made into the wall like

6:53 organically of sorts it's like a for

6:56 whatever reason I think that's what that

6:58 looks like in my mind this was used to

7:01 lock all the doors so if you pulled on

7:05 this hard enough every single block if

7:09 you look right here drop this hard here

7:17 and now allow the door to open so

7:21 there's two different locks on the doors

7:22 each door had to come in

7:24 and then they would use that walk them

7:26 all down a little desk that can be used

7:29 for writing as well and I'm noticing

7:32 written on the wall it states a coward

7:36 whether surrender then suffer a loss

7:41 real talk

7:42 I don't really understand that

7:59 it's a dead end here turn around and go

7:59 back we have his word they would work

8:02 out and play activities outside because

8:06 the d-block people would be let out for

8:08 one hour a day just one hour and it most

8:12 of the time is until the not so a lot of

8:15 the guys that were incarcerated here

8:16 never sell the Sun Wow four years do a

8:20 little boxing practice here you hang the

8:23 punching bags from those rusted little

8:26 platforms and this would be used for

8:28 like chin ups and pull ups perhaps this

8:32 little corner probably yes right Oh

8:36 doing the dips there and then this would

8:38 be the pull-up bar because I don't think

8:40 they're allowed to have freeways

8:43 inside here yeah oh it's like tripping

8:46 water like you could see it so you can't

8:50 go in but you can kind of just peek in

8:53 so this was death right oh wow so

8:57 everyone in there they all knew their

9:00 fate yeah well it makes it like extra

9:05 creepy without which is that rainwater

9:09 coming down

9:15 so I said these prisoners never saw a

9:15 table they would come out like one

9:18 o'clock in the morning then do their one

9:19 hour of outside and then come back to be

9:22 here for us 23 hours a day spend a sale

9:25 I are in a low tax looper he was a

9:28 Republican candidate for governor

9:30 legally teams isn't that middle name too

9:32 low tax because it was commitment to low

9:35 taxes and then he decided to take a

9:37 shortcut by straight-up murdering his

9:39 opponent and maybe recover the race and

9:42 you didn't win any race on the wall are

9:45 some pencil drawings someone with a

9:49 cigarette

9:50 behind bars right there it's inside

9:54 herself it's upside down from this angle

9:56 it's the carving spelling out hard

9:59 knocks has been inscribed there on the

10:03 medal

10:11 and in the book not the movie just the

10:11 best

10:16 that's an interesting look so Hannibal

10:16 Lecter was gonna be transferred here

10:19 fictionally so that's very I'm looking

10:22 at how much water was like showing to

10:25 develop on the ground there even though

10:27 it's locked up and currently off-limits

10:29 there is a way to get a view through

10:33 this little people and that door there

10:36 so you're looking at that is the death

10:41 chamber so the famous electric chair

10:44 known as old Sparky was originally

10:45 placed here however no one was executed

10:47 here in that chair since it was moved to

10:49 Nashville but a lot of people didn't die

10:52 here but that's a that's another story

10:54 they could send letters out or if they

10:57 had complaints they slid it into this

11:00 box labeled grievances

11:02 you know something happened they didn't

11:04 agree with they just throw their opinion

11:07 in the air and see if anything happened

11:15 if you're into the paranormal a lot of

11:18 ghost hunters use this cell which is

11:21 known as the smoking ghost and they'll

11:24 place a cigarette in here and just see

11:27 what happens in this cell and the one

11:30 next to it three inmates were shot to

11:35 death by a group of people who came in

11:37 with guns I stand corrected it's the one

11:40 next to where I was number 32 and there

11:45 is a cigarette that was not placed by us

11:49 it's here he the Ember there on the end

11:53 is still so prevalent but it's burned

11:55 out it's been it's been partially smoked

11:59 so you never know by who

12:01 this was the cafeteria and you'll notice

12:04 there are paintings and murals all along

12:08 the walls of one of the inmates who is

12:13 still alive and was asked to come back

12:15 and read

12:16 touch some of them up years after he did

12:19 them originally

12:20 Tim crosses his name and I'm guessing 98

12:23 is when he came back just make him look

12:26 a little bit a little fresher

12:28 I was just corrected he did not come

12:30 back to touch up the items that's why

12:33 some of them are still cracked thought

12:35 he did but I was corrected right

12:46 confused that would have been where the

12:46 kitchen was

12:47 and then this little side area we got

12:50 the future Andy Dufresne up there just

12:54 chillin you know he's got his boat on

12:56 the shoreline got to stay hopeful after

13:02 you slid your tray down the line

13:04 choosing an option for your meal

13:08 you made your way into the cafeteria and

13:11 took a seat back outside again you'll

13:22 notice there is no there is no walkway

13:25 under that door it was a catwalk that

13:28 stretched across from there to there

13:33 it's been removed over time that door to

13:38 the gymnasium was opened it is quite

13:44 expansive in here it's hard to say

13:50 there's no no interior lighting walking

13:54 up to the free-throw line stand here the

14:00 goal is the goal still there oh it's

14:06 been erased when James Earl Ray escaped

14:10 he was caught not too far after but it

14:13 made the news by taking a ladder jumping

14:16 over this fence well I should say wall

14:19 that attaches to a rock formation and at

14:23 the back end of the property above this

14:28 chain-link fence is the spot you see the

14:33 mountain rock formation there you see

14:37 the razor wire and prison wall that's

14:42 where the news photo was taken the man

14:47 who killed Martin Luther King escaped

14:48 from this prison over that wall in that

14:52 spot and this is the photo documentation

14:59 of that

15:17 the cave is rather large goes way down

15:17 there and they use this for for storage

15:19 that for food and whatnot and no telling

15:24 what else is right here

15:26 see the cliffs of the mountain right up

15:29 there and then down the hill just a

15:32 little bit we had to hike up that pretty

15:38 cool too

15:39 and you hear the river off in the

15:40 distance providing some ambiance

16:01 I lend a hand but I have to now go next

16:01 yeah I have to go

16:29 over there Oh crud a tear gas canister

16:29 up there it is guys this was from looper

16:33 sell me looper all sorts of wonderful

16:37 shanks to stab and beat and maim just a

16:40 gun right here that actually works

16:42 that's gonna do it for today and into

16:45 the hours of nightfall and darkness here

16:51 at this fantastic prison they are open

16:55 certain times during the day for tours

16:59 it was awesome to wander around in the

17:03 eve I'll put links to John and Jacobs

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Inside Brushy Mountain Prison at Night - Abandoned Train and Secret Cave / James Earl Ray Escape

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