So this Fremantle Prison Tour the most visited tourist attraction in WA. It's built up to be this super scary experience with sightings of ghosts and orbs, but really it's just dark and creepy, with a couple haunted house effects added in.
The prison was last used in 1991 so there
are some features like No Smoking signs that make the experience not seem like a really
ancient place.
While we were in this part of the tour, a footy game was going on at the complex next door, so it sounded like a prisoner was escaping and they put the sirens on. Inside was pretty cool.
It kind of felt like we were on a set of a scary movie while nothing scary was actually happening. That wheelchair was pretty creepy-don't really know why, but I thought it was interesting.
These dark red and black photos to the right are of the Execution room. They lit underneath the noose in red light, so it looked like Hell. This was actually the scariest part of the tour because 44 people had been executed by hanging right in front of where we were standing. That kind of thing will make you think. After they used each noose, they burned it so this was just a noose for show, but it was still pretty creepy and gave you this dark feeling inside.
In a cell that they showed us there was this "spattered blood," but really it was just red paint, clearly. That's the Haunted House element I was talking about.
The pictures below are first, paintings created by prisoners at the time. The first in the shape of Australia, reads "Julie, Megan, Todd I love you more than life itself <3>
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