Paranormal Access w Dave Schrader & Chris Fleming at the Old Joliet Prison
Schedule
Fri, 08 Jul, 2022 at 02:30 pm
Location
1125 N. Collins Street,Joliet,60432,US | Joliet, IL
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Paranormal Access w Dave Schrader, Chris Fleming & Sam Baltrusis at the Old Joliet Prison, Joliet, IL Fri. July 8th or Sat. July 9thParanormal Access Events returns to Illinois's Most Haunted Prison , The Old Joliet Prison for two nights. This time, with special guest David Schrader from Travel Channels TV series The Holzer Files, The Curse of Lizzie Borden Shock documentary on Discovery+ and host of The Paranormal 60 podcast.
Just added...Special Guest Sam Baltrusis from A Haunting and Shock Doc: The Curse of Lizzie Borden , author of Ghosts of Salem and Haunted Hotels will also be joining us.
Tickets are now on sale for either Friday July 8th or Saturday July 9th for the opportuniuty to meet and investigate with paranormal investigator David Schrader, researcher, author and medium Sam Baltrusis, and the host of Paranormal Access Events Chris Fleming an international paranormal investigator and medium from TV's HELP! My house is haunted , The Curse of Lizzie Borden , the upcoming new series for Discovery+ , Spooked Scotland with Gail Porter and the host of the award winning Spirit Talk Podcast.
Join them for a fun filled spooktacular day and night at the Old Joliet Prison as seen recently on TV's Destination Fear, Ghost Hunters , and Ghost Adventures .
Based on your schedule you can choose to purchase a ticket for either Fridays daytime and nighttime ghost hunt or for Saturdays daytime and nighttime ghost hunt.
You will get an exclusive oppportunity to investigate with Chris, Dave and Sam inside Illinois's most haunted and notorious prison joined by Old Joliet Prisons experienced tour guides whom will take us to each location, introducing us its historical and paranormal significance. For those of you that have attended previous paranormal access events at Old Joliet Prison , you know how active this place can be.
Access to this event are Limited to only 50 tickets each date (50 Friday / 50 Saturday)
Please make sure to choose for either Friday or Saturday as your ticket will give you Paranormal access for that date only (daytime and nighttime) as we have rented out the prison for two separate nights. Special 10 tickets available for both nights.
Chris, Dave and Sam will make sure to spend time with each group and run various experiments to communicate with the spirits of the prison. You will have the opportunity to walk around on your own (daytime), take plenty of photos, investigate and use your own equipment and join in on various ITC and EMF paranormal experiments and communication circles. The Tour guides will also be there throughout the night, to guide us and answer any further questions.
This prison is known to have housed Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, Baby Face Nelson, James Early Ray , and Leopold and Loeb . We have heard singing, screaming, yelling, humming, strange noises, seen shadows, weird lights, and witnessed incredible spirit communiation in multiple groups.
Who will come through this time?
THE SCHEDULE * :
For tickets purchased for Friday July 8th, 2022 -
2:30-3 PM - Arrive at 1125 Collins St, Joliet, IL 60432 in the Old Joliet Prison**. FREE parking in the gravel lot back of prison - turn down hills avenue and stay to the left, drive to the gated fenced area behind the prison and next to rail road tracks near the dock and in front of the Western gate.
CHECK IN WITH CHRIS TO RECEIVE YOUR PARANORMAL ACCESS BADGE . He will have a clipboard with your name on it.
3 PM - 4:30PM (90 min) - Enter Old Joliet Prison for the Daytime Access Tour** - This is a great opportunity to walk around the prison freely on your own for 90 minutes. Take photos of the prison capturing the colors and textures of this amazing prison, grab Photos with Chris, Sam and Dave, walk the grounds freely and visit the prison areas. See the locations we will be investigating BEFORE that nights ghost hunt. Tour guides will also be there to answer any questions.
5:30 - 7:30 PM - DINNER** - You are welcome to join us at TBD for dinner. We will have tables reserved.
**Note: If you purchase a ticket for Fridays event and you cannot make it for the 3pm day time walk or dinner and only make it for the 8pm night time ghost hunt, thats okay. Please let me know so I can take note. You have that option.
8 PM Check in / Meet at Old Joliet Prison for Late Night Ghost Hunt - Paranormal Access badge Passess will be checked as you enter.
A Group Photo will be taken as soon as everyone is together.
We will then break down into 4-5 groups. Each group will be led to a different location each hour. Chris, Dave and Sam will get the opportunity to work with each group throughout the evening, investigating, answering questions and working with you while we ghost hunt and make contact with the spirits of the prison.
8:50 PM - Groups head to each location for 50 min each. 10 minute break to move to next location and use restroom if needed.
9 PM Location 1
10 PM Location 2
11 PM Location 3
12 AM Location 4
1 AM Ghost Hunt Ends return to front entrance and parking lot . Goodbyes and head to hotel or home.
For tickets purchased for Saturday, July 9th, 2022 -
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM - Meet and Greet / Presentations by David Schrader, Chris Fleming and Sam Baltrusis LOCATION/ROOM TBD ( All Ticket holders from either Friday or Saturday, and both days can attend this meet and greet as well, included in all ticket prices.)
2:45-3 PM - Arrive at 1125 Collins St, Joliet, IL 60432 in the Old Joliet Prison . FREE parking in the gravel lot back of prison - turn down hills avenue and stay to the left, drive to the gated fenced area behind the prison and next to rail road tracks near the dock and in front of the Western gate.
CHECK IN WITH CHRIS TO RECEIVE YOUR PARANORMAL ACCESS BADGE . He will have a clipboard with your name on it.
3 PM - 4:30PM (90 min) - Enter Old Joliet Prison for the Daytime Access Tour - This is a great opportunity to walk around the prison freely on your own for 90 minutes. Take photos of the prison capturing the colors and textures of this amazing prison, grab Photos with Chris and Dave, walk the grounds freely and visit the prison areas. See the locations we will be investigating BEFORE that nights ghost hunt. Tour guides will also be there to answer any questions.
5:30 - 7:30 PM - DINNER - You are welcome to join us at TBD for dinner. We will have tables reserved.
8 PM Check in / Meet at Old Joliet Prison for Late Night Ghost Hunt - Paranormal Access badge Passess will be checked as you enter.
A Group Photo will be taken as soon as everyone is together.
We will then break down into 4-5 groups. Each group will be led to a different location each hour. Chris, Dave and Sam will get the opportunity to work with each group throughout the evening, investigating, answering questions and working with you while we ghost hunt and make contact with the spirits of the prison.
8:50 PM - Groups head to each location for 50 min each . 10 minute break to move to next location and use restroom if needed.
9 PM Location 1
10 PM Location 2
11 PM Location 3
12 AM Location 4
1 AM Ghost Hunt Ends return to front entrance and parking lot . Goodbyes and head to hotel or home.
* Schedule (times) may change slightly to accommodate specific locations and allow access for all attendees.
COST:
Early Bird Price is $149/159 /249 until May 1st, 2022. $169 / 269 after.
$149 for Friday July 8th or
$159 for Saturday July 9th.
(Limited Tickets Available)
$249 for both nights. (20 tickets available)
Hotel Info:
TBD Currently speaking with some nearbye hotels. You may stay wherever you like, but we are currently speaking with some hotels to see if we can get discount rates and possibly rent out a speaker room for Saturday for 2 hours (12:30-2:30pm). All ticket holders (fri/Sat) are welcome to attend the meet and greet and presentation on Saturday. Check back for updates. Email will go out as well.
Lunch & Dinner:
TBD (not part of ticket price)
Lunch on Friday on your own.
Friday Evening, we will find a nearby restaurant to meet at.
Lunch on Saturday on your own.
Saturday Evening we will find a nearbye restaurant to meet at.
Q&A:
What do I bring?
Feel free to bring your own flashlight and ghost hunting equipment (recorders, SLS cameras, EMF detectors, Cameras, snacks, . There will be water bottles there in a cooler. No Ouija boards please. Not allowed.
What do I wear?
Wear appropriate clothing for the weather and evening. Must wear closed toed shoes. No sandles. (due to debris on the grounds and in the building).
What if it rains?
If by chance there is rain please bring umbrella. The locations are inside, but we will be walking outside to get to each location. There may be thunderstorm or rain during the day Sat, but expected to clear up by early evening. So we are still on!
Bathrooms:
There are port a potties on site and there maybe public bathrooms running by May. I have been told they are updating one of the meeting rooms and bathrooms and it may or may not be completed by May 9th.
PARKING:
Park on west side of building. Which is on the other side of the prison out of view and along the rail road tracks. To get there Turn down Hill street which is on the side of the North wall off of Collins Street. Follow along the wall (which is on your left) you will come to a fork. To the right it goes into an Auto Repair shop, but you want to stay to the left. Follow that as it winds around to the left around the Prison walls and continue into the opened barbed wire gate that is closest to the entrance. Do not park in the gravel lot, enter into the walled entrance next to the doc. (See Map)
Cancellations:
If event needs to be cancelled by promoter or location due to emergency, tornados, severe thunderstorms or disaster, COVID, all tickets purchased will be rescheduled or refunded.
Refunds:
No refunds* unless noted above. If you need to resell your ticket let me know. To avoid phishing and resale scams, all resell of tickets MUST GO THROUGH ME (chris) to avoid any such scams. Do not buy tickets from anyone posting on this page, except from the EVENT BRITE website.
Respect:
The utmost respect must be had for all the spirits there. No disrespect or taunting of the spirits please.
DM with any further questions.
HISTORY of Old Joliet Prison:
Opened in 1858, just six years after the incorporation of the City of Joliet, the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, now known simply as the “Old Joliet Prison,” has – for better or worse been – synonymous with the City of Joliet for nearly its entire history. The Joliet Prison, with its iconic castellated gothic architecture was designed by Chicago earliest architect W.W. Boyington, who also designed the Chicago Water Tower. The use of Joliet limestone was a trademark of Boyington’s designs and this locally quarried stone was used to erect structures all around the country. The prison in Joliet replaced the first state penitentiary in Alton, built on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in 1831. The privately-managed prison quickly degraded into a state of horrendous conditions. Noted reformer Dorothea Dix personally petitioned the Illinois General Assembly to construct a new penitentiary after inspection the Alton prison in 1847.
While action from the State legislature and some construction occurred in prior years, May 22, 1858 marks the “beginning” of the Joliet Prison when fifty-three inmates arrived at a small structure, which still stands, to begin the work of constructing the larger Prison around themselves. This included the quarrying of the limestone from two adjacent quarries.
Upon its opening, the Chicago Tribune declared glowingly, “We came away fully impressed with the belief that the important trusts at Joliet are in good hands, that there is growing a State work which will be for long years to come the pride of her citizens.” The image of the Joliet Prison, however, quickly changed. By 1878, the Prison was filled well over capacity with nearly 2,000 inmates. Reports of unsanitary and dangerous conditions emerged and by 1905, calls for the closure of the “old prison” were made. The 1926 construction of Stateville Penitentiary in what is now Crest Hill was intended to close the prison, but it continued to house offenders until 2002, when it was finally closed by Governor George Ryan as a budgetary measure.
The Prison is probably best known today for its most popular, albeit fictional inmate – “Joliet Jake” Blues from the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers.” Since then, the Prison has made a number of appearances in films in television, including as the character of “Fox River State Penitentiary” in the critically acclaimed Fox series “Prison Break,” and in smaller scenes in Derailed, Let’s Go to Prison, and recently, Empire.
Sadly, despite this interest from Hollywood, the Prison remained closed, and in addition to damage from the elements, was subject to rampant vandalism, including several acts of arson. Attempts were made to find suitable options for reuse, including tourism, by the Collins Street Task Force of concerned public and private leaders, but these efforts were stalled by the Great Recession of 2008. Continued vandalism and destruction of the site led Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk to personally petition the state government to allow the City of Joliet to take control of the property in December of 2017. Since then, the City looked to the Joliet Area Historical Museum to take a leadership role in operating tours at the site. In partnership with the City, the Museum identified a number of community partners to form a public/private partnership entity, The Old Joliet Prison Preservation Coalition. To date, the project has been met with an enthusiastic response from the community of Joliet, culminating in over 6,500 volunteer hours, one million dollars in in-kind labor and donations, and nearly $200,000 in funds raised to benefit the site.
True to its historic legacy, the Old Joliet Prison now takes it rightful place as an authentic, unique asset which is inextricably linked the history of the City of Joliet, and it continues to draw interest from visitors all around the world.
Lets have some fun!!
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1125 N. Collins Street,Joliet,60432,US, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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