Comments on: The Handprint in Cell 17

By: Darren B

Darren B — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:44:22 +0000

The whole place isn’t just haunted, it’s down-right evil!
I hope the hand stays there forever as a testament to the crooked and evil people that think they’re so good they don’t even have to care! I hope God shatters their atoms into nothingness!
I grew up in Lansford, spent a couple weeks on the second floor of that place – naughty boy – when I was just 11. Carbon County SUCKS! Worse than Russia! China! The entire place is corrupt! No, I don’t live there anymore. I like to be free. They closed down that jail so they could open a new one that CHARGES you to go to jail – $15 a day now! And if you don’t pay, yep, you go back. How F’d up is that! The ways of the coal barrons aren’t lost on today’s (2012) corporations! they want you to work for them, until death do you part, and make sure you have just a little less then you need to keep living to force you to work more, while they slumber in mansions and are proclaimed great ‘citizens’ of the country for their ‘industrious’ efforts to make America great. What a bunch of … There are few things I HATE, and Carbon County, it’s jails and people (not all – but most – and especially the pigs and judges who think they OWN the place) are at the top of my short list of things I HATE! I can’t wait for all the coal mine timber to rot and the whole place collapse into nothing! If you live there, get out! There is real opportunity outside of that area! Funny that in such tiny towns where everyone knows everyone that drugs are the biggest problem … yet they never arrest the providers, just the users ( I Don’t do drugs BTW, just know too many dead people because of drugs). Seems the governments there are the real crooks! The should be helping the citizens by ridding the place of drugs, but then the jail wouldn’t make $$.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:49:18 +0000

I tried to take a photo of the handprint and the tour guide made me stop, saying the camera flash may damage the handprint. What? It’s lasted all these years through all that repainting and renovation work, and they’re afraid a camera flash would destroy it? They I was told I could buy a photo of the handprint in the gift shop.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:58:39 +0000

When I went on a tour in the jail this bare footprint showed up on the steps NO ONE WAS BAREFOOT the person that did the tour started screaming and ran around lol TRUE STORY

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:21:05 +0000

I have been there two times and have caught some awesome EVP’s on my digital voice recorder during the middle of the day. I also have many pics with orbs in them, it is the real thing! I try to go back at least once a year, and they also have nighttime ghost tours on Saturday during October.

By: amber

amber — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:03:41 +0000

I grew up in that area and when i was in school that was one of the field trips. as soon as you go into the jail an eerie feeling over you almost like your being watched and in cell 17 its the worst feeling

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:50:22 +0000

I remember seeing this in the 60′s visiting with my grandparents in lehighton

By: jadasiah conyer

jadasiah conyer — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:46:56 +0000

by the way i lived in pensylvania my whole life and still living in in this state by the way im still sticking with my opinion

By: jadasiah conyer

jadasiah conyer — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:30:37 +0000

Im a teen and i live in allentown pensylvainia,and i have never been to a paranormal place before.but these places sound worthy of checking out and i think theres a lot of history behind the killings… i just feel really bad that the ghosts there never got to tell their story and thats not right.

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:18:55 +0000

My house seems to have more ghosts than the jail does. The hand is questionable in authenticity as I actually knew people who were imprisoned there just before it closed to prisons in approx 1995 who had seen it firsthand. On the other hand there were man deaths there. As it is now-you can’t even enter that cell or take your own photos of it.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:31:04 +0000

We are creatures of habit…….There was a time, when one couldnt simply pull or flick a switch in the middle of the night when one was nudged awake by a throbbing bladder. So a walk in the dark was done. As anyone who is blind today will tell you, its safer to always leave things where they can be found with no light. In most homes in the days before plumbing, and electricity, there was this handy thing known here in the midwest as …..a pisspot,, or thunder jug, depending on the call of nature specifics. A gallon sized white enamaled bucket with a wire bale and a lid to match. All homes ( and jail cells) had them. All sat in the exact same spot, all the time. Men will, especially in the morning, or in the middle of the night when groggy and tipsy from slumber, will….place a hand on the wall , (the right hand, as 80% of us are right handed) A hand that has naturally occuring salts, acids and oils. And in those days, weekly or bi-weekly bathing was the norm. Hands were washed frequently, but men gotta scratch were it itches, run the comb through the hair as the hand follows to smooth the hair down, etc etc. Add to that, that in rural areas, in those days, there was no tractors with loader buckets, no augers to move the feed or grain. So everything was done by hand with a shovel. In those days we needed more fuel in our bodys to run that shovel, to lift those sacks of feed or run that pitch fork. So we ate differently than we need to now. We ate more grease and fats. Our bodys could burn off a skillet fried breakfast of 3-4 eggs fried in butter or lard, several strips of bacon, homade bread with real churned butter. As my daughter said after I treated her to 2 large strips of seasoned side pork, “I can feel it ( the oils) oozing out the pores of my skin!” To some extent, our obesity rate today is due to “Great grandmas cooking” handed down from generations. So, there’s my theory. Its just an oily hand print above the pisspot. Paint it first with “Kills” neutralizer, then paint it with any color paint you like, and the ghost print is gone forever. And I DO beleive in the super natural and ghosts.