Full disclosure: I do have a friend who works here, so if mods feel it would be more appropriate in the SL&SP forum I apologize, go ahead and move. But it seems better here cause it's really only applicable to people in the Philadelphia region, and despite knowing someone there I have no vested interest in this. I honestly think it sounds like a cool contest. Here's the press release:
ESP is an awesome building with a lot of history, and it would be cool and honestly probably pretty terrifying to spend a night alone there, especially if you're in to Ghost Hunters and the like. I'm considering entering, although I have a lot of other stuff going on around Halloween so this might be too much.
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| Philadelphia, PA (October 14, 2010) – Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary,presented by Lukoil, America’s largest haunted attraction, will offer 13 visitors an extraordinaryexperience: tour this massive haunted house, in a real prison, completely, totally, ALONE. The 13 visitors will be selected at random from names submitted on the event website. One visitor will be selected for each of the final 13 nights of the haunted attraction, from October 20 to November 6. Each visitor will enter Terror Behind the Walls completely alone. (Those too terrified to make the trip alone may bring a single guest.) Each winner will also receive $50.00 in LUKOIL Gas Certificates. These 13 visitors will then be entered into second drawing. That winner will return with 5 friends to Eastern State Penitentiary to spend a full night in the cellblocks. The group will be given a final gourmet dinner inside the prison, be joined by a professional storyteller at midnight to hear ghost stories related the Penitentiary’s history, and will camp in the abandoned cellblocks alone until breakfast. Members of the public can enter the drawing on the event’s website Preview page (www.easternstate.org/alone). There is no purchase necessary. Each winner will be selected at 2:00 p.m. on the day before their evening in the haunted attraction. |
