A Haunting Behind Bars At America's Most Unique Jail

This video was uploaded to the YouTube channel Paranormal Quest in March 2022.

Evil spins in America's most unique and haunted jail. The spirits of former inmates and guards are said to haunt the bars that once confined them, and Ryan and Dave will stay the night to find out if this Jail still incarcerates some of Iowa's most feared criminals even after death.

There is no other Jail like the Historic Pottawattamie County Squirrel Cage Jail. It was one of 18 revolving (“squirrel cage”, "human rotary", or "lazy Susan") jails built. It is the only three-story one ever made. Built at a cost of about $30,000, this unique jail has three floors of revolving pie-shaped cells inside a cage. The front part of the building had offices for the jailer, kitchen, trustee cells, and quarters for women.

In 1969, the jail closed it's doors for good, but when the Pottawattamie County Historical Society purchased the building in January 1979 stories began to circulate about paranormal activity that plagued the volunteers who were restoring the jail for it's use as a museum. Still to this day, ghosts and phantoms are seen roaming the dayroom and cells of this unique and one of kind jail. Who is responsible for this paranormal activity? Is it the man who designed it? The spirit of a long executed axe murderer? The angry energy of those who were thrown in Solitary Confinement to rot? There is only one way to find out. Tonight, we will spend the night and investigate the claims of hauntings of the infamous Squirrel Cage Jail.

The slick and entertaining YouTube series follows Ryan Zacherl, David Gear, Steve Hummel and Jason McKinney on their quest to seek out paranormal activity at reportedly haunted locations across America. Over a decade ago they set out on a quest to capture paranormal activity in the world's most haunted places. What sets them apart is their passion for documentary filmmaking. Their videos allow you to travel with them to some of the most terrifying locations and experience the thrill of ghost hunting.