We have previously written about the ghosts that resided at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary in Petros and South Pittsburg’s haunted hospital in Marion County. However, the closest site to Chattanooga for ...

What was once Tennessee’s most infamous prison that included inmates such as James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King, and Byron “Low Tax” Looper, assassin of State Senator Tommy Burks, is now a ...

For more than a century, Brushy Mountain kept the state of Tennessee's most dangerous criminals behind bars. The likes of Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, were sent to the ...

PETROS, Tenn. (WATE) — A cemetery outside the old Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is in disrepair and volunteer caretakers want to see it cleaned up. Brushy Mountain closed 12 years ago and is now ...

Up to 4,000 people will be permitted to attend a prison concert on Saturday at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The concert is part of the ...