Ghost Fun with TF2

Philly.com relates a brief story where site personnel took advantage of the ghost stories surround the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia for some fun.

Before the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen visited Eastern State Penitentiary to shoot last week, director Michael Bay and stars Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf read up on the joint.

The landmark in Fairmount has lots of tales: "Slick" Willie Sutton's escape, Al Capone's posh cell, the legend of Pep the Cat-Murdering Dog.

And ghost stories.

Between scenes Saturday - their last day working in Philly before moving to Princeton - Bay and the actors were having a spirited conversation when site manager Fran Dolan offered to take them to the third floor of Cellblock 12, which the TV show Ghost Hunters declared the most haunted, to look for ghosts.

Slowly they climbed the stairs. Whispering nervously, they stepped into the cellblock. As Dolan pointed out the spot where ghosts were spotted, out popped Jason Ohlsen, the site's exhibit and special events designer, who had slipped upstairs before them.

I hear they were good sports, even though they had the LaBeouf scared out of them.

If only there was video of that. Thanks to Russell for the link.