Article by Greg Rickman, Tiffin Ambassador Haunting. Intriguing. And downright terrifying. Those are just some of the thoughts that came to my mind when I first saw that sign with the words “End of the Line”. Tucked deep into the dark, jagged ridges of the Cumberland Mountains, there is a place where the Appalachian wind seems to whisper with the ghosts of the past. For over a century, the historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was known as the “end of the line”—a brutal, maximum-security fortress of cold sandstone where Tennessee’s most violent criminals were sent, some with a sentence of […]
