Britt Jones
A former death row inmate has shared a chilling experience that occurs whenever an execution takes place.
Death row is a place that only few in the prison system end up - having committed some of the most horrific crimes known to man.
They are sentenced to live in the highly secure wing until they have their death dates delivered.
The executions can come in many forms, whether it’s by lethal injection, a firing squad or more - but one thing that remains the same is that one creepy thing happens around the same time.
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At least it does at Florida State Prison.
A former death row inmate has opened up about the scary thing inmates see during this time, having spent time on the death row wing in 2006 for murder and robbery in 1994.
He was accused of killing pawnshop owner Joanne Mazzola at that time, after the case had been cold for 12 years.
While his conviction was overturned three years later when a court ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him of the crime, Herman Lindsey saw horrors unimaginable.
Lindsey said that during his time behind bars there was a certain paranormal element that would leave everyone shaken up.
He told the Daily Mail that inmates saw a spirit when others were being executed.
“On the night of someone being executed, you will see a spirit walk down the hallway," he said. "That is something that's not a tale. The majority of people on Death Row will tell you they have seen it themselves."
He went on to say that many saw the ghostly creature and believe it belongs to a man who was executed a few years prior and that he would also appear before an inmate who was scheduled to have their date arrive.
Against the naysayers, Lindsey said it made him believe in spirits having seen the apparition for himself.
"You can't be hallucinating when you got 12 other people seeing the same thing that you're seeing," he said. "That is virtually impossible, and that's what made me believe in spirits because you actually see it."
However, he himself had never known it to appear in someone’s cell, it simply walked past to mark the next person to die.
“I have never known that spirit to stop at anybody's cell, but I'm just saying it walks the road,” he admitted.
He went on to add that when the ghost appears, you ask yourself if you’re going to be the next one to die.
The father-of-seven said: “I used to just sit down and listen quietly to see if I heard any screaming. I was wondering what he was going through and trying to prepare myself.”
Because he was put on the wing without having committed the crime, he chalks up his ability to make it through those three years by being mentored by others.
“Death row was traumatising, but at the same time, it was a life lesson. Being around some of those guys was some of the greatest experience I ever had. I could say death row was the first place I felt like there wasn't any division because of race, religion, or what someone believed or anything like that,” he said, adding that it ‘it actually taught me a lot of things about life’.
“The guys on there go through problems. It's just different, it was life changing and I'm glad I got a chance to visit that, to see the real side of it.”