An ex-death row prisoner has recounted a haunting occurrence linked with executions.
Death row is a part of the prison system reserved for those who have committed particularly egregious crimes.
Inmates in this section await their execution dates under tight security.
Methods of execution vary, including lethal injection and firing squad, but one eerie phenomenon consistently happens around these events.
This is particularly true at Florida State Prison.
A former death row prisoner, who was on the wing in 2006 for a 1994 murder and robbery, has spoken about this unsettling event.
He was charged with the murder of pawnshop owner Joanne Mazzola after the case remained unsolved for 12 years.
Though his conviction was overturned three years later due to insufficient evidence, Herman Lindsey witnessed numerous horrors.
Lindsey recounted that during his incarceration, there was a particular supernatural aspect that spooked everyone.
He revealed to the Daily Mail that inmates witnessed a spirit during executions.
“On the night of someone being executed, you will see a spirit walk down the hallway,” he explained. “That is something that’s not a tale. The majority of people on Death Row will tell you they have seen it themselves.”
He stated that many inmates saw the apparition, believed to be a man executed years before, who appeared before those awaiting their execution date.
Despite skeptics, Lindsey claimed the experience made him a believer in spirits after witnessing it firsthand.
“You can’t be hallucinating when you got 12 other people seeing the same thing that you’re seeing,” he remarked. “That is virtually impossible, and that’s what made me believe in spirits because you actually see it.”
He noted that the spirit never stopped in anyone’s cell but simply walked past, marking the next condemned inmate.
“I have never known that spirit to stop at anybody’s cell, but I’m just saying it walks the road,” he confessed.
Lindsey added that when the ghost appeared, inmates questioned if they were next in line for execution.
The father of seven recounted: “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.”
Having been on death row wrongfully, he credited his survival to guidance from fellow inmates.
“Death row was traumatizing, 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 reflected, noting that 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.”