An Execution Gone Wrong: The Terrifying Story of Clemente Apolinar

Clemente Apolinar was the last person publicly hanged in Texas. Not only did his execution go horribly wrong but you won’t BELIEVE what the location is currently being used as. #history #haunted #paranormal
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[@rdavid2992]

I was a guard at Folsom Prison before the new one was built. Within the same building that houses the original portion, known as 5 BLDG now, is a storage room that was once where they kept the inmates before they were hung. It also housed the gallows. I did not know what that room was when I went in there but afterwards I told a fellow guard that the place gave me the creeps and I felt really uncomfortable in there. Afterwards I learned what it was, made total sense after that. I believe in ghosts a lot more since working there.

[@ludwigderzanker9767]

It's image for the Blue Duck building in the ending of Lonesome Dove.

[@TsmithJustin]

Take whatever time you need to make the content what you think it should be. We'll be here

[@johnqpublic2718]

"That tight little inbox of yours" 🤣 Fantastic episode!

[@tracy7683]

Great job. Love the stories.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Glad you like them!

[@DgDanger72]

Ghosts and Cowboys… love it!

[@lordvash9]

Man I wish I had known about this last weekend when I was looking for a hotel in San Antonio lol

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Next time

[@donc9751]

I love the great old west topics you choose, and really love your sense of humor!!! Keep up the great work!!!

[@whatyaworkingontoday5018]

I'm not staying at that Holiday Inn either. There's got to be a Best Western somewhere nearby. Chaching!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

What great history! Thanks for telling us.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks man

[@shawnstanton2443]

Good video Live here in San Antonio and know Salado Creek and been there at the old jail It does get creepy Also the Black Swan Inn on the Salado has great history

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Lots of great history in San Antonio! Love it there.

[@deantuft6380]

Always worth a wait

[@jasonmatthews7829]

I feel smarter already, since I will never stay at that Holiday Inn Express.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Haha

[@dannywolfmang6458]

You are correct on Howe you pronounce bexar

[@alanleemaxwell831]

Absolutely brilliant yet again! Best wishes and greetings from England 🇬🇧 👍

[@j.e.tingentingen4954]

thank you Josh... great as always

[@johnnieplageman9145]

Thank you sir! Excellent as always 👍🙌

[@jamieellis5057]

great show as always

[@lindarivera2503]

Clemente was my great great uncle. What the story and history doesn't tell you is that he was a special child before any injuries. The boys were making fun of him because he had a stuttering problem and had the mindset of a 10 year old. He told his mother later that he was wanting to play with them but the were picking on him and throwing rocks at him so he got mad. Too bad they didn't recognize special children as much as they do now.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Yeah, people with disabilities had it very bad in those days for sure. Thank you for the insight, Linda.

[@plymouthduster225]

Very interesting video. I had never heard of this man before. When you mentioned about execution gone wrong, I couldn't help but think of Thomas "Black Jack" Ketchum's execution. Any chance you might do a podcast video on him and his gang someday?

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Definitely doing one on Ketchum

[@richardriley8906]

I like a Happy Ending.

[@thadnipper9411]

Have you done a video on "Black Jack" Ketchum train robber and murderer in northeast New Mexico around the end of the nineteenth century? I'd enjoy hearing your take on Ketchum's demise.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Coming soon

[@mrbill_oh_no]

Spoooooky! Next time I’m I need a hotel there, that’s where I’m staying.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I have been in local jails that are now museums, those with a gallows give me the creeps

[@mrbill_oh_no]

Love the Michael Scott quote

[@FuriousMess]

really entartaining

[@Bill_tyler]

It is pronounced “bear” (bexar) county, thanks for pointing that out

[@marco529]

Great Halloween Episode!!

[@h.w.barlow6693]

Japan also hangs prisoners with a death sentence. Great video.

[@Zionist_Eternal]

Thank you, Sir. Albeit, don't look to me. It's not my inbox!

[@dannysimmons3167]

Short, but good

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@@healdiseasenow or brief but effective

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[@swhip897]

Good job, only one cuss word that I noticed. Thanks Josh, love the stories. Having trouble sighning in to my account. ✌

[@slingblade0085]

Ahhh....this made throwing drywall mud around worth doing today ✊✊😎

[@godwarrior3403]

Why does every outlaw have a cool name. I'm starting to think it's my mom's fault I never did anything interesting. Something always told me it wasn't my own

[@jimmylight4866]

😂😂

[@feagal612]

Brutal. If I ever get hung though, I'd rather my head came off than having to hang there slowly choking.

[@brendanmcdonnell7483]

He got a deserving horrifying death, as for ghosts no I dont think so, in fact I know absolutely no such thing, good work Josh.

[@MicahBell_1860]

But Jo'osh......

[@sarawhitfield5415]

yours and 'Legends of' are still my favorite podcasts still wish youd 'get excited' about Harry Tracey someday lol ya Texas wattie go lap water outof a horse track just kiddin love you Josh

[@steveneely6475]

Littlestitious! That’s funny.

[@Ralphie_Boy]

🌵🤠👍

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I believe in ghosts and I can give you cases seen by others

[@grayman556]

Gonna be real again. Was about to go to bed but saw the title and said Aight Bloody 🩸 Beaver 🦫 do your thing homie!!