MANSFIELD, OHIO – As Andy Dufresne said: be busy or die.
Living your life those days becomes more virtual and contactless experiences.
With this in mind, the Ohio State Reformatory, the highlight of the 1994 old film “The Shawshank Redemption,” has begun offering virtual tours of its dungeon confines.
All you want is $5 and a smartphone, tablet, computer or smart TV to make a stopover in the director’s office, dark corridors, sinister moving blocks, a brutal basement and attic where the filming of “Shawshank Redemption” took place.
A 24-hour code allows the audience to enjoy a 360-degree view of the 250,000-square-foot criminal and two museums, providing an attitude similar to that of a face-to-face visit. in “The Hole”, enter the maximum security cells and walk through the former residences of the criminals. The real stories of former correctional house inmates tell what life is like inside. And visitors can almost walk through the tunnel of Stephen King’s fictional prisoner, Andy Dufresne, used to escape From Shawshank and his evil director Norton.
Sponsored through Destination Mansfield, the Richland County Tourism Agency in north-central Ohio, the virtual tour also to visitors to hear stories about the paranormal of the historic prison, which ghost hunters say is one of the most enchanted sites in the United States.
Tours are booked in mrps. org/virtual-tours. Más about DestinationMansfield. com.