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Alcatraz, the prison that would earn the nickname the "Rock" was the ultimate American prison. For 29 years, moisture has nested in prison that kept the country's most notorious criminals and put them away from the rest of the world. The thick fog with warning sirens, cold wind and water of the bay Alcatraz made this the loneliest of the prisons. In 1861, Alcatraz started to receive Confederate prisoners, thanks to its natural isolation created by the surrounding waters. They were soldiers, Confederate privateers, and Southern sympathizers. They were confined in the dark basement of the guardhouse and the conditions were pretty grim. The men slept side by side, head to toe, lying on the stone floor of the basement. There was no running water, no latrines. These men were bound by iron chains hooked to a big ball and were fed only bread and water. When the Civil War ended, the fort was considered obsolete and although he continued to use his occupation was brief, but it would be for a short time in 1898, the war between the U.S. and Spanish troops in the Philippines and Cuba, he filled their basements with the Spanish prisoners.
In 1904, he began working to improve the facilities were finished in 1909. Teams of prisoners extended the stockade wall and a new dining room, built a kitchen, a library and a laundry. During the 1920, Alcatraz was falling into disuse. Only the lighthouse keeper, a few members of the army and most hardened prisoners remained on the island.
The crime of the streets and the social upheaval of the 1920s and 1930s led to the American government will consider building a criminal-proof prison. They decided that Alcatraz would be the perfect place and the project started quickly, the building constructed on the old military fort. Iron bars were replaced by mild steel bars. Towers were built at various points around the island and the cell blocks were equipped with walkways, electric locks, metal detectors, fences with barbed wire and even tear gas containers that were installed on the roof of some units. Apartments were built for the guards and their families and the lighthouse keeper's house became the governor's mansion. Alcatraz had become an impregnable fortress.
The most incorrigible inmates of all prisons in the country were sent to the "Rock". This included inmates with behavioral problems, the most history in escape attempts and even more famous as Al Capone or Floyd Hamilton, conductor Bonnie & Clyde. The cries of the suffering of these men could be heard at times by all the cell blocks, when they were beaten in punishment cells or "hole" as they were called. Of those who used to go out there managed to do, with pneumonia and arthritis after spending days or weeks in the cold concrete floor completely naked.
Many of the prisoners who served time in Alcatraz ended up insane. The March 23, 1963, Alcatraz closed its doors forever.
In 1972, Congress began to Alcatraz under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service and the public was opened in autumn 1973. Today it has become one of the most popular and visited by the strange events that occur therein. During the day, the old jail is a bustling place, full of tour guides and visitors, but at night the building is full of noises and strange sounds. Many believe that the energy of those who lived and died in the "Rock" is here concentrated within its walls, that Alcatraz is an immense haunted house, a place where things can and do happen strange.
There are countless testimonies of vigilantes who claim to hear sounds from some rooms and hospital wards, but to go to the site and register the place is completely empty. Several of the guides and rangers have also expressed surprise on one of the "holes", in particular the number 14D. according to his testimony, "there is a feeling of great intensity, as chest tightness after spending a few minutes around that cell."
Another guide said about it, "that cell 14D is always cold. It is even cooler than the other three existing dark cells. You can not enter it without the jacket. "
A number of former prison guards, also spoke of some frightening incidents that took place near the "holes" and specifically the cell 14D.En 1940 during a prison guard, an inmate was locked in cell 14D. According to the duty officer, the inmate began screaming within seconds of being locked. He said that a creature with "Bright Eyes" was in the cell with him. As ghost stories were a source of jokes among the guards, nobody took seriously the comments and cries of the prisoner that was attacked by something.
The screams continued into the night until suddenly there was silence. The next day, the guards inspected the cell and found the inmate dead. A horrible expression on his face and had clear marks of hands around your throat. Some officers believed that the murderer had been the spirit of a former inmate. To add more mystery. the day after the tragedy, several guards were conducting a count of prisoners and the number was impossible because there was the prisoner died out yet accounts as being in training. When all looked more closely, the figure of the murdered prisoner suddenly disappeared before their astonished eyes.
From the grounds of the prison basements under buildings, often spoken of people crying and moaning, inexplicable smells, cold spots and ghostly apparitions.
A large number of guards who served between 1946 and 1963 experienced strange happenings on Alcatraz. Even families who lived on the island reported seeing on several occasions the ghostly shapes of prisoners and even the so-called "ghost soldiers ·". Many guards were sent to the belief that the prisoners had escaped and when they got to the scene found no one. Even Warden Johnston who did not believe in ghosts, once he heard the unmistakable sound of someone crying, she accompanied some guests to visit the prison. sounds were preceded by a freezing wind that swirled around the group.
According to a park ranger who was in a cell near the shower stalls, heard the sound of the music of a banjo from them. It is known that Al Capone used to play the banjo in the shower in his last days in prison. For the most part, the rangers say they do not believe in the supernatural, but from time to time, one of them admits that strange things happen here that can not explain.
If. as many believe, the ghosts return to haunt with the places where they suffered traumatic experiences when they were alive, Alcatraz is the place for it
