Prisión de Alcatraz, historia y fantasmas || Relatos del lado oscuro podcast

0:00 You' ve ever heard of the city of San Francisco, California, United States. I' m sure you do, and maybe you even remember there ' s a Scott McKenzie song and it said something like you' re going to San Francisco, don' t forget to bring some flowers to your head. In the 1960s it was a place where movements, hippies and other things lived. It' s a tremendous city, because, besides, it was a favorite city in Hollywood. Yeah, I know Hollywood' s down there in Los Angeles, but in San Francisco, a lot of the important movies that have been made in the United States, from romantic movies, comedies to police, were filmed. You remember Harry the dirty, the detective, that Clientwood was in San Francisco and many other movies since Bullyit high pursuits. It ' s a place that became a place to visit for a long time.

1:06 People went on vacation to San Francisco. In fact they called him affectionately fresh and, of course, he has many stories. But there' s a story that interests me and it' s the one that I' m going to ask you to come with me tonight clearly if you decide to stay, we start stories from the dark side, beings, strangers, unexplainable events, defeated stories that other minds prefer ignorant. When you arrive in San Francisco, there are things that may interest you very much, from the huge bridge, the fascinating Golden Gate, but of course, also if you are going to see the Golden Gate, you probably see something else. It' s a very visited point. In fact, today and for some time now, this place has received one five million visitors a year. Let me tell you that ' s a lot. There are amusement parks that have never dreamed of having

2:36 all that. And yet, the place I' m talking about is a small island on just a few hectares. It is located in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It has no great view, it is not an exotic beach, there are no extraordinary animals, there are no wildlife. Even though it is a park belonging to the National Park Service of the United States, this site receives many visitors and is not beautiful. In fact, it' s a grim and sad place. It is a place where silence sometimes becomes oppressive, where there seems to be memories stamped everywhere and, in fact, it is known as one of the most haunted places in the United States And when referring with more haunted, I mean one of the places where the greatest paranormal activity has been reported in history. Alcatraz prison. Yeah, the Back Prison. It is there, in San Francisco, in the Bay, and it is a place where every day of the year winter, spring summer, boats arrive with tourists, there are all the time guides, people who take you to know the whole prison, explain you, tell you stories, take you to know the cells, take you to know the other, the thing there, down, etcetera, etcetera. The place is guarded by guards known

4:08 as park Rangers. They' re actually park guards. They' re not cops They' re not soldiers. They just guard a park, and this is today. Alcatraz prison is simply a park. Of course it has its history, because, when it was the Federal prison in Alcatraz, this place was considered the hardest prison in the United States. It was something that was said among the criminals. If you break social rules, you' re gonna go to jail. If you break the rules of jail, you' re going to give alcatraz. He was known to be terrible. But you want me to tell you something, not necessarily. Look, I' m gonna make you a little comparison of Alcatraz Prison. It barely lasted twenty- nine years, yes, from one thousand nine hundred thirty- four to one thousand nine hundred sixty- three, that is, it was not open for hundreds of years. It only worked during that short period of time, twenty- nine years, and while it was a maximum security prison, things in there weren' t so terrible. I' ll tell you a little bit.

5:29 The Alcatraz prison was designed to house criminals who gave cans in the prison system, but also to accommodate those special criminals. The people did not arrive at the alcatraz condemned by a judge, but were transferred within the penitentiary system. So you couldn' t be condemned to go alcatráz. You had to earn it when you were in another jail, misbehaving to kill someone else or doing something barbaric and they sent you there. That' s the story. However, prison, as such, was very safe. It was designed to do so. The levels of control, the ways in which prisoners could be contained were very varied, and the first of them was the very location on an island around the island of Alcatraz. The sea currents of San Francisco Bay are terrible, they are very treacherous. Besides, the water is very cold.

6:28 It' s very cold all year round. If someone jumped and tried to swim, he would probably be dragged and whipped against the rocks. So that ' s a natural barrier. But also the prison itself. The prison system that was handled there was a rigid system, with very established schedules and certain controls. Since its opening, certain controls have been implemented. The prisoners had to earn what they got and curiously, what they got was pretty good. Each prisoner had his own cell, that is, they were one prisoner per cell. Each cell had a sink, toilet and literite. The inmates got up early, cleaned up, went to breakfast and then to work, and that was interesting because the food in this prison was considered the best in the prison system in the United States. After working on different activities inside the island, they went to eat and then in the afternoon, they returned to their cells. They had a chance to take books, one of the files there to read, they had a chance to have a visitor, they had a chance of many things. In return, they had to be strictly careful of the rules and from their opening. One of the strangest rules there was was the law of silence, so it was pretty rough. You could only speak

8:01 softly during the meal and during the moments of recreation when they were allowed to go out into the exercise yard. The rest of the time you couldn' t talk and if someone broke that law, he was punished. So, other than that, things weren' t that bad. Prison as such was comfortable. Everyone their fourth shower with hot water. Look at that if you take Alcatraz prison and compare it to the island of San Lucas in Costa Rica, with echo I was in Panama or if you compare it even with the Marias Islands in Mexico or the island of Gombley. Well, this was a paradise to be a five- star hotel. People weren' t like that.

8:46 There was nothing food, there was hot water. They could shower and shave. They could do some exercise, there were things to see, things to read, and they also did jobs that were not exhausting or forced labor. In the area known as the model industries area, labors, crafts, things like that could be done. The laundry, the bakery, the kitchen, everything was taken care of by the prisoners. That means it wasn' t going to cut stone in some quarry, it wasn' t being exposed like Devil' s Island in Guyana, it was being stuck there without any chance of getting out. Not really the one who was behind a five- star hotel to be considered within the world prison system. But that did not mean that it would stop being a prison, since if you failed to comply with the rules, you would be brutally punished. And the punishment was very simple. Someone who breaks the rules loses all his privileges and was sent to block d Inside the prisoner' s housing area there were four or blocks inside the same building. Don' t imagine they were independent buildings. It was simply a large building that had four blocks so that they were always surrounded and no cell shared a wall with the outside. All this was happening inside a

10:16 huge building. There were these cell blocks, but the block was especially unpleasant. The top of the block had a view of the Bay through the exterior windows. They could see the bay, they could see the bridge, they could see the lights. The cruisers that sailed came and went without ever being able to think of reaching them. That' s where the psychological punishment began, the inability to reach that, and that' s where the block consisted of about forty- two cells. Unlike the rest of the cells. In the block were those who had broken the rules lost many of their privileges.

11:01 Those in the upper part lost the privilege of eating with the rest of the prisoners and, therefore, had the opportunity to talk about those tiny minutes of conversation they had during the meal or during the moments of exercise. They lost that privilege. They did not eat in the general group, but the food was taken to the cell. But on top of that they could only go out once a week. They lost their right to work in the warehouses and wherever they were, they were locked away all the time in a space about two meters or so, probably about three meters. That was all their space and they' d stay there and I' m talking about the upper part of this area. In addition, the prisoner would receive only one visit a month, he could not take any book, only what the guards wanted to give him. I wouldn' t get a chance to take daily showers.

12:03 He could only bathe twice a week on the top. But if the river had committed a worse foul, hera sent the bottom. At the bottom it was known as strip sales. These cells were the punishment cells. They had been enabled with a double door, they had a regular fence like the rest of the prison and then a thick metal that was almost hermetically closed and you could only see the interior through a little window at the door, a little window, by the way, covered with a thick glass. At this place, at the bottom, there were five of these cells. These five cells had only, among other things, the bed, the sink, the toilet.

12:54 They didn' t have a chance to access reading material, they didn ' t have a chance to take baths a week only one a month, they didn' t have visitors, they didn' t have a right to leave. But perhaps the most distressing and dramatic thing is that, by closing the secondary door it was a total darkness and each cell had only one focus, a low intensity focus, which was turned on and off by the guards, but there was also another detail. Every morning the mat was taken out of the cell so that there was no soft place to sit or lie down.

13:35 They were punishment cells. But the last cell was the worst. The last cell was known as the eastern one. There were no alabamanos in this one, there was no toilet. The prisoner only had a hole in the floor connected to the drainage. In the evening a mat was given to him, in the morning it was removed. Normally, the prisoner remained naked. This particular place was completely incommunicating the river. There was no contact and he missed the right to everything. The only thing that would be received would be once a day a plate with food, where all the food would be mixed together. He' d put the soup in there, the middle plate, whatever it was in one plate, and he' d go through a hole in the door. There was one condition and that is that the person who was sent there could only be two to nine days. Otherwise she' d go crazy. And yes, it was a heavy punishment and there was still another thing. Over there in the block there was access to the dungeons.

14:46 Yes, the basement was a space that had been reserved for certain prisoners who had threatened to kill a guard or who had done so. They were chained down there. In this place the darkness, the humidity of silence, the cold were truly terrible, but that was in case of punishment. The rest of the prisoners could enjoy certain privileges, such as playing in the orchestra, using a musical instrument, writing, reading, cooking, eating tasty even with coffee. At breakfast there were pancakes, freshly made, coffee and all kinds of things. And if you heard correctly, when I started talking, I mentioned that this island, besides being a prison and being visited by many people, is visited because it is one of the most haunted places in the United States. But right now, what I' ve told you even when it sounds a little scary, that of the cells, of the block of reality, is that the bulk of the prisoners didn' t have such a hard time. And if you get that the maximum population that this had was three hundred and fifty prisoners when in St Luke there came to be one thousand and eight hundred. There were no beds, there was no food, there were barracks where three hundred men could sleep together in one barracks. There were no

16:18 baths, there was no hot water, of course, more, there was not even water to drink in the middle of the tropical ocean. Obviously, here' s something that doesn' t add up. And if you take into account that in Alcatraz prison there was no exaggerated number of deaths, there are very variable accounts. In general, it is assumed that there were eight prisoners killed at the hands of other prisoners, there were six prisoners killed by shots fired by the guards, there were five suicides and there were at least two guards killed. So, comparatively with Devil' s Island, in Guyana, where about eighteen thousand prisoners, forty percent died here wasn' t really so much death. This was a different place why then could it become one of the most haunted places in America? Moreover, in this place the prisoners were on average eight years, unlike other prisons that were for a lifetime until you died in alcatraz, the prisoners, after a time, were returned to their prisons of Leven Worth origin, St Quentin, wherever they came from, so they were here for a while and then returned to places with a lower level of demand and even some of them went out to be free, so

17:56 do not bribe anywhere. In this place they didn' t do horrors to the inmates. Of course it was a prison. Don' t lose sight. That wasn' t elementary school or boarding school for ladies. This was a prison. There were people beaten up. There were punishments all the time, penalties, you could lose all the privileges just because you laughed at a time you shouldn' t go. But comparatively, it would not seem to be the ideal place for all the paranormal phenomena that have been reported for so long. But maybe you should take a look back, check the origin of this story, the places when they have such a burden and so many rare stories of people, witnesses who have seen paranormal phenomena, etcetera. It' s because there was a story much further back and the one behind that story.

19:00 The Bay. The Bay itself is a place with a huge story. It is a region that was inhabited by the Native Americans of the Ethnic Ohlone, belonging to a larger group known as the Miwok Ohlons, meaning the people of the West. The Ojlones lived in the San Francisco Bay region, which today is the Bay. They were seminomadics, fishermen, hunters, gatherers and were a very peculiar ethnic group, an original nation, very peculiar, because they moved on the basis of a social behavior very similar to a communism.

19:44 Let' s put it that way. There were no bosses. There was only one kind of leader, an old man, who was the man who led everyone. His opinion was very considerate, but everyone was equal to everyone and therefore the coexistence was very peculiar, because there was a lot of collaboration. It was an ethnic group with a way of life and a number of very rich beliefs. But when someone failed when someone took something that wasn' t theirs, when someone did something wrong that broke with the harmony of this ethnic Ohlone, guess where it was sent Yes to the island. They gave it another name, but it' s the island of Alcatraz. The fact is that they were sent there, taken away and left to their fate.

20:37 The problem is that the island was known by the natives as a place where evil spirits lived. So the worst punishment the Ojolones could do to you was to take you there, not kill you. It was not necessary there that those beings would kill you, because they considered a being called bukuu Muus, it was kind of what to call it. Some have compared it to a large foot, but it was not, because it was a supernatural being, covered with hair with red burning eyes that used to kill those who arrived on the island. Some survived for a time and, in fact, so noble were the eyeballs that used to go and leave provisions, but only on the shore would no one have wanted to get in, except when another member had to be killed. If one of the people had committed very serious damage within the Community, he was taken to the island and executed there and his body was dragged inland. They knew what was next. If they went again, they would surely see him again, but already in spiritual form turned into a bucus and these beings used to wander in groups. These evil spirits, who were the bad people plus what was on the island, used to move in

22:11 groups and do horrible things. So the jolones and, in general, the Miwock ethnic group didn' t usually go there. If for some reason, during fishing or something, they came to the shore to stop for a little rest, they only did it strictly on the shore inwards. Rarely did they come in looking for eggs from the birds that in this area there were many birds, only on the shore for fear of what lived there. The thing is, time is going on. The Spaniards are here. Mexico was conquered in 1, 500 twenty- one, but in reality, up to this region of San Francisco the Bay came the first nole spasos. Up to a thousand seven hundred and seventy. It seemed far away to them, and that ' s when the name is given to the island of the Alcatracs. It was as it was called by the Spaniards in relation to the birds, that there was a kind of pelicals there that they called boobies. There were many, so it was called the Alcatrac Island and there near and another island, the Angel Island, etcetera. Those Spaniards began to open the first missions to evangelize and some members of the Ojo Lone tribe decided to flee. They didn ' t want that. They decided to leave there and on their way out

23:44 they entered the island of Alcatraz. According to legend, no one left again, they never survived, they were seen, they saw their canoes jump into the water. They began rowing in search of the island to hide waiting for those to leave or hoping to do something else, but never again saw them. They disappeared from the island even though they could have survived for some time. They were never seen again, because the island was a cursed island and the evil spirits took you. But, of course, it was a myth, an ancient legend, a belief. But there' s something interesting.

24:33 The Spaniards didn' t pay much attention to this. In fact, the island of Alcatraz, Don de los Alcatraces, was not interested. They wanted to do their missions, their cities, their villages and point, when in one thousand eight hundred and fifty, Mexico loses the territories of what today is California to tiles. All that, in the famous Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo there was a war and the Mexican President finished selling ars in those territories for a few coins. Well, I didn' t have much choice. The fact is that this happens to Americans and Americans immediately value this island. It' s a defensive point, it' s a point where if there' s an attack on San Francisco Bay, from this island they could decimate enemy ships.

25:22 So there is the possibility of making a fort, a fortification, a cannon installation, and that' s when you build the fort alcatraz. The first thing there was a fort And this was between one thousand eight hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and sixty, when they arrived and the construction began and he knows what was happening in this place already since then the first ones who came there to build, began to report strange, sounds, strange, screaming, strange things, phenomena that could not understand and could not explain, even lights, mysterious lights that wandered all over the island, a kind of green light that moved from one side to the other. And there was much fear because, in fact, in this place there were also dead on the part of the builders. The problem is that in this place there was nothing to build and they ended up bringing granite a stone from China. Imagine yourself.

26:30 So large piles of this material were made and on one of those bad occasions, part of one of these piles of material slipped and caught several workers, taking the lives of two. It' s said it was two. It ' s actually hard to tell. There are not many records, but there was death and since then strange things were already being talked about. Drums were heard, voices were heard, chants were heard like those who would have been singing the ohlone who fled to the island, but who were no longer there.

27:10 And that' s not all. With the passage of time and the outbreak of civil war, the secession war in the United States, this place becomes an even more powerful fort, a strong Yankee. Yeah, the Yankees wanted to protect Francisco. It was important to them, and the Confederates also wanted the Bay of San Francisco. So there was the fear that this place would be attacked. It became an impregnable fortress. There were cannons everywhere, a garrison of soldiers, ammunition and the construction was very interesting because there was an area that was the area where all the cannons were, which was the citadel. This area had at the bottom its ammunition stores with thick concrete and stone walls, and then there were the bedrooms, which were also heavily protected.

28:02 He had a pier and he had the old lighthouse. The old lighthouse was a wooden construction where a lighthouse was installed and there were buildings to house the boatman and his helpers. It was a wooden lighthouse, a wooden construction, A very simple thing over time, However, it turns out that the civil war ends and the fortress was never attacked. He seemed impregnable. The only attempt at an attack ended badly. Over there they captured the rebels, but the fortress became both a prison, a military prison. Here they brought the deserters, here they brought the Confederates who could catch here they also brought common criminals and here they also brought people from the native nations, natives, Americans, Indians of different denominations. They brought them here, too. But you know this wasn' t a prison as such. This was the same as St Luke' s prison or Guyana' s. They were galleys.

29:08 They were all put there together, in the lower part of the citadel where they had already removed some cannons. That' s where they put them. There was no running water, no toilets, nothing. These people were going to go through some horrible colds because they slept on the rocks. There, for you to see the conditions were deadly and many did not survive much and you know that they were not buried. There are those who say they were simply being thrown into the sea how to know. What is a fact is that the conditions were terrifying and this was prolonged. There was a time when there was an epidemic of tuberculosis, almost towards the end of the 19th century, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- nine. There was a brutal epidemic.

30:00 People who came from other parts of the Philippines began to arrive, all of which were infected with tropical diseases that were spread by others were tuberculosis, diseases that had no cure and many of them were soldiers. So they were sent there and the death rate was terrible. Well, the whole area was full of sick people. St Francis was such a port that he was the first to catch anything that could be done again. The island was the scene of numerous deaths, and there are many sad stories of people arriving waiting to be cured and not really going to be cured. This is where for the first time we' re talking about some kind of mass grave. I' m not sure it exists. You just talk about it. Others claim that the bodies were sent to the mainland, but there are many more who claim that they were simply thrown into the water. The few are transfers that were made of land faithful to the island. They were very much requested to bring supplies and to bring things and back people who were in a position to return, not so much to carry corpses There is a story here that is interesting and that you should remember, because it is told that within the victims of that disease there were also women, but they were not civilians. This was a military prison and there were no female soldiers, but there were nurses.

31:33 And it is said that in the middle of the epidemic there were several of these girls who died. Some say it was just one definitely no. If you take into account that they brought and brought sick people here, it must have been several girls who died and, like those who died within the prison population, they would have been sent to an unnamed grave. After this the terrible earthquake of San Francisco occurred and this ended putting the island in a precarious situation no longer there were supplies, There were problems revolts, there were shots killed by the same thing, because having heard such a terrible tremor, the help, the food, the goods, everything went to the civilian population and the island began to have really serious problems. All of that was subject to bullet point. So far the history of the island is rather frightening. But it goes on because the military prison continued. In a thousand nine hundred and twelve it is decided to completely eliminate the fortress, remove the citadel, disassemble all the cannons there were and build a prison of duty, using as a base the part of the basement of the citadel. From there it would be built the new prison and leave the old part of this basement area for warehouses

33:04 O, whatever that area would become the dungeon, that dungeon that I told him about where people were being tied up and one of the most haunted places on the island, because that same place, at that time, was where they had the prisoners, where they were fanning one after another, without any kind of control, without any healthy condition to die. There' s the rest of the buildings. They were built, apart from the Warden' s house, because there was a very cute house for the guards, etc, other constructions around here, but the main thing was that the construction of the prison itself began and guess who built it. The prisoners were bringing prisoners, even German prisoners. When World War I breaks out. Prisoners were brought to these facilities were military prisoners, but by chance they also brought people from Indian tribes who did not accept bodybuilding and integration and were brought here. I guess they lived in horror because they claimed that this place was still inhabited by evil spirits and many of them did not come out alive. But that' s not where this ends as it is. The prison is over and that' s very cuckoo, very nice. They begin to arrive more prisoners, but

34:35 they are military prisoners, they are brought from military prisons and the conditions of punishment They became tremendous after the First World War and already, in the twenties they also received prisoners of civil order. In this place. Dangerous prisoners began to arrive, murderers, rapists, people of the worst kind were brought to the island. So you had, on the one hand, military personnel who had incurred faults since desertion, treason, rebellion, had Native Americans who were peaceful people living on their worlds and suddenly you also had murderers, rapists, people of the worst. All this here in this cocktail. Obviously, the nightmare was growing until finally, in a thousand nine hundred and thirty- two, the military said I was not interested. I no longer want this prison and they no longer wanted it, because it was very complicated for them, to bring food, to bring water, to take whatever went to the island, it was complicated, it was the cough and it was not reliable.

35:43 Moreover, having six hundred prisoners for about forty guards was extraordinarily dangerous. There were several riots that ended at gunpoint before it was federal prison. Until now, everything I' ve told you happened before it was designated or named a federal prison and entered the control of the United States penitentiary system. Once the military decides to get rid of this, they take out all their political prisoners. Well, all his military prisoners leave the civilians. And that' s when the modernization of the prison begins, it becomes what prison is today.

36:29 It immediately begins to change. Appropriate barracks are built for guards and even houses where they could live with their families. Yes, women and children also lived on the island. The Warden' s house, which was known as guard was a very pretty elegant house near the lighthouse. In addition to that, the exercise area was expanded and precisely all this was thought because in this place the worst criminals would be brought and the people of the f B had put the glove on this thinking about the hoods of the mafia, but he wants me to tell him something before all this happened, before he turned himself in to the prison system. The people who were here already reported very strange things.

37:23 Since one thousand eight hundred and sixty. Here events began to be told that could not be explained the guards suddenly heard voices, laughter and also saw something even more strange. When in a thousand nine hundred the modification of all this begins, the old lighthouse is completely removed. There were five reports that the old lighthouse appeared again in the middle of the fog. They saw the light and saw the armatriz. That was an appearance of a physical object, but it appeared when they approached it disappeared. In that period of time there were also many reports of something very unusual. Soldiers guarding the island claimed to see a bonfire. The glow of a bonfire came to think that it would be about trappers or reos that had gone there or something, and as their astonishment approached it was tremendous, because what they saw were Native American Indians around a bonfire and they saw them singing. The sound was heard, they were seen moving, but when they came closer to say hi they could not be here that completely disappeared that mysterious phenomenon even when it began to be seen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has continued to be described many

38:55 times over the years. In fact, virtually all the paranormal phenomena that I will mention to you in chronological order have continued to be seen and have been added up every time. Therefore, in that thousand nine hundred, in addition to the bonfire, there was another very rare thing, the sound of drums. But this was different. It was not that of the Indian drums, but the military sound of drums, as if they were on the esplanade of the citadel, where the marches took place, where the soldiers stood and adjusted and raised flags. There the drums were heard and when someone came to see what it was about, there was a total silence, but the drums, the voices of command, the blows of the shoes, as if there were ghost soldiers doing this and, of course, the one who saw that ran out of there. But there was something else. The ancient Ohlone claimed that the island was inhabited by the buk bus, a red- eyed creature and knows something. The soldiers and also the prisoners who were in the early 20th century claimed that there was something they called dafing the thing. The thing was a being that moved quickly with very red eyes between the different buildings still inside and came to jump people. It was something that caused a lot of fear

40:27 among the guards because they knew it was quite real, but at the same time it was not material. That thing was the worst thing I could see. When the situation changes and he begins to see more prisoners and they have had about six hundred before handing him over to the prison system, the ghostly situation was even worse, because that is when they also begin olfactory phenomena, smells, nausea, sudden sensations of cold contacts. Suddenly in the morning to hear the prisoners screaming desperate for help and as the guans approached to find the river, well nothing happened, but the subject was trembling in a state of shock because he claimed that something very cold had held him and lifted him up and tried to kill him. These reports weren' t that weird. In fact, they were frequent and then the ghost of the woman also began to appear. Yeah, and he' s a ghost who' s been there.

41:25 The lady, as they call her, has appeared in many of the island' s ghost stories. Some people think it' s the dead nurse or the dead nurses, because it' s not a single appearance. There are different places he' s appeared. I' m going to tell you a little bit later, but one of the main areas is where the old military hospital was. Later all this was demolished and just there the house of the Warden was built. So there also appears a lady in a green dress who is associated with the same nurse or nurses who died during that epidemic stayed, have not left. The point is that during all this time, even German prisoners, who were very historic people, were very much complaining about the same strange paranormal phenomena, when it already became the Federal Prison of Maximum Security.

42:23 One of the first good salt, the first warden was a Johnston Johnstone last name guy was a man with a lot of experience. He was a guy who had been in several of the most important prisons in the United States as a warden, that is, as a prison chief, and he was a guy who implemented new things, modified some aspects, redistributed the prisoners, and he was the one who established the rule of silence. However, he was a man who was also struggling because his prison was well. It was not uncommon to see him eating among the general population without guards. In fact, he was attacked on a couple of occasions and nearly killed, but that ' s what he wanted to taste the food to hear about being attentive.

43:07 But he was also in charge of the punishments. He was the one who implemented that from the Eastern cell. But he was also the one who implemented that from the basement to send to the basement that were the old walls or foundations of the military garrison and where he sent the prisoners, the worst prisoners. This man was always very hard, very stoic. He was in charge of the prison from thirty- four to forty- eight. Fourteen years since he opened up to forty- eight, he lived in the main house in the Warden' s house and eventually had parties and important things. At these parties, the prisoners were in charge of attending the guests and it was a position that they fought a lot because, obviously, when the party was over, what was left was for them, but they could also be listening to music, allowing them to dress a little more elegant and had some freedom.

44:05 And there' s something crazy about it. One of the craziest ghost stories in Alcatraz prison happened at the warden' s house, and that this man didn' t believe in ghosts or at least so he said. But it is said that in nineteen hundred and forty, on Christmas of the forties, the world is at war, but the warden organizes a party in his house inside the island arrive the guests that you who I jiged the sound of the drink, I don' t know how much. When all of a sudden there is a huge silence, everyone remains silent and does not lose sight of the fact that the house was full of guards, as there were prisoners tending to prevent something from being stolen and then they could attack or do something.

44:50 There were guards stuck to the wall all over the house. When they suddenly realize there' s someone who wasn' t invited. From a corner one of the walls appeared a man dressed in gray and was not a prisoner, nor was he a soldier. He was a 19th- century man dressed in a thousand eight hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and seventy, with large sideburns and the beard that reached down to him dressed in gray and all his appearance was gray and just appeared. He walked around, people stepped aside. Witnesses claimed that people could see it and sided with it. When she suddenly begins to move forward, she begins to feel a frightening cold more than one of the invited ladies preferred to step aside and faint or something. When the guards throw themselves to catch him, he disappears leaving an icy wind to the point that the chimney went out and the party ended. That figure of the gray man was seen many times more in different places on the island. They knew he wasn' t alive. They could see him suddenly standing on some rocks.

46:07 They could see him in the middle of the island, next to the old lighthouse, where the old lighthouse was either there or on the shore near the water. In fact, there are those who presume to know who it is, and that is where it is. Michael Mann, a fisherman, died in a thousand eight hundred and fifty- seven. While they were fishing. He was surprised by a thick bank of Fog and the currents took care of him. Of the rest, the boat in which they were fishing was dragged and whipped against the rocks. Two of his companions managed to climb but he died on the rocks on the island of Alcatraz and became the ghost of the gray man seen by many people. But the warden himself would not be the only experience. No, no, no, nothing like that. Some time later, several people of destination, some bolengo and some prestige, high - level prison officials with their wives, arrived on the island for a tour.

47:08 This was the model prison, it was the maximum security prison where everything was ordered. So there were tours, guided tours, walking. I don ' t know what these cells are, I don' t know how much. And there goes Warden Johnston, very serious up there were the guards with their guns. That was a pretty safe place. When they suddenly arrive at the good pavilion to the block and as I explain. And others approach the entrance of the basement, when they hear the voice of a woman, a woman who is crying, they hear the laments of a woman who is crying, they hear how she groans a little and how she asks for help.

47:58 Suddenly someone says sorry, warden There' s a woman down there and he answers no. And someone makes me do what Warden says There' s a woman down there. No. Until finally a guard gets a little closer, turns around, sees him face- on, there' s a woman down there, the warden just says no. No. No. There is such is the sound of birds. There are birds everywhere. Let' s move on and when you pass by the guard turn around and tell you to check on you immediately three four guards get off there and there' s no one there, nothing, there was nothing. But it was Johnston himself who witnessed and knows something. A little later. I' m going to tell you again about this place, because each of these phenomena as they were already happening, it didn' t go away, it stayed and it stayed right there and in this period of time things started to happen. It' s also at this time. When the story of the cell' s prisoner is told, he cató d For some time, the guards who patrolled the area of block d saw the man in gray or something and preferred to get away a little, knew that no one would believe them or that if they believed them, they would mock them. So, when they saw this apparition, they would alter their route and stop around and wait for them to leave. The point is that one day, one prisoner gets very gravy, hits one guard

49:30 and tries to attack another. They finally subdue him and take him to the Oriental, the punishment cell, the one that closes completely, the one that didn' t even have a mattress, they undress him and throw him inside, but they don' t close the door. The airtight door to the isolation door. They don' t close it. They' re there waiting for something to happen. When suddenly that man starts screaming, help me. There' s someone in here, there' s a guy in here. Please help me and start screaming disheartened, saying that the guy is attacking him and listening to the screams. But that' s something they' ve heard many times. So at a certain point they prefer to close the door and turn off the light. Little was really heard. The doors were the proof of noise, precisely so as not to be listening to the prisoners who were getting in there. But, according to the next morning, when they went to open, the guy was dead. He had strangulation marks, so you know what it was. Some claim that the guards killed him and then invented the story. But it was an ordinary cuño that had not been so when they opened the door, the guy was dead with his eyes wide open, the same one he had been screaming. Then there would be many other ugly things, and it would be in this place, because there were also coming some of the important rivers in this place is your dock Parker of the Alvin

51:04 Carpi band and Barker. Dock Barker, along with Jung and Rufus Mckaine, planned an escape, but something went wrong. The point is that Rufus returned, Jung returned, but dock Barker was killed. The guards shot and one good day Jung killed Rufus Mckane gave him a stab in the lower part of the groin. Around with a spoon he had sharpened, Rufus Mckane bled to death inside the prison and took many hours in the midst of much pain. He kept screaming. He' s finally dead. He was not buried on the island. They took him outside, but from that moment on they began to see him. And it wasn' t one or two, but a lot of guards who saw Rufus Mckane after he died. And, in fact, you want to know something else. Macabro the prisoner who was supposedly killed by that invisible being. Oh that macabre spirit was also seen for several days later formed in the row of prisoners towards the end, causing terror among all.

52:19 No prisoners could move because if you moved, they would send you to the punishment cell, but they knew that that one was already dead and the guards themselves knew it too. At least that' s what you tell yourself. Go and know how true it is. The thing is that Rufus mckenncy was murdered and then a lot of people saw him again. There was also a guard. Royal Claine was a guard officer who was killed in the building where the workshops were. It was known as industry. She' s a model. A guard killed him with a hammer and continues to be seen to date. Royal Claine is still patrolling his work area, he' s still at the bottom of the canyon. But it also began to look almost immediately.

53:02 Suddenly the guards saw another guard patrolling and were surprised to learn that it was Royal Claine who was there and that if there is enough data and hard data. Another of the important prisoners who was there was no more or less than Alcapone, the great mafia leader, the unscrupulous man, the worst of the worst. And the funny thing is that he was only four and a half years old when he arrived he was already a little sick and, besides, he was a very rare man to Capone since he was in I don ' t know if Levenworth in which prison he began to complain that he was besieged by the ghost of Jimmy Clark, a bad- crossed mobster who had been murdered by Alcapone himself. Capone killed him and the ghost appeared to him and there in alcatraz. The thing got much worse, because he claimed that all the time he was r ns. Jimmy' s spirit had times asked that you please leave him alone. And there were other times when I was caught talking quietly to Jimmy. And there were other times when other prisoners, their fellow side cells in the area of block b to the Capon were in cell b one hundred and eighty- one. Contiguous cell inmates also listened to Jimmy and it wasn' t Alcapón' s voice. It was a loud voice that I caused panic screaming, but the Capon was a strange man.

54:37 He collaborated here and there and when he was on the island in that period of time that was really brief, he stressed because he was a quiet prisoner, a prisoner who was well related, although he was attacked several times and liked to play banjo in the orchestra in the prison band. He had first started playing the bathroom. He then traded it for a kind of mandolin, but had a peculiar taste for touching his bath in the showers, when all the prisoners were in the exercise area out there. He was allowed to go to the shower area that was completely alone with a guard at the door, guarding him because the mayor himself knew warden, knew he was wanted to be killed by other prisoners and wanted to kill him to have a name to be someone. I killed the capone was what they were looking for, if he always had a guard standing outside and used to listen to himself playing his bathroom.

55:39 And he liked this place very much, because in this place the acoustics of the empty place was great. He heard very well if he was playing and playing it was one of the few things he really enjoyed, but also very soon he began to lose his mind. He suffered from syphilis and this galloped until he left him insane and did not die in prison. Al Capone didn' t die there. Al Capone died in Florida until nineteen hundred and forty- seven. If I' m right and I think he came out of there in thirty- nine, so he didn' t die there. However, when it became known that he had died, everyone knew that he had already died because they heard the banjo in the showers and also in his cell. The banjo that played Capone and did not leave followed for years.

56:35 People have heard Alcapone' s bathroom and heard it inside the cell. You ' ve heard it on the showers all of a sudden, but no. But when you approach it is no longer you retire and again and there are those who claim to have even seen Alcapone' s ghost. But it' s funny because Al didn' t die there, he died on the other side of the United States, in Florida, and died a few years later. And yet, as soon as they died they knew that he had already died from the sound of the bathroom and many said hey Al already died and recognized the sound. Another interesting character who was out there was Robert Strauth.

57:16 He was known as Berthman by birds because he was an amateur ornithologist, that is, he learned from this by himself and was a very dangerous man. He had killed, he had done very ugly things, but while he was in another prison, did he learn everything he could from birds? He had a bird breeder, he wrote bird books, etcetera, etcetera, until one day he got out of control, lost his mind and was sent alcatraz. In alcatraz, he never had a bird again. He was not allowed anything, he was forbidden everything, his books were taken away, he was left no more and spent most of his time in the block of. When he dies, he dies outside of. But in fact, his stay in alcatraz was very rare, because of all the years he spent there, only six years spent them in Cella and spent them in the block of, because it was very messy. The rest of the time he was so deranged that he was taken to the hospital and spent 11 years in the delirious prison hospital.

58:21 Speaking of that red- eyed creature lurking in the block of So well, good friend Berdman, as he was known, didn' t leave either. Many prisoners during the following years claimed that he was there, that he had not left. But on top of that, we still have other characters like Alvin Carpis. Alvin Carpis of Mab Barker' s band, who was with dock Barker, who was a real gangster of those, is the man who stayed in alcatraz the longest, practically until he closed Alvin Carpicer, a man who was very dangerous. He was a murderer. So they send him alca back and in this place he becomes a model Lee help in the bakery, which was the place he liked most Carpis enjoyed enormously making bread is curious, but being a bloodthirsty bully without scruples. Upon arrival alcatraz became a man who made bread and obviously became a quiet and pleasant person. Carpis known as creepy, that is, scary, because it was truly scary. He was there until he finally shuts down the prison. He comes out a little before free and travels. In fact, he ends his days in Spain. In nineteen

59:52 hundred and seventy- nine he dies to Spain, far from the prison, far from all this. And yet, he knows that in the early 1980s the guards were no longer prison guards. The prison closed in nineteen hundred and sixty- three, but in the early eighties park guards began to report the presence of a strange ghost in the area where the bakery Alvincarpis was. Some of them recognized him and even there were those who claimed to have reached the number of the prisoner and it was the number of Alvincarpis. This is all funny. Anyway, the fact is that in a thousand nine hundred and sixty - three that is closed. Prison' s empty. The few prisoners he had been transferred to other prisons. Those who had already fulfilled their time were released and the prison was handed over to the National Park Service and not immediately began to be used as a tourist pole. In fact, the island was invaded by a group of Native Americans asking to be left as the property of their group or nation. The issue is that during this period of time a lot of crazy things happened, since the electric wiring was stolen, which caused a boat accident because the lighthouse was turned off as they had no money to survive and in the place there is nothing to eat, nothing to hunt or anything. They stole the wiring, went to sell it and finally caught them.

1:01:25 That ended up with a fire. When they' re evicted at the tip of a pile. That becomes a place where you visit, where there are tours and so on. And that' s when stories start to come up, too, tremendous. The guards themselves take every scare, because all the ghosts I' ve told you so far have still been seen. Today. There is a guard who in the nineties had a tremendous experience. This man was already preparing to close and every time the island is closed there are no more tourists. You have to go all the way to make sure there ' s no one without permission who wants to stay or some curious person who ' s lost. There are many areas out there that are complicated, full of corridors, entrances and exits. It' s easy to get lost.

1:02:19 So the guards make a general tour to verify that there is no one. And there is a guard who talked about a tremendous experience because when he was passing through the block to where the entrance to the Calabozo is, he heard a female voice that said to him, please help me, the voice was very clear, a woman' s voice. There was no doubt about that. Please help me. I' m trapped the guard runs and gets close to telling him how he got there. It doesn' t matter. I ' m in here. I' m trapped. Please help me wait. I' m running through the key, because to get into that basement there ' s a thick metal fence and this guard doesn' t even have the key. That' s off the tourist trail. So he runs out and while he does that, he hears him yelling at him, don' t leave me, don' t leave me. Come the guard runs to the office. That' s where he asks for the key. They find someone who knows what the key is. He comes back, comes up again and hears how. That woman yells at him. Please don' t leave me and he says. Come to the door, they' re coming with the keys. Come to the door and that woman says I don' t know where you are. How can you not know where I am? I' m here at the door. I' m listening to you. It' s just that I' ve been here so long, I don' t know where I am anymore. How can you have been so long what you ' re talking about, and that' s when you start to realize that something isn' t right for that moment another one of the rangers who are

1:03:52 out there brings the keys, opens that and two guards come down to check, while the third one still stays there to the other guards get to hear the voice of woman complaining and crying, but when they finish checking there there there is absolutely nothing, nor had there ever been any new guards. The people who are there have had experiences that include, of course, the ghost lighthouse in the middle of the fog. Suddenly see something there, in the middle of it doesn' t exist. With a light on. They have also found the creature, the one they call the Thing. They' ve seen it and, of course, when that happens, everyone takes off. They have continued to see the Indians making a bonfire on the shore, they have heard the banjo, they have heard Birdman in the cells of the part of the block they have seen. They have also seen the guard patrolling the Alvin Carpis workshop area making bread. It is very curious that, but in this place those who have died do not seem to leave even when they have not died. In this place, that' s one of the craziest features of this place and of course, there are also those who have been scared thinking it' s so under attack or something because there are times when you hear explosions, cannons, bullets. And it is that in this place, during several episodes they had to fire their weapons, there was an attempt to escape, Three prisoners managed to reach the hall of facilities and finally faced the

1:05:25 guards and they had to kill them by shooting. On another occasion there was a mutiny and there were also two dead guards. Several wounded had to intervene in the navy infantry and several were killed in the shootings. That kind of thing was recorded in this place. So sometimes you can hear from laments screams, laughter, blows of things, things hammering against the walls. You can see shadows and clear what everyone knows. But that doesn' t end sometimes. Sometimes you can find yourself with a delicious smell of bread, but in this place bread is no longer prepared for sixty years. Sometimes you can find yourself with a penetrating smell of smoke, like something' s on fire and running to see and in fact, seeing black smoke, like it' s burning, but there' s nothing. Instants later everything disappears and there' s nothing burned. Sometimes someone accompanies you when you walk through the different corridors, giving an explanation to some group of distraught tourists. You know that you ' re not alone and that what' s next to you is not a guard or a tourist and it' s preferable not to turn around, because probably the only thing I can get, to know a striped suit and when night falls and everything is quiet, you' re going to listen to the

1:06:57 doors that close, spank, move. There' s no one in the building, though. This place has that strange characteristic. The phenomena began a long time ago and continue to occur as if this place somehow caught those paranormal presences, those ghosts, those disincarnated beings and they were trapped here and they can' t escape, they can' t leave, they' re doomed to keep repeating their tasks, no matter if they were good or bad, like the girl, the nurse or the guard who was murdered. They' re still there and they' re still seeing each other. They have even been taken in photos, of course it is difficult to know, but there are at least two photos that are very famous, the one that was taken in the area of visits where the speakers were, was a kind of glass cube with a communicator. That was all the contact and suddenly a woman appears in there where there must be no one, or the wife of the little truck, which is also another interesting story. That way, while they took the picture of a truck site that was on display there, a person appeared inside and wasn' t there. But the main thing that has attracted the most attention is that in this place ordinary people come to feel weird things and the good sensitives are completely deranged. Even Sylvia Brown, the famous American paragnsta, did a session in there and was very surprised because she claimed that a

1:08:29 guy named Abby Maldowetz, better known as Butcher, the butcher was still wandering and was still looking for someone to harm well. The problem is that there was never anyone named Maldowitz in the prison files. So there was also room for urban legends and many consider that the prison history of cell fourteen of the dead prisoner is actually an urban legend. But years later there was a very curious detail. There was Maldowitz not the killer, he was the victim. Abby Maldowitz was a woman who was killed by a guy they called Butcher, who, after being in St Quentin, was sent to alcatraz and died by chance. I don' t know, but it' s an interesting story.

1:09:23 In itself, the Catraz prison could have all the fame it wants, but strange history is not only limited to the prison itself, but hundreds of years ago, where this island was always considered a cursed place, a place inhabited by unclean spirits and later inhabited by terrible people, with terrible stories, with twisted minds that stayed there very good night and rest in peace. N o n o n