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  • A 1938 Escape Attempt Resulted In A Guard Being Beaten To Death With A Hammer And A Prisoner Getting Fatally Shot on Random Horrifying Tales From Alcatraz, Notoriously Haunted Island Prison

    (#4) A 1938 Escape Attempt Resulted In A Guard Being Beaten To Death With A Hammer And A Prisoner Getting Fatally Shot

    In 1938, three men including Rufus Franklin attempted to escape by attacking the guard in the woodworking shop where they were laboring. Franklin beat the unarmed guard to death with a hammer and the three prisoners broke a window and climbed onto the roof. They didn't get very far as a guard in one of the towers open fired on the men. Two of the prisoners were shot and one died. Up until the 1946 incident that started the "Battle of Alcatraz," this was the deadliest escape attempt in the prison's history.

  • Long Before Anything Was Built On The Island, It Was Believed To Be A Native American Burial Ground on Random Horrifying Tales From Alcatraz, Notoriously Haunted Island Prison

    (#11) Long Before Anything Was Built On The Island, It Was Believed To Be A Native American Burial Ground

    People who visited the island on which Alcatraz was eventually built experienced dark sensations long before the prison was built. Early explorers noted the atmosphere on the tiny island was heavy and depressing. Members of the Ohlone Native American tribe told tales about the island and believed it was a gathering spot for evil spirits. They had such distaste for the area that it's believed indigenous Americans who broke tribal laws were sometimes sent there as punishment. Since human bones and artifacts have been discovered buried on the island, it's very possible it served as some sort of Native burial ground. The famous fog that often hangs around San Francisco, as well as the cold, cruel waters of the Bay add to these eerie tales and make Alcatraz all the more creepy.

  • D-Block Was A Place No Prisoner Wanted To Go And Has Since Become One Of The Most Haunted Places On Alcatraz on Random Horrifying Tales From Alcatraz, Notoriously Haunted Island Prison

    (#1) D-Block Was A Place No Prisoner Wanted To Go And Has Since Become One Of The Most Haunted Places On Alcatraz

    Cellblock D in Alcatraz was known as "the hole" and held the solitary confinement cells reserved for the most poorly behaved prisoners. These five cells were extremely cold: the prisoners were forced to strip naked and their mattresses were removed each morning, forcing them either to stand all day or sit on the cold floor. One of these cells was known as the "Oriental" and unlike the other solitary cells, prisoners were left completely in the dark with only a hole in the floor in which to relieve themselves.

    At some point in the 1940s, an inmate began screaming as soon as he was locked inside but the guards ignored him, believing he was just upset about the conditions. The next morning, they found the prisoner dead with a terrified look on his face and an autopsy revealed he had died from strangulation that could not have been self-inflicted. Whether it was a guard who killed him or a ghost (possibly that of former prisoner Rufus McCain since he had stayed in that cell) will never be known, but many report feeling uncomfortable and tingly when entering his 14D cell, and the room is often much colder that any of the others. A ghost hunter investigating cell 12D down the hall reported feeling icy fingers on his neck upon entering.

  • Native Americans Occupied Alcatraz In The Late 1960s And The Daughter Of One Leader Died After Falling Down Some Stairs on Random Horrifying Tales From Alcatraz, Notoriously Haunted Island Prison

    (#15) Native Americans Occupied Alcatraz In The Late 1960s And The Daughter Of One Leader Died After Falling Down Some Stairs

    Alcatraz prison shut down in 1963 and six years later, Richard Oakes and a group of Native Americans occupied the empty island. They demanded a college for Native students and a cultural center be built on the land that was once sacred Native American property. About 100 people, including many students, set up camp on the island but the longer the government refused to give into their demands, the more the people grew restless. When Oakes's 13-year-old daughter fell down a stairwell and died, the government cut off the water supply and electricity and a large fire broke out which destroyed several of Alcatraz's buildings. Eventually, there were reports of assaults and theft of copper wiring from the remaining buildings. Finally, in 1971, the remaining Natives were forcibly removed from the island and the occupation ended, but it's reported that a few ghosts still remain.

  • Rufus McCain Was Fatally Stabbed In The Gut By A Former Partner From A Failed Escape And Now Is Said To Haunt D-Block on Random Horrifying Tales From Alcatraz, Notoriously Haunted Island Prison

    (#5) Rufus McCain Was Fatally Stabbed In The Gut By A Former Partner From A Failed Escape And Now Is Said To Haunt D-Block

    In 1939, prisoner Rufus McCain attempted to escape Alcatraz along with Henri Young, Arthur Barker, and two other men. They managed to get to the shore but guards caught up with them as McCain suddenly realized he couldn't swim. Two guards were murdered during the incident, Barker was killed, and both McCain and Young were put into solitary for almost an entire year. Young blamed McCain for the failure of the escape and tension between the two men grew.

    In December of 1940, Young snuck out of the furniture shop in which he'd been put to work, crept down to the tailor shop where McCain was working, and stabbed him in the gut. McCain was seriously injured and lived another painful couple of hours before finally dying in the hospital. Some believe either or both men haunt the solitary D-Block in which they spent so much time.

  • Although Al Capone Didn't Die Inside Alcatraz, People Have Reported Hearing His Banjo on Random Horrifying Tales From Alcatraz, Notoriously Haunted Island Prison

    (#9) Although Al Capone Didn't Die Inside Alcatraz, People Have Reported Hearing His Banjo

    Notorious crime boss Al Capone was one of Alcatraz's most famous residents. When he began his four-and-a-half-year stay in 1934, he was unprepared for unsympathetic guards and being stripped of the privileges he enjoyed in other prisons. Capone was put in "the hole" three times during his stay for breaking the "no talking" rule and for bribing a guard. He was in several fights with other inmates and the conditions at Alcatraz began to wear on him. A banjo his wife sent seemed to be the only thing keeping him from insanity and guards reported seeing him making his bed over and over or crouched in the corner softly strumming his instrument. Capone spent most of his last year in the prison in the infirmary being treated for syphilis but took his banjo with him. He was transferred to a prison in Los Angeles in 1939 and died several years later at his Florida estate, but both Alcatraz visitors and guards have claimed to hear banjo music in several parts of the prison.

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Alcatraz Island is a small island located in San Francisco Bay. Because the island is surrounded by cliffs and deep water, and it is not easy to connect with the outside world. Therefore, the island was selected by the US government as a prison site. Alcatraz Island was once a federal prison and many famous felons have been imprisoned there, abolished in 1963, is now a famous tourist attraction in San Francisco Bay.

Almost all the most notorious felons in American history have been imprisoned on this island. This is the origin of the name Alcatraz Island. Now visitors can learn about the stories of sin and redemption in the rusty cell. There are random 15 horrifying tales of Alcatraz. 

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