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

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You' ve ever heard of the
city of San Francisco, California, United

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States. I' m sure you
do, and maybe you even remember there

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' s a Scott McKenzie song and
it said something like you' re going

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to San Francisco, don' t
forget to bring some flowers to your head.

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In the 1960s it was a place
where movements, hippies and other things

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lived. It' s a tremendous
city, because, besides, it was

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a favorite city in Hollywood. Yeah, I know Hollywood' s down there

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in Los Angeles, but in San
Francisco, a lot of the important movies

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that have been made in the United
States, from romantic movies, comedies to

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police, were filmed. You remember
Harry the dirty, the detective, that

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Clientwood was in San Francisco and many
other movies since Bullyit high pursuits. It

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' s a place that became a
place to visit for a long time.

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People went on vacation to San Francisco. In fact they called him affectionately fresh

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and, of course, he has
many stories. But there' s a

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story that interests me and it'
s the one that I' m going

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to ask you to come with me
tonight clearly if you decide to stay,

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we start stories from the dark side, beings, strangers, unexplainable events,

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defeated stories that other minds prefer ignorant. When you arrive in San Francisco,

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there are things that may interest you
very much, from the huge bridge,

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the fascinating Golden Gate, but of
course, also if you are going to

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see the Golden Gate, you probably
see something else. It' s a

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very visited point. In fact,
today and for some time now, this

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place has received one five million visitors
a year. Let me tell you that

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' s a lot. There are
amusement parks that have never dreamed of having

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all that. And yet, the
place I' m talking about is a

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small island on just a few hectares. It is located in the middle of

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San Francisco Bay. It has no
great view, it is not an exotic

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beach, there are no extraordinary animals, there are no wildlife. Even though

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it is a park belonging to the
National Park Service of the United States,

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this site receives many visitors and is
not beautiful. In fact, it'

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s a grim and sad place.
It is a place where silence sometimes becomes

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oppressive, where there seems to be
memories stamped everywhere and, in fact,

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it is known as one of the
most haunted places in the United States And

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when referring with more haunted, I
mean one of the places where the greatest

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paranormal activity has been reported in history. Alcatraz prison. Yeah, the Back

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Prison. It is there, in
San Francisco, in the Bay, and

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it is a place where every day
of the year winter, spring summer,

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boats arrive with tourists, there are
all the time guides, people who take

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you to know the whole prison,
explain you, tell you stories, take

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you to know the cells, take
you to know the other, the thing

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there, down, etcetera, etcetera. The place is guarded by guards known

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as park Rangers. They' re
actually park guards. They' re not

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cops They' re not soldiers.
They just guard a park, and this

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is today. Alcatraz prison is simply
a park. Of course it has its

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history, because, when it was
the Federal prison in Alcatraz, this place

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was considered the hardest prison in the
United States. It was something that was

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said among the criminals. If you
break social rules, you' re gonna

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go to jail. If you break
the rules of jail, you' re

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going to give alcatraz. He was
known to be terrible. But you want

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me to tell you something, not
necessarily. Look, I' m gonna

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make you a little comparison of Alcatraz
Prison. It barely lasted twenty- nine

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years, yes, from one thousand
nine hundred thirty- four to one thousand

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nine hundred sixty- three, that
is, it was not open for hundreds

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of years. It only worked during
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nine years, and while it was
a maximum security prison, things in there

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weren' t so terrible. I' ll tell you a little bit.

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The Alcatraz prison was designed to house
criminals who gave cans in the prison system,

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but also to accommodate those special criminals. The people did not arrive at

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the alcatraz condemned by a judge,
but were transferred within the penitentiary system.

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So you couldn' t be condemned
to go alcatráz. You had to earn

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it when you were in another jail, misbehaving to kill someone else or doing

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something barbaric and they sent you there. That' s the story. However,

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prison, as such, was very
safe. It was designed to do

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so. The levels of control,
the ways in which prisoners could be contained

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were very varied, and the first
of them was the very location on an

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island around the island of Alcatraz.
The sea currents of San Francisco Bay are

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terrible, they are very treacherous.
Besides, the water is very cold.

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It' s very cold all year
round. If someone jumped and tried to

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swim, he would probably be dragged
and whipped against the rocks. So that

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' s a natural barrier. But
also the prison itself. The prison system

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that was handled there was a rigid
system, with very established schedules and certain

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controls. Since its opening, certain
controls have been implemented. The prisoners had

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to earn what they got and curiously, what they got was pretty good.

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Each prisoner had his own cell,
that is, they were one prisoner per

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cell. Each cell had a sink, toilet and literite. The inmates got

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up early, cleaned up, went
to breakfast and then to work, and

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that was interesting because the food in
this prison was considered the best in the

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prison system in the United States.
After working on different activities inside the island,

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they went to eat and then in
the afternoon, they returned to their

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cells. They had a chance to
take books, one of the files there

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to read, they had a chance
to have a visitor, they had a

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chance of many things. In return, they had to be strictly careful of

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the rules and from their opening.
One of the strangest rules there was was

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the law of silence, so it
was pretty rough. You could only speak

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softly during the meal and during the
moments of recreation when they were allowed to

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go out into the exercise yard.
The rest of the time you couldn'

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t talk and if someone broke that
law, he was punished. So,

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other than that, things weren'
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comfortable. Everyone their fourth shower with
hot water. Look at that if you

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take Alcatraz prison and compare it to
the island of San Lucas in Costa Rica,

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with echo I was in Panama or
if you compare it even with the

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Marias Islands in Mexico or the island
of Gombley. Well, this was a

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paradise to be a five- star
hotel. People weren' t like that.

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There was nothing food, there was
hot water. They could shower and

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shave. They could do some exercise, there were things to see, things

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to read, and they also did
jobs that were not exhausting or forced labor.

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In the area known as the model
industries area, labors, crafts,

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things like that could be done.
The laundry, the bakery, the kitchen,

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everything was taken care of by the
prisoners. That means it wasn'

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t going to cut stone in some
quarry, it wasn' t being exposed

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like Devil' s Island in Guyana, it was being stuck there without any

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chance of getting out. Not really
the one who was behind a five-

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star hotel to be considered within the
world prison system. But that did not

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mean that it would stop being a
prison, since if you failed to comply

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with the rules, you would be
brutally punished. And the punishment was very

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simple. Someone who breaks the rules
loses all his privileges and was sent to

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block d Inside the prisoner' s
housing area there were four or blocks inside

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the same building. Don' t
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simply a large building that had four
blocks so that they were always surrounded and

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no cell shared a wall with the
outside. All this was happening inside a

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huge building. There were these cell
blocks, but the block was especially unpleasant.

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The top of the block had a
view of the Bay through the exterior

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windows. They could see the bay, they could see the bridge, they

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could see the lights. The cruisers
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able to think of reaching them.
That' s where the psychological punishment began,

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the inability to reach that, and
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of about forty- two cells.
Unlike the rest of the cells. In

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the block were those who had broken
the rules lost many of their privileges.

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Those in the upper part lost the
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prisoners and, therefore, had the
opportunity to talk about those tiny minutes of

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conversation they had during the meal or
during the moments of exercise. They lost

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that privilege. They did not eat
in the general group, but the food

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was taken to the cell. But
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out once a week. They lost
their right to work in the warehouses and

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wherever they were, they were locked
away all the time in a space about

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two meters or so, probably about
three meters. That was all their space

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and they' d stay there and
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of this area. In addition,
the prisoner would receive only one visit a

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month, he could not take any
book, only what the guards wanted to

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give him. I wouldn' t
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He could only bathe twice a week
on the top. But if the river

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had committed a worse foul, hera
sent the bottom. At the bottom it

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was known as strip sales. These
cells were the punishment cells. They had

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been enabled with a double door,
they had a regular fence like the rest

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of the prison and then a thick
metal that was almost hermetically closed and you

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could only see the interior through a
little window at the door, a little

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window, by the way, covered
with a thick glass. At this place,

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at the bottom, there were five
of these cells. These five cells

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had only, among other things,
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They didn' t have a chance
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' t have a chance to take
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they didn' t have visitors,
they didn' t have a right to

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leave. But perhaps the most distressing
and dramatic thing is that, by closing

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the secondary door it was a total
darkness and each cell had only one focus,

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a low intensity focus, which was
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but there was also another detail.
Every morning the mat was taken out

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of the cell so that there was
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They were punishment cells. But the
last cell was the worst. The

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last cell was known as the eastern
one. There were no alabamanos in this

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one, there was no toilet.
The prisoner only had a hole in the

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floor connected to the drainage. In
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in the morning it was removed.
Normally, the prisoner remained naked.

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This particular place was completely incommunicating the
river. There was no contact and he

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missed the right to everything. The
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once a day a plate with food, where all the food would be mixed

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together. He' d put the
soup in there, the middle plate,

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whatever it was in one plate,
and he' d go through a hole

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in the door. There was one
condition and that is that the person who

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was sent there could only be two
to nine days. Otherwise she' d

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go crazy. And yes, it
was a heavy punishment and there was still

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another thing. Over there in the
block there was access to the dungeons.

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Yes, the basement was a space
that had been reserved for certain prisoners who

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had threatened to kill a guard or
who had done so. They were chained

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down there. In this place the
darkness, the humidity of silence, the

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cold were truly terrible, but that
was in case of punishment. The rest

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of the prisoners could enjoy certain privileges, such as playing in the orchestra,

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using a musical instrument, writing,
reading, cooking, eating tasty even with

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coffee. At breakfast there were pancakes, freshly made, coffee and all kinds

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of things. And if you heard
correctly, when I started talking, I

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mentioned that this island, besides being
a prison and being visited by many people,

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is visited because it is one of
the most haunted places in the United

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States. But right now, what
I' ve told you even when it

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sounds a little scary, that of
the cells, of the block of reality,

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is that the bulk of the prisoners
didn' t have such a hard

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time. And if you get that
the maximum population that this had was three

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hundred and fifty prisoners when in St
Luke there came to be one thousand and

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eight hundred. There were no beds, there was no food, there were

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barracks where three hundred men could sleep
together in one barracks. There were no

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baths, there was no hot water, of course, more, there was

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not even water to drink in the
middle of the tropical ocean. Obviously,

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here' s something that doesn'
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into account that in Alcatraz prison there
was no exaggerated number of deaths, there

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are very variable accounts. In general, it is assumed that there were eight

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prisoners killed at the hands of other
prisoners, there were six prisoners killed by

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shots fired by the guards, there
were five suicides and there were at least

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two guards killed. So, comparatively
with Devil' s Island, in Guyana,

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where about eighteen thousand prisoners, forty
percent died here wasn' t really

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so much death. This was a
different place why then could it become one

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of the most haunted places in America? Moreover, in this place the prisoners

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were on average eight years, unlike
other prisons that were for a lifetime until

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you died in alcatraz, the prisoners, after a time, were returned to

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their prisons of Leven Worth origin,
St Quentin, wherever they came from,

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so they were here for a while
and then returned to places with a lower

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level of demand and even some of
them went out to be free, so

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do not bribe anywhere. In this
place they didn' t do horrors to

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the inmates. Of course it was
a prison. Don' t lose sight.

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That wasn' t elementary school or
boarding school for ladies. This was

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a prison. There were people beaten
up. There were punishments all the time,

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penalties, you could lose all the
privileges just because you laughed at a

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time you shouldn' t go.
But comparatively, it would not seem to

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be the ideal place for all the
paranormal phenomena that have been reported for so

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long. But maybe you should take
a look back, check the origin of

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this story, the places when they
have such a burden and so many rare

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stories of people, witnesses who have
seen paranormal phenomena, etcetera. It'

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s because there was a story much
further back and the one behind that story.

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The Bay. The Bay itself is
a place with a huge story.

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It is a region that was inhabited
by the Native Americans of the Ethnic Ohlone,

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belonging to a larger group known as
the Miwok Ohlons, meaning the people

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of the West. The Ojlones lived
in the San Francisco Bay region, which

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today is the Bay. They were
seminomadics, fishermen, hunters, gatherers and

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were a very peculiar ethnic group,
an original nation, very peculiar, because

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they moved on the basis of a
social behavior very similar to a communism.

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Let' s put it that way. There were no bosses. There was

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only one kind of leader, an
old man, who was the man who

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led everyone. His opinion was very
considerate, but everyone was equal to everyone

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and therefore the coexistence was very peculiar, because there was a lot of collaboration.

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It was an ethnic group with a
way of life and a number of

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very rich beliefs. But when someone
failed when someone took something that wasn'

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t theirs, when someone did something
wrong that broke with the harmony of this

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ethnic Ohlone, guess where it was
sent Yes to the island. They gave

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it another name, but it'
s the island of Alcatraz. The fact

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is that they were sent there,
taken away and left to their fate.

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The problem is that the island was
known by the natives as a place where

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evil spirits lived. So the worst
punishment the Ojolones could do to you was

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to take you there, not kill
you. It was not necessary there that

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those beings would kill you, because
they considered a being called bukuu Muus,

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it was kind of what to call
it. Some have compared it to a

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large foot, but it was not, because it was a supernatural being,

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covered with hair with red burning eyes
that used to kill those who arrived on

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the island. Some survived for a
time and, in fact, so noble

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were the eyeballs that used to go
and leave provisions, but only on the

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shore would no one have wanted to
get in, except when another member had

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to be killed. If one of
the people had committed very serious damage within

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the Community, he was taken to
the island and executed there and his body

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was dragged inland. They knew what
was next. If they went again,

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they would surely see him again,
but already in spiritual form turned into a

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bucus and these beings used to wander
in groups. These evil spirits, who

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were the bad people plus what was
on the island, used to move in

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groups and do horrible things. So
the jolones and, in general, the

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Miwock ethnic group didn' t usually
go there. If for some reason,

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during fishing or something, they came
to the shore to stop for a little

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rest, they only did it strictly
on the shore inwards. Rarely did they

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come in looking for eggs from the
birds that in this area there were many

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birds, only on the shore for
fear of what lived there. The thing

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is, time is going on.
The Spaniards are here. Mexico was conquered

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in 1, 500 twenty- one, but in reality, up to this

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region of San Francisco the Bay came
the first nole spasos. Up to a

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thousand seven hundred and seventy. It
seemed far away to them, and that

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' s when the name is given
to the island of the Alcatracs. It

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was as it was called by the
Spaniards in relation to the birds, that

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there was a kind of pelicals there
that they called boobies. There were many,

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so it was called the Alcatrac Island
and there near and another island,

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the Angel Island, etcetera. Those
Spaniards began to open the first missions to

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evangelize and some members of the Ojo
Lone tribe decided to flee. They didn

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' t want that. They decided
to leave there and on their way out

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they entered the island of Alcatraz.
According to legend, no one left again,

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they never survived, they were seen, they saw their canoes jump into

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the water. They began rowing in
search of the island to hide waiting for

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those to leave or hoping to do
something else, but never again saw them.

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They disappeared from the island even though
they could have survived for some time.

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They were never seen again, because
the island was a cursed island and

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the evil spirits took you. But, of course, it was a myth,

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an ancient legend, a belief.
But there' s something interesting.

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The Spaniards didn' t pay much
attention to this. In fact, the

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island of Alcatraz, Don de los
Alcatraces, was not interested. They wanted

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to do their missions, their cities, their villages and point, when in

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one thousand eight hundred and fifty,
Mexico loses the territories of what today is

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California to tiles. All that,
in the famous Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo there

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was a war and the Mexican President
finished selling ars in those territories for a

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few coins. Well, I didn' t have much choice. The fact

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is that this happens to Americans and
Americans immediately value this island. It'

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s a defensive point, it'
s a point where if there' s

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an attack on San Francisco Bay,
from this island they could decimate enemy ships.

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So there is the possibility of making
a fort, a fortification, a

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cannon installation, and that' s
when you build the fort alcatraz. The

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first thing there was a fort And
this was between one thousand eight hundred and

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fifty thousand eight hundred and sixty,
when they arrived and the construction began and

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he knows what was happening in this
place already since then the first ones who

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came there to build, began to
report strange, sounds, strange, screaming,

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strange things, phenomena that could not
understand and could not explain, even

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lights, mysterious lights that wandered all
over the island, a kind of green

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light that moved from one side to
the other. And there was much fear

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because, in fact, in this
place there were also dead on the part

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of the builders. The problem is
that in this place there was nothing to

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build and they ended up bringing granite
a stone from China. Imagine yourself.

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So large piles of this material were
made and on one of those bad occasions,

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part of one of these piles of
material slipped and caught several workers,

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taking the lives of two. It' s said it was two. It

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' s actually hard to tell.
There are not many records, but there

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was death and since then strange things
were already being talked about. Drums were

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heard, voices were heard, chants
were heard like those who would have been

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singing the ohlone who fled to the
island, but who were no longer there.

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And that' s not all.
With the passage of time and the

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outbreak of civil war, the secession
war in the United States, this place

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becomes an even more powerful fort,
a strong Yankee. Yeah, the Yankees

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wanted to protect Francisco. It was
important to them, and the Confederates also

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wanted the Bay of San Francisco.
So there was the fear that this place

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would be attacked. It became an
impregnable fortress. There were cannons everywhere,

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a garrison of soldiers, ammunition and
the construction was very interesting because there was

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an area that was the area where
all the cannons were, which was the

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citadel. This area had at the
bottom its ammunition stores with thick concrete and

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stone walls, and then there were
the bedrooms, which were also heavily protected.

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He had a pier and he had
the old lighthouse. The old lighthouse

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was a wooden construction where a lighthouse
was installed and there were buildings to house

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the boatman and his helpers. It
was a wooden lighthouse, a wooden construction,

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A very simple thing over time,
However, it turns out that the

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civil war ends and the fortress was
never attacked. He seemed impregnable. The

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only attempt at an attack ended badly. Over there they captured the rebels,

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but the fortress became both a prison, a military prison. Here they brought

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the deserters, here they brought the
Confederates who could catch here they also brought

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common criminals and here they also brought
people from the native nations, natives,

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Americans, Indians of different denominations.
They brought them here, too. But

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you know this wasn' t a
prison as such. This was the same

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as St Luke' s prison or
Guyana' s. They were galleys.

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They were all put there together,
in the lower part of the citadel where

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they had already removed some cannons.
That' s where they put them.

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There was no running water, no
toilets, nothing. These people were going

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to go through some horrible colds because
they slept on the rocks. There,

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for you to see the conditions were
deadly and many did not survive much and

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you know that they were not buried. There are those who say they were

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simply being thrown into the sea how
to know. What is a fact is

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that the conditions were terrifying and this
was prolonged. There was a time when

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there was an epidemic of tuberculosis,
almost towards the end of the 19th century,

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one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
nine. There was a brutal epidemic.

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People who came from other parts of
the Philippines began to arrive, all

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of which were infected with tropical diseases
that were spread by others were tuberculosis,

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diseases that had no cure and many
of them were soldiers. So they were

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sent there and the death rate was
terrible. Well, the whole area was

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full of sick people. St Francis
was such a port that he was the

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first to catch anything that could be
done again. The island was the scene

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of numerous deaths, and there are
many sad stories of people arriving waiting to

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be cured and not really going to
be cured. This is where for the

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first time we' re talking about
some kind of mass grave. I'

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m not sure it exists. You
just talk about it. Others claim that

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the bodies were sent to the mainland, but there are many more who claim

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that they were simply thrown into the
water. The few are transfers that were

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made of land faithful to the island. They were very much requested to bring

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supplies and to bring things and back
people who were in a position to return,

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not so much to carry corpses There
is a story here that is interesting

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and that you should remember, because
it is told that within the victims of

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that disease there were also women,
but they were not civilians. This was

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a military prison and there were no
female soldiers, but there were nurses.

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And it is said that in the
middle of the epidemic there were several of

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these girls who died. Some say
it was just one definitely no. If

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you take into account that they brought
and brought sick people here, it must

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have been several girls who died and, like those who died within the prison

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population, they would have been sent
to an unnamed grave. After this the

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terrible earthquake of San Francisco occurred and
this ended putting the island in a precarious

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situation no longer there were supplies,
There were problems revolts, there were shots

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killed by the same thing, because
having heard such a terrible tremor, the

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help, the food, the goods, everything went to the civilian population and

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the island began to have really serious
problems. All of that was subject to

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bullet point. So far the history
of the island is rather frightening. But

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it goes on because the military prison
continued. In a thousand nine hundred and

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twelve it is decided to completely eliminate
the fortress, remove the citadel, disassemble

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all the cannons there were and build
a prison of duty, using as a

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base the part of the basement of
the citadel. From there it would be

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built the new prison and leave the
old part of this basement area for warehouses

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O, whatever that area would become
the dungeon, that dungeon that I told

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him about where people were being tied
up and one of the most haunted places

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on the island, because that same
place, at that time, was where

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they had the prisoners, where they
were fanning one after another, without any

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kind of control, without any healthy
condition to die. There' s the

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rest of the buildings. They were
built, apart from the Warden' s

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house, because there was a very
cute house for the guards, etc,

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other constructions around here, but the
main thing was that the construction of the

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prison itself began and guess who built
it. The prisoners were bringing prisoners,

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even German prisoners. When World War
I breaks out. Prisoners were brought to

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these facilities were military prisoners, but
by chance they also brought people from Indian

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tribes who did not accept bodybuilding and
integration and were brought here. I guess

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they lived in horror because they claimed
that this place was still inhabited by evil

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spirits and many of them did not
come out alive. But that' s

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not where this ends as it is. The prison is over and that'

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s very cuckoo, very nice.
They begin to arrive more prisoners, but

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they are military prisoners, they are
brought from military prisons and the conditions of

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punishment They became tremendous after the First
World War and already, in the twenties

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they also received prisoners of civil order. In this place. Dangerous prisoners began

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to arrive, murderers, rapists,
people of the worst kind were brought to

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the island. So you had,
on the one hand, military personnel who

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had incurred faults since desertion, treason, rebellion, had Native Americans who were

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peaceful people living on their worlds and
suddenly you also had murderers, rapists,

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people of the worst. All this
here in this cocktail. Obviously, the

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nightmare was growing until finally, in
a thousand nine hundred and thirty- two,

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the military said I was not interested. I no longer want this prison

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and they no longer wanted it,
because it was very complicated for them,

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to bring food, to bring water, to take whatever went to the island,

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it was complicated, it was the
cough and it was not reliable.

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Moreover, having six hundred prisoners for
about forty guards was extraordinarily dangerous. There

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were several riots that ended at gunpoint
before it was federal prison. Until now,

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everything I' ve told you happened
before it was designated or named a

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federal prison and entered the control of
the United States penitentiary system. Once the

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military decides to get rid of this, they take out all their political prisoners.

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Well, all his military prisoners leave
the civilians. And that' s

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when the modernization of the prison begins, it becomes what prison is today.

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It immediately begins to change. Appropriate
barracks are built for guards and even houses

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where they could live with their families. Yes, women and children also lived

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on the island. The Warden'
s house, which was known as guard

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was a very pretty elegant house near
the lighthouse. In addition to that,

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the exercise area was expanded and precisely
all this was thought because in this place

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the worst criminals would be brought and
the people of the f B had put

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the glove on this thinking about the
hoods of the mafia, but he wants

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me to tell him something before all
this happened, before he turned himself in

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to the prison system. The people
who were here already reported very strange things.

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Since one thousand eight hundred and sixty. Here events began to be told

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that could not be explained the guards
suddenly heard voices, laughter and also saw

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something even more strange. When in
a thousand nine hundred the modification of all

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this begins, the old lighthouse is
completely removed. There were five reports that

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the old lighthouse appeared again in the
middle of the fog. They saw the

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light and saw the armatriz. That
was an appearance of a physical object,

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but it appeared when they approached it
disappeared. In that period of time there

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were also many reports of something very
unusual. Soldiers guarding the island claimed to

412
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:19.480
see a bonfire. The glow of
a bonfire came to think that it would

413
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.920
be about trappers or reos that had
gone there or something, and as their

414
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:31.239
astonishment approached it was tremendous, because
what they saw were Native American Indians around

415
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:38.400
a bonfire and they saw them singing. The sound was heard, they were

416
00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:44.480
seen moving, but when they came
closer to say hi they could not be

417
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:51.800
here that completely disappeared that mysterious phenomenon
even when it began to be seen in

418
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.480
the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has continued to be described many

419
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:01.719
times over the years. In fact, virtually all the paranormal phenomena that I

420
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:07.880
will mention to you in chronological order
have continued to be seen and have been

421
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:13.119
added up every time. Therefore,
in that thousand nine hundred, in addition

422
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.880
to the bonfire, there was another
very rare thing, the sound of drums.

423
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:20.679
But this was different. It was
not that of the Indian drums,

424
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.960
but the military sound of drums,
as if they were on the esplanade of

425
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:30.199
the citadel, where the marches took
place, where the soldiers stood and adjusted

426
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:35.079
and raised flags. There the drums
were heard and when someone came to see

427
00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:38.679
what it was about, there was
a total silence, but the drums,

428
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.599
the voices of command, the blows
of the shoes, as if there were

429
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:49.320
ghost soldiers doing this and, of
course, the one who saw that ran

430
00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:55.599
out of there. But there was
something else. The ancient Ohlone claimed that

431
00:39:55.679 --> 00:40:02.880
the island was inhabited by the buk
bus, a red- eyed creature and

432
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.519
knows something. The soldiers and also
the prisoners who were in the early 20th

433
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:15.280
century claimed that there was something they
called dafing the thing. The thing was

434
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:20.920
a being that moved quickly with very
red eyes between the different buildings still inside

435
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:25.920
and came to jump people. It
was something that caused a lot of fear

436
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:31.639
among the guards because they knew it
was quite real, but at the same

437
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:35.159
time it was not material. That
thing was the worst thing I could see.

438
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:38.960
When the situation changes and he begins
to see more prisoners and they have

439
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:45.679
had about six hundred before handing him
over to the prison system, the ghostly

440
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.239
situation was even worse, because that
is when they also begin olfactory phenomena,

441
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.199
smells, nausea, sudden sensations of
cold contacts. Suddenly in the morning to

442
00:40:54.360 --> 00:41:00.119
hear the prisoners screaming desperate for help
and as the guans approached to find the

443
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.840
river, well nothing happened, but
the subject was trembling in a state of

444
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:08.719
shock because he claimed that something very
cold had held him and lifted him up

445
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:14.840
and tried to kill him. These
reports weren' t that weird. In

446
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:20.320
fact, they were frequent and then
the ghost of the woman also began to

447
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:24.159
appear. Yeah, and he'
s a ghost who' s been there.

448
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:29.760
The lady, as they call her, has appeared in many of the

449
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.400
island' s ghost stories. Some
people think it' s the dead nurse

450
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.800
or the dead nurses, because it' s not a single appearance. There

451
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.440
are different places he' s appeared. I' m going to tell you

452
00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:46.920
a little bit later, but one
of the main areas is where the old

453
00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:52.159
military hospital was. Later all this
was demolished and just there the house of

454
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:58.880
the Warden was built. So there
also appears a lady in a green dress

455
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:04.079
who is associated with the same nurse
or nurses who died during that epidemic stayed,

456
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:10.400
have not left. The point is
that during all this time, even

457
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:15.920
German prisoners, who were very historic
people, were very much complaining about the

458
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:22.679
same strange paranormal phenomena, when it
already became the Federal Prison of Maximum Security.

459
00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:27.559
One of the first good salt,
the first warden was a Johnston Johnstone

460
00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:32.280
last name guy was a man with
a lot of experience. He was a

461
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:37.599
guy who had been in several of
the most important prisons in the United States

462
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.360
as a warden, that is,
as a prison chief, and he was

463
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:47.239
a guy who implemented new things,
modified some aspects, redistributed the prisoners,

464
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.920
and he was the one who established
the rule of silence. However, he

465
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:55.960
was a man who was also struggling
because his prison was well. It was

466
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:00.960
not uncommon to see him eating among
the general population without guards. In fact,

467
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.360
he was attacked on a couple of
occasions and nearly killed, but that

468
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.480
' s what he wanted to taste
the food to hear about being attentive.

469
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:10.760
But he was also in charge of
the punishments. He was the one who

470
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:15.079
implemented that from the Eastern cell.
But he was also the one who implemented

471
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:20.719
that from the basement to send to
the basement that were the old walls or

472
00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:24.239
foundations of the military garrison and where
he sent the prisoners, the worst prisoners.

473
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:31.480
This man was always very hard,
very stoic. He was in charge

474
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:36.119
of the prison from thirty- four
to forty- eight. Fourteen years since

475
00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:40.559
he opened up to forty- eight, he lived in the main house in

476
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:46.360
the Warden' s house and eventually
had parties and important things. At these

477
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:51.679
parties, the prisoners were in charge
of attending the guests and it was a

478
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:54.800
position that they fought a lot because, obviously, when the party was over,

479
00:43:54.960 --> 00:44:00.559
what was left was for them,
but they could also be listening to

480
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.840
music, allowing them to dress a
little more elegant and had some freedom.

481
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:08.960
And there' s something crazy about
it. One of the craziest ghost stories

482
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:15.559
in Alcatraz prison happened at the warden' s house, and that this man

483
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:20.480
didn' t believe in ghosts or
at least so he said. But it

484
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:23.639
is said that in nineteen hundred and
forty, on Christmas of the forties,

485
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:29.559
the world is at war, but
the warden organizes a party in his house

486
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:35.159
inside the island arrive the guests that
you who I jiged the sound of the

487
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:36.760
drink, I don' t know
how much. When all of a sudden

488
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.519
there is a huge silence, everyone
remains silent and does not lose sight of

489
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:46.000
the fact that the house was full
of guards, as there were prisoners tending

490
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:49.880
to prevent something from being stolen and
then they could attack or do something.

491
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.039
There were guards stuck to the wall
all over the house. When they suddenly

492
00:44:53.079 --> 00:45:00.880
realize there' s someone who wasn' t invited. From a corner one

493
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.719
of the walls appeared a man dressed
in gray and was not a prisoner,

494
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.119
nor was he a soldier. He
was a 19th- century man dressed in

495
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:16.239
a thousand eight hundred and eighty thousand
eight hundred and seventy, with large sideburns

496
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:22.519
and the beard that reached down to
him dressed in gray and all his appearance

497
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:28.639
was gray and just appeared. He
walked around, people stepped aside. Witnesses

498
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:36.039
claimed that people could see it and
sided with it. When she suddenly begins

499
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:39.159
to move forward, she begins to
feel a frightening cold more than one of

500
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:45.159
the invited ladies preferred to step aside
and faint or something. When the guards

501
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:51.960
throw themselves to catch him, he
disappears leaving an icy wind to the point

502
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:57.639
that the chimney went out and the
party ended. That figure of the gray

503
00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.920
man was seen many times more in
different places on the island. They knew

504
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:07.199
he wasn' t alive. They
could see him suddenly standing on some rocks.

505
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:09.280
They could see him in the middle
of the island, next to the

506
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:15.960
old lighthouse, where the old lighthouse
was either there or on the shore near

507
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:20.239
the water. In fact, there
are those who presume to know who it

508
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.480
is, and that is where it
is. Michael Mann, a fisherman,

509
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:28.280
died in a thousand eight hundred and
fifty- seven. While they were fishing.

510
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:31.960
He was surprised by a thick bank
of Fog and the currents took care

511
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:35.840
of him. Of the rest,
the boat in which they were fishing was

512
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:40.599
dragged and whipped against the rocks.
Two of his companions managed to climb but

513
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:47.039
he died on the rocks on the
island of Alcatraz and became the ghost of

514
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:52.679
the gray man seen by many people. But the warden himself would not be

515
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.000
the only experience. No, no, no, nothing like that. Some

516
00:46:55.039 --> 00:47:04.039
time later, several people of destination, some bolengo and some prestige, high

517
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:07.599
- level prison officials with their wives, arrived on the island for a tour.

518
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:13.960
This was the model prison, it
was the maximum security prison where everything

519
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:20.800
was ordered. So there were tours, guided tours, walking. I don

520
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:22.760
' t know what these cells are, I don' t know how much.

521
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:27.960
And there goes Warden Johnston, very
serious up there were the guards with

522
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:32.840
their guns. That was a pretty
safe place. When they suddenly arrive at

523
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:38.800
the good pavilion to the block and
as I explain. And others approach the

524
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:44.119
entrance of the basement, when they
hear the voice of a woman, a

525
00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:49.480
woman who is crying, they hear
the laments of a woman who is crying,

526
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:55.840
they hear how she groans a little
and how she asks for help.

527
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:05.440
Suddenly someone says sorry, warden There' s a woman down there and he

528
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:08.199
answers no. And someone makes me
do what Warden says There' s a

529
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:13.119
woman down there. No. Until
finally a guard gets a little closer,

530
00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:19.039
turns around, sees him face-
on, there' s a woman down

531
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.719
there, the warden just says no. No. No. There is such

532
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:25.440
is the sound of birds. There
are birds everywhere. Let' s move

533
00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.719
on and when you pass by the
guard turn around and tell you to check

534
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:36.079
on you immediately three four guards get
off there and there' s no one

535
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:37.639
there, nothing, there was nothing. But it was Johnston himself who witnessed

536
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:43.480
and knows something. A little later. I' m going to tell you

537
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:47.199
again about this place, because each
of these phenomena as they were already happening,

538
00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:52.400
it didn' t go away,
it stayed and it stayed right there

539
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:55.880
and in this period of time things
started to happen. It' s also

540
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:59.920
at this time. When the story
of the cell' s prisoner is told,

541
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:07.199
he cató d For some time,
the guards who patrolled the area of

542
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:15.199
block d saw the man in gray
or something and preferred to get away a

543
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.119
little, knew that no one would
believe them or that if they believed them,

544
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:21.679
they would mock them. So,
when they saw this apparition, they

545
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.599
would alter their route and stop around
and wait for them to leave. The

546
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:30.239
point is that one day, one
prisoner gets very gravy, hits one guard

547
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:36.199
and tries to attack another. They
finally subdue him and take him to the

548
00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:43.079
Oriental, the punishment cell, the
one that closes completely, the one that

549
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:49.599
didn' t even have a mattress, they undress him and throw him inside,

550
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.079
but they don' t close the
door. The airtight door to the

551
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.000
isolation door. They don' t
close it. They' re there waiting

552
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:58.440
for something to happen. When suddenly
that man starts screaming, help me.

553
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.599
There' s someone in here,
there' s a guy in here.

554
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:07.119
Please help me and start screaming disheartened, saying that the guy is attacking him

555
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.960
and listening to the screams. But
that' s something they' ve heard

556
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:15.039
many times. So at a certain
point they prefer to close the door and

557
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:21.119
turn off the light. Little was
really heard. The doors were the proof

558
00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:24.000
of noise, precisely so as not
to be listening to the prisoners who were

559
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:28.960
getting in there. But, according
to the next morning, when they went

560
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:34.920
to open, the guy was dead. He had strangulation marks, so you

561
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.480
know what it was. Some claim
that the guards killed him and then invented

562
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:43.320
the story. But it was an
ordinary cuño that had not been so when

563
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:45.639
they opened the door, the guy
was dead with his eyes wide open,

564
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:52.639
the same one he had been screaming. Then there would be many other ugly

565
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:58.320
things, and it would be in
this place, because there were also coming

566
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:02.880
some of the important rivers in this
place is your dock Parker of the Alvin

567
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:07.719
Carpi band and Barker. Dock Barker, along with Jung and Rufus Mckaine,

568
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:15.599
planned an escape, but something went
wrong. The point is that Rufus returned,

569
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:21.880
Jung returned, but dock Barker was
killed. The guards shot and one

570
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.960
good day Jung killed Rufus Mckane gave
him a stab in the lower part of

571
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:34.760
the groin. Around with a spoon
he had sharpened, Rufus Mckane bled to

572
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:38.119
death inside the prison and took many
hours in the midst of much pain.

573
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:45.480
He kept screaming. He' s
finally dead. He was not buried on

574
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:51.199
the island. They took him outside, but from that moment on they began

575
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.800
to see him. And it wasn' t one or two, but a

576
00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:59.719
lot of guards who saw Rufus Mckane
after he died. And, in fact,

577
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.880
you want to know something else.
Macabro the prisoner who was supposedly killed

578
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:13.679
by that invisible being. Oh that
macabre spirit was also seen for several days

579
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:19.079
later formed in the row of prisoners
towards the end, causing terror among all.

580
00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:22.280
No prisoners could move because if you
moved, they would send you to

581
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:25.519
the punishment cell, but they knew
that that one was already dead and the

582
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.400
guards themselves knew it too. At
least that' s what you tell yourself.

583
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.039
Go and know how true it is. The thing is that Rufus mckenncy

584
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:37.280
was murdered and then a lot of
people saw him again. There was also

585
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:43.239
a guard. Royal Claine was a
guard officer who was killed in the building

586
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:47.519
where the workshops were. It was
known as industry. She' s a

587
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:52.760
model. A guard killed him with
a hammer and continues to be seen to

588
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:59.280
date. Royal Claine is still patrolling
his work area, he' s still

589
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:01.800
at the bottom of the canyon.
But it also began to look almost immediately.

590
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:07.880
Suddenly the guards saw another guard patrolling
and were surprised to learn that it

591
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:13.400
was Royal Claine who was there and
that if there is enough data and hard

592
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:17.800
data. Another of the important prisoners
who was there was no more or less

593
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.800
than Alcapone, the great mafia leader, the unscrupulous man, the worst of

594
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:28.039
the worst. And the funny thing
is that he was only four and a

595
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:31.880
half years old when he arrived he
was already a little sick and, besides,

596
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:40.280
he was a very rare man to
Capone since he was in I don

597
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:46.559
' t know if Levenworth in which
prison he began to complain that he was

598
00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:50.599
besieged by the ghost of Jimmy Clark, a bad- crossed mobster who had

599
00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:52.400
been murdered by Alcapone himself. Capone
killed him and the ghost appeared to him

600
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:58.280
and there in alcatraz. The thing
got much worse, because he claimed that

601
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.559
all the time he was r ns. Jimmy' s spirit had times asked

602
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:06.519
that you please leave him alone.
And there were other times when I was

603
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:13.360
caught talking quietly to Jimmy. And
there were other times when other prisoners,

604
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:20.599
their fellow side cells in the area
of block b to the Capon were in

605
00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:23.679
cell b one hundred and eighty-
one. Contiguous cell inmates also listened to

606
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:30.119
Jimmy and it wasn' t Alcapón' s voice. It was a loud

607
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:35.639
voice that I caused panic screaming,
but the Capon was a strange man.

608
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:42.519
He collaborated here and there and when
he was on the island in that period

609
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:49.400
of time that was really brief,
he stressed because he was a quiet prisoner,

610
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:53.760
a prisoner who was well related,
although he was attacked several times and

611
00:54:53.880 --> 00:55:00.920
liked to play banjo in the orchestra
in the prison band. He had first

612
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:04.559
started playing the bathroom. He then
traded it for a kind of mandolin,

613
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:12.559
but had a peculiar taste for touching
his bath in the showers, when all

614
00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:16.599
the prisoners were in the exercise area
out there. He was allowed to go

615
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:21.920
to the shower area that was completely
alone with a guard at the door,

616
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:27.119
guarding him because the mayor himself knew
warden, knew he was wanted to be

617
00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:30.000
killed by other prisoners and wanted to
kill him to have a name to be

618
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.320
someone. I killed the capone was
what they were looking for, if he

619
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:38.199
always had a guard standing outside and
used to listen to himself playing his bathroom.

620
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:42.719
And he liked this place very much, because in this place the acoustics

621
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.679
of the empty place was great.
He heard very well if he was playing

622
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:50.760
and playing it was one of the
few things he really enjoyed, but also

623
00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:57.719
very soon he began to lose his
mind. He suffered from syphilis and this

624
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:01.639
galloped until he left him insane and
did not die in prison. Al Capone

625
00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:06.760
didn' t die there. Al
Capone died in Florida until nineteen hundred and

626
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:08.719
forty- seven. If I'
m right and I think he came out

627
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:13.159
of there in thirty- nine,
so he didn' t die there.

628
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:16.880
However, when it became known that
he had died, everyone knew that he

629
00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:23.920
had already died because they heard the
banjo in the showers and also in his

630
00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:32.760
cell. The banjo that played Capone
and did not leave followed for years.

631
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:39.280
People have heard Alcapone' s bathroom
and heard it inside the cell. You

632
00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:42.519
' ve heard it on the showers
all of a sudden, but no.

633
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:47.679
But when you approach it is no
longer you retire and again and there are

634
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:52.679
those who claim to have even seen
Alcapone' s ghost. But it'

635
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:57.440
s funny because Al didn' t
die there, he died on the other

636
00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:00.760
side of the United States, in
Florida, and died a few years later.

637
00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:04.440
And yet, as soon as they
died they knew that he had already

638
00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:09.760
died from the sound of the bathroom
and many said hey Al already died and

639
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:15.960
recognized the sound. Another interesting character
who was out there was Robert Strauth.

640
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:23.559
He was known as Berthman by birds
because he was an amateur ornithologist, that

641
00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:28.719
is, he learned from this by
himself and was a very dangerous man.

642
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:31.639
He had killed, he had done
very ugly things, but while he was

643
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:36.559
in another prison, did he learn
everything he could from birds? He had

644
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:39.719
a bird breeder, he wrote bird
books, etcetera, etcetera, until one

645
00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:44.280
day he got out of control,
lost his mind and was sent alcatraz.

646
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:49.760
In alcatraz, he never had a
bird again. He was not allowed anything,

647
00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:52.519
he was forbidden everything, his books
were taken away, he was left

648
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:58.960
no more and spent most of his
time in the block of. When he

649
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:02.400
dies, he dies outside of.
But in fact, his stay in alcatraz

650
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:07.599
was very rare, because of all
the years he spent there, only six

651
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:09.800
years spent them in Cella and spent
them in the block of, because it

652
00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:15.440
was very messy. The rest of
the time he was so deranged that he

653
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:19.599
was taken to the hospital and spent
11 years in the delirious prison hospital.

654
00:58:21.039 --> 00:58:29.239
Speaking of that red- eyed creature
lurking in the block of So well,

655
00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:32.639
good friend Berdman, as he was
known, didn' t leave either.

656
00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:39.519
Many prisoners during the following years claimed
that he was there, that he had

657
00:58:39.679 --> 00:58:45.639
not left. But on top of
that, we still have other characters like

658
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:51.119
Alvin Carpis. Alvin Carpis of Mab
Barker' s band, who was with

659
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:55.880
dock Barker, who was a real
gangster of those, is the man who

660
00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:02.360
stayed in alcatraz the longest, practically
until he closed Alvin Carpicer, a man

661
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:07.559
who was very dangerous. He was
a murderer. So they send him alca

662
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:14.199
back and in this place he becomes
a model Lee help in the bakery,

663
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:20.000
which was the place he liked most
Carpis enjoyed enormously making bread is curious,

664
00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:29.519
but being a bloodthirsty bully without scruples. Upon arrival alcatraz became a man who

665
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:37.199
made bread and obviously became a quiet
and pleasant person. Carpis known as creepy,

666
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:43.519
that is, scary, because it
was truly scary. He was there

667
00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:47.039
until he finally shuts down the prison. He comes out a little before free

668
00:59:47.159 --> 00:59:52.440
and travels. In fact, he
ends his days in Spain. In nineteen

669
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:57.519
hundred and seventy- nine he dies
to Spain, far from the prison,

670
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.920
far from all this. And yet, he knows that in the early 1980s

671
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:07.639
the guards were no longer prison guards. The prison closed in nineteen hundred and

672
01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:13.239
sixty- three, but in the
early eighties park guards began to report the

673
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:22.280
presence of a strange ghost in the
area where the bakery Alvincarpis was. Some

674
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:28.079
of them recognized him and even there
were those who claimed to have reached the

675
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:31.800
number of the prisoner and it was
the number of Alvincarpis. This is all

676
01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.039
funny. Anyway, the fact is
that in a thousand nine hundred and sixty

677
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:39.800
- three that is closed. Prison' s empty. The few prisoners he

678
01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:45.519
had been transferred to other prisons.
Those who had already fulfilled their time were

679
01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:52.679
released and the prison was handed over
to the National Park Service and not immediately

680
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.239
began to be used as a tourist
pole. In fact, the island was

681
01:00:55.320 --> 01:01:00.599
invaded by a group of Native Americans
asking to be left as the property of

682
01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:07.599
their group or nation. The issue
is that during this period of time a

683
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:13.239
lot of crazy things happened, since
the electric wiring was stolen, which caused

684
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.719
a boat accident because the lighthouse was
turned off as they had no money to

685
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:21.079
survive and in the place there is
nothing to eat, nothing to hunt or

686
01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:24.960
anything. They stole the wiring,
went to sell it and finally caught them.

687
01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:30.119
That ended up with a fire.
When they' re evicted at the

688
01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:35.719
tip of a pile. That becomes
a place where you visit, where there

689
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:39.639
are tours and so on. And
that' s when stories start to come

690
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:45.960
up, too, tremendous. The
guards themselves take every scare, because all

691
01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:51.320
the ghosts I' ve told you
so far have still been seen. Today.

692
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:55.719
There is a guard who in the
nineties had a tremendous experience. This

693
01:01:55.800 --> 01:02:00.239
man was already preparing to close and
every time the island is closed there are

694
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:06.320
no more tourists. You have to
go all the way to make sure there

695
01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:10.800
' s no one without permission who
wants to stay or some curious person who

696
01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:14.559
' s lost. There are many
areas out there that are complicated, full

697
01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:17.400
of corridors, entrances and exits.
It' s easy to get lost.

698
01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.599
So the guards make a general tour
to verify that there is no one.

699
01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:29.199
And there is a guard who talked
about a tremendous experience because when he was

700
01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:34.800
passing through the block to where the
entrance to the Calabozo is, he heard

701
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:38.480
a female voice that said to him, please help me, the voice was

702
01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:40.000
very clear, a woman' s
voice. There was no doubt about that.

703
01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:45.400
Please help me. I' m
trapped the guard runs and gets close

704
01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:46.920
to telling him how he got there. It doesn' t matter. I

705
01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:50.480
' m in here. I'
m trapped. Please help me wait.

706
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:57.360
I' m running through the key, because to get into that basement there

707
01:02:57.480 --> 01:03:00.400
' s a thick metal fence and
this guard doesn' t even have the

708
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:05.840
key. That' s off the
tourist trail. So he runs out and

709
01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:08.280
while he does that, he hears
him yelling at him, don' t

710
01:03:09.079 --> 01:03:13.519
leave me, don' t leave
me. Come the guard runs to the

711
01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:15.800
office. That' s where he
asks for the key. They find someone

712
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:21.239
who knows what the key is.
He comes back, comes up again and

713
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:23.719
hears how. That woman yells at
him. Please don' t leave me

714
01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:29.440
and he says. Come to the
door, they' re coming with the

715
01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:31.719
keys. Come to the door and
that woman says I don' t know

716
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:35.039
where you are. How can you
not know where I am? I'

717
01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:37.440
m here at the door. I' m listening to you. It'

718
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:38.800
s just that I' ve been
here so long, I don' t

719
01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:43.320
know where I am anymore. How
can you have been so long what you

720
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:47.079
' re talking about, and that' s when you start to realize that

721
01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:52.760
something isn' t right for that
moment another one of the rangers who are

722
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:57.880
out there brings the keys, opens
that and two guards come down to check,

723
01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.719
while the third one still stays there
to the other guards get to hear

724
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:09.320
the voice of woman complaining and crying, but when they finish checking there there

725
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.199
there is absolutely nothing, nor had
there ever been any new guards. The

726
01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.920
people who are there have had experiences
that include, of course, the ghost

727
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.159
lighthouse in the middle of the fog. Suddenly see something there, in the

728
01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:26.199
middle of it doesn' t exist. With a light on. They have

729
01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:30.400
also found the creature, the one
they call the Thing. They' ve

730
01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:31.599
seen it and, of course,
when that happens, everyone takes off.

731
01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.760
They have continued to see the Indians
making a bonfire on the shore, they

732
01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:42.559
have heard the banjo, they have
heard Birdman in the cells of the part

733
01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:47.039
of the block they have seen.
They have also seen the guard patrolling the

734
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:56.000
Alvin Carpis workshop area making bread.
It is very curious that, but in

735
01:04:56.119 --> 01:05:00.280
this place those who have died do
not seem to leave even when they have

736
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.639
not died. In this place,
that' s one of the craziest features

737
01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:08.719
of this place and of course,
there are also those who have been scared

738
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:12.599
thinking it' s so under attack
or something because there are times when you

739
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:14.400
hear explosions, cannons, bullets.
And it is that in this place,

740
01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:20.239
during several episodes they had to fire
their weapons, there was an attempt to

741
01:05:20.360 --> 01:05:25.880
escape, Three prisoners managed to reach
the hall of facilities and finally faced the

742
01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:29.519
guards and they had to kill them
by shooting. On another occasion there was

743
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.280
a mutiny and there were also two
dead guards. Several wounded had to intervene

744
01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:38.159
in the navy infantry and several were
killed in the shootings. That kind of

745
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:42.840
thing was recorded in this place.
So sometimes you can hear from laments screams,

746
01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:49.000
laughter, blows of things, things
hammering against the walls. You can

747
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:56.840
see shadows and clear what everyone knows. But that doesn' t end sometimes.

748
01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:01.760
Sometimes you can find yourself with a
delicious smell of bread, but in

749
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:08.280
this place bread is no longer prepared
for sixty years. Sometimes you can find

750
01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:12.880
yourself with a penetrating smell of smoke, like something' s on fire and

751
01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:16.079
running to see and in fact,
seeing black smoke, like it' s

752
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.920
burning, but there' s nothing. Instants later everything disappears and there'

753
01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:30.159
s nothing burned. Sometimes someone accompanies
you when you walk through the different corridors,

754
01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:35.159
giving an explanation to some group of
distraught tourists. You know that you

755
01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:40.920
' re not alone and that what' s next to you is not a

756
01:06:41.039 --> 01:06:46.280
guard or a tourist and it'
s preferable not to turn around, because

757
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:51.440
probably the only thing I can get, to know a striped suit and when

758
01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:57.320
night falls and everything is quiet,
you' re going to listen to the

759
01:06:57.320 --> 01:06:59.360
doors that close, spank, move. There' s no one in the

760
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:05.119
building, though. This place has
that strange characteristic. The phenomena began a

761
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:13.480
long time ago and continue to occur
as if this place somehow caught those paranormal

762
01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:18.559
presences, those ghosts, those disincarnated
beings and they were trapped here and they

763
01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:26.000
can' t escape, they can' t leave, they' re doomed

764
01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:29.000
to keep repeating their tasks, no
matter if they were good or bad,

765
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:31.119
like the girl, the nurse or
the guard who was murdered. They'

766
01:07:31.559 --> 01:07:35.239
re still there and they' re
still seeing each other. They have even

767
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:39.920
been taken in photos, of course
it is difficult to know, but there

768
01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:44.199
are at least two photos that are
very famous, the one that was taken

769
01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:48.719
in the area of visits where the
speakers were, was a kind of glass

770
01:07:48.719 --> 01:07:51.519
cube with a communicator. That was
all the contact and suddenly a woman appears

771
01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:57.199
in there where there must be no
one, or the wife of the little

772
01:07:57.320 --> 01:08:00.280
truck, which is also another interesting
story. That way, while they took

773
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:04.000
the picture of a truck site that
was on display there, a person appeared

774
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:09.719
inside and wasn' t there.
But the main thing that has attracted the

775
01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:15.320
most attention is that in this place
ordinary people come to feel weird things and

776
01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:23.680
the good sensitives are completely deranged.
Even Sylvia Brown, the famous American paragnsta,

777
01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:29.079
did a session in there and was
very surprised because she claimed that a

778
01:08:29.199 --> 01:08:34.680
guy named Abby Maldowetz, better known
as Butcher, the butcher was still wandering

779
01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:39.640
and was still looking for someone to
harm well. The problem is that there

780
01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:45.000
was never anyone named Maldowitz in the
prison files. So there was also room

781
01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:49.039
for urban legends and many consider that
the prison history of cell fourteen of the

782
01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:58.239
dead prisoner is actually an urban legend. But years later there was a very

783
01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:02.760
curious detail. There was Maldowitz not
the killer, he was the victim.

784
01:09:04.399 --> 01:09:08.560
Abby Maldowitz was a woman who was
killed by a guy they called Butcher,

785
01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:15.720
who, after being in St Quentin, was sent to alcatraz and died by

786
01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:21.359
chance. I don' t know, but it' s an interesting story.

787
01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:27.439
In itself, the Catraz prison could
have all the fame it wants,

788
01:09:27.800 --> 01:09:32.399
but strange history is not only limited
to the prison itself, but hundreds of

789
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:39.279
years ago, where this island was
always considered a cursed place, a place

790
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:47.159
inhabited by unclean spirits and later inhabited
by terrible people, with terrible stories,

791
01:09:47.479 --> 01:10:06.079
with twisted minds that stayed there very
good night and rest in peace. N

792
01:10:24.479 --> 01:10:45.399
o n o n