EP 49: Alcatraz (Halloween Edition)

This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Alcatraz! Alcatraz was a maximum security federal prison located on Alcatraz Island which is just a mile and a half off of the San Francisco coast. Between the location, the weather, and the horrifically cold waters that surrounded it, it was considered to be the “strongest prison” in America. Alcatraz housed some of America’s worst and most notorious inmates including Machine Gun Kelly, Robert “Birdman” Stroud, and, of course, Al Capone. Today Alcatraz is a museum that sees 1.5 million visitors a year.

But above and beyond all of these interesting facts, Alcatraz has long been considered one of the most haunted locations in America with visitors reporting feeling pockets of ice cold as they walk through the former prison, hearing crying and moaning as they walk through the cell blocks, and even report hearing Al Capone playing his banjo in the showers.

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