UM-Bot Posted April 20, 2007 #1 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Each day at sundown, when the last tour boat departs this desolate, wind-swept outpost, one lonesome soul is left behind. He's the night watchman of Alcatraz.Guided by the beam of his flashlight, Gregory Johnson inches down the gloomy infirmary ward of this retired prison, once home to the nation's most malicious killers and psychotic criminal malcontents. "Hey, what's that noise?" he asks, throwing the light against the half-open door of a solitary confinement cell. View: Full Article | Source: LA Times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowdyDoo Posted April 20, 2007 #2 Share Posted April 20, 2007 (edited) This is one job I wouldn't want to do on a regular basis. I wouldn't mind one night on the island...but definitely not alone. Even if the place WASN'T haunted, my mind would sure play tricks on me. Edited April 20, 2007 by HowdyDoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Serenity Posted April 20, 2007 #3 Share Posted April 20, 2007 It's really haunted. The souls of the men who went there. Are still there. There's planty of stories from people who go there. And the security who keep watch. To prove it's haunted. You can ask them yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
positron Posted April 21, 2007 #4 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Each day at sundown, when the last tour boat departs this desolate, wind-swept outpost, one lonesome soul is left behind. He's the night watchman of Alcatraz.Guided by the beam of his flashlight, Gregory Johnson inches down the gloomy infirmary ward of this retired prison, once home to the nation's most malicious killers and psychotic criminal malcontents."Hey, what's that noise?" he asks, throwing the light against the half-open door of a solitary confinement cell. He pauses, shrugging off another unexplained Alcatraz phenomenon."Man," he whispers, "I couldn't imagine being out here at night without my gun."Until the first boat arrives after dawn, the U.S. park police officer spends the night battling both his nerves and imagination, patrolling the place once known as America's Devil's Island.Over the years, Alcatraz was the dreaded last stop for 1,576 luckless hard-timers — murderers, mobsters, the nation's most-wanted crooks — many of whom officials feared couldn't be confined anywhere else.Known as "the Rock," the 12-acre penal island was notorious for its cramped cells and rigid discipline that at times demanded total silence. The prison also inflicted its own brand of emotional torture. At night, as the stories go, inmates could hear women's laughter on the mainland 1 1/2 miles away. Decades after the prison closed March 21, 1963, with inmate Frank Weatherman's valediction, "Alcatraz was never no good for nobody," all that remains is the lore of the desperate men once locked up here."I don't believe in ghosts, per se," says Johnson, 38, a no-nonsense law enforcement veteran. Still, holding a shackle of oversized keys, he cautiously makes his moonlit rounds across the island, some areas wanly illuminated by ancient light fixtures, others left eerily dark. View: Full Article | Source: LA Times I live near a mental hospital that Has been closed for many years.. When I drive by it I feel vibes from within. I have never felt this in my life , ever.They have to have been in another hell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladygrim Posted April 22, 2007 #5 Share Posted April 22, 2007 yeah not a place i'd like to be at night time..:S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: Posted April 25, 2007 #6 Share Posted April 25, 2007 This is one job I wouldn't want to do on a regular basis. I wouldn't mind one night on the island...but definitely not alone. Even if the place WASN'T haunted, my mind would sure play tricks on me. No kidding. There's something about staying even one night in a place you know had the worse criminals locked up at one point that's spine chilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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