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The ghosts of Alcatraz


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user posted image rEach 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.

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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.

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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.

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linked-imageEach 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.

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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!

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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.

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