Ep. 53 - Alcatraz
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
About 1.5 miles off the shores of San Francisco, California lies a rocky island with the infamous name "Alcatraz." Some of the most notorious criminals in American history were sent to a prison built on the island that bears the same name because of the impossibility of escape. But long before the likes of Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly and Robert "Birdman" Stroud came to the island affectionately nicknamed "The Rock," the island housed a light house and a military prison. Many desperate souls wiled away their lives on Alcatraz Island and many of those souls seemed to have stayed. Those souls include not only prisoners, but banished Native Americans. Some claim a portal exists on the island. Come with us across the cold waters of the San Francisco Bay as we explore the history and hauntings of Alcatraz. The Moment in Oddity features Dancing Mania and This Day in History features the St. Hilaire Train Disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:25.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. |
| 0:35.0 | It's The History Goes Bump Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, you spookacular people welcome to this 53rd episode of the |
| 0:49.0 | History Ghost Bump Podcast ghost tours for The Theater of the Mind. |
| 0:53.2 | I am your host, Diane, and this is Denise. |
| 0:56.2 | And today we're going to talk about one of the more haunted prisons in America, Alcatraz. |
| 1:02.8 | This is going to be very, very cool because I've actually been to Alcatraz. |
| 1:06.9 | And I'm looking forward to hearing about your personal experiences there. |
| 1:09.7 | I love it when we talk about a place where we've either been to or people who are |
| 1:14.9 | our listeners have been to we're gonna have a couple of those coming up so yeah |
| 1:19.2 | and just for the record I was a visitor not a prisoner if it wasn't for the dates Denise I would say no I don't think that's true you probably were sitting in one of those cells but you know as a matter of fact I don't believe there were any women that were prisoners at Alcatraz. |
| 1:34.0 | So, before we get into talking about the history and hauntings of Alcatraz, we want to point you towards our website where you can find out everything you want to know about the |
| 1:43.0 | podcast that's at historygoz bump.com you can listen to our most recent shows |
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| 2:00.0 | And if you click on the blog tab there, you can find all of our show notes. |
| 2:03.2 | Denise if people want to get a hold of us to suggest locations to us or to make any comments |
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| 2:11.4 | They can do that at History Goes Bump at gmail |
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