#Al Capones Cell

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Al Capones Cell, Eastern State Penitentiary

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Al Capones Cell, Eastern State Penitentiary

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Al Capones Cell, Eastern State Penitentiary

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Al Capones Cell, Eastern State Penitentiary

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Propaganda

Clara Bow (Wings, It)—The original It Girl (literally), Clara was the epitome of a flapper film star. She was obviously a looker, but it was her acting that won over hearts. Watch the movie It (no clowns) to get a sense of her charms. And while she's most known for her silents, (including Wings, the winner of the first ever Best Picture Academy award) she did make some talkies! Contrary to popular belief, sound films didn't ruin her career; she reportedly just hated the process of making them. She had a really interesting background and it's a shame she's not as well remembered as others of her time.

Bebe Daniels (Rio Rita)—When Bebe Daniels was jailed for 10 days on a speeding charge, she had nearly 800 visitors who brought her things to make her cell comfortable — including a Persian rug. When she had some jewelry stolen in Chicago, Al Capone himself put the word out that it better be returned *or else*. Beyond all this, she was also a shrewd businesswoman who helped write, produce, and edit her movies. When her Hollywood career started to wane, she moved to England and became a radio (and then TV) star. She also played a female Zorro-type character in the silent film Señorita. [pics below the cut]

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Clara Bow:

She has gorgeous doe eyes, how can you not love her?

The original it girl! Flapper icon! She's sooo fun and charming and confident, it just shines through any film or picture you see of her.

I love love love her genderbendy boy style and her cute twinkly performances!! watch wings i s2g she absolutely brings it

She's literally THE It Girl. Like actually, she's the term's namesake. She was an extremely prolific silent film actress with a reputation for wild behavior who defined the 20s flapper era. Her boyish frame, androgynous style, and red curly hair were widely emulated.

Bebe Daniels:

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[elixir]

Al Capone’s Cell, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia.

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Al Capone’s Jail Cell, Alcatraz, #181

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

[lifesteal-headcanons]

Minute is related to the Simulations version of Al Capone by 2 Generations.

(The Simulation is what I like to call the MCYT multiverse of Watsonian Perspectives, or what the Characters see & the Creators film is what's really happening in their eyes, y'know?)

Minute is related to him by 2 Generation, making him his great grandfather. He was taught a lot by him & his Grandpa about how the business works. Keeping appearances & the public eye alright, as well as how to fight. Although Minute was more lanky 'n tall than buff and suffered from CWD & The Ender-Wither Decay. He got along pretty well, he sure as hell wasn't the strongest by first glance but the decay aloud him to poison & rot others with his saliva which operated as a Withering Poison. While yes it does seem grotesque. It Withered away the main nerves around the bite wound allowing for the police to be unable to trace the DNA of the knife wound and the saliva was to decayed to be sampled. After a member from the Rival Gang ratted him out before he got taken away to the STARR's new program. He rotted away in a prison cell, staring at the sun whenever it blessed his presence waiting and praying to be released. Which was a hopeful wishing seeing as how he had tried to escape and just barely failed around 3 times already. Until, 2 years after that rival from the Doon's family got taken Away. He was sent into the Lifesteal simulation as punishment, entertainment, cash, and purgatory. Just for the producers to realize that they put a monster (quite literally to some's definition) back into its natural habitat of chaos.

-👾🪻 Anon

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[dollopheadedmerlin]

If anyone happens to be interested in going to Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary (it's in Philly!) this year, I have this lovely link that you can use to get $5 off tickets because I am one of their scare actors!

Or you can type in this code at HalloweenNights.org

CC249LBKD2

It's valid for any general or VIP tickets, excluding Saturdays!

We have five cool haunts called Delirium (one of my favs!), Big Top Terror (clowns!!), Machine Shop (very intimidating), Nightmares (that's where I live!), and the crypt (ghouls!!). There's also fun bars and lounges with themes like Vampires and the Carnival. Plus a tone of other cool stuff.

The VIP tickets will get you into the speakeasy! There, you can hear wonderful performances near Al Capone's cell (yes, really)!

I know people get hacked on Tumblr all the time to post ads and such, but please know that this is me!! Bo!! I'm posting this!!

Using my code can also help me potentially win some fun rewards! So please, feel free to use it or share it with friends that you know may be going this year!

Happy haunting!

[incorrectbatfam]

how did Jason manage to get banned from Alcatraz???

He lost a bet to Roy so he had to break in and sleep in Al Capone's cell

[missys-mansion-of-mistakes]

August 10th, 2024 - August 14th, 2024.

🎇 Philadelphia trip! 🎇

SO much happened; this is going to be a long one.

We presented at the conference! Overall, I'd give our presentation a... 7 out of 10! But yay, it's done!

Usually the performance of the presentation is what goes wrong, but in our case it was the material. My last co-presenter, who I expected to be the strongest presenter based on our mock presentations, REALLY went off the rails. Accidentally talking about how the whole field the conference was for might actually not be that valid 😬 But it's OK, we got out of there. I'm just waiting to receive our evaluations... I'm sure they're going to be rough.

Besides for that, we did a lot of running around Philadelphia. We toured a warship from the Spanish-American War, we saw Al Capone's cell, I saw SIX original Van Gogh's and I CRIED so hard, we toured Independence Hall, and we even found an Agaricus mushroom on the first day!! Not only that but the Italian airforce flew over the city while we were walking around and it really freaked a lot of locals out.

It was really a full four days. But I'm glad to be home.

And now incredibly, incredibly sick. Like hallucinatory dreams, coughing up a lung, fugue-state levels of sick.

But that's alright. I have more than enough time to recover before going back to work.

Time to get back to the grind..... tomorrow!

[Photos:

Windows above the entrance of Independence Hall

Agaricus mushroom

Van Gogh painting, Still Life

Van Gogh painting, Portrait of the Postmaster Joseph Roulin

Al Capone's cell

Italian air force jets

Warship guns]

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Ghosts of Alcatraz

by Troy Taylor

San Francisco Bay's barren Alcatraz Island, long nickname The Rock, was originally a fort and then served as a military prison from 1859 to 1934. With the arrival of social upheaval and rampant crime in the 1920s and '30s, the federal government chose Alcatraz as the perfect site for an escape-proof prison that would strike fear into the hearts of criminals thanks to the isolated location and the swift currents surrounding the island.

From the time Alcatraz became a federal prison in 1934 under the stern and watchful eye of Warden James A. Johnston until it closed in 1963, its steel doors clanged shut on then 1,000 hardened convicts, criminals, and would-be escape artists.

From the start, the most incorrigible inmates from across the country were sent to The Rock. Each train that arrived in San Francisco to dispense prisoners seem to have a "celebrity" of sorts on board. Among the first inmates were Al Capone, perhaps the most famous gangster of all; Doc Baker, the last surviving member of Ma Baker Gang; George "Machine Gun" Kelly, the privileged son of a wealthy Memphis family who became one of the Prohibition period's most notorious gangsters; Floyd Hamilton, a gang member and driver for Bonnie and Clyde, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, a Canadian-born former Public Enemy No. 1 who arrested by J. Edgar Hoover himself; and Robert Stroud, the amateur ornithologist who would later become known as the Birdman of Alcatraz.

Noteworthy or not, the inmates found that Alcatraz was a place where they had but five rights-food, clothing, a private cell, a shower once a week, and access to a doctor. Their methodical daily routine never varied.

While the cells the prisoners lived in were barren at beast, they must have seemed like luxury hotel rooms compared to the punishment cells. In these, men were stripped of all but their basic rights to food-and even then, they barely survived. Confinement in the single Strip Cell was punishment for the most severe violations. In the Hole, the name for cells in the bottom tier of the main cellblock, the punishment usually included psychological torture, and sometimes physical torture as well. In D Block, inmates in cells above the Hole couldn't escape the screams of those imprisoned there. Prisoners who emerged from the Hole would often be senseless or sick and bound for the prison's hospital ward. Others never came out alive.

Even worse were the dungeons. A staircase in front of A Block led down to a large steel door, behind which were catacomb-like corridors and stone archways leading to the sealed-off gunports from the days when Alcatraz was a fort. In the dungeons off the corridor, the prisoners were chained to the walls, their screams unheard in the rest of the main cellblock. Food and sanitation in the dungeons were minimal, dignity nonexistent.

Early Ghost Activity

A number of guards who worked in Alcatraz between 1946 and 1963 experienced the strange and the unexplained. From the grounds of the prison to the caverns beneath the buildings, they heard people sobbing and moaning, smelled strange odors, discovered cold spots, and saw what they described as ghosts. Even families who lived on the island and the occasional guest claimed to have seen the ghostly forms of prisoners or phantom soldiers. The sound of what seemed to be gunshots mdae the guards think prisoners had escaped and obtained weapons.

A deserted laundry room would sometimes fill with the smell of smoke, though nothing was burning. The guards would be sent running from the room, only to return momentarily and find the air clear. Like the other mysterious happenings at Alcatraz, the phantom fires were never explained.

Even Warden Johnston, who had no time for those who believed in ghosts, once heard the unmistakable sound of a person sobbing in the dungeon as he led a group of guests on a tour. The sound was followed by an ice-cold wind felt by the entire group. Johnston could never arrive at an explanation for this weird occurrence.

During the twenty-nine years Alcatraz operated as a prison, there were at least fourteen escape attempts. Almost all the prisoners who tried to flee were either killed or recaptured, and only one is known to have made it ashore. The most traumatic and violent attempt, later dubbed the Battle of Alcatraz, took place over two days in May 1946.

What started as a well-planned breakout from the "escape-proof" prison turned into a disaster when the six inmates involved saw their plan fall apart. Realizing they couldn't succeed, they decided to fight it out. Before it was over, they had taken a number of guards hostage, killed three of them, and wounded several others; two of the guards were murdered in cold blood in cells 402 and 403 (later renamed C102 and C104). The failed escapees fared no better. Three of them climbed into a utility corridor to avoid the constant gunfire, only to die after being hit by bullets or shrapnel.

An escape attempt in 1962 was later documented by Hollywood in the film Escape from Alcatraz. Released in 1979, the movie was a big hit in the box office, but the prison had closed long before. Too expensive to renovate and properly secure, what could be called the world's most famous prison shut its doors for good in March 1963.

Mysteries of Cell 14D

In 1972, the federal government put Alcatraz Island under the purview of the National Park Service, and after opening to the public, it became one of the part service's most popular sites. While in the daylight hours the old prison teems with tour guides and visitors, at night it is filled with mystery. Many believe that the energy of those who served time on The Rock remains, making the Alcatraz complex one immense haunted house.

Night watchmen patrolling the main cell house, divided into A, B, C, and D blocks, say they've heard the sounds of what seems to be running coming from the upper tiers. Thinking an intruder has gained entry, the watchmen investigated the sounds but always found nothing.

One Park Service employee reported that on a rainy afternoon the sparse number of tourists allowed her some time off from guiding tours. She went for a walk in front of A Block and was just past the door leading down to the dungeons when she heard a loud scream from the bottom of the stairs. She ran away without looking to see if anyone where there.

Asked why she didn't report the incident, she replied, "The day before, everyone was ridiculing another worker who reported hearing men's voices coming from the hospital ward, and when he went to check the ward, it was empty. So I didn't dare mention what I heard."

Several guides and rangers felt something strange in one of the cells in the Hole: Cell 14D. "There's a feeling of sudden intensity that comes on when you spend more than a few minutes around that cell," one of them said.

Another guide described Cell 14D as "always cold. Sometimes it gets warm out here-so hot that you have to take your jacket off. The temperature inside the cell house can be in the seventies, and 14D is still cold."

The tour guides weren't the only ones to have strange experiences there. Several former guards at the prison have told of terrifying incidents that took place near the Hole, and in Cell 14D in particular.

During one guard's stint in the middle 1940s, an inmate was locked in 14D for some since forgotten infraction. According to the officer, the man began screaming within seconds of being locked in. He claimed that a creature with "glowing eyes" was locked in with him. Yet no one took the convict's cries of being "attacked" very seriously, probably because tales of ghostly presence wandering the nearby corridor were a continual inducement to practical jokes to the guards. The man's screaming continued into the night, until finally there was silence. The following day, guards inspected the cell and found the convict dead. A horrible expression was frozen on his face, and there were hand marks around his throat. An autopsy revealed that the strangulation couldn't have been self-inflicted. Some believed that the man might have been choked by one of the guards, who had been fed up with all the screaming, but no one ever confessed to the crime.

On the day following the tragedy, several guards who were performing a head count noticed that there were too many men in the lineup. Then, at the end of the line, they saw the face of the convict who had recently been strangled in the Hole. As they all looked on in stunned silence, the figure abruptly vanished.

Banjo Strains

A park service employee who worked at Alcatraz in the late 1970s had a weird experience in another of the main cellblock's chambers. He was down near the shower room when he heard something he couldn't explain.

"It was banjo music," he said. "The room was empty, but I definitely coming from there. Maybe back in the days when it was a fort or army stockade, there was some guy here who played that instrument."

What the employee didn't know was that during the most traumatic days of his life, Al Capone, rather rick going out to exercise yard with the other inmates, would sit in the shower room strumming on his banjo.

Perhaps this lonely and broken spirit still plucks at the strings of a spectral musical instrument that vanished decades ago. Even today, tour guides and rangers who walk the corridors of the prison alone occasionally building. Could Al Capone be its source? Or could it be another of the countless ghosts who continue to haunt Alcatraz year after year?

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The prison cell of Al Capone poster by Ellie Teramoto.

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Sightings – S2E01 – Alcatraz Ghosts – September 11th, 1992

“There’s a strange pull you feel viewing this imposing outpost from shore. It was once the toughest prison in America, home to Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Birdman of Alcatraz…”

“Are there ghosts on Alcatraz? We asked nationally renowned psychic investigator Peter James to spend the night on the rock...as we walked through the cell blocks, Peter began to hear what he felt were the voices of tortured spirits.”

“There are at least a hundred ghosts here, a hundred entities that walk these corridors looking for a way out, looking for that life force that they seem to have lost somewhere. Tragically.”

Lots of moody shots of Alcatraz belie that this segment is light on actual ghosts, with few witness reports and the bulk of the runtime being devoted to a psychic wandering around with Tim White (out in the field). The filler extends to doing man-on-the-street interviews.

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Alcatraz

Stroud is not the only ghost that has been seen at Alcatraz over the years. Alcatraz first housed prisoners in the late 1850’s. These first inmates were military prisoners who were put to work building a new prison. The U.S. Army used the island until 1933 at which point the U.S. Government decided to use Alcatraz or The Rock as a maximum-security prison that could house the most incorrigible inmates.

When a prisoner was bought to The Rock they knew that life was not going to be easy. Alcatraz was structured to only provide food, clothing, shelter and medical care. All other basic needs had to be earned. Some of the incorrigibles that were sent to Alcatraz included famous criminals such as Al Capone, George “Machine-Gun” Kelly, Alvin Karpis and Arthur “Doc” Barker. Unlike other prisons the prisoners could not manipulate special privileges from the guards.

Alcatraz was known for its tough discipline. Any prisoner refusing to follow the rules risked being placed in the Strip Cell. This cell was located on the lower tier of Cell Block D. It was a steel cell, where inmates were stripped naked and given only water and bread. A mattress was placed on the floor at night and then removed every morning. The cell’s toilet was a hole in the cell floor also there was no sink in this cell. When prisoners where placed in the Strip Cell they had no contact with other inmates and their time was spent in pitch-darkness.

Other punishment cells located on D Block were known as holes, they were also located on the lower tier. In these cells prisoners were kept in isolation for nineteen days. They had a sink, toilet, one light bulb and a mattress that was removed in the morning.

Alcatraz was closed in 1963 because it was found that it would cost too much to repair the crumbling prison. In later years the Parks Service reopened parts of the island and prison for daily public tours. At this point rumors of torture began to emerge. It was felt that since Alcatraz was on an isolated island away from public view that the inmates were probably tortured and that their tortured and bitter spirits were now haunting the halls of the prison.

One area that is known to be haunted is the Utility Corridor. It is here that inmates Coy, Cretzer and Hubbard were plummeted with bullets during their attempt to escape. In 1976 a security guard making his nightly rounds reported hearing unexplained eerie clanging sounds coming from this corridor.

Another active area is Cell 14D this is one of the original hole cells. Both visitors and employees have reported feeling cold chills along with an intense presence in this cell. It was in this cell in the 1940’s that a prisoner who was locked in, screamed the whole night claiming there was a creature with glowing eyes trying to kill him. The next day the guards found this prisoner dead, he had apparently been strangled. Later that day several guards reported seeing this same inmate in line with others and then he just vanished.

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31 Days of Halloween: Day 31, The Eastern State Penitentiary

Welcome to the finale of our 31 days of Halloween adventure. On this eerie day, we delve into the haunting atmosphere of the Eastern State Penitentiary, a monumental structure in Philadelphia that once housed the notorious gangster Al Capone.

Historical Background

The Eastern State Penitentiary, inaugurated in 1829, was envisioned as a revolutionary prison facility, embodying the "Pennsylvania System" of solitary confinement to induce penitence in inmates. Over its operational span until 1971, it held nearly 85,000 individuals, including notable criminals like Al Capone and bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton. The penitentiary's gothic, castle-like architecture and radical penal philosophy made it a landmark in criminal justice history.

Haunting Tales

Ghosts of Cell Block 12: Numerous investigators have captured eerie phenomena, with one revealing an apparition of a man walking through Cell Block 12.

Unseen Entities: Objects have been recorded moving on their own, with some investigators claiming to have communicated with multiple spirits.

The Soap Lady: Employees and visitors often spot the apparition of a woman, dubbed "The Soap Lady," in a cell on the second floor, which once housed female inmates.

Al Capone's Phantom Foe: Al Capone, during his time here, was tormented by unseen forces, notably a phantom named "Jimmy," believed to be a victim of Capone's criminal orders.

Exploring The Penitentiary

The Eastern State Penitentiary, now in ruin, opens its formidable gates to the public, offering guided tours that delve into its dark history and reputed hauntings. Every year, thousands traverse its decaying halls, and many come away with ghostly tales of their own. The prison also hosts a Halloween Haunted House attraction, inviting the brave to explore its eerie corners under a veil of fright.

Conclusion

As we wrap up our Halloween series, the Eastern State Penitentiary stands as a chilling testament to the blurring lines between the realms of the living and the dead. Its crumbling walls hold whispers of a turbulent past, inviting those with a taste for the paranormal to delve into its haunting mysteries. Venture into the heart of its spectral infamy, if you dare, and perhaps the ghosts of the past will share their tales from the shadows.