Jena DelaCruz
English II Pre-AP
8 May 2015
Alcatraz Ghosts Hauntings The Alcatraz prison is one of the many places in America that is haunted by ghost today and there is usually a strong belief in ghosts whether or not they actually exist this discussion has been argued for a long time in about all civilizations around the world since the old times. Such beliefs in ghosts started out from religion by believing in evil spirits called demons who were said to be lost on their journey to the afterlife and are cursed to stay be upon the earth.
For example, the Alcatraz federal prison in the eerie waters of California’s San Francisco Bay was home to some of America’s most nefarious and dangerous gangsters and murders. …show more content…
After taking cover, the guards would then cautiously look about to see absolutely nothing.” (1) These incidents which could never be explained was said to be just the guards imaginations, but many people believe that this story is real and not just the guard’s imagination. Another case of paranormal activity at the prison is called the, “The Utility Door,” (2) where a failed escape attempt resulted in the death of three inmates and since then the place where they have died was in a utility room and a watchman would hear strange noises from behind this door, but whenever the watchman would open the door these bizarre noises would then stop and then it would start once again when the watchman closed the door to the room. Then the last of these paranormal activities is in one of the cells on the D level of the prison the cell 14D is probably one of …show more content…
Which gives anyone a chance to be a ghost hunter as long as they just have enough free time on their hands to spend their days hunting for ghosts across America. Also according to Benjamin Radford, Live Science Contributor, has said that “Many people believe in ghosts because of Albert Einstein’s theory that energy is neither created or destroyed but only changes form, so that when we die this energy could be manifested into a ghost.” Despite all the pictures, videos, and TV shows about finding evidence that ghosts can exist can only be proved through scientific discoveries by