Noises, and shadows, and FLIRs! Oh my!

Yes, the focus on Stroud was lazy. And dumb. He didn't die at Alcatraz and had no birds there. He kept his birds while serving time at Leavenworth before being transferred to Alcatraz. He was released from Alcatraz in 1959 and sent to a Federal medical prison in Missouri, where he died in 1963. Information courtesy of Wikipedia.

JCarton, there probably were quite a few. Cause unless they checked everyone's driver's license at the door, these people could get in .I'll have to ask my sister if they went to this deal.She's in Piermont,not to far from Nyack.When I went up there for vacation several years ago, we drove around the area and they showed me Helen Hayes house in Nyack.Area is pretty in the summer, but forget the winter yuck.

By the way, what is a bumblebee tablet? Guess I'll have to look it up, as I have never heard of one.

I couldn't remember much about Stroud.There were alot of prisioners there,some famous, some not. Sorry it was just a SYFY-GE commercial. The place has a lot of history, going back to the Civil War and beyond.

They should have checked out the showers,since I heard Al Capone would sometimes go there and play his banjo.There was also the famous attempt at a prison break I think in the late 1930s or 1940s.

I first heard about it being haunted on Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, back in the 1980s, early 90s.If it was haunted before then, it just might be people didn't make a big deal about what was going on.Only here in recent years has all these paranormal shows really taken off.If my sister recorded it, I'll still watch the show, since I'll never get to go to the place.

jcarton said:

HollyDolly. If you read my post you would have seen you had to apply for tickets not just show up at the door. You had to fill out a form with your address and they mailed you a letter. From SyFy "Attendees: Printing out the web page will not grant you admission to this event.  You must have your printed confirmation letter to attend."

I am surprised you know nothing on Stroud since he was one of the most famous along with Capone and machine gun kelly and they made a well known but inaccurate movie about him.  http://www.alcatrazcruises.com/website/faqs-alcatraz-history.aspx

Sorry bout that.In regards to Stroud, i always thought he did his work on birds when in Alcatraz,and did not know he didn't die there.All I know is mainly from the movies, not from reading about him. I know more about Al Capone maybe, because everyone talks about Al. My late father grew up as a kid in Hot Springs,Arkansas in the 1920s and 30s before the family moved back to Milwaukee.When we visited his aunts there years ago, daddy would point out the hotel Al used to stay in and a few other things about him

and some of the other gangsters that would go there. My dad and Uncle Tom as kids were given dimes by John D.Rockerfeller during one of his visits there to Hot Springs. It apparently was a habit of his to do so, and it represented the first dime he ever made. I asked daddy if they saved them, and he said no.Instead they bought some candy  with them.

1. I never heard of Alcatraz being a haunted location

2. I am soooooooo glad I stopped watching 6 months ago.