Just 1.25 miles off the shore of San Francisco, an abandoned prison island with a macabre history of human suffering calls out to curious onlookers. Even before the famous Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was built in 1933, the island served as a military prison for unfortunate souls. Deep underneath the solitary confinement cells in "D-Block", there are dungeons decorated with the carvings of inmates gone mad one hundred years ago. Just how haunted is "The Rock"? Listen and find out!

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