Welcome back to Cheers to Fears! We hope you had a chance to rewind and listen to some of our earlier episodes that you may have not listened to originally. We're back with episode 35 and this one has the best of both worlds. Alena starts off with a place that Charles Dickens dubbed "the worst prison on Earth", and it even scarred the tough crime kingpin Al Capone during his stay. The Eastern State Penitentiary's solitary confinement layout made it impossible for any prisoner to make a sound and while its purpose was to reform criminals, there was a lot of torture that went on behind the tall walls. From tongues being ripped out, to a place called The Hole, an underground cellblock that the worst prisoners we confined to, this place was basically hell. Tune in to listen about a place that was so awful it was shut down and the entire solitary confinement plan was never repeated. Ashley gives us a lot of information on Heaven's Gate. If this sounds familiar, it's because this cult was so weird that it involved aliens, religion and a lot of strict rules for its followers. Somehow, the leaders, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles convinced a bunch of random people to dress the same, give up all their belongings, and eventually commit mass suicide. Listen in to learn how charismatic you have to be to get a lot of people to believe in something that seems so ridiculous to most people.