Prisoners in cell 14D were kept in solitary confinement The conditions were horrible As the story goes sometime in the 1940s a prisoner was locked in the cell He began screaming for help He said a monster was in the cell with him The guards ignored his cries They thought he was making it up By morning he was dead Many people believe his spirit is doomed to stay there AL CAPONE Famous criminal Al Capone was kept at Alcatraz He was a gangster in Chicago The guards let him play his banjo while locked up According to some visitors you can still hear the music today 6 Visitors can take a ferry to the island to tour this famous prison
42 Number of cells in cellblock D. Cell 14D had no furniture It didn't even have a toilet One nickname for cell 14D was The Hole Visitors say that cell 14D is about 20 degrees Fahrenheit 11 degrees Celsius colder than the rest of the prison Al Capone spent five years in Alcatraz in the 1930s
2 Girl's Spirit Haunts the Island of Dolls Some haunted places look like normal houses or buildings Others give people chills the second they see them The Island of Dolls is one such place Located near Mexico City Mexico this small island is covered by hundreds of dolls These former toys have seen better days They hang from the trees Some are missing limbs The first doll came after the island's caretaker found the body of a dead girl She had washed up on shore A doll appeared not long later Feeling sorry for the dead girl the man hung the doll in the trees He wanted to make her spirit happy Over time he added more dolls Whenever he found a discarded doll he'd hang it up He kept doing it until his death Many people believe that the girl's spirit haunts the island She stays and plays with the dolls Some visitors 80
9 THINK ABOUT IT Compare this story to another one in this book Which one sounds more believable Why Some dolls on the island seem to stare right at you
