| Alphonse Capone is one of the most notorious | | | | Capone received a Banjo from his wife and played it |
| Gangsters in the history of organized crime in the | | | | all day in his cell. He stopped eating and talking and |
| United States. He was born in 1899 in the Park Slope | | | | spent the last portion of his sentence in the hospital |
| section of Brooklyn, New York where he completed | | | | ward due to treatments for syphilis. Al was never the |
| school up until only the 6th grade. Al was an Italian | | | | same after he was released, and was considered to |
| American, having family from Naples and Salerno in | | | | have gone nuts. He then died in 1947 at his house in |
| Italy. After dropping out of school he joined different | | | | Florida. Prison guards at Alcatraz have reported that |
| gangs and eventually became apart the infamous Five | | | | after his death they could still here the sound of a |
| Points Gang. He was heavily influenced by gangster | | | | banjo playing from Capone's old cell. Also, Capone had |
| Johnny Torrio to get involved in organized crime. | | | | complained non-stop that a ghost was haunting him. He |
| Eventually, this would be the reason why he would | | | | said the ghost was James Clark, whom was one of |
| move to Chicago around 1920. Torrio took an | | | | the victim's of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. |
| operation in Cicero, Illinois around that time and invited | | | | Could the ghost of James Clark be the reason why Al |
| Al to join him. | | | | went crazy, or could this just be a simple manifestation |
| From then on, Capone became the king of Chicago, | | | | of guilt created in his mind? It is said that he even had |
| and basically controlled the city during the Prohibition | | | | contacted a psychic to rid the spirit away from him. |
| Era. His most famous and brilliant move as a Gangster | | | | We'll never know whether or not Capone was |
| was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, where he | | | | haunted towards the end of his life, but I think we all |
| eliminated all of his enemies in 1929. No one was able | | | | can infer that he must have a truly restless spirit and |
| to take down Capone until Elliot Ness and his | | | | could certainly be roaming on the earth to this day. He |
| untouchables came and got him on charges of tax | | | | has gone down in history as one of the most evil men |
| evasion for 11 years in prison. He was originally sent to | | | | to ever live, responsible for the deaths of over 500 |
| a federal prison in Atlanta, and then two years later he | | | | people. I'd say its very possible if you walk around the |
| was transferred into Alcatraz. It is said that Capone did | | | | streets of Chicago and go to the gravestone of Al |
| not adjust well to Alcatraz at all, and it completely | | | | Capone in Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, that |
| broke him down to the point of insanity. | | | | you just might see, sense, or feel his presence. |