"Oops, it's a human head!" In 1962, in the Alcatraz Prison in the United States, the prison guards found that 3 prisoners had not gotten up for a long time, and angrily went to lift the quilt, but unexpectedly, a "human head" rolled to the ground, and was suddenly frightened. But in an instant, the prison guards also came back to their senses, and in this prison, which was called no one could escape, someone had escaped.
Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, 2.5 kilometers from the city, but Alcatraz Island is surrounded by water on all sides, the sea is very cold, and there are often sharks in the sea, and if you want to escape from the island by swimming, you will either be frozen to death or attacked by sharks.
The U.S. government valued the uniqueness of the island's location, and the crime rate in the United States continued to rise, and in 1934, the U.S. government built this prison here that no one could escape.
The United States has particular confidence in this prison, convinced that no one can escape from it. Therefore, the prisons are also held by notorious prisoners, and inmates who are not honest in other prisons will also be transferred here.
But no matter how strong the prison, there will be outlaws who will try to escape from prison, and since the prison was built, there have been 13 escapes. But this group of people were either arrested and returned in the process of escaping, or died on the way to escape, or sank into the sea, or froze to death, in short, none of them succeeded in escaping.
It wasn't until 1962 that the disappearance of three people punched the prison in the face and made the prison a laughingstock. It starts with four stinking prisoners.
Frank, as a teenager, engaged in dangerous criminal activities, drug trafficking, no evil. But it is said that this man has a lot of brains and is calm and decisive. He had previously escaped from other prisons several times before being transferred to Alcatraz Prison.
As soon as Frank arrived at Alcatraz Prison, he recruited two younger brothers, who were still brothers and often did bad things together. One was named John and the other was Clarence, and the brothers had multiple escapes.
There is also a major character, his name is Alan. He is said to have initiated the prison break operation and was also very intelligent and very interested in studying machinery. When he heard that Frank 3 had plans to escape from prison, he also joined the prison escape gang, but his next confused behavior caused him to fall behind at a critical moment.
The prisoners' cells were all single rooms, and in order to better implement the plan, they bribed the guards to apply for the four of them to be adjacent to each other's cells, and the management was overconfident and approved the application.
Each cell will have a sink for washing, and there will be a ventilation duct under the sink, and only the concrete around the ventilation duct needs to be cut open, which is a perfect exit to escape.
However, the control of tools in the prison is very strict, and the four of them can only use whatever they get at the beginning. For example, spoons, coins, nail clippers. But these tools are really too small and inefficient.
So Alan tried his best to steal a scrap vacuum cleaner and let him make an electric drill. I have to say that the people who can escape from prison are not ordinary people, either high IQ, or have technology.
But the electric drill is so big, how to use it? The stakes were also too high, and it didn't matter that they knew that prisons offered a facility.
Each night, the prison has an hour of free time, during which the prisoners are able to enjoy themselves and prepare many musical instruments for them. So one of them went to pick up the drill wall, while the others played with musical instruments and made a loud noise to mask the sound of the drill.
In this way, for more than a year, they dug out the escape holes separately, usually using wet newspapers to make a fake wall to cover up the holes in the wall, and also covered them with musical instruments, so they have not been found.
But after escaping from the prison building, how did you leave the island? Swimming is unrealistic, and you can't get a boat and don't want to leave alive.
Frank had already prepared for this question. Because there is a lot of rain on the island all year round, the prison will distribute raincoats to the prisoners, which is a very strong rubber raincoat, they collect a large number of raincoats, after putting together 50 pieces, cut and pieced together, and use the stolen glue to change it into a raft.
In order to delay the time, Frank used toilet paper to paste 4 heads in advance, planning to put them on their respective beds on the day of the prison escape, cover them with quilts, and pretend to be himself.
On the night of the escape, at the agreed time, Frank and the two brothers and three brothers all emerged from the cell and reached the roof, but the powerful Allen was delayed. These three people could not take any risks, but could only put the raft into the sea and set sail with their oars.
Where did Alan go? It turned out that when he dug the vent before, he dug too big, afraid of being seen by the prison guards, so he stole some cement to seal it, and when he wanted to leave, he dug very hard. By the time he dug up, Frank 3 had already left, and he had to go back to his cell.
That night, the prison guards patrolled many times, but did not see that the three people had disappeared. Until the next morning, all the prisoners got up, but Frank and the three did not get up.
The prison guard went to lift the quilt, was startled by the "human head" that rolled down, and after seeing clearly, he knew that the three people had escaped from prison. The police searched hard and found no trace of the three people. Later, abandoned rafts and boat pulp were found around the "Angel Island" 3 kilometers away, and the whereabouts of the three people became a mystery.
In 1963, two years after the disappearance of the three men, Alcatraz Prison was closed by the government, and now it has become a tourist attraction and film and television base. This real event has also become the material for many films and entered the public eye.
In 2006, the "Mythbusters" TV show focused on this mystery, they found the same rubber raincoat, glued into an inflatable raft, and launched from Alcatraz Island at night and followed the current towards the Golden Gate Bridge.
Although the whole process required constant blowing and scooping water, the adventurers managed to land around the Golden Gate Bridge. Later they thought that the three of them really had the potential to successfully escape from prison.
Now that this has happened for 60 years, if they are really alive, they will be more than 90 years old, but the rest of their lives should only be able to live in fear.
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