Yep, been on the tour twice, nothing quite like it either.....During those tours, one can't help but think of the many incarcerated Villians/Felons who lived and died "On the Rock." The bowels of Hell IS Alcatraz, I'm not big into paranormal events, that being said, the place feels like its haunted beyond any other place I've been, enough to make your hair stand up. More so than Tombstone's-OK Corral, Dodge City or Boot Hill; (prior to the State of AZ moving the damn cemetery, no longer in its original location, not even close). Camping out in/at a very eerie deserted 'Bull Pasture,' (Geronimo's hiding grounds, as well as the Chirachau Apache Burial Grounds), located in Organ Pipe National Monument on the AZ/MX border. Now that place is wild, a very extreme a hike, with Cacti, on both sides of a very narrow jack rabbit like hiking path. Full of large Cacti of every sort, and huge Diamondbacks, make for an almost impossible hike up Mt. Ajo to access those burial grounds. Typically 130 degrees in Summer, starting around Sea level, up to 6,500 feet elevation, barely a path to walk thru to get to those burial grounds, without getting tagged by very large Cacti, or Snakes. The Apache's used Bull Pasture's extreme location and hard accessibility, to ride their horses through those tiny paths; and the Union Army/Calvary would back off, and not bother to even try to get to Bull Pasture. Joshua Tree National Monument has some eerie Indian Burial Grounds too. Shit, now I've twisted this subject, to Poltergeist, in lieu of street thugs getting their due.
Good for you Rob, I'm jealous, I've always wanted to visit historic places like tombstone & Alcatraz. Been to the Alamo twice. that's about it.
