On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true: A former Alcatraz ...

Alcatraz Island is most well known for its prison, that housed notorious inmates such as Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone. What may surprise you is that Alcatraz has a long and storied history, playing ...

Host and creator Richard MacLean Smith’s “Unexplained” podcast has kept me company on many a hike lately. His tales run the ...

It’s thanks to an ingenious escape attempt in 1962 by Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers that most people have forgotten ...