
6 episodesabout 2 min each
Alcatraz 1962: Spoons. Dummies. Open Water.
Three men vanished from their cells one June night in 1962 and were never seen again.
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- Episode 5: The One Door Six Armed Men Could Not Open A mistaken boat ride gives way to Alcatraz's most violent escape attempt, stopped by one missing key.
- Episode 6: The Man Who Turned Back in the Bay With doors proving as deadly as walls, prisoners gamble on the water surrounding Alcatraz and discover its brutal cost.
- Episode 8: The Heads Made with Human Hair The escapees bypass the corridor's locked doors by climbing upward while grotesque handmade faces guard their beds.
- Episode 9: The Raft Made from Prison Raincoats Once the dummy faces are exposed, investigators reconstruct a rooftop flight leading to a homemade raft and the open Bay.
- Episode 10: Fifty Virtual Boats Every Thirty Minutes An unidentified body and decades of investigation give way to a modern experiment that discovers a narrow path to land.
- Episode 11: The 11:30 Escape That Proved Nothing The best scientific route offers a plausible landing but cannot answer whether the three vanished men ever reached it.
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