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Spanish explorers named it La Isla de los Alcatraces, Island of Pelicans. The isle's history is as tragic as its ghosts.

From voices, to footsteps, to the appearance of apparitions, Alcatraz is considered a very haunted location.

Battlefields are not the only haunts of ghosts of the military and wars. Bases are also haunted. Ft. Monroe is home to famous and unknown ghosts.

This US immigration processing center for 62 years was the scene of many tragedies. Its Great Hall is a place where voices of the dead and other sounds are heard.

According to accounts Connecticut's New London Ledge Lighthouse's haunter is believed to have killed himself. Since the tragedy, there have been paranormal phenomena.

The prison was an experiment to reform criminals. Inmates were held in solitary confinement, sometimes leading to insanity. Phantom sounds and shapes are heard and seen.

Although the island had a reputation of being haunted, the official verdict was that the men were swept away by an enormous wave caused by a fierce storm. Were they?

Why was this wife of a captured Confederate Army lieutenant who was imprisoned in Fort Warren executed? Why does her specter wear black?

Leavenworth is the oldest continuously operating post west of the Mississippi River and considered the most haunted. Hosts of ghost include civilians and the military.

Molly Maguire Alexander Campbell, convicted of murder, was executed. He maintained his innocence, leaving his handprint as proof in the Carbon County Prison.

Eerie noises include gunshots, marching, voices talking and moaning. Specters of both armies have been sighted. There is an unearthly putrid stench.