Each year, more than one million people make the trek to Alcatraz Island to visit the site of the prison that was home to some of America’s most hardened criminals. However, it recently got an unexpected visitor courtesy of what is believed to be the first coyote to arrive on the island.
The United States military established a fort on San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island in the 1850s. In 1934, it officially welcomed the first batch of prisoners who were sent to what was officially known as “Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary,” the supposedly escape-proof prison that housed notable names including Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, and Machine Gun Kelly.
In 1962, three men became the first (and only) prisoners to escape from “The Rock” after tunneling out of their cells and making their way into San Francisco Bay on a makeshift raft. They were never found, and while there’s a chance they survived the approximately 1.25-mile journey to the shores of San Francisco, authorities believed they drowned before they arrived…