The Untold Truth Of Whitey Bulger

Way before he rose to the top of Boston's mob, Bulger did a stint in Alcatraz after a conviction for armed robberies. He was there from 1959 to 1963, reports KQED News, and that's not weird. What is weird is that when he was on the run from the feds starting in the '90s, he went back. As a tourist.

He and a girlfriend (not the one he was ultimately captured with) even went on a tour, and then dressed up as inmates to take a behind-bars souvenir photo. The Telegraph says it's not clear when he was there, but he was known to have been in the San Francisco area in 1995.

Strangely, it's entirely possible he chose to go there out of a sense of nostalgia. He once said that if he were to write his own epitaph it would read, "I'd rather be in Alcatraz," and he spoke quite fondly of his time there.

He told Alcatraz historian Michael Esslinger (via Alcatraz History), "Looking back, Alcatraz was pretty good. ... Even though San Francisco was close, we always felt so far removed from everything. It was like we were on the dark side of the Moon. ... I'm sure that if men like Capone, Mickey Cohen, Joe Carnes, and Jack Twining were alive today, we would reminisce over coffee."

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