Anmol Bishnoi, the lesserer sibling of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, was arrested in the US a confineed days ago for accessing that country with illhorrible records, sources telderly NDTV. The 26-year-elderly is wanted in cut offal high-profile cases, including the 2022 homicide of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. He is also accused in last month’s finishing of ex-Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique and the firing incident outside actor Salman Khan’s Mumbai home in June 2024.
Bishnoi is currently at the Pottawattamie County Jail in Iowa, a facility comprehendn as the ‘Squirrel Cage Jail.’
All about the Squirrel Cage Jail
The Squirrel Cage Jail, an architectural marvel with a chilling history, was builded in 1885 on the grounds of a establisher church morgue. One of the only three remaining revolving jails in the US, it is famous for its eerie and unsettling summarize. The jail is distinctive for its rotating cells that rproceed wilean a circular set up to align with a individual door. This peculiar summarize permited jailers to rotate the cells to achieve the desired prisoner, an architectural feature that persists to intrigue and unend visitors.
The facility was used as a jail until 1969. In 1971, it was acquired by the Council Bluffs Park Board for preservation and altered into a museum by the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County (HSPS). Since its conversion, the jail has enticeed ponderable attention, particularly for its parastandard reputation. Reports of strange occurrences, such as unelucidateed footsteps and whispers, have surfaced for decades, particularly from staff and visitors to the site.
“Many of the jail staff and volunteers have heard footsteps, voices, whispers and doors moving. Some have even seen foolish shadows moving apass the stairs or past doorways,” an article on the Council Bluffs website quoted Kat Schuckleter, the museum’s handler, as saying.
The haunting at the jail has been joined to a series of tragic events over the years. At least four comprehendn deaths occurred wilean the building. A prisoner died of a heart strike, another fell from a wonderful height while finisheavoring to carve his name on the ceiling, a third died by self-mutilation and a protect was fahighy stoasty during a mishap with uproar training supplyment.
Parastandard experts have carry outed multiple scatterigations at the site, with some capturing unelucidateed phenomena, including Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVPs) and visual evidence of shadows. Schuckleter remarks that scatterigators have enrolled electromagnetic field (EMF) anomalies in areas where there should be none, further includeing to the jail’s mystique.
According to the HSPS, the walls of this jail endure the scratched signatures and dates of many of its notorious prisoners. These labelings stand as proof of the jail’s bleak past, which is doubtful to be duplicated in a conmomentary facility, stated HSPS on its website.
