Anmol Bishnoi, the younger brother of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, was arrested a few days ago in the US for entering the country with illegal documents. 26-year-old Anmol Bishnoi is wanted in several high-profile cases, including the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in 2022. 

Anmol is also accused in the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui last month and the shootout outside actor Salman Khan's Mumbai home in June 2024. He is currently in the Pottawattamie County Jail in Iowa, popularly known as the 'Squirrel Cage Jail'.

History of the 'Squirrel Cage Jail'

Squirrel Cage Jail was built in 1885 and it is a very scary jail because it is built in the grounds of an old church morgue. This US jail is also built for tourists, which is famous for its horrifying and disturbing design. This jail is also scary because the cells that keep the prisoners rotate. They are built in a circular shape and there is only one door to enter it. Due to the strange and curved design of the jail, the jailer is able to rotate their cells to reach a prisoner. The scariest thing about this jail is that it not only attracts people towards itself but also keeps troubling them.

Strange events keep happening

This place was used as a jail until 1969. After this, in 1971, it was acquired by the Council Bluffs Park Board and the Pottawattamie County (HSPS) Society converted it into a museum. Even though the jail was converted into a museum, strange events often occurred here. The employees and tourists who came to visit the place often saw someone's footprints and also heard someone's whispers.

'Whispers and door shaking heard several times'

An article on the Council Bluffs website quoted museum manager Kat Slaughter as saying, "Several prison staff and volunteers have reported hearing footsteps, voices, whispers, and doors shaking. Some have even seen dark shadows in stairwells and across doorways." 

Four deaths related to ghosts

The prison's hauntings have been linked to a number of tragic events over the years. There have been at least four deaths within the building. One inmate died of a heart attack, another fell from a great height while trying to carve his name on the ceiling, a third died by suicide, and a guard was shot and killed during an accident with riot training equipment. 

Paranormal experts also found evidence

Paranormal experts have conducted numerous investigations at the site, some of which have captured unexplained phenomena, including electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and visual evidence of shadows. Slaughter noted that investigators have recorded electromagnetic field (EMF) anomalies in areas where there should be none, which further adds to the prison's mystery. According to HSPS, the prison's walls feature the scratched signatures and dates of many of its most notorious inmates. HSPS said on its website that these markings are evidence of the prison's horrific past, which is unlikely to be repeated in a modern facility.