Case file · Folklore / legend

The Tunnels of Moose Jaw and Al Capone

Tunnels beneath Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, were used in the 1920s by bootleggers; local legend says Al Capone hid there during Prohibition.

1920 CE · 50.39, -105.53 · status: claim

The sceptical view

No document places Capone in Moose Jaw; historians treat the story as tourism folklore.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Tunnels of Moose Jaw
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