'Alcatraz' Fans Look For Fictional Secret Room From Fox Series On Real-Life Tours

Fox's new drama "Alcatraz" may need to add a, "Don't try this at home" warning.

According to TMZ, some fans of the new TV sci-fi series are trying to stray from their guided tours of the former federal prison to find a secret room that only exists on the series.

National Parks Service rep Alexandra Picavet told TMZ that tourists are trying to sneak into "closed areas" and have confessed that they're looking for the "bat cave underneath Alcatraz," as the show's Diego Soto (played by "Lost" alum Jorge Garcia) refers to it.

Picavet added that they've now posted the following sign on the Rock: "The TV show 'Alcatraz' is fictional, many areas it depicts are not real. Closed areas protect you, historic structures and nesting birds."

"Alcatraz," executive produced by J.J. Abrams, has only been on for two weeks and though ratings haven't been stellar, they have been solid enough to a) apparently lead fans to break rules at the real-life Rock and b) give hope that the show isn't in danger of being canceled. The second episode of "Alcatraz," which aired earlier this week on Jan. 22, brought in 9 million viewers, which was about 90 percent of the audience from the previous week's two-hour premiere.

"Alcatraz," which stars Sam Neill and Sarah Jones in addition to Garcia, presents the story of 302 of the prison's most hardcore inmates and guards who vanished in 1963 and then start reappearing in the present. Having not aged a day, the resurfaced missing people seem to be on a mission that's unclear at this point.

Neill's Emerson Hauser, the secretive lead government investigator on the Rock case, spends a lot of his time in that aforementioned fictional bat cave. The actor told The Huffington Post that his character knows more than he does about that mysterious mission, but he's clear on his own: "My mission is to find those people and hunt them down."

And viewers of the show who head to the real-life Alcatraz should leave those mysteries to the experts, like Emerson.

Watch the mysteries unfold on "Alcatraz" on Mondays at 9 p.m. EST on Fox.

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Comments

[theveggiedude]

10:27 PM on 01/27/2012

It is a terribly uninteresting show, I expected something better.

[TitaniumAvatar]

12:55 PM on 01/27/2012

Are these fans the people recently returned from their fruitless search of the South Pacific for the island depicted in LOST?

[abigtuna]

11:28 AM on 01/27/2012

Weird theme of end justifies the means. the killers are actually victims of someones manipulation but are treated like animal. show plays like its written as they go.

[Mike Clark II]

09:59 AM on 01/27/2012

that is pretty good to make folks break free to see if things like this exist, but i do not think fox is marketing alcatraz right. look at fringe. that show is epic, and even though it has found a home on friday nights, it does not deserve to be there. alcatraz will be there soon, but i think they should both be on different nights. or at best, let them thrive on FX.

[Tydye2kube]

05:53 AM on 01/27/2012

why do we need pending approval for free speech?

[melanied0721]

04:55 AM on 01/27/2012

so i guess their fans aren't to smart

[JesseVentura2012]

06:56 PM on 01/30/2012

Smart enough to know which form of "too" to use.

[melanied0721]

07:03 PM on 01/30/2012

thanks "the body" for your concern with my speling

[clced]

04:07 AM on 01/27/2012

Running out of news ?

[lily008]

04:00 AM on 01/27/2012

wow who cares?

[daltrey7]

02:40 AM on 01/27/2012

I'm still amazed when people mistake scripted TV for actual reality! WOW.

[Mike Clark II]

10:00 AM on 01/27/2012

now that is true, but you have to be glad that more folks are going to alcatraz island... maybe they will learn more about the history of it and be intrigued instead of trying to break tour to find a room which was made in a studio! heh

[daltrey7]

02:31 AM on 01/28/2012

Good Point!!

[klavezo]

02:24 AM on 01/27/2012

Do you remember the old Batman TV show? Well the bat cave entrance was real and is still there near by the Hollywood sign. And the Lost Boys movie, the cave by the ocean was real but after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake it got caved in.

[FinalHorcrux]

02:20 AM on 01/27/2012

What is wrong with people these days?! After reading that I actually started at my computer screen and scoffed. How foolish!

[billywms]

02:04 AM on 01/27/2012

I thought this was about the prison.

[Ronald Ferreira]

01:33 AM on 01/27/2012

its just a movie it isent real most of these places are miles apart and modeld to look like the real thing i do this all the time

[jrsurferboy]

01:24 AM on 01/27/2012

wow! alcatraz is a real place? on a real island..

[tarzan322]

01:07 AM on 01/27/2012

There's a sucker born every minute! This is why people need to quit watching TV and educate themselves. Hollywood is entertainment, not reality.

[Miz Fit]

01:37 AM on 01/27/2012

They don't have to quit watching TV. They need to quite being stupid and educate themselves. That they believe what they see on TV isn't the fault of the TV.

[CouponSal]

01:48 AM on 01/27/2012

Hear, hear! I stumbled across the show last week and really enjoyed it. Excellent characters, well acted; I will enjoy spending time with them.