Are there such things as ghosts? Do you believe there are frightful, haunted places? Places with bad history where strange and terrible things have happened.
In Italy there is a small isolated island in the Venetian Lagoon called Poveglia. This island has a very dark and sad history. At first the island was used as a dumping ground for thousands of plague victims during the three times in history when the black plague spread throughout Europe. Terrified of the black death the officials of Venice tried to isolate anyone that showed symptoms by sending them to this island. Here they would all meet a faith not even imaginable. It is said that more than 160 000 human beings died there during these sad times. To this day fishermen are said to avoid the waters near the island because of the chance of catching human remains in their nets.
As if this wasn’t enough, in 1922 a psychiatric hospital was built on the island and patients located to this hospital soon reported seeing ghosts and hearing terrible sounds and screams. As if it was from a bad horror movie, the doctor in charge started to carry out strange medical experiments on the patients trying to find the origin of these strange experiences. In the end the doctor himself went mad and died throwing himself off the hospital bell tower.
The hospital has since then been abandoned and the island remains under watchment from the coastal guards to deter any visitors from making a bizarre tourism attraction of it’s dark past.
Sources: gassia.com, wikipedia among others.
Interesting and a horrible story.
this place should be visisted by a goup of shamans
Thanks GreyShaman.
It’s really a strange story.
Here reality is stranger than fiction :-\
hello, i was wondering if someone could get ghost hunters to come on the island to check it out?, to see if theyu can find ghosts.
If you read about the crew’s experiences from “Scariest Places on Earth” who filmed there, even stranger evidence exists. Pictures show stacked chairs, mist, fluid on walls which later was lab tested and identified as blood, a proliferation of scorpions, and much more. Truly an interesting spot. Too bad the place is declared off-limits by the local government as it seems to beg for more investigation…
Hi, I just contacted the case manager at TAPS to see if we can get the Ghost Hunters to investigate here. There would have to be some decent evidence at a place with such a dark and gruesome past. It will be interesting to see if they can go there. I’m sure with their resources though, they have probably heard of this island, and there is probably a good chance that once they heard about it, they would immediately want to go there. So, maybe they weren’t allowed?