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The Island No One Can Visit: The Haunting of Poveglia Island
Poveglia Island has a history of war, plaque, and tortured patients, leading to 90% of the island consisting of human remains.
Welcome to Grace Benson Investigates. If you are new here, I am Grace, and I’m glad you found your way into my little corner of the internet. I talk about all things true crime, history, and paranormal events. Grab your coffee, a snack, and settle into another case. Today is Wednesday, so that means it is Freaky Friday. Today’s case is about the Poveglia Island, which is said to be severely haunted, from a war zone to a plague quarantine to a hospital for the mentally ill. Without further ado, let’s go to Italy, where this terrifying island remains to this very day.
Off the coast of Italy, an island remains abandoned in the Venetian Lagoon. This is commonly called Plague Island. This is because people with the plague in the 1300s were brought to the island to quarantine. A lot of these individuals were in bad shape, but many were already dead. They were brought to the island to basically die. Unfortunately, that is not even half of the darkness that filled the island. There are rumors of hauntings so bad that no one lives there, and tourists are not allowed.
