Past on the 'Island of the Dead'

The small western island of Canada is not as peaceful as its appearance but contains many equally scary events called its "Dead Island".

Mysterious little island in the extreme west of Canada

South of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a small island but visitors to nearby Stanley Park are almost unaware of its existence. Behind the island's calm appearance is a dark and violent past since Europeans settled. The first indigenous people here simply called it "island" , but after a series of events, it was more frightening than "Island of the dead".

Island people died in the 1990s. (Photo: Mysterious Unniverse).

In the Mysterious Universe, the land was first tinged with blood when the Salish aborigines in the north and the south slaughtered each other. In a fierce battle, the southern tribe kidnapped 200 women, children, old people, locked them on the island and demanded to exchange for 200 soldiers on the enemy's side.

When the northern tribe agreed to hand over the 200 most elite warriors, they immediately slaughtered them all with knives and arrows. According to indigenous legend, after that day, fire flowers sprouted at the place where the dead fell. Given that this place was cursed by magic, the southern tribe had to abandon this land.

Since then, the island is known as the Island of the Dead. The people see it as a land of forgotten dead people, only suitable for burial. The Squamish put the body in the cedar wood coffin, so hang on the old trees.

Years later, wooden coffins were settled by John Morton, who belonged to the first group of white people, discovered in 1862. He found hundreds of rotting wooden boxes hanging on trees that looked like scary decorations scary. Some corpses even fell and decomposed, causing the ground to be covered with bones, skulls and tangled hair. Later, settlers from Europe moved wooden boxes to bury in nearby Lumberman's Arch cemetery according to the custom of white people.

The island of the dead today.(Photo: Mysterious Universe).

Although he stopped hanging coffins on the trees, Island of the dead was still a place for burial . Beginning in the 1870s, the island became a cemetery for sailors, workers killed in the construction of the Canadian-Pacific railway, 21 victims in a massive fire in 1886 and the subject was not eligible. for better burial in the surrounding area, including wandering people, outlaw, prostitutes, social outcasts and manual labor.

In 1888 - 1892, smallpox attacked the area and the island became a place to monitor patients. Although ostensibly a special residence area for patients, at the time, the infected were regarded as mobile corpses. Many people died because the disease was buried on the island instead of sailing to bring the body to the burial site on the mainland.

Rumors of ghosts on the island do not prevent entrepreneurs from trying to get the island and turn it into a amusement park, entertainment area, resort, or museum or memorial, but there are no plans. become reality. In 1942, the government assigned the island to the Royal Canadian Navy to serve as a base named HMCS Discovery .

Since the construction of the base in 1944, naval officers and reserve officers at HMCS Discovery base discovered many strange things like unusual sounds like broken glass, moved furniture, voices, voices. shouting, walking and chanting. Personal belongings constantly disappear and appear far away from where they are while lights and electrical equipment often turn on / off. This is just one of many unexplained mysteries on the Island of the Dead, causing many to believe that the island is haunted.

Today, the Dead Island is mainly for the operation of HMCS Discovery base. In addition, on the island there is a ferry port to receive boats from the mainland, a marine museum and a monument to aboriginal heritage.