Poveglia - The island rumored to have the most ghosts in the world

Poveglia Island. Address: Located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian lagoon, Northern Italy.

Poveglia is favored by the folk as the 'world's most ghostly island' - a place where even researchers of psychic phenomena feel terrified when visiting. It is not an exaggeration to say that Poveglia is the scariest island on Earth!

The special thing is that it is only about 15km from Venice, but Poveglia is abandoned, with many rumors.

The small island is only 6 hectares wide, but the northern part is still completely deserted even though it is a prime location for commercial tourism activities. The people here firmly assured us that even if they gave us gold, silver, and jewels, they would not dare to stay, let alone earnestly and passionately restore and renovate the abandoned architectural works there.

It's hard to blame them because right from the moment we set foot on the island, we felt the atmosphere here was colder than usual with the feeling of shortness of breath, heaviness dragging with every step, this place must have brought in It is very painful throughout the long history of existence.

Since 421, the ancient Italians had fled to Poveglia to seek refuge from barbaric invasions. It was later said that the Roman Empire used the island as a mass grave for anyone suffering from an infectious disease at that time.

Only later, when the population began to shrink, this place was a bloody battle point in the Italian civil war and was then used as an area to isolate thousands of people infected with the plague in the first half of the century. 16.

Poveglia is the quarantine station and grave of more than 160,000 people infected with the plague. Therefore, there are many rumors that 50% of the land here contains human remains.

People here say that sometimes they can still hear the pitiful screams of people being burned alive even though they have just had a mild fever but have not yet developed an illness.

More than 160,000 people suspected of being infected with bubonic plague were herded here and burned to death during a dark period in Italian history. But the series of tragedies on this beautiful little island is not over yet. The scariest place to mention is the abandoned mental hospital.

When the mental hospital of the same name was built, a mad doctor conducted crazy experiments on the bell tower area. Their anguished screams echoed throughout the small island. 
A corner of "haunted hospital".

Rumor has it that this mad doctor eventually committed suicide right at the bell tower where he tortured his patients, amid the anger and screams of the unjust souls trapped there. To this day, people here still sometimes hear ghost screams somewhere.

Currently, that haunted hospital has been abandoned but is forbidden to visit, making many people even more suspicious that this is an act to protect us from paranormal phenomena that are not for the faint of heart. ?