Plague Island, Italy

🇬🇧 Poveglia is one of the most famous islands in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is said to have been used as a place of exile for plague victims since Roman times, with as many as 160,000 people buried there. The souls of many of the dead supposedly returned to the place as ghosts; they now occupy every corner of the island. The place’s dark history is compounded by stories of terrible experiments which were apparently carried out on patients at the psychiatric clinic that was built there. As a result, some paranormal investigators consider the island to be one of the most terrifying locations on the planet.

🇮🇹 Poveglia è un’isoletta situata nella Laguna Veneta, vicino a Venezia. Essa venne utilizzata come lazzaretto per almeno 160.000 persone affette dalla peste dal 1793 al 1814. Sono state trovate molte fosse comuni insieme alle tante vittime della peste. In quest’isola venne anche Napoleone che la usò come deposito armi. Inoltre, dal 1922 al 1968 vi era un istituto mentale in cui si diceva che un dottore torturasse e uccidesse molti dei suoi pazienti.