Poveglia island

A Quarantine station for untreatable diseases , every inch of the island used for mass graves for people who suffered there untimely death from the disease known as the black death or as we know it as now the plague, however more recently it is known for being a mental hospital/institution.  The tiny island of Poveglia in venice  has served many unpleasant purposes over the years, and has more history and deaths then anyone could count and this is why it's so understandable for this island to be haunted by many restless souls.  Today it stands empty, a crumbling recollection of abandoned buildings and weeds run riot that used to be an island full of people. This island is situated just two miles from the glittering palaces of the Grand Canal. Urban legends, myths and rumors about Poveglia are very  pervasive as the weeds and the old buildings make an uncanny resemblance to something from a horror movie or story.   As we know if due to historians and other documentation many people were burned and buried there during the black plague that the soil has been measured to be at  50% human ash.  That is why local fishermen and other boat me will only take visitors and or paranormal investigators so far onto the island as a they fear if they do not read lightly the Yb would be haunted by the restless spirits of there ancestors. 

Stories go...
 
According to myths and rumours from the local people they believe a  psychiatrist who ran the mental hospital was a butcher. He also torchered many of the men and women who visited or stayed at the mental hospital. Many people say he eventually when mad himself  from the guilt and threw himself from the island's belltower, only to survive the fall and be strangled by a "ghostly mist" that emerged from the ground. Creepy!
Local people (Venetians)  have tryed to do what they can to tamp down overheated rumors about Poveglia however it's not that easy when famous shows such as ghost adventures and other popular paranormal investigating programs have experienced and documented some of the worse and at the same time beat experiences ever caught on film. The local people deny being frightened of the place (however we know that isn't exactly true). They also tend not to mention the plague pits or mental hospitals when being put into magazines for tourists to see.

Although it's an abandoned place it's rotting buildings and terrible history still make the island so mysterious and interesting because they still don't do tours for tourists or others without a good reason   health and safety of course.

The Roman's!....

According to legend, during Roman times it was used to isolate thousands of plague victims, and during the three occasions when the Black Death spread through Europe, the island was effectively used as a lazaretto and plague pit – it was considered an efficient way of keeping the infected people separated from the healthy. According to this version, over 160,000 people died on the island throughout its history.”

Some facts! You might not know!

-The island first came to be documented in 421 AD, when people from Padua and Este fled there to save themselves and there family's but also to escape the barbaric invasions. In the 9th century the island started to be intensely populated, and began to get over populated which led to the increase of black plague victims.  In the following centuries its importance grew steadily and became one of Venice's best place to live during that time, until it was governed by a dedicated
Podestà.”
- In 1777 the island came under the jurisdiction of the Magistrato alla Sanità (Public Health Office), and the island was a check point for all goods and people coming to and going from Venice by ship.

- In the year 1793, there were several cases of the plague on two ships, and consequently the island was transformed into a temporary confinement  and recovery station for the ill (Lazzaretto); this role became permanent in 1805, under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte.

-.Napoleon Bonaparte also had the old church of San Vitale destroyed (The old bell tower is one of the first things you see as you past the island)  than shortly after the old bell tower was converted into a lighthouse to help fisherman.

Most of you either have heard of ghost adventures or are fans of there program. The Ghost Adventures Crew are one of the only lucky paranormal teams who have manged to get permission to visit the island. I've watched this episode and find they have caught some of the best paranormal evidence I have ever seen.  Their episode on Poveglia island where the crew  basically stranded themselves there for 24 hours with out help.  I must say this episode is one of the only ones that has fully creeped me out to the maximum. The episode is full of perceived curses, apparitions, creepy music, weird energy, inexplicable equipment malfunctions, and off-the-charts ghost monitors. The crew had to even cut off part of the video due to the fact Zac might have been under some sort of possession. These Ghost Adventures Crew  trued there best to speak in  Italian to the ghosts who linger restlessly in the hall ways of the old buildings they asked questions like “are you a murderer?” and seemed to get responses from the dark abyss. Mysterious bangs, audible footsteps, disembodied voices and strange orbs are all captured on video and audio. As with most episodes of Ghost Adventures, people bashed the validity of their haunted claims. We’ll admit this shit looks scary but most things illuminated only by the green of a night-vision camera usually are. I will put the link below for this episode of Ghost Adventures!

Ghost Adventures episode:

https://youtu.be/2S6rF-CHeko

History of Poveglia island:
Link 1: https://youtu.be/IdWe3MpBOLE

Urban legends on Poveglia island:
https://youtu.be/IdWe3MpBOLE

Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed it!