Creepiest island in the Adriatic: The sick waited for death alone, their bones are everywhere, and ghosts are circling around and seek justice (VIDEO)

This small isolated island of extremely turbulent and gruesome history is situated between Venice and Lido in the Venetian lagoon and for decades it attracted the attention of ghost hunters and similar paranormal phenomena, but it is also interesting to all of those with strong stomach with an interest in neglected parts of the world.

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Povelja (Poveglia) was once home to more than 160 thousand infected people who were left waiting and sentenced to death on an isolated island. It served as a quarantine for so long that there are many rumors that 50% of the ground it self is made from human remains - and they were proven recently.

The archaeologists have discovered a mass grave there and in it were found remains of human victims infected with the plague, and the tombs of colossal proportions and they were found on nearby islands Lazareto Lazareto Vecchio and Nuovo.

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Island Povelja itself was first mentioned in chronicles in year 421, when people from Padua and Este found refuge from barbaric invasions. In the ninth century, the population of the island began to grow, as well as its importance.

When in 1379 Venice was attacked by Genoese fleet, the people of the island were moved to Guedika, and the island remained uninhabited. Duge in 1527 offered the island to Camaldolese, but they rejected it. From 1645 onwards the Venetian government built five octagonal fortress to protect and control the entrance of the lagoon, and the octagon on the Povelja is one of the remaining four, which still exists today.

Island in 1776 came under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Health (Magistrato alla Sanita) and has become a control point for all people and goods that came and went by boat from Venice. There have been several cases of plague in two ships in 1793 and has been transformed into the island of quarantine for patients with plague or a temporary isolation cell for the sick. This role will become permanent in 1805 with the proclamation of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the hospital was closed 1814.

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But the island resumed its function of quarantine in 20 century, but in slightly different shape. In 1922, the existing buildings have been converted into an asylum for the mentally ill and those in need of long-term care.

There are many rumors that experiments were conducted there and performed lobotomies on patients. Doctors who performed them was allegedly haunted by ghosts of the patients whose lives he destroyed, and there are writings how he committed suicide throwing himself off of hospital tower.

The hospital was finally closed in 1968, and the island was completely abandoned. There have been investigations several times dealing with paranormal phenomena, and it became a dark location of an action novels under "Are you alive", in which girls and a boy suffering from plague are trying to escape from it.

Unusual island with a mysterious history is presented in the show "Adventures with spirits" and "scariest place on earth." Today, this island is just one of many places that are prohibited to the visitors because of the terrible and dark past.

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(Telegraf.co.uk)