Our Story

Poveglia island : hunter island of Italy 

Suddenly, it will seem like a wonderful magical city is calling you by the hand. Seeing the blue water all around, your eyes will be dazzled. It seems that you have come to an island of imagination. It may seem as if someone is lightly touched by the sea breeze. But this island is known to everyone as a quiet island. If you go a little further from the island, you will be chased by the sound of wailing rather than the beauty of the island. There is an unknown panic and fear spread around. Any one wants to go to the island for fear.

Poveglia location 

It is as if thousands of years old tears are accumulated in the air in this island. Today's article is about the unknown story of how the island became cursed and haunted for everyone.

This island located between Venice and Lido in Italy. Located in the Lagoon St. Mark's Square, this island is known as 'Poveglia Venice' or Poveglia Island. The 17-acre island of Poveglia is surrounded by many ghost stories.

Read more : An Ideal father advice his son 

The first settlement was established on this island in 421 AD. The rulers were not strict in this island. The burden of taxes or the hassle of law courts was not that much. As a result, the inhabitants of the island continued to live happily and peacefully for several centuries. By the 9th century the population of the island was increasing and so was the importance of the island. At this time the island was under the Podesta rulers.

Beautiful Poveglia 

This island was a wonderful green land of natural beauty. And that is why a bloody war was fought between the Venetians and the Genoese in the 14th century for the possession of this island. A lot of cannons and gun shots were used in the war, the sound of which still echoes on the island in the thick darkness of the night. The people of the island began to leave the area. The Venetian government won the war that day.

Read more : from sex worker to famous screenwriter 

As the island became uninhabited, the Venetian government offered the monks of Camandlis to live on the island. But the monks rejected the proposal. Later, five octagonal canals were built around the island and the entrance to the island was guarded and controlled by soldiers.

1348 was a year of terror for the inhabitants of the island of Poveglia , this year of painful sighs. Because bubonic plague occurred in two ships anchored in the island at that time and two people infected with this disease died. But work,  workers and guests are not diverted here. Gradually the epidemic of plague spread to the surrounding areas. Hundreds of people started dying. After treatment failed, the port was finally sealed. Poveglia was depopulated.

Later, when the plague spread in the form of an epidemic in various Italian cities, the victims of the plague were sent to the uninhabited island of Poveglia. Patients wait for death on that deserted island. As a result, the island gradually became an evacuation center for infected patients.

Later, 160,000 people were burned alive on the island by a cruel order of the Italian government, worried about the increasing number of patients. Since then, thousands of skeletons of dead people spread around the island. Since then Poveglia has been known as Mritupuri or Island of Dead. The brutal incident of burning so many people alive at once made the island mysterious without everyone's knowledge. Many believe that the unsatisfied souls of those who died return to this island.

Read more : most mysterious area ;area 51

In the 20th century, the island was again organized to rescue ships, but the island did not become the same as before. Around 1922, the Italian government decided to build a psychiatric hospital in the area for mental patients. But it was not possible to keep the hospital open for a long time. Hospital doctors, nurses and other working people did not want to work in the hospital. After working for a few days, they would leave the hospital and go elsewhere.

Poveglia hospital Bed 

According to some doctors and nurses, they constantly get the feeling of someone invisible. Every moment, panic and fear were working in their minds. They were reluctant to work in such a physical environment. Also, hospitalized mental patients tend to become deranged instead of recovering.

According to local folk, the unsatisfied souls of those who died in the plague still roam the island. The sound of their sighs keeps ringing in people's minds. Many people believe that these spirits cannot accept the dominance of others. One by one, everyone from patients to staff started acting crazy.

Poveglia hospital seen 

This belief of the people became stronger when the director of the hospital became insane and committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the hospital itself. As a result, it was not possible to run that hospital on the island for a long time. After 1968, the Italian government closed this mental hospital on the island. The deserted island becomes the center of an even more thrilling story.

After that, this deserted island was closed to tourists. Although the island has been closed for a long time, an American presenter came to visit the island. He created a thriller series for American television about the island and the Forbidden Hospital, in which he portrayed many terrifying ghostly experiences on the island.

Read more : Vlad the impeller : real Dracula 

Now the deserted island consists of only a monastery and cowshed. And there are invisible unsatisfied souls. No more ships come to this island. Italy's tourism authorities have still banned travel to the island. If one wishes to travel to this island, he has to take permission from the appropriate authorities. It is a huge preparation.

The abandoned hospital on the island began to spread strange horror stories. The accumulated cries of countless people over the centuries echo forever around the lonely, silent island of Poveglia. In the forest, on the road, here and there are the skeletons of dead people. Looking at the island of Poveglia from far away in the night, the captain of the burning ship also trembled. A question that arouses fear in everyone's mind - who lives there?

Deserted Death Island calls out to all who come around. Who will go there?