PLAGUE Quarantine Island Abandoned in Italy

Poveglia Island is known as one of the darkest places in the whole world. This small island is located near Venice in Italy has seen decades of suffering and death.

A quarantine for plague victims, an asylum for the mentally ill, and finally an end of life hospital for the elderly.

Abandoned and left to decay since 1968, the whole island has been consumed by overgrowth and its crumbling buildings still hold rusty reminders of its past.

It’s said during its time as an asylum, a corrupt doctor was performing crude lobotomies on patients. He eventually claimed he was being driven insane by ghosts and jumped from the islands infamous bell tower.

A large part of the island, known as the burning fields, was used to bury and burn the bodies of plague victims, pits full of bones remain to this day and the ash from the fires is ingrained in the buildings and soil.

We venture through whats left to discover what secrets still linger on Poveglia island today…

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