Poveglia, Italy - Haunted Island

TimahMulia

Poveglia - The Scariest Island Ever!                                                  "Povegliais a small island floating in the lagoons of Venice. In stark contrastto the beauty of its surroundings, the island is a festering blemish.The waves reluctantly lapping its darkened shores will often carry awaythe polished remains of human bones. When the first outbreak of bubonic plague swept through Europe, the number of dead and dying in the city of Venicebecame unbearable. The bodies were piling up, the stench wasoppressive, and something had to be done. The local authorities decidedto use Poveglia as a dumping ground for the diseased bodies.

The dead were hauled to the island and dumped in large pits or burnedon huge bonfires. As the plague tightened its grip, people panicked,and those showing the slightest symptoms of the Black Death weredragged screaming from their homes. These living victims, includingchildren and babies, were taken to the island and thrown into the pitsof rotting corpses, where they were left to die in agony. As many as160,00 tormented bodies were disposed of over the years."

TimahMulia

main cut and paste je...
kita kongsi ok..

The island known by Venetians as the place of no return.


(Image by author 1997)

Welcome to the island of no return. The place is known as Poveglia, and to local Venetians, many believe that the island is almost a living, breathing, evil entity. While the island is beautiful by day, many are fearful to enter at night.

About five miles of the coast of Italy is an island that sits much like Alcatraz. More than 100,000 people have perished here. With that many deaths, the souls have nowhere to be free but here.

As you walk through much of the trails, it seems as if the trees are consuming your world. For whatever reason, it’s as if the earth wants to consume you and take you with it. Many Venetians are fearful of speaking about such a place. The atmosphere is very much suffocating, and at times you feel as if you’re unwanted.

The Peste Nera, or “Black Death consumed much of Europe during the 13th century. More than one third of Venice’s population was decimated by it. Within five days, many victims were dead. The bodies began to pile up in the streets. The swollen decay of the dying would be bricked up within their own homes. Anyone who tried to escape would be murdered on the spot.
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Victims would be buried in graves called Plague Pits. So many victims began to pile up, that many were hauled into pits, some while still alive. They would then be burned. Since there were so many victims, the solution was to bring the victims to the island of Poveglia.

People were taking against their will. Some alive, some dead. The living were amongst the dead, and even if they were healthy, one would soon die. Because of the piles of dead, many Venetians believed that the dead reached all the way to hell.

Without proper burials, the spirits of these lost souls still linger. Many Venetians are respectful of the dead, and will usually not step foot on this island. In fact, many refuse to go here. Even to ask a Venetian to take you to the island, they not only look at you as if you’re mad, but almost with curiosity. The waters surrounding the island still dredges up the bones of the dead by fishermen.

To make matters worse, a hospital was built on the island for the ill in 1922. The doctor of the hospital performed cruel experiments on the patients because they began to see the dead. The doctor was then pushed from the top of the bell tower by unseen hands. Going by at night, you can actually hear that bell tower toll, though not a single soul is on the creepy land of death.

To step foot on the island is to bring fear to your senses. You walk amongst ash, or what many believe to be human ash. You feel breaths upon your neck; feel your hair stand on end. And at times you often wonder if that’s really screaming that you hear. You also feel an impending danger, and a need to get off the island. At one point you see moving shadows that make you wonder, ”Did I just see that? I sure enough did, and now I need to change my soiled pants.” Needless to say, to go to that place takes immense cojones, and a reserve. You may not believe in ghosts, but there is something about the island that is unnerving and will make you believe in something.

liyamariska

tgk gambar pun cam spooky jer...

sarah_ary2

Cantik sangat tapi macam menyimpan seribu rahsia....

sarah_ary2

Cantik sangat tapi macam menyimpan seribu rahsia....

sepaileman

salam cik timah

sebeolehnya jika copy n paste boleh tak cik timah beri kredit kepada tuan punya artikel tu contohnya nama website ke nama tuan punya artikel ke dan lebih bagus kalau sertakan link sekali

terima kasih

chicmushroom

TimahMulia

Reply 6# sepaileman

thx atas peringatan..
tak penah lah pulak copy n paste,
so kak tim tak aware benda tu..

chicmushroom

chicmushroom

chicmushroom

sepaileman

Reply 8# TimahMulia

sesame

bukan apa kalau kita main ambil je tak beri kredit tuan asal apa apa je dlm internet ni seolahnya kita mencuri

chicmushroom

TT,
aku rajin tepek gambo ini hari...
buleh ye aku semakkn gambo2 kt umah ko ni...

sepaileman

pehhh terer betul penangkap gambar tu

mcm gambar tu hidup je laa tambah dengan suasana dan gambar hitam putih tu

TimahMulia

Reply 12# sepaileman

jgn lah samakan kak tim dgn mencuri pulak..
kak tim saje nak kongsi2 tentang ini,
rugi rasanya tahu sorang..kan?

zad78

awww so scary nokss

edee_91

TT, aku da bace article ni, tapi maybe aku terlepas pandang la, kat negara mana wujudnye pulau ni? malas nak bace balik...

edee_91

eh, takpe2.. da nampak da. kat italy.

rattata

suka2...jadikn amalan membaca budaya kita.. (tiba-tiba...)

BSundayB

korang kena download Ghost Adventures...

diaorg ada lock temselves in this building and provoked the spirits... seram woo...