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access is prohibited by the authorities. Appearances, screams, no one comes to the island.
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A quarantine in a dump plague victims, most recently a mental hospital - Poveglia the small island in the Venetian Lagoon has unpleasant served many purposes over the years, but today it is empty, a collection a collapse of abandoned buildings and weeds unleash legends just two miles from the glittering palaces of the Grand Canal.
The legends and rumors about Poveglia are almost as ubiquitous as weeds, and its history is as a tale of terror: so many people burned and buried there during the black plague today its soil is 50% of human ash. Local fishermen do not come to the island for fear of human bone fishing. The psychiatrist who ran the hospital installed in the twentieth century was a torturer who went mad from guilt and jumped from the belfry of the island, just to survive the fall and be strangled by a "ghostly mist" that emerged from the earth.
According to the program called Ghost Adventures, the Venetians have done everything possible to quell rumors about Poveglia. Refuse to be afraid of the place and tend not to mention the plague pits or mental hospital, when talking about the history of the island, a recent article in Venice magazine said that dominate institutional ruins were only Poveglia a nursing home for the elderly.
Poveglia Island is located in the lakes of Venice, near the Lido. It was a small state, formerly a convent, but the plague that spread throughout the Middle Ages ended this island. Each infected, suspected to be or directly any died of plague was carried Poveglia. The dying mingled with the dead bodies that were thrown by the Venetian guards to huge pits that subsequently 'purified' by burning. During all subsequent great plagues did the same on the island, hence its nickname of the 'Isle of the Dead', it is estimated that over 1,000,000 human beings went and died there.
No boat approaches the island and tourism or fishing and not actually fish in the surrounding area because when they did were bones or human remains. Back in the early 30s of last century, in an attempt to re-run island, the Italians set up a health institution: it was a mental. Patients told ghost stories that touch the church bells at midnight, legends penetrated among the Venetians. Also the director of the asylum began experimenting with patients, as trepanning and lobotomy to pierce the brain, and with all kinds of torture. But the supposed ghosts that dwell in Poveglia also entered the mind of the director and in his madness was launched from the tower of the hospital. After this event the island was again empty and was closed until a wealthy family bought it. Even today they own but from afar since only lived for a day in which lived a strange event, they never wanted to reveal, but which his daughter was hurt and had to receive 14 stitches in his face. Currently only uses Poveglia family to plant their vineyards, but only for the day. All who go there leave frightened by the cries they hear and the strange atmosphere we breathe.
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