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Day 340 -> Poveglia

4/25/2014

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Poveglia's haunted mental hospital (Image found on Google)
     Pretend for a moment that you are a millionaire - or, if you are, consider your current financial situation. Now imagine you came across an advertisement to buy an island called Poveglia, in Italy. Sounds good, right? But what if I told you that that's the most haunted island in the world? Would you buy it anyway?
     True story, dear readers. Turns out that the island of Poveglia is actually for sale and it's claimed to be very very haunted. Although it is in one of the most popular tourism locations in the world, between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, Poveglia rarely sees any visitors. This now uninhabited 17-acre piece of dry land was used in the past as a dumping ground for plague dying victims. And, not so long ago, it was home to a mental hospital run by a cruel doctor who performed lobotomies on patients with crude tools like hand drills, chisels, and hammers. Oh, yeah, and he later threw himself from the hospital tower after claiming he'd been driven mad by ghosts. Iaiks. No wonder it is said to be haunted by tens of thousands of tortured spirits!
     The island has remained closed to visitors in recent years with access strictly restricted by the Italian government, but now they are offering this macabre location (sometimes described as "island of madness" and "hell") for sale in a bid to reduce the country’s  public debt.
     Given its fame, the island has become a draw for supernatural investigators searching for signs of the rumoured spirits, the most famous of which is a plague victim called Little Maria, who it is claimed stands crying looking out across the lagoon towards her home.
     So far, it seems that the main plan for the decrepit building is to transform it into a luxury hotel, though a group of architects and planners have launched a campaign to buy the island in a bid to stop the further privatisation of the lagoon.
~Ally
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