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Venice is a city on one hundred twenty-two islands, whose quarters separated not by avenues and streets, but by elegant canals, and connected bridges with amazing construction. it monument city, legend city, fairy tale city. However among this magical paradise there is truly a devilish place – island Povela.
Island of victims of bubonic plague
Povela Island in Italy began to be actively settled in the ninth centuries and for more than six centuries flourished. However in the end of the sixteenth century, Italy was swept by the bubonic plague. And when on so many fetid corpses accumulated on the streets of Venice that they were not known where to go, it was decided to take them to the island of Povele. Moreover soon not only corpses, but also living people began to be sent here – plague infected.
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On the island they were burned at huge bonfires along with corpses or just left to die in torment. Almost was ruined two hundred thousand people – restless souls, who later turned the island of Powell into a real nightmare. No coincidence at the end seventeenth century when the descendants of the inhabitants of the island were offered to restore the lost settlement, they flatly refused it do…
Povelia Island – for the mentally ill
Almost until 1922, Povele remained an uninhabited island, although some attempts to reanimate life on it, say, in the form checkpoint for ships have been undertaken. But… to no avail. And only in the twentieth century here on the orders of Mussolini a hospital is being created for the mentally ill.
Patients, among whom were simply disagreeable to the fascist people told the regime that they heard crying, groans, saw shadows dead. Sometimes crowds of ghosts arose in the fires of fires … But in the stories of the mentally ill few believed, especially since they are here did not even count as people. For example, the head doctor of the hospital conducted over them sadistic experiments and terrible operations without anesthesia.
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True, soon the hospital staff began to notice the devil things happening on the island, and the head doctor in a few years dies under strange circumstances. After which, for some reason, he didn’t they bury and walled up in the wall of the bell tower with which he fell down – either by himself, or by patients who hated him, pushed either the ghosts of the people he had tortured straightened out. Since then on the tower at night a terrible bell sounds, although no the bells have not been here for a long time.
The nuthouse interspersed with the agricultural cartel lasted on the island until 1968, after which this cursed place again turns out to be abandoned. Since then, the island of Powell has attracted attention unless only thrill-seekers and ghostbusters who make their way here at night, in spite of any prohibitions with side of the city authorities.
Island of true evil
It seems that a lot of daredevils swam to the island, but only few of them later boasted their bravado. The island, as it turns out, changes the mind of a person dramatically. Here as, for example, one of the group describes his visit to Povela Americans.
“Night, pitch darkness, the closer to the island – the everything becomes worse and worse. Everyone is silent. And suddenly an exclamation: the cell is not it works, damn it! As it turned out, mobile does not work for everyone, moreover, it’s not that there is no connection, gadgets just passed out – and that’s it. As if everyone broke right away. True, this didn’t surprise anyone, as each of us felt at that moment that we had passed through a certain energy barrier, after which something begins beyond.
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The driver moored the boat and stayed in it, flatly refusing leave your spot with a spotlight on the bow of the boat. We jumped on shore. It was very dark, and this darkness seemed sticky and dense, even the moon and the floodlight of the boat did not pierce it. Wherein the island was completely dead – no animals rustling in the grass, nor birds, not even insects. And only the feeling that something surrounds us ominous, and someone is constantly looking at you in the back of the head.
We tried to enter the buildings, but the doors and windows were closed. AND here … there was a heart-rending cry, like a knife in the heart. We rushed in horror to the boat, feeling as if we were inside this intolerable cry. The motor, as luck would have it, didn’t start, which completely annoyed us, everyone was on the verge of insanity. But when the motor, as if taking pity on we wound up, and we set sail from the island, the alarm rang bells. And it shocked us even more, because we are beautiful they knew that there was no bell there.
When we crossed that terrible energy line, mobile “woke up”, it became calmer in my heart. However, in my heart there was something dark forever. With all the participants of this night adventures began to happen strange things: someone was tormented nightmares, someone constantly felt that he was being watched, some everywhere we heard the sound of falling drops … Personally, I believe that this is not haunted island, as some advertise it, this place true evil … ”
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Will the island of Powell ever be reborn?
In 2014, Italian authorities decided to once again sell the island or at least rent it out. And this time, despite protests of Italians, Povela was offered even to foreign to citizens. The case ended with the fact that during the auction the island for a period of ninety-nine years old acquired by the Italian Luigi Brignaro, who decided to make this place a popular tourist attraction, turning the building of the former mental hospital into a luxury hotel.
Two years have passed. Of course, a crisis erupted in Western Europe interfered with some grandiose plans of an Italian businessman, but is there only a crisis? Will the island of Powell ever be reborn to life? Residents of Venice very much doubt it, especially those of them, who at least once visited this damned place …
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