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Inside Poveglia Island’s History Of Death And Madness “It looked like hell. The sick lay three or four in a bed. Workers collected the dead and threw them in the graves all day without a break. Often the dying ones and the ones too sick to move or talk were taken for dead and thrown on the piled corpses." See the photos and step inside the nightmarish Italian island used to quarantine 160,000 victims of the Black Death by clicking the link in our bio. Venice's Poveglia Island was a quarantine center and mass grave for victims of bubonic plague, earning it the nickname the "Island of Ghosts." In the Venetian lagoon sits Poveglia Island, a small, unpopulated landmass cut down the middle by a canal. For all its unassuming appearance, however, it has a dark history and is said to be one of the most haunted places in Europe, a continent saturated with tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Many of those ghosts came courtesy of the Black Death, which swept through Europe in t...