Located in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, you might be forgiven for assuming that the small island of Poveglia would be an ideal vacation destination... but you would be gravely mistaken. With a long, tragic, disturbing history, the island - nicknamed 'The Island of Ghosts' by locals - has the reputation of being one of Italy’s most terrifying and haunted places.

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