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Hardwicke was the sole European settlement in the Auckland Islands, founded in 1849 but abandoned in 1851. Jamestown was a settlement in what is now Fiordland National Park. Kelso was abandoned after severe and repeated flooding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lyell was a gold mining town in the Buller Gorge in the South Island.
Poveglia (/ p oʊ ˈ v ɛ l i ə / poh-VEL-ee-ə; Italian: [poˈveʎʎa]) is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, of northern Italy. A small canal divides the island into two separate parts. The island first appears in the historical record in 421, and was populated until the residents fled warfare in 1379.
In 1922, the island became home to a mental hospital, where a doctor, reportedly, experimented on patients with crude lobotomies. He later threw himself from the hospital tower after claiming he had been driven mad by the spirits of the island. The island has been featured on the paranormal shows Ghost Adventures and Scariest Places on Earth.
Fortune Island, Nasugbu: The abandoned island resort is said to be haunted by a white lady. [ 101 ] Mount Macolod , Cuenca : Said to be haunted by the ghosts of hikers who died on the mountain, a vanishing hitchhiker who boards vehicles at the zigzag road at the base of the mountain, a guardian engkanto known as Mariang Pula (Red Maria), and ...
Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city.
The islands were the sites of Babe Ruth's batting practice, the deadliest American disaster of the 20th century and the hospital where Typhoid Mary was quarantined.
Ebos Landing (Igbo Landing) in Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island, Glynn County is allegedly haunted by the souls of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide by drowning there during 1803 to protest their enslavement. [51] [52] Moon River Brewing Company in Savannah is allegedly haunted by angry spirits. It was featured on the TV series Ghost ...
Disney's Treasure Island — which was later renamed Discovery Island — closed in 1999, and no one seems to know why. Mental Floss theorizes it closed because the super-popular attraction Animal ...