Islands Which Are A Mystery In Itself!
Islands are considered a perfect retreat from the hustle and bustle of life, but you might think otherwise after hearing about these islands.
There are a lot of unusual islands around the globe that will have you rethinking your notion of how an ideal island is supposed to be.
With Halloween just a month (okay! more than a month) away, it’s the perfect time to get shrouded in mystery.
Keep reading to find out about the top 5 mysterious Islands that people generally don’t know about.
Top 5 Mysterious Islands from Around The World
Here is a list of islands that will make you rethink your notion of Islands being safe-havens.
1. Island Of Sicily
The island of Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean and is located in the Mediterranean Sea.
This island is very mysterious and creepy because it contains thousands of decaying corpses of real people – that too on display! Yep, you read it right.
A visitor can visit this particular place in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo. This place is often dubbed as the place where the “living meets the dead”.
Upon entering the passageways, you will see the passageways lined up with bones and skulls. There are also about 45 mummified bodies that are still intact up to this day!
Visiting this place will give you the heebie-jeebies, I assure you.
2. Socotra
The largest of the four islands in the Socotra archipelago, it is situated between the Arabian Sea and the Guardafui Channel.
Geographically, Socotra is in Africa even though it is politically a part of Yemen, an Asian nation. It is one of the most remote landforms of continental origin on Earth.
Because of the island’s extreme isolation, a third of its plant species are unique to it, including the unusual dragon’s blood trees, which have trunks that resemble flying saucers and umbrella-like leaves. It can be the result of the island’s arid climate.
If you see the pictures of the trees, then you will understand how alien-like and mystical they are. It certainly looks like a place that holds many secrets and myths.
3. Easter Island, Chile
A remote volcanic island in Polynesia, Easter Island is a territory of Chile. It is also sometimes referred to as Rapa Nui.
The name of the island might make you think about easter eggs and bunnies, but that is not the vibe of the place at all.
It is renowned for its archaeological sites, which include almost 900 enormous statues called “Moai” that locals built between the 13th and 16th centuries.
There are no written records of how the giant Moai were moved throughout the island by the Rapa Nui people, who are now flourishing after being on the edge of extinction a century ago. At times, they travelled as far as 13 miles from the volcanic quarry where they were carved.
The reason Moai statues are often referred to as “Easter Island Heads” is that their heads are noticeably larger than their bodies at first glance.
4. Island of The Dolls
One of the biggest draws of the channels is Island of the Dolls, also known as “La Isla de las Muecas,” which is situated in the channels of Xochimilco, south of the city’s center.
Dolls of diverse styles and tints are encountered throughout the island, placed by Don Julian, the previous owner.
Don Julian, a native of Mexico City’s Xochimilco neighborhood, abandoned his wife and children somewhere in the middle of the 20th century to live alone on an island in Teshuilo Lake.
Santana Barrera’s motivations for doing so are at best vague, but it soon became evident that he may not have been of sound mind.
Soon after relocating, he discovered the horrifying discovery of a little girl’s drowned body on the shores of his island. Soon later, a doll arrived floating down the canals, altering Santana Barrera’s life and the island’s shape for years to come.
Barrera, alone on the island, took the doll and hung it from a tree as an offering to the ghost of the girl who had died.
Santana Barrera would hang dolls from the island’s many trees for the following 50 years by collecting them from the rubbish and the waterways.
The locals over there, to this day, swear on the fact there have been ghost sightings on the island and that the place is cursed.
5. Hart Island
In the northern Bronx of New York City, Hart Island, also known as Hart’s Island, is situated near the western edge of Long Island Sound.
A lot of bad things happened on Hart Island. Two hundred thirty-five captives are said to have perished and been buried on the island during its tenure as a Civil War prison camp.
This incident marks the start of a string of disasters that would occur on the island.
The city’s most recent acquisition, the island, served as the site of a quarantine facility for yellow fever sufferers in 1870, not long after it was acquired.
Hart Island later served as the site of a prison, a women’s lunatic asylum, a tuberculosis hospital, a Cold War Nike missile installation, and other facilities after the pandemic and many of the hospital’s inmates had died.
Only death and mystery remained constant in all the island’s reincarnations.
It’s both spooky and sad at the same time.
To Wrap It Up!
Did all those reading spook you? Not yet? Then you can definitely look up personal accounts shared by people who visited these islands that will surely give you the creeps.
Anyways, I hope you found the information provided in this article useful, and thank you for reading!
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