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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,660 --> 00:00:03,199 An abandoned seaside villa 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:04,830 with a deadly reputation. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,160 A nuclear wasteland unfit for human life. 4 00:00:10,330 --> 00:00:12,330 And a tropical retreat 5 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:17,040 that was once home to a witches' coven. 6 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:22,620 Our planet is covered with islands of all shapes and sizes. 7 00:00:22,790 --> 00:00:26,120 But all across the globe, there are ominous islands 8 00:00:26,330 --> 00:00:29,580 that are tainted with dark histories, 9 00:00:29,750 --> 00:00:31,540 mysterious curses, 10 00:00:32,750 --> 00:00:34,750 and unspeakable tragedies. 11 00:00:35,910 --> 00:00:38,290 While their stories may vary, 12 00:00:38,410 --> 00:00:42,660 these places all conjure a similar sense of dread. 13 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:47,500 Could it be that evil forces or even unholy entities 14 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,790 are what create these... Islands of the damned? 15 00:00:51,950 --> 00:00:55,290 Well, that is what we'll try and find out. 16 00:01:12,950 --> 00:01:15,790 This residential quarter in south Naples 17 00:01:15,950 --> 00:01:18,450 dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. 18 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:21,580 2,000 years ago, this hillside district 19 00:01:21,750 --> 00:01:25,830 was once a vacation destination for wealthy Roman nobles. 20 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,250 And today, it's just as prestigious. 21 00:01:29,370 --> 00:01:33,290 It's home to some of the city's wealthiest residents 22 00:01:33,450 --> 00:01:35,620 and its most opulent villas. 23 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:39,660 But among them is a desolate, abandoned mansion 24 00:01:39,830 --> 00:01:42,410 that sits just off the coastline, 25 00:01:42,580 --> 00:01:48,410 on a jagged outcropping called gaiola island. 26 00:01:49,450 --> 00:01:52,450 Gaiola island is unlike most areas. 27 00:01:52,580 --> 00:01:54,660 It sticks out as a strange island, 28 00:01:54,790 --> 00:01:56,230 right off the coast of Naples. 29 00:01:56,231 --> 00:01:59,289 It's basically the size of a small estate. 30 00:01:59,290 --> 00:02:01,200 Just a house and yard, really. 31 00:02:01,370 --> 00:02:05,500 And it's just contained on these two outcroppings of rock. 32 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:08,660 You can see it right from the beach. 33 00:02:08,790 --> 00:02:10,410 So you can get close to this, 34 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:12,340 but it's been abandoned for decades. 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,000 Located just a short 100-foot swim from shore, 36 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,176 gaiola island's a tempting location 37 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,330 for curious beachgoers to explore. 38 00:02:24,790 --> 00:02:26,660 But don't be fooled. 39 00:02:26,870 --> 00:02:28,660 According to local legend, 40 00:02:28,790 --> 00:02:32,660 it's best to stay well away, 41 00:02:32,790 --> 00:02:36,000 because many believe this long-abandoned island 42 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,370 has been damned by a deadly curse. 43 00:02:41,330 --> 00:02:44,200 Locals are terrified of this island. 44 00:02:44,201 --> 00:02:46,199 Everyone who's owned this property, 45 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,330 whether they were on the island or not, 46 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:51,910 some type of tragedy occurred in their lives. 47 00:02:52,950 --> 00:02:56,660 Whether it was losing a fortune or losing a family member 48 00:02:56,870 --> 00:02:58,540 or going insane. 49 00:02:58,750 --> 00:03:00,160 Whoever owned this island, 50 00:03:00,330 --> 00:03:02,950 nothing but tragedy followed. 51 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,490 Gaiola island's forbidding reputation began 52 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:09,080 in the late 19th century, 53 00:03:09,250 --> 00:03:12,200 when a successful local businessman 54 00:03:12,370 --> 00:03:14,870 decided to build there. 55 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,000 The first owner of the island was Luigi negri. 56 00:03:18,001 --> 00:03:19,829 He's the one that built the villa on the island 57 00:03:19,830 --> 00:03:22,250 that is still there today but is abandoned. 58 00:03:23,250 --> 00:03:25,660 He built it and then immediately went bankrupt. 59 00:03:25,661 --> 00:03:28,119 It's not strange for a businessman to go bankrupt. 60 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,290 But in this case, it was a precursor 61 00:03:30,450 --> 00:03:33,040 to a series of misfortunes that got worse and worse 62 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,040 over the course of the 20th century. 63 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:38,330 While gaiola island may or may not be responsible 64 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:41,750 for Luigi negri's financial collapse, 65 00:03:41,910 --> 00:03:45,080 others who dared to make the isolated property their home 66 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:49,450 would suffer far worse consequences. 67 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:52,160 Another owner of the island 68 00:03:52,370 --> 00:03:54,040 is hans braun, a businessman. 69 00:03:54,041 --> 00:03:56,329 As soon as he takes up residence on the island, 70 00:03:56,330 --> 00:03:57,580 his luck turns. 71 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,500 His body's found wrapped in a rug. 72 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:05,040 He's died under mysterious circumstances. 73 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,330 Soon after that, his wife falls off the island and drowns. 74 00:04:10,331 --> 00:04:13,449 It was at this point where people started thinking 75 00:04:13,450 --> 00:04:16,040 there's something more going on here. 76 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,160 Something supernatural. 77 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,330 A string of tragedies would continue to unravel 78 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:24,410 on gaiola island. 79 00:04:24,620 --> 00:04:27,160 German perfume dealer Otto grunback 80 00:04:27,161 --> 00:04:28,699 suffered a fatal heart attack 81 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:31,160 shortly after purchasing the property. 82 00:04:31,330 --> 00:04:34,450 And madness and suicide put an end 83 00:04:34,620 --> 00:04:37,160 to owner Maurice-yves sandoz, 84 00:04:37,370 --> 00:04:39,870 a Swiss pharmaceutical industrialist. 85 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,620 Even gaiola's most famous proprietor, 86 00:04:43,790 --> 00:04:47,120 American oil tycoon Jean Paul getty, 87 00:04:47,290 --> 00:04:49,370 could not escape speculation 88 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:52,870 that the cursed island played a hand 89 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,870 in troubling events that surrounded his family. 90 00:04:57,870 --> 00:05:00,370 Jean Paul getty owned this island. 91 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:02,950 And of course, his fortunes are legendary, 92 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,370 but so are his misfortunes. 93 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:08,540 Jean Paul getty's son commits suicide. 94 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:10,290 He has a younger son, at 12, 95 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,580 that contracts a fatal brain tumor. 96 00:05:13,581 --> 00:05:16,079 And then, of course, there's the infamous case of his grandson, 97 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,540 John Paul getty III. 98 00:05:18,580 --> 00:05:21,580 John Paul getty III was kidnapped by the Italian mafia 99 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:26,330 and then, over the course of the negotiations for his freedom, 100 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:28,750 had his ear cut off. 101 00:05:28,910 --> 00:05:31,750 Eventually, he was freed for a little over $2 million. 102 00:05:31,751 --> 00:05:35,409 But he would go on to suffer the effects of that kidnapping 103 00:05:35,410 --> 00:05:38,060 for the rest of his life until a string of addictions 104 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,500 caused him to become a quadriplegic. 105 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,450 Could gaiola island really have the power 106 00:05:44,580 --> 00:05:47,040 to doom the lives of those who call it home? 107 00:05:47,620 --> 00:05:49,910 And if there is an evil energy 108 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,450 imbued in the exclusive property, 109 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:54,700 just where did it come from? 110 00:05:54,870 --> 00:05:57,790 While it's impossible to say for sure, 111 00:05:57,950 --> 00:06:02,330 some attribute it to an old hermit called "the wizard" 112 00:06:02,450 --> 00:06:05,540 who was rumored to once reside there. 113 00:06:06,450 --> 00:06:08,540 But others believe 114 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:12,500 the curse began more than 2,000 years ago, 115 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:14,950 in the first century bc, 116 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,330 when gaiola island was attached to the mainland 117 00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:20,660 and part of a magnificent estate 118 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:23,580 that belonged to a cruel Roman politician 119 00:06:23,790 --> 00:06:28,500 named publius vedius pollio. 120 00:06:29,540 --> 00:06:31,500 Publius vedius pollio was 121 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:33,870 a member of the cavalry and the Roman army. 122 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,790 And he adopted this area, 123 00:06:36,950 --> 00:06:40,370 this gorgeous posillipo area, for his own. 124 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:43,410 He had a 2,000-seat theater 125 00:06:43,580 --> 00:06:46,540 and constructed an incredible villa 126 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:50,000 with gardens, fountains, sculptures, 127 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,290 and a spa complex. 128 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:57,330 Now, interestingly, pollio came from modest roots. 129 00:06:57,450 --> 00:07:00,250 He was of slave stock himself. 130 00:07:00,410 --> 00:07:03,410 And one would think this might make him 131 00:07:03,580 --> 00:07:06,750 rather generously disposed to his own slaves. 132 00:07:06,870 --> 00:07:10,000 But by all accounts, that was not the case. 133 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,660 He owned many slaves, and he treated them very poorly. 134 00:07:14,870 --> 00:07:18,120 And in fact, whenever a slave displeased him, 135 00:07:18,290 --> 00:07:20,830 the story goes that he fed them 136 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,200 to a pool of moray eels that he kept on the property. 137 00:07:27,580 --> 00:07:31,080 Pollio was a friend of emperor Augustus, 138 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,700 which certainly helped his rise through the ranks. 139 00:07:34,870 --> 00:07:36,500 Well, one day, 140 00:07:36,501 --> 00:07:39,039 Augustus is visiting pollio at one of his villas, 141 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,330 and a slave is pouring wine in these crystal goblets. 142 00:07:43,450 --> 00:07:45,870 The slave spills the wine. 143 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,080 The goblet crashes to the ground and breaks. 144 00:07:50,250 --> 00:07:52,500 Pollio grabs the slave 145 00:07:52,620 --> 00:07:55,290 and goes to drag him to this pit of moray eels, 146 00:07:55,450 --> 00:07:57,010 where he's to be devoured alive. 147 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:01,330 The slave scrambles away, 148 00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:03,580 throws himself at the feet of the emperor 149 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:05,500 and is begging. And pollio says, 150 00:08:05,501 --> 00:08:08,449 "you can't beg for your life from the emperor. You're mine." 151 00:08:08,450 --> 00:08:11,040 Augustus does not like this. 152 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,410 He breaks every crystal goblet in the entire house. 153 00:08:14,540 --> 00:08:16,540 Soon after that, 154 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,160 Augustus took the villa and razed it to the ground. 155 00:08:20,370 --> 00:08:23,226 And local legend has it that he cursed it. 156 00:08:23,250 --> 00:08:27,250 And ever since then, there is a negative energy 157 00:08:27,370 --> 00:08:29,500 that has certainly permeated the culture 158 00:08:29,620 --> 00:08:31,850 and the minds of the people that lived there. 159 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,450 A century after Augustus destroyed pollio's estate, 160 00:08:36,660 --> 00:08:41,620 a massive earthquake leveled a large section of the property, 161 00:08:41,750 --> 00:08:44,700 causing it to collapse into the sea, 162 00:08:44,870 --> 00:08:49,700 forever separating gaiola island from the mainland. 163 00:08:50,910 --> 00:08:52,830 Are the traumatic events experienced 164 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,500 by the former landowners of gaiola island 165 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:57,580 merely coincidence? 166 00:08:58,870 --> 00:09:02,500 Or is the rocky outcropping actually cursed? 167 00:09:02,660 --> 00:09:04,290 It's hard to say. 168 00:09:04,410 --> 00:09:07,160 And with its history of epic misfortune, 169 00:09:07,290 --> 00:09:12,370 it may be a very long time before someone is brave enough 170 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:17,040 to tempt fate and live there once again. 171 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,750 Once a place is deemed cursed or... 172 00:09:20,870 --> 00:09:22,700 Has some aura of dread about it, 173 00:09:22,870 --> 00:09:24,550 it's really hard to get rid of that. 174 00:09:25,540 --> 00:09:27,100 Even if you move the people away 175 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,620 or you chase away the source of the rumors 176 00:09:29,621 --> 00:09:32,449 or you tear down the buildings that were supposed to house 177 00:09:32,450 --> 00:09:36,250 the tragedies that happened, evil still remains. 178 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,540 About 500 miles south of gaiola island 179 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:44,410 is another, very different island of the damned, 180 00:09:44,580 --> 00:09:47,370 an ancient place where some believe 181 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:52,830 giants once walked the earth, ready to grab anyone 182 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,200 who ventured into their cursed underground lair. 183 00:10:01,950 --> 00:10:04,750 Just south of sicily in the mediterranean sea 184 00:10:04,910 --> 00:10:08,000 is the island nation of Malta. 185 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,290 It's famous for its dazzling coastline, 186 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:15,950 stunning architecture, and fascinating history. 187 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:21,000 But perhaps most remarkable are the massive prehistoric 188 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,150 stone structures that can be found all around the islands. 189 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,160 These megalithic temples of Malta are some 190 00:10:27,370 --> 00:10:30,830 of the oldest freestanding structures on earth, 191 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,790 and legend is... They were built by giants. 192 00:10:35,950 --> 00:10:39,500 Maltese temple culture, as it's known 193 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,250 you legitimately could call their creations 194 00:10:42,410 --> 00:10:45,620 the greatest engineering feats of the neolithic world. 195 00:10:45,790 --> 00:10:49,660 They are put together painstakingly. 196 00:10:49,790 --> 00:10:52,700 And what remains of the ruins above ground today 197 00:10:52,870 --> 00:10:56,660 still towers 20 feet up. 198 00:10:56,790 --> 00:11:00,790 And this was done 6,000 years ago 199 00:11:00,950 --> 00:11:05,080 without the benefit of the wheel or metal tools. 200 00:11:05,250 --> 00:11:09,556 It predates stonehenge and the great pyramids 201 00:11:09,580 --> 00:11:12,330 by close to a thousand years. 202 00:11:12,450 --> 00:11:15,450 And according to Maltese legend, 203 00:11:15,620 --> 00:11:17,910 a giantess called sansuna 204 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,000 constructed these monumental temples 205 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,290 so that the local people could worship. 206 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:25,750 So when it comes 207 00:11:25,910 --> 00:11:27,890 to understanding the Maltese temples, 208 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,160 there are traditions of giants constructing them. 209 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:36,200 These were 40 to 50 to 60-ton blocks 210 00:11:36,410 --> 00:11:39,726 put together like Jigsaw pieces in a profound manner. 211 00:11:39,750 --> 00:11:41,330 This is why many people believe 212 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:43,750 and say they were built by giants. 213 00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:46,160 It's intriguing to think 214 00:11:46,370 --> 00:11:50,080 that giants may have inhabited Malta thousands of years ago, 215 00:11:50,250 --> 00:11:52,660 leaving behind enormous stone structures 216 00:11:52,870 --> 00:11:57,500 that still mystify archaeologists and engineers. 217 00:11:57,660 --> 00:12:00,000 But if the legends are correct, 218 00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:02,829 these megalithic builders were menacing creatures 219 00:12:02,830 --> 00:12:06,660 of great strength, who lived underground, 220 00:12:06,790 --> 00:12:09,200 in a dark and dangerous world. 221 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,080 These were very strange, kind of mythical beings. 222 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,620 They even lived all across the island 223 00:12:17,790 --> 00:12:20,140 where there were caves and underground areas. 224 00:12:20,330 --> 00:12:22,450 It was said to be a place of darkness, 225 00:12:22,580 --> 00:12:24,910 a place of death. 226 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,980 Could the islands of Malta be the home 227 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,040 of an ancient race of treacherous prehistoric giants? 228 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,910 Some experts believe a chilling clue may lie 229 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,330 within one of Malta's stone structures... 230 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:39,450 Deep underground. 231 00:12:46,540 --> 00:12:48,540 In the small town of Paola, 232 00:12:48,541 --> 00:12:50,369 workers digging the foundation 233 00:12:50,370 --> 00:12:53,250 for a new home make a remarkable discovery. 234 00:12:53,410 --> 00:12:57,950 They uncover the entrance to an ancient underground temple 235 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,290 extending deep beneath the surface. 236 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,910 It's called... the hypogeum. 237 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:06,676 "Hypogeum" means 238 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:09,330 literally "underground" in Greek. 239 00:13:10,370 --> 00:13:14,200 It's an astonishing underground complex of halls, 240 00:13:14,370 --> 00:13:16,040 corridors and passageways 241 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,040 hollowed out from limestone rock, 242 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,160 seemingly built beginning with natural caves. 243 00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:26,660 And what archaeologists discovered there 244 00:13:26,870 --> 00:13:28,870 astonished them. 245 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,580 It consisted of a number of burial chambers. 246 00:13:31,750 --> 00:13:35,700 About 6,000 people are thought to have been buried there. 247 00:13:35,870 --> 00:13:37,670 There's really nothing else like it 248 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:39,370 in the world that we know about. 249 00:13:39,371 --> 00:13:42,499 People have suggested it may have been a tomb, 250 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:44,250 but no one really knows. 251 00:13:44,410 --> 00:13:47,870 The hypogeum's got this weird energy about it. 252 00:13:47,871 --> 00:13:50,909 And this could be why we hear all these very strange stories 253 00:13:50,910 --> 00:13:53,200 associated with this place. 254 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,700 While some believe 255 00:13:56,870 --> 00:13:59,450 the hypogeum is simply an underground cemetery, 256 00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:03,580 a number of disturbing incidents have been reported here. 257 00:14:04,870 --> 00:14:08,330 And perhaps the most shocking is a firsthand account 258 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:12,120 published in the journal of borderland research. 259 00:14:12,250 --> 00:14:17,000 In it, thrill-seeker Lois jessop recounts a disturbing encounter 260 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,000 she had while exploring the dark depths 261 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,200 of the hypogeum in the 1930s. 262 00:14:25,370 --> 00:14:27,830 Very strange story is that 263 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,040 of a British woman called Lois jessop 264 00:14:30,041 --> 00:14:32,039 who actually worked for the British consulate. 265 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,580 And she went down there with a private guide. 266 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:39,290 She wanted to go further than you were allowed to go. 267 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,500 Lois wants to go down so far 268 00:14:43,660 --> 00:14:45,120 and so dark and so deep 269 00:14:45,290 --> 00:14:47,250 that her tour guide won't go with her. 270 00:14:47,410 --> 00:14:50,950 So what he does is he ties a rope around her waist, 271 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,120 and she dangles down to a ledge. 272 00:14:55,410 --> 00:14:59,000 All she has to light her way is a candle. 273 00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:02,369 According to jessop's eyewitness account, 274 00:15:02,370 --> 00:15:05,160 she found herself overlooking a wide chasm. 275 00:15:05,330 --> 00:15:06,870 And suddenly, 276 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,950 a group of "20 persons of giant stature" 277 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,410 emerged from a cave across the abyss. 278 00:15:14,540 --> 00:15:17,200 She sees men that she describes 279 00:15:17,370 --> 00:15:19,410 as three times the size of normal men. 280 00:15:19,540 --> 00:15:22,200 The candle's blown out. 281 00:15:22,370 --> 00:15:24,410 She tugs the rope, 282 00:15:24,540 --> 00:15:27,500 and they pull her back to the surface. 283 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:31,450 But what Lois saw could be evidence of the people, 284 00:15:31,580 --> 00:15:34,950 the creatures that created those structures on that island. 285 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,910 Did Lois jessop encounter 286 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,620 the lost giants of Malta somewhere deep 287 00:15:41,790 --> 00:15:43,886 within the island's hypogeum, 288 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:47,000 or was it something else? 289 00:15:47,001 --> 00:15:49,409 While it's hard to say, perhaps a clue can be found 290 00:15:49,410 --> 00:15:52,750 by examining the story of another chilling encounter 291 00:15:52,910 --> 00:15:55,080 in the hypogeum's depths. 292 00:15:55,250 --> 00:15:56,750 One that appears to indicate 293 00:15:56,910 --> 00:15:59,120 that whatever is lurking down there 294 00:15:59,290 --> 00:16:02,910 does not take kindly to strangers. 295 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,700 Another incredible story was published most notably 296 00:16:08,910 --> 00:16:11,500 in the national geographic in 1940. 297 00:16:11,620 --> 00:16:14,250 And it recounts a story 298 00:16:14,410 --> 00:16:18,870 of about 30 school children going out on a school trip, 299 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,290 going into the hypogeum, but then getting lost 300 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:25,950 in some of the tunnels there, never to be seen again. 301 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,750 And it gets weirder because none of the children were ever found. 302 00:16:31,870 --> 00:16:34,500 But people claimed they heard the screams 303 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:37,620 and yells of children all across the island 304 00:16:37,750 --> 00:16:40,750 where there were known caves and underground areas. 305 00:16:40,910 --> 00:16:43,040 So this suggests 306 00:16:43,041 --> 00:16:45,329 that the hypogeum may have been an entrance 307 00:16:45,330 --> 00:16:47,370 to an underground network of tunnels, 308 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:51,370 that stretches all the way underneath Malta itself. 309 00:16:52,540 --> 00:16:54,000 And to this day, 310 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,160 we don't know what happened to those kids. 311 00:16:57,330 --> 00:16:59,910 But these stories could suggest 312 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,870 that there is maybe something more down there, 313 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,830 something that we don't understand. 314 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,040 Maybe something hiding in the darkness. 315 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,090 And whether something is supernatural or not happening 316 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,830 in the hypogeum, you just get a feeling 317 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,370 there's something bad happening there. 318 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,250 Could the legends of giants 319 00:17:22,370 --> 00:17:25,580 that dwell below the island of Malta really be true? 320 00:17:25,750 --> 00:17:27,580 Whatever the case may be, 321 00:17:27,750 --> 00:17:30,450 these massive creatures loom large 322 00:17:30,620 --> 00:17:32,750 in local folklore. 323 00:17:32,950 --> 00:17:35,370 But off the coast of venice, Italy, 324 00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:37,250 there are two islands 325 00:17:37,410 --> 00:17:39,700 with very different stories to tell, 326 00:17:39,870 --> 00:17:46,160 tales of plagues, madness and even... vampires. 327 00:17:51,830 --> 00:17:54,950 Founded in 421 ad, 328 00:17:55,080 --> 00:18:00,200 this ancient port on the adriatic sea is renowned 329 00:18:00,370 --> 00:18:02,580 for its renaissance architecture, 330 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,040 cobblestone alleyways, 331 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,080 and of course, its world-famous canals. 332 00:18:08,250 --> 00:18:11,160 But among the 118 small islands 333 00:18:11,290 --> 00:18:14,080 that make up this iconic city, 334 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,790 there are a few that have a much darker mystique. 335 00:18:18,950 --> 00:18:20,870 Because many centuries ago, 336 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,500 several of these venetian islands 337 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:27,370 would be the grim home to thousands of people suffering 338 00:18:27,580 --> 00:18:29,830 from the terrifying disease known 339 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,620 as the black death. 340 00:18:32,750 --> 00:18:35,950 Venice is one of the major trading ports 341 00:18:35,951 --> 00:18:37,829 in the middle ages and the renaissance. 342 00:18:37,830 --> 00:18:42,000 And it was disproportionately affected 343 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,000 when black plague rolled through Europe, 344 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,080 initially in 1348, 345 00:18:47,250 --> 00:18:50,410 killing 50% of the population of venice. 346 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,370 They had to quickly get control of this situation 347 00:18:55,540 --> 00:19:00,330 because diseases were spreading like wildfire. 348 00:19:00,540 --> 00:19:03,430 Venice was particularly susceptible to the black death. 349 00:19:03,450 --> 00:19:05,620 They always had ships coming in 350 00:19:05,750 --> 00:19:09,160 laden with strangers and people coming to their islands. 351 00:19:09,161 --> 00:19:11,949 They were on islands, so once infection happened, 352 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:14,056 it was hard to get away from it. 353 00:19:14,057 --> 00:19:16,199 And of course, they were built on the water 354 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,370 so it was hard to Bury the bodies. 355 00:19:22,281 --> 00:19:25,789 In an attempt to contain the plague, 356 00:19:25,790 --> 00:19:28,329 the government of venice directed all incoming ships 357 00:19:28,330 --> 00:19:31,000 to dock on a number of its more remote islands, 358 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,330 where infected passengers could be isolated. 359 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:39,660 One of these was known as poveglia. 360 00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:41,250 Poveglia was used 361 00:19:41,370 --> 00:19:44,290 as quarantine island during the black plagues 362 00:19:44,450 --> 00:19:47,460 that affected venice at various times throughout history. 363 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,500 So, what happened was, if you showed signs of sickness, 364 00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:54,750 you would be taken to poveglia and given 40 days. 365 00:19:54,870 --> 00:19:58,000 And you had two choices... get better or get dead. 366 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,160 And most people died on poveglia. 367 00:20:00,370 --> 00:20:03,040 Poveglia was one 368 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,700 of the most notorious islands in venice. 369 00:20:07,870 --> 00:20:10,120 And unlike other islands, 370 00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:12,790 where they buried the dead in mass graves, 371 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,370 on poveglia, they appeared to have cremated human remains, 372 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:21,330 and just let the ashes lie where they fell. 373 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,200 To the extent that even today, 374 00:20:24,330 --> 00:20:29,160 it is thought that half the topsoil is comprised 375 00:20:29,290 --> 00:20:31,660 of human ashes from plague victims. 376 00:20:33,370 --> 00:20:35,620 Historians estimate 377 00:20:35,790 --> 00:20:38,950 that approximately 160,000 people died 378 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,000 on poveglia from the plague. 379 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,120 But the history 380 00:20:43,290 --> 00:20:46,040 of this small island would only get darker 381 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,290 in the centuries to follow. 382 00:20:48,450 --> 00:20:50,500 The cursed history 383 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:53,210 of poveglia island doesn't just stop at the plague. 384 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,370 In the late 19th century, 385 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:59,330 they built a mental asylum on the island. 386 00:20:59,331 --> 00:21:02,329 The purpose of the mental asylum were various 387 00:21:02,330 --> 00:21:04,250 to care for the elderly, the indigent, 388 00:21:04,290 --> 00:21:05,830 those who needed help, 389 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,580 but according to the legends, 390 00:21:07,790 --> 00:21:12,000 the asylum was run by a doctor who was sadistic. 391 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:16,510 He would torture the patients, he would experiment on them. 392 00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:20,250 He would do these crude lobotomies with drills, 393 00:21:20,450 --> 00:21:22,700 just to see what would happen. 394 00:21:22,870 --> 00:21:25,830 Some say the inmates, fed up with all the pain 395 00:21:25,831 --> 00:21:28,079 that they had gone through as a result of him, 396 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,250 pushed him off the bell tower. 397 00:21:31,870 --> 00:21:36,120 So the island itself is a place of not being wanted, of rumors 398 00:21:36,290 --> 00:21:38,760 and stories that scare you away from visiting it. 399 00:21:40,370 --> 00:21:43,000 Today, poveglia is abandoned, 400 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,500 and locals claim it's still haunted 401 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:51,226 by the lingering spirits of those who suffered there. 402 00:21:51,250 --> 00:21:54,450 Yet, poveglia isn't the only island 403 00:21:54,660 --> 00:21:57,750 in the venice lagoon with a dark past. 404 00:21:58,910 --> 00:22:03,830 During the plague outbreaks of 1573 and 1630, 405 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,580 two islands north of poveglia 406 00:22:06,750 --> 00:22:09,950 lazzaretto vecchio and lazzaretto nuovo 407 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:14,410 also served as quarantine stations for the afflicted. 408 00:22:15,410 --> 00:22:19,330 Since 2004, archaeologists have uncovered 409 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:22,660 thousands of skeletons on these islands, 410 00:22:22,870 --> 00:22:26,120 including one especially disturbing discovery 411 00:22:26,290 --> 00:22:28,410 on lazzaretto nuovo 412 00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:32,450 the skull of a 16th-century woman, 413 00:22:32,660 --> 00:22:35,000 whose jaws had been forced open 414 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,330 by a brick jammed in her mouth. 415 00:22:39,410 --> 00:22:41,750 This particular skull was really interesting 416 00:22:41,870 --> 00:22:44,910 because the brick inside its mouth is actually 417 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,000 from a germanic tradition 418 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,676 that is called "shroud-eaters." 419 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:55,500 And these are like vampires in a way, 420 00:22:55,620 --> 00:22:58,370 and they spread pestilence and disease. 421 00:22:58,540 --> 00:23:02,660 And the way, the prescribed manner 422 00:23:02,870 --> 00:23:06,450 that you keep this particular type of vampire down, 423 00:23:06,620 --> 00:23:11,160 is to shove a brick in their mouth, 424 00:23:11,330 --> 00:23:13,870 and that will stop it. 425 00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:17,830 Is it possible that 16th-century venice 426 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,750 was not only being terrorized by fears of the black death, 427 00:23:21,910 --> 00:23:25,910 but the spread of vampirism, as well? 428 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,450 It's a disturbing notion. 429 00:23:29,790 --> 00:23:32,580 And even today, the legacy of darkness 430 00:23:32,750 --> 00:23:35,160 associated with these islands of the damned 431 00:23:35,330 --> 00:23:37,830 is so deeply rooted 432 00:23:37,950 --> 00:23:40,330 that people continue to avoid them... 433 00:23:40,540 --> 00:23:42,830 Like the plague. 434 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,540 The fate of the islands today 435 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:47,660 is kind of astonishing, 436 00:23:47,870 --> 00:23:51,330 given the congestion in venice overall. 437 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:53,660 They are just completely abandoned, 438 00:23:53,870 --> 00:23:56,790 and people are forbidden from even setting foot on them. 439 00:23:56,950 --> 00:24:00,160 And looking at it throughout history, 440 00:24:00,330 --> 00:24:03,160 anyone who comes to these islands 441 00:24:03,290 --> 00:24:06,660 is looking at a pretty grim outcome. 442 00:24:06,830 --> 00:24:09,480 While the plague islands of venice have been vacant 443 00:24:09,580 --> 00:24:11,830 for decades, many believe 444 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,700 that their disturbing history makes them some 445 00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:18,500 of the most haunted places in the world. 446 00:24:18,660 --> 00:24:23,000 And paranormal powers are also present in South America, 447 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,660 on another island where evil sorcerers are said 448 00:24:26,830 --> 00:24:31,330 to inflict harm and misfortune on anyone 449 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:35,000 who dares to cross their path. 450 00:24:38,750 --> 00:24:41,000 Off the coast of Chile in the pacific ocean 451 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:45,620 is an archipelago made up of about 40 islands. 452 00:24:45,790 --> 00:24:48,620 And among them, there is one large island 453 00:24:48,621 --> 00:24:50,829 that is brimming with frightening tales 454 00:24:50,830 --> 00:24:53,830 of monsters and dark sorcery. 455 00:24:54,790 --> 00:24:57,500 The locals call it "la Isla magic a," 456 00:24:57,660 --> 00:24:59,726 the magic island. 457 00:24:59,750 --> 00:25:03,160 The world knows it as chilo�. 458 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,240 Chilo� island is this beautiful island, 459 00:25:06,250 --> 00:25:07,790 as far away as you can get 460 00:25:07,791 --> 00:25:09,579 and still be habitable as an island. 461 00:25:09,580 --> 00:25:11,540 So it's no surprise 462 00:25:11,541 --> 00:25:14,409 that a place like chilo� island would gather all these stories 463 00:25:14,410 --> 00:25:16,620 of magic and the supernatural. 464 00:25:17,660 --> 00:25:19,950 Despite its breathtaking scenery, 465 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:24,200 legends have persisted that chilo� is overflowing 466 00:25:24,370 --> 00:25:27,016 with dark and dangerous magic. 467 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,000 So much so, that even the ancient inca 468 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,290 the mighty civilization that once had the largest empire 469 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:35,516 to ever exist in the Americas, 470 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:39,676 stretching from Colombia to southern Chile... 471 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:43,700 Avoided this island at all costs. 472 00:25:43,701 --> 00:25:45,749 The inca were great conquerors and great empire builders, 473 00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:46,539 the inca were great conquerors and great empire builders, 474 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:48,000 but they viewed this island 475 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,160 as a place where their own empire ended, 476 00:25:51,330 --> 00:25:53,660 and a strange new world began. 477 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:59,290 Chilo� island was occupied from about 600 bce 478 00:25:59,410 --> 00:26:02,040 by a people called the mapuche. 479 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,750 Mapuche beliefs were very much tied into the natural world. 480 00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:11,250 That inanimate objects possessed spiritual powers 481 00:26:11,410 --> 00:26:13,500 for good or for bad. 482 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:17,410 They believed in shape-shifting, magical creatures 483 00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:19,910 who could be helpful to them, 484 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,250 but could just as easily turn on them 485 00:26:22,450 --> 00:26:25,870 and cast spells, even curses. 486 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,660 These supernatural practices became a subject 487 00:26:29,830 --> 00:26:32,830 of national concern when, in 1880, 488 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,370 a group of chilo� island mapuche were brought to trial 489 00:26:36,540 --> 00:26:38,830 by Chilean officials. 490 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,580 Their crime? Murder and kidnapping 491 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:45,290 by use of poison and magic. 492 00:26:45,331 --> 00:26:49,369 The accused were a group of men who claimed 493 00:26:49,370 --> 00:26:54,000 to be part of a mysterious secret society of brujos, 494 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,580 or male witches, 495 00:26:56,750 --> 00:27:00,700 known as "the righteous province." 496 00:27:00,870 --> 00:27:03,250 So 1880, in Chile, 497 00:27:03,450 --> 00:27:05,950 a group of male witches or warlocks 498 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,500 that they called "the righteous province" 499 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:10,580 constitute what is probably 500 00:27:10,750 --> 00:27:13,500 the last big witch trial in the world. 501 00:27:13,620 --> 00:27:15,250 And it was a weird one. 502 00:27:15,370 --> 00:27:19,660 These people were on trial for black magic, 503 00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:22,620 and for just generally terrorizing 504 00:27:22,790 --> 00:27:25,910 this small island community for generations. 505 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,750 The righteous province 506 00:27:27,751 --> 00:27:29,909 would do lots of different horrible things, 507 00:27:29,910 --> 00:27:34,450 like extortion, murders, kidnappings and everything else, 508 00:27:34,660 --> 00:27:36,500 but also, they would kill people 509 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:39,790 by inflicting magical wounds upon them. 510 00:27:39,950 --> 00:27:42,830 These brujos were responsible for deaths, 511 00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:45,250 for livestock mutilations. 512 00:27:45,370 --> 00:27:48,580 It was rumored that they would take young girls, 513 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:50,830 feed them certain potions 514 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,580 that would make them turn into large, dark crows. 515 00:27:53,621 --> 00:27:57,749 Those crows would do the deeds of the brujos, 516 00:27:57,750 --> 00:27:59,539 and then come back and turn back into girls. 517 00:27:59,540 --> 00:28:02,290 They were people to be feared. 518 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:06,500 According to the handwritten trial testimony, 519 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:09,200 the headquarters of the righteous province 520 00:28:09,370 --> 00:28:13,160 was located somewhere near the coastal village of quicavi, 521 00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:18,000 carefully concealed within a deep, dark cave. 522 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,886 And this cave was guarded by hideous monsters 523 00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:24,000 that protected the brujos 524 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,000 as they engaged in diabolical rituals 525 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,870 and malevolent magic against the people of chilo�. 526 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,660 One of the beasts that was said 527 00:28:35,830 --> 00:28:37,700 to have protected the cave entrance 528 00:28:37,870 --> 00:28:39,790 was a goat-like being 529 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,160 that had bristles all over its body. 530 00:28:43,370 --> 00:28:46,160 This was said to have been a human baby at birth 531 00:28:46,290 --> 00:28:48,950 that then got transformed and manipulated 532 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,660 by magic, torture and sorcery. 533 00:28:52,870 --> 00:28:55,830 It was also said that the other beast 534 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,830 that protected the cave was this grotesque being, so much so 535 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,200 that the only thing they fed it was human flesh. 536 00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:07,060 Whether these were real or not, we really don't know. 537 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,790 But from the accounts that came forth, 538 00:29:09,910 --> 00:29:13,160 it seems like something very strange was going on here. 539 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,180 Is it really possible that an evil coven 540 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,200 of warlocks terrorized the island of chilo� 541 00:29:19,370 --> 00:29:23,040 from deep inside a cave of dark magic? 542 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,830 The whole truth remains elusive. 543 00:29:27,250 --> 00:29:30,290 Even though we have the trial transcripts from 1880, 544 00:29:30,291 --> 00:29:32,909 it's very difficult to tease apart fact and fiction 545 00:29:32,910 --> 00:29:34,620 in this case. 546 00:29:34,830 --> 00:29:37,500 But something clearly was going on. 547 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:41,580 This brujo society of men 548 00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:45,080 doing bad things was real. 549 00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:47,330 Were the brujos actually warlocks 550 00:29:47,540 --> 00:29:51,830 who had the powers to change into other animals? 551 00:29:51,950 --> 00:29:54,290 It doesn't really matter, does it? 552 00:29:54,450 --> 00:29:56,080 People believed they did. 553 00:29:56,290 --> 00:30:00,120 And faith is all it takes for people to fall in line. 554 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,330 The trial against the righteous province 555 00:30:03,450 --> 00:30:05,500 saw many of their leaders imprisoned. 556 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:09,500 Some were put to death, shackled to a rock, 557 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,830 and drowned during high tide. 558 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,176 But even today, superstitious locals believe 559 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,790 that the dark magic of these evil sorcerers 560 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:22,080 is still present on chilo� island. 561 00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:24,330 The idea was to control the brujos, 562 00:30:24,331 --> 00:30:26,659 to incarcerate them, to get them out of the picture, 563 00:30:26,660 --> 00:30:28,000 which they do. 564 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,580 But one of the by-products 565 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:33,620 of that trial was, all these details become part 566 00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:35,660 of the lore of the island. 567 00:30:35,830 --> 00:30:37,726 The legend of the brujos continues. 568 00:30:37,727 --> 00:30:39,199 Whether those brujos are still there, 569 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,726 nobody really knows, 570 00:30:40,750 --> 00:30:42,830 but belief is what makes curses strong 571 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,160 and what keeps them going. 572 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,750 Does a secret sect 573 00:30:47,870 --> 00:30:51,160 of dark wizards still inhabit chilo�? 574 00:30:51,330 --> 00:30:54,450 Well, the local people certainly believe they do. 575 00:30:54,580 --> 00:30:57,790 But there's another island, 576 00:30:57,950 --> 00:30:59,990 just across the river from New York City, 577 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,910 whose eerie reputation is not due to evil acts, 578 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:10,160 but rather... The haunting of lost souls. 579 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,080 More than eight million people live, 580 00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:20,370 work and play in this iconic Metropolis, 581 00:31:20,540 --> 00:31:24,200 making it the most populous city in the United States. 582 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:28,000 But just off the coast in long island sound, 583 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,160 there's a tiny, 131-acre outpost known as hart island. 584 00:31:33,330 --> 00:31:36,330 With its pockets of trees and grassy fields, 585 00:31:36,540 --> 00:31:39,000 hart island would seem to be free 586 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,450 of the hustle and bustle of the nearby city. 587 00:31:42,620 --> 00:31:45,450 However, appearances can be deceiving. 588 00:31:46,450 --> 00:31:48,580 Because this unassuming strip of land 589 00:31:48,750 --> 00:31:53,330 actually has a larger population than most small cities. 590 00:31:53,540 --> 00:31:54,950 The only difference is, 591 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,870 the residents of hart island are all dead. 592 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,330 New York City is divided into five boroughs. 593 00:32:02,331 --> 00:32:04,079 Only one of those is on the mainland 594 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,540 that's the Bronx. 595 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:09,450 Now, from the Bronx, you can see a small island. 596 00:32:09,620 --> 00:32:11,330 That is hart island. 597 00:32:11,540 --> 00:32:14,540 If you're a Jane Doe or John Doe dying in New York City, 598 00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:16,140 you get buried on hart island. 599 00:32:17,540 --> 00:32:20,450 Hart island is the country's largest Potter's field. 600 00:32:20,580 --> 00:32:24,620 Potter's fields are mass graves that are anonymous people, 601 00:32:24,621 --> 00:32:26,409 people who were forgotten about, 602 00:32:26,410 --> 00:32:29,000 people who didn't have family members to Bury them. 603 00:32:29,870 --> 00:32:33,950 There are over a million dead bodies on hart island. 604 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,700 These burials are often unmarked 605 00:32:36,870 --> 00:32:40,160 or they're in just mass burials. 606 00:32:40,330 --> 00:32:44,580 But that's how this "island of the dead" was created. 607 00:32:45,950 --> 00:32:49,870 Before hart island became new York city's island of the dead, 608 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,620 it was originally used in the mid-1800s 609 00:32:52,790 --> 00:32:57,410 as a quarantine station, a military base, 610 00:32:57,540 --> 00:32:59,500 and even a jail. 611 00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:04,040 So how did it become a massive graveyard 612 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,290 for over a million people? 613 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,660 In the late 1860s, 614 00:33:09,870 --> 00:33:13,290 there are lots of immigrants in New York City and around there. 615 00:33:14,290 --> 00:33:17,080 And many of these people of course died. 616 00:33:17,250 --> 00:33:19,450 Many of 'em were penniless. 617 00:33:19,620 --> 00:33:22,160 And you have to Bury people somewhere. 618 00:33:22,370 --> 00:33:25,870 Hart island became the city's Potter field 619 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,830 because the city was just growing. 620 00:33:27,831 --> 00:33:29,369 And they just didn't have places to put 621 00:33:29,370 --> 00:33:30,950 all the bodies in the city. 622 00:33:31,950 --> 00:33:34,700 Most of the parks in New York are all ex-cemeteries 623 00:33:34,701 --> 00:33:36,449 Bryant park, Washington square park. 624 00:33:36,450 --> 00:33:39,620 So they started using hart island. 625 00:33:40,611 --> 00:33:45,869 New York City's department of charities and correction 626 00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:49,330 purchased hart island from a private owner in 1868 627 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,200 as a location for an industrial school for destitute boys. 628 00:33:55,290 --> 00:33:59,290 Within a year, the first unclaimed body 629 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:02,250 was brought to the island and buried there. 630 00:34:02,410 --> 00:34:05,726 Since then, hart island has become the city's cemetery 631 00:34:05,750 --> 00:34:08,250 for everyone from unidentified union soldiers 632 00:34:08,410 --> 00:34:10,410 killed during the civil war 633 00:34:10,580 --> 00:34:14,160 to the victims of the Spanish flu in 1918, 634 00:34:14,330 --> 00:34:18,870 the aids crisis of the 1980s, and, most recently, 635 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,500 the COVID-19 pandemic. 636 00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:26,660 More than one-third of the people buried there 637 00:34:26,830 --> 00:34:29,750 have never been identified. 638 00:34:29,751 --> 00:34:33,079 Hart island in the past has sometimes been thought of 639 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,290 as a bit of a cursed place or a place with some foreboding. 640 00:34:36,450 --> 00:34:39,340 Mostly just because it was kind of kept secret by the city. 641 00:34:39,370 --> 00:34:43,080 They stopped all ferry service in the 1970s. 642 00:34:43,250 --> 00:34:45,720 Rikers Island inmates were burying the bodies, 643 00:34:45,830 --> 00:34:48,830 and nobody could actually go to hart's island. 644 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,660 So it started gathering this forbidden aura around it. 645 00:34:52,661 --> 00:34:56,039 For decades, the cemetery was strictly off-limits 646 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:56,999 to the public. 647 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,580 But in 2023, 648 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:01,200 the city's department of parks and recreation 649 00:35:01,370 --> 00:35:04,386 was given permission to lift restrictions 650 00:35:04,410 --> 00:35:06,250 and open hart island 651 00:35:06,410 --> 00:35:09,870 to tours and grave site visits. 652 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,500 Today, 653 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:14,200 hart island is at the beginning of a new chapter. 654 00:35:14,201 --> 00:35:16,999 People are allowed to go there now. 655 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000 People who just want to see this place of history. 656 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,500 It's becoming less secretive, more open. 657 00:35:22,501 --> 00:35:24,289 The parks department now runs it, 658 00:35:24,290 --> 00:35:26,870 just like any park in the city. 659 00:35:26,871 --> 00:35:28,619 These days, hart island is becoming 660 00:35:28,620 --> 00:35:31,370 a place for the living as much as it is for the dead. 661 00:35:31,371 --> 00:35:35,499 The transformation of hart island from city cemetery 662 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:39,160 to public park is indeed remarkable. 663 00:35:39,370 --> 00:35:42,330 Nevertheless, the fact that there are still hundreds 664 00:35:42,450 --> 00:35:44,660 of thousands of unidentified bodies 665 00:35:44,870 --> 00:35:48,410 resting beneath the surface is unsettling. 666 00:35:48,580 --> 00:35:52,330 And it raises a fascinating question. 667 00:35:53,370 --> 00:35:58,410 Can an island of the dead be brought back to life? 668 00:35:59,450 --> 00:36:02,830 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining another island 669 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,846 7,000 miles from New York City 670 00:36:05,870 --> 00:36:10,160 that has become one of the most toxic places on earth. 671 00:36:16,461 --> 00:36:19,659 In the middle of the pacific ocean, 672 00:36:19,660 --> 00:36:22,540 thousands of miles away from solid land, 673 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:27,660 is a ring of 23 small islands known as bikini atoll. 674 00:36:28,370 --> 00:36:31,370 It's a geological formation of coral reefs 675 00:36:31,540 --> 00:36:35,500 that grew along the rim of an ancient volcano. 676 00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:39,620 Once part of the U.S. territory known as the Marshall Islands, 677 00:36:39,830 --> 00:36:43,950 this atoll surrounds a vast, 230-square-mile lagoon 678 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,660 famous for its deep blue waters. 679 00:36:47,830 --> 00:36:52,410 From afar, it would appear to be a tropical oasis. 680 00:36:53,370 --> 00:36:55,410 But almost 70 years ago, 681 00:36:55,540 --> 00:36:58,660 a devastating event took place here. 682 00:36:58,830 --> 00:37:02,830 Five, four, three, two, one. 683 00:37:04,370 --> 00:37:07,556 On march 1, 1954, 684 00:37:07,580 --> 00:37:11,000 the U.S. military detonated an explosion here 685 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,160 1,000 times more powerful 686 00:37:13,330 --> 00:37:16,040 than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. 687 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:22,000 It was a nuclear weapons test code-named castle bravo. 688 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,540 The castle bravo test was the largest thermonuclear test 689 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:28,870 that the United States ever did. 690 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,530 The scientists at the time thought it was gonna be 691 00:37:31,660 --> 00:37:35,160 about a five to six-megaton explosion. 692 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,500 But when it went off, it was actually a 15-megaton explosion. 693 00:37:40,660 --> 00:37:43,500 So it was much bigger than they thought it was gonna be. 694 00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:46,580 Over the next decade, 695 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:50,160 bikini atoll would serve as the U.S. military's testing ground 696 00:37:50,330 --> 00:37:51,750 for nuclear warheads. 697 00:37:53,540 --> 00:37:57,040 In fact, from 1946 to 1958, 698 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,040 23 nuclear devices were detonated in the area 699 00:38:02,041 --> 00:38:05,039 generating enough fallout to cover 700 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,870 more than 7,000 square miles in deadly radiation, 701 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,000 transforming this tropical paradise 702 00:38:14,950 --> 00:38:18,870 into one of the most toxic places on earth. 703 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,660 The entire area basically became uninhabitable. 704 00:38:24,830 --> 00:38:29,000 Bikini island itself was obviously just wasted. 705 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,720 But some of these other islands 706 00:38:31,830 --> 00:38:35,040 had really, really bad nuclear fallout. 707 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:36,370 It started to "snow." 708 00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:38,290 Of course, this wasn't snowflakes 709 00:38:38,410 --> 00:38:39,870 this was nuclear fallout. 710 00:38:40,910 --> 00:38:44,830 The water was full of radiation that people were drinking. 711 00:38:44,950 --> 00:38:47,160 And they couldn't raise crops in the soils, 712 00:38:47,370 --> 00:38:49,330 'cause those were still contaminated. 713 00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:54,080 They were far too irradiated for human consumption. 714 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,080 It was all just the stuff of nightmares. 715 00:38:59,540 --> 00:39:03,540 70 years after the United States completed its nuclear tests, 716 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:09,500 bikini atoll remains one of the most irradiated places on earth. 717 00:39:09,660 --> 00:39:13,830 Many experts believed it would never be habitable again. 718 00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:17,540 But recently, a team of scientists 719 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:19,450 from Stanford university 720 00:39:19,620 --> 00:39:23,000 discovered something astonishing. 721 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,000 Life has apparently returned. 722 00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:31,250 In 2017, scientists returned to the bikini atoll 723 00:39:31,410 --> 00:39:33,700 and found that it's thriving. 724 00:39:33,870 --> 00:39:35,910 It's teeming with life, with marine life. 725 00:39:36,790 --> 00:39:39,660 There are coral reefs the size of cars. 726 00:39:39,870 --> 00:39:43,200 Somehow life has found a way to keep building itself 727 00:39:43,410 --> 00:39:45,676 in a radiation-rich environment. 728 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,370 You've got to think 729 00:39:47,540 --> 00:39:49,950 that all of this nuclear testing in the pacific 730 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,750 is about the worst things humans have thrown 731 00:39:53,910 --> 00:39:57,500 at an isolated island community. 732 00:39:57,700 --> 00:39:59,700 And yet bikini atoll 733 00:39:59,870 --> 00:40:04,870 showed just a crazy variety of marine life thriving. 734 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,200 We're talking schools of thousands of fish, 735 00:40:08,370 --> 00:40:11,700 sharks and snappers, tuna. 736 00:40:11,870 --> 00:40:14,540 The earth found a way to adapt, 737 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:16,950 to regenerate, to come back. 738 00:40:18,290 --> 00:40:21,790 Is it possible that the return of life to bikini atoll 739 00:40:21,910 --> 00:40:25,620 is an indication that the earth is reclaiming these islands 740 00:40:25,750 --> 00:40:27,660 from human abuse? 741 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,080 And if so, could there also be hope 742 00:40:31,250 --> 00:40:33,620 that the many other islands of the damned 743 00:40:33,750 --> 00:40:38,000 will one day become healed as well? 744 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,410 Every island has its own spirit. 745 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,620 And with human interaction across the centuries, 746 00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:52,040 negative energy can be embedded within an environment, 747 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,370 within a landscape. 748 00:40:54,540 --> 00:40:57,500 It's almost like an invisible bloodstain. 749 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:00,910 So go there at your own peril. 750 00:41:01,870 --> 00:41:04,200 Once one bad thing happens in a place, 751 00:41:04,370 --> 00:41:06,080 bad things start to just happen 752 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,250 and kind of stack up there. 753 00:41:08,251 --> 00:41:09,749 And then the superstition, I think, 754 00:41:09,750 --> 00:41:12,160 embeds itself into the local culture. 755 00:41:12,370 --> 00:41:15,000 But as we see in bikini atoll, 756 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,950 nature always finds a way to survive. 757 00:41:20,450 --> 00:41:25,000 It's encouraging to think that life can return and flourish 758 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,120 in a place as damned as the bikini atoll. 759 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,330 And might that be the case for other islands that suffer 760 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,830 from dark forces, terrifying monsters, 761 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,250 or unimaginable misfortune? 762 00:41:40,410 --> 00:41:42,580 It's certainly worth hoping for. 763 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:45,080 But for now, 764 00:41:45,250 --> 00:41:49,750 if you ever decide to visit one of these sinister sites, 765 00:41:49,870 --> 00:41:52,750 pay close attention to what the locals are saying. 766 00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:57,080 Because the true dangers of these islands of the damned 767 00:41:57,250 --> 00:42:01,330 remain... 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