Poveglia Island—Poveglia Island, Italy


At first glance, it's hard to think of this picturesque Italian island as being one of the scariest haunted hospitals in the world. In fact, most people probably would think it to be a nice island getaway. 
However, since the entire island was a quarantine zone during the Bubonic Plague's time in Europe, it definitely fits the bill. If that isn't "hospital" enough, then the mental hospital erected on the island here during the 1920s definitely will make you think otherwise. 
The hospital itself was a nightmare, with one particular doctor being known for performing wicked experiments on patients—often with no anesthetic, sanitization, or interest in actually keeping the patient alive. 
Rumor has it that karma got to the doctor, and he began to suffer from all the tortures the dead put him through. Eventually, he flung himself from the hospital's belltower, killing himself in hopes to free himself from the torture. (Hint: It didn't and he still haunts the place.)
So many people died here, it's rumored that 50 percent of the soil here is human ash. Due to the death and despair of having Italy's mentally ill and "doomed to die" dumped here, Poveglia Island definitely earned the right to be a magnet for paranormal activity. 
People who have risked their safety by going to this now-abandoned island all come back shaken, claiming that they constantly feel watched. Most claim to have seen shadows that followed them around the place, heard voices, or seen things move by themselves. 
Terrifyingly, these ghosts aren't about letting the living do their own thing. Quite a few people have claimed to have been attacked by unseen hands, with one of the more horrifying things to have happened at Poveglia being an incident involving a ghost trying to rip a visitor's face clean off. 
Almost everyone who goes here says that they here someone say, in clear Italian, "Leave, and do not return."
To date, Poveglia Island is one of the only locations that was abandoned strictly due to the hauntings that take place her on a daily basis. That basically says everything about why this is one of the scariest haunted hospitals known to man. 

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