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Poveglia Island

Mystery of the day

Poveglia Island

Haunted

Veneto, Italy

Municipal records say the buildings reopened in 1922 as a casa di riposo, a home for the elderly. A sign reading psychiatric ward is still legible on the entrance wall. For the doctor, the hammer lobotomies, and the fall from the bell tower that made the island famous, nobody has produced a document.

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