An explorer who finds his thrill from visiting abandoned places ventured to one of the most haunted islands in the world – and managed to capture some pretty sinister footage from his visit
A thrill seeker has shared his experiences on his latest travel adventure, as he visits one of the worlds most haunted islands. Explorer Adam Mark always manages to dig out remote and unknown locations, which has now become an ‘addiction’ and explores mysterious and abandoned locations.
He shares his adventures on his YouTube channel @AdamMark, and recently the 36-year-old from North Wales visited the islabd of Poveglia, an 18-acre island located just off the coast of Venice.
The island comes with an eerie and dark history as it’s nicknamed the “Island of Ghosts” after being used as a quarantine station for people suffering from the plague in the 1700s and it’s thought there are 160,000 bodies buried there.
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It then housed an asylum before being abandoned completely and declared out of bounds, according to the Daily Mail. To visit the island, it proved a struggle, as the island is closed to visitors due to the dangerous condition of some of the buildings. Adam spend three hours on the creepy island with is partner, exploring what he thinks was a ‘derelict’ housing block with a clock tower.
He likened the remains of the island to “something you’d see off Tomb Raider” and said the area was completely overgrown. Adam also came across a “huge prison” that he said was camouflaged with all the ivy and vines. He recalled how he saw the original beds and shower blocks, as well as a section where the floor had fallen through.
During his visit, he also managed to venture into an abandoned hospital that he recalled had “metal beds on chains, so they’re on the floor, and then you pull them up and they become bunk beds,” calling it something he’d never seen before.
“I didn’t realise it was bad as it was, because I’ve been to Chernobyl, and in Chernobyl, you can still see the buildings and everything, but this is just completely taken over,’ he explained in regards to the overgrown nature growing over the once used buildings.
While it still felt haunted, Adam said it was “pretty cool” but was also surprised by the beds in the prison. “That was quite shocking, because I didn’t know they were there. To be fair, I don’t like to do too much research on a place before I go – it’s like spoilers, isn’t it?”
However some of the more sinister encounters happened on camera, which left the pair “spooked out” in the housing block. “When we was recording, you could actually hear footsteps, they were so clear and the way I had the camera, you could see that me and my partner were just both stood there, and then you can just hear these footsteps run through the room. When we were walking through the housing block, you can actually hear a scream on the video, and we didn’t hear it at the time, so that was pretty weird.”
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