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However, the plague had not yet been defeated and anyone with symptoms, including children, was forcibly removed and abandoned on the island with the corpses.
Historians claim that about 160 thousand people died on the island of Poveglia.
In 1922 a hospital was built here for the mentally ill, who claimed to have seen the ghosts of the plague victims.
The institute was run by a doctor who practiced the brutal treatment methods of the time. Legend has it that he committed suicide by throwing himself from the bell tower and that his ghost still resides there.
The abandoned hospital is a popular tourist destination on the island, popularly known as Death Island.
A city that has been burning for 60 years
Centralia is almost a ghost town in the Pennsylvania mining area in the United States. The city was evacuated in 1962 due to dangerous underground fires.
The fire of the mine began on May 27, 1962. Unlike in previous years, it was not completely extinguished and continues to rage 60 years later.
According to estimates, the fire in the mines under Centralia will last for at least another 250 years. But despite the noxious fumes, there are people who still live here.
The number of inhabitants begins to decrease – if in 1980 there were a thousand residents, in 2020 – only five thousand.
Most of the abandoned buildings were demolished, only a few houses remained intact. The four cemeteries in the city are kept in good condition. One of them is even at the top of the hill from which smoke continues to come.
Interestingly, Centralia’s cathedral, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is still in use and attracts worshipers from surrounding towns, including people who were once residents of the country.
