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From an island that vanished from one day to another,
to a radioactive island that you should not visit under any circumstances.
In this video you will discover 10 remote islands where very, very frightening things happened.
But before I start with the subject, I have a small question for you.
Would you be able to tell me, to which continent does the island of Madagascar belong?
I'll leave you a few options on the screen,
choose one of them and write it in the comments right now.
At the end of the video, we'll see if you chose correctly,
because I'm going to tell you which continent the island of Madagascar belongs to.
Do you agree?
Now we are ready, make yourself comfortable. And enjoy it, my friend!
I'm the curious Ben. And... How curious are you?
The Miyake-jima Island located in the southeast of Japan,
has been the scene of several volcanic eruptions since the last century.
One of the most recent occurred on July 14, 2000,
on that occasion people had to leave the island quickly,
which turned it into a ghost island for several years.
The reason for the escape was due to the Oyama volcano, which covers much of the island,
this volcano was beginning to spread a toxic gas,
Sulfur Dioxide (SO₂)
This gas can be lethal to humans, if you breathe in large concentrations, there is no way to survive.
Dammit
You're not going to any toxic island at this time of night, Benny.
Take off your gas mask and wrap it up, it's very cold.
In 2005, 5 years after the escape, its inhabitants decided to return,
the Japanese government agreed to their request, only with one condition,
they had to wear gas masks all the time, until it was safe to breathe the air of the island.
How crazy, right?
Since then Miyake-jima Island was recognized by that peculiarity,
as you can imagine, that made it become a focus of attraction for tourists.
Although the masks were only mandatory for 3 years, from 2005 to 2008,
Miyake-jima will always be remembered as the island of the gas masks.
Number 9
These 23 small islands, called together Bikini Atoll, are located south of the Pacific Ocean,
Bikini Atoll is super famous for the atrocities that occurred here between 1946 and 1958.
Did you know that over that time, more than 20 nuclear bombs were detonated on this site?
History tells that after the Second World War,
the United States wanted to continue testing the reach of these atomic weapons,
so they looked for a secluded place where they could carry out their tests.
The best place they found was Bikini Atoll, of course, before they started,
they evicted the 167 Indians who lived on this atoll at that time,
the detonations of those years caused a large part of the island and its surroundings
to be contaminated with radioactive material.
A few years later, in 1972, the natives who had been evicted decided to return,
because the American atomic energy commission said that it was already free of radioactivity,
something that was not true, so they had to evict again.
What I find most frightening is the current landscape of the island, it is a ghost island,
nobody lives here and with the history that it contains,
I doubt very much that any person wants to set foot on the island.
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Number 8
Hashima Island, is another Japanese island where quite terrifying things happened.
It is located a few meters away from the port of Nagasaki,
the locals know it as Gunkanjima, which means "battleship".
The frightening part of Hashima Island began in 1890,
when the Mitsubishi company decided to buy the island,
they soon realized that under the island there were large reserves of Coal,
so as you can imagine,
the following years the island was in its apogee with that of the exploitation of the Coal.
Tons and tons of coal were extracted to be sold within a few years,
and this is where the dark part comes from. It is said that during the golden age of Hashima,
hundreds of people were forced to work in the underwater coal fields,
the working days and the way in which the workers were treated was so cruel,
that dozens of people tried to escape mounted in tables, all those people had a tragic end.
When the Coal Industry collapsed in 1974, the island began to be evicted little by little
until it reached the conditions in which it is currently located,
in semi-destroyed buildings, and the memory of the labor exploitation that had place on the island.
Number 7
San Servolo Island is located in Italy, it is only 10 minutes away from Venice,
and is commonly known as the "Island of the Mad", you know?
With that, you already have an idea that something mysterious should hide this site.
History tells that in 1725, in this place was built the madhouse of Venice,
directed by the order of San Giovanni di Dio, for a lapse of 250 years,
the island was the place of more than 200,000 patients who crossed different phases of...
madness?
As you can imagine, an island that once housed a detention center for the mentally ill,
keeps all kinds of stories, nor forget that at that time, a person with mental disorders
was not even considered a person but rather an animal,
so that the treatment they received was surely not the most appropriate.
When the island was closed in 1978,
chains, straitjackets, handcuffs and torture elements were found,
all of these things were used with patients.
Probably!
The most curious part of all is that at present this island and its buildings
are being used for something very different, now it is the International University of Venice.
How crazy, right?
I do not know if studying at this university is the best idea,
but at least the island is being used for something useful, don't you think?
Number 6
Ramree Island, in Burma, was the scene of a macabre and bestial story in the 40s,
according to what is said, during the Second World War, here a battle took place,
known as the Battle of Ramree Island, so as not to bore you with all the history,
it turns out that at one point during that battle, the British army entered the island,
forcing the Japanese army to retreat until they reached a swampy area.
What the Japanese did not know is that the swamps of the island were plagued by crocodiles,
although there are no official data, it is estimated that more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers
were devoured by crocodiles in a few minutes.
The story is so macabre that many think it is a complete lie,
but the reality is very different,
yes it happened!
and there were even eyewitnesses who have been able to confirm the story.
One of those people who had to live the horror of the scene was Bruce Wright,
an English naturalist and soldier who is not afraid to accept that seeing that scene
has been the most frightening moment that he has had to live.
Currently, this island no longer has the large number of beasts that had,
almost all were hunted by locals, even so, the book of the Guinness Record
decided to catalog the island as the place where the greatest massacre of the history caused by animals.
Number 5
Another event occurred during the Second World War but on the other side of the planet,
was on the Gruinard Island, located northeast of the Scottish highlands,
this island with an oval shape, was the perfect guinea pig to show how poisonous Anthrax is,
a bacterium that just by being breathed can cause signs like a common flu,
with the difference that if it is not treated quickly it will end your life in a ruthless way.
That's scary, right?
Silliness!
Finish ordering your toys, I will not give you money to buy Anthrax
British scientists knew that the bacterium was extremely resistant,
and can survive in difficult conditions for decades or even centuries,
so they made the decision to experiment with the bacteria on a remote and uninhabited island,
on the Gruinard Island,
it is said that for more than 40 years the island was contaminated,
it was until 1986 when an English company was hired to decontaminate to the last corner of the island.
In 1990, I mean, 4 years later, the island was not only clean,
well, that's what is supposed!
but it was sold to the children of the former owners for only 500 pounds sterling.
What a story, don't you think?
Number 4
I present you to Hart Island, it is located in New York,
and although it looks like a totally innocent place,
the truth is that this place keeps very sad stories under the ground.
Did you know that people who were never recognized by family members are buried here?
I mean, all those people who died alone in the last century, rest on this island.
It seems that here, they also decided to bury people with family,
but they did not have enough money to pay decent funeral services.
Apart from being a giant cemetery, the island was also the site of a prison
and a psychiatric facility during the American Civil War.
It was only from 1869, which became this cemetery that I am talking about,
the strangest thing is that access to the public is forbidden, you know?
If you are one of the few New Yorkers that has a relative buried here,
you must follow a lot of procedures, and follow rules stipulated by the government.
For example, they do not allow you to carry cell phones or use cameras,
it is said that at present the government sends convicts a few times a week
to continue digging common graves where bodies of new deceased who have no family will be buried.
How sad, don't you think?
Number 3
As you have surely seen or heard,
the last century was a very complicated century at the political level,
two major wars worried the whole world and were the beginning of struggles between countries
that even now maintains tension, I mention this because at the beginning of 20th century
the Russian government thought it was necessary to build special laboratories
where the main task was to develop biological weapons,
one of those most famous laboratories was built on Vozrozhdeniya Island,
located in the almost extinct Aral Sea.
The story tells that here was experimented with all kinds of substances and toxic elements
such as Anthrax, which I told you about before.
The worst part is that when the Soviet Union broke up,
some of those substances spread throughout the island, leaving it completely contaminated,
so much so that it is now almost impossible to set foot on this area.
Number 2
Another island full of many mysteries and terrifying stories is Poveglia, located in Italy.
Did you know that a lapse of a few years more than 160,000 bodies without life were thrown here?
That's scary, right?
The reason was the following, for many centuries Europeans suffered various plagues,
including the European city of Venice, the Venetians who lost their lives
because of those pests were piled up in a specific area of the city,
but there came a time when there were so many bodies,
that they could no longer use the same common grave,
the best solution they found to bury and pile those bodies,
yes, it was to use Poveglia Island!
They were so many that even today, you can still see some bodies in some areas of the island.
Of course, if you get the permits to get close enough to the place,
personally I think the most terrifying thing is that some unofficial versions of the story
assure that many people who were alive but with illnesses were abandoned on the island,
under his own luck!
Can you imagine being abandoned in this place without any possibility of ever returning?
Pretty tragic, right?
Number 1
The one that I am about to present to you is one of the most mysterious cases
related to an island that I know, did you ever hear about Bermeja Islet?
Probably not. Although it is an island that belonged to Mexico
and that was in several old maps, if you look in Google Maps
using the coordinates where it should supposedly be, you will not find anything.
Screw You!
No whale ate the island, Benny. No, do not say nonsense.
Something you should know is that in the 90s, the area where the island was located
was in dispute between Mexico and the United States,
to be able to claim its territory the Mexican government first had to find the famous island,
and to its surprise, not only they never found it,
but they lost a territory that belonged to them and passed into the hands of the United States,
because of this all sorts of conspiracy theories were told,
since the Bermeja Islet was an extraterrestrial island,
to say that the United States had sent to explode it in a thousand pieces
to appropriate an area rich in oil and other natural resources.
Whatever the truth, no one knows what happened to the island.
Pretty mysterious, don’t you think?
And it's all for today!
I hope you liked this video about mysterious islands.
Before I forget it, did you know that the island of Madagascar is part of the African continent?
If you chose the "D" option, I congratulate you. You just won a...
Crap!
A crap is not even a prize, Benny.
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