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Eerie 'island of ghosts' where 160,000 people died and tourists are banned
ghosts.These days, few people are allowed to visit Poveglia Island, where 160,000 are believed to have died of plague.Fearless urban explorers Matt Nadin and Andy Thompson ventured onto Poveglia to snatch some video of the forbidden island.Their video shows the abandoned, crumbling buildings and vast mass grave as well as several large containers that may have been used to burn bodies.There are reminders everywhere of the island’s haunted past. In the undergrowth a Latin inscription on one headstone dating from 1793 says, “Do not dig.