This is Clipperton Island. It's just a small barren ring of coral in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In the late 19th century, countries fought for ownership of it for a rare resource the island possessed.

To stake their own claim, Mexico sent several families to colonize it and supplies were regularly sent to keep them alive.

Horrifyingly, at some point, crucial supplies stopped coming and once it was clear they'd

been abandoned, one of these inhabitants revealed himself as a true monster.

And this didn't have to do with the lack of food.

This is their horrifying story.

In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, a small, unremarkable island sits barren and inhospitable, betraying very little the atrocities that once took place on it.

It's believed to have first been found by Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, but the

confirmed discovery of the island in 1711 is seen as the official one. That year, an English

privateer named John Clipperton was sailing the Pacific attacking Spanish ships when he came across

the tiny spot of land now known as Clipperton Island. At Pacific attacking Spanish ships when he came across the tiny spot of land, now known as Clipperton Island.

At almost 3.5 square miles or almost 9 square kilometers, this small land mass is made almost completely of coral in the shape of ring, technically making it more of an atoll than an island.

In the center of this ring is a stagnant freshwater lagoon of eutrophic water, meaning

it contains an enriched mixture of minerals and nutrients. There aren't any fish or other sea life

in this lagoon, however, because the only life it supports is algae. The water around the island

is abundant with fish, but these are mostly some distance from the shore and the reefs surrounding

it. There are also hardly any plants there because only coconut trees and a few creeping plants

seem to be hard enough to survive being rooted in coral.

Poisonous crabs also invest the island. It's home to over a dozen species of seabirds,

which used the island as a toilet more than anything, giving it a nauseating stench of ammonia.

Then, beyond just how barren it is, Clipperton Island is about as remote as a place as there

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