Episode 46: The Black Death and the Haunting of Poveglia Island

Let's Get Haunted

Comedy

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

This week, Nat wows Aly with the story of Italy's most haunted island: Poveglia. Used as a quarantine center during the Bubonic Plague, many europeans met their death confined to the island's buildings. Later, Poveglia was used during WWI, WWII, and, finally, it was used as an insane asylum. Is this our craziest story yet??? Sources: www.thevintagenews.com www.atlasobscura.com www.cntraveler.com www.dailymail.co.uk allthatsinteresting.com luxeadventuretraveler.com www.historywalksvenice.com www.ancient.eu/article/1540/medieval-cures-for-the-black-death/ www.pravdareport.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted
0:16.0	with your host,
0:18.0	Nat Strong, and Ali.
0:22.0	Hey everybody.
0:23.0	Hello, fellow Let's Get Haunted Community.
0:27.0	Hello, haunted fam.
0:29.0	Are we like the presidents of Let's Get Haunted, or are we just like also part of haunted or are we also fans?
0:34.7	How does, what is this?
0:36.2	I feel like we haven't recorded in so long, but that's not true.
0:39.6	We literally just recorded the Pope Lake Monster episode a week ago, but I feel like it's been a million years.
0:46.3	Do you feel like that?
0:47.3	No, I feel like we're always recording stuff.
0:50.2	Like I'm getting to the point where I'm trying to figure out what else is haunted that we haven't talked about and like everything comes back together like I feel like once you know about a few haunted things
1:00.0	Then they all start coming together like I'll be reading a story about a new topic and then it'll use like a topic I've covered in the past as another example of something similar you know?
1:10.4	Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I feel like everything I read lately I just keep relating
1:16.7	back to the mind matter interaction that Dean Radon talked about on Randonautica. Like I'll read something simple and I'm like, oh yes, that makes perfect sense because our minds are actually releasing particles into the atmosphere that creates a global consciousness. Basically I'm insufferable now.
1:32.5	I have the same thing but instead of it being
1:38.8	something super modern I'm starting to realize that like I agree with a lot of medieval beliefs on like
1:46.2	medicine and religion and I was like you know what maybe the dark ages like I think I would survive there like I
1:54.0	think I would do really really well we're just regressing back to all the
1:59.1	progress that people have made in modern times with science and medicine.
2:03.9	We're just discounting and we're going back in time.
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