As I finished the usual location and, date
and time log at the beginning of the
recording, I turned to our guide to ask
her if she would kindly translate all our
questions into Italian, within a couple
seconds of her agreeing, a frequency
pop burst through the headphones and
a female voice asked ‘Who’s There?’.
This caught me completely off guard as
I expected any EVPs captured to be in
Italian. I played the recording back to the
group; I could see the colour drain from
our guides cheeks as the class A EVP
boomed through the small speaker. We
were off to a great start!
The group had split into two to cover
ground, whilst one group took photos
and SLS / video footage, the rest
of us proceeded to try and entice
communication using the P-SB7 Spirit
box and several burst EVP sessions. Sad
to say, perhaps on that particular day,
the spirits did not want to talk as we were
unable to document much more activity.
Other than a few strange EMF spikes and
one figure briefly captured on the SLS
camera, majority of the phenomena we
experienced was subjective. Cold spots,
chills, sudden violent mood swings,
feelings of despair and intense sorrow, I
believe several members of the group felt
extremely overwhelmed and burst into
tears for no apparent reason. Group two
managed to capture some interesting
footage of an interference affecting
their videos, was this paranormal... who
knows, it certainly was strange. In total
we had spent a few hours investigating
and photographing this extraordinary
place, but we could have easily spent the
rest of the night on the island.As we headed back towards our boat a
look of relief swept over the captains’
face, we loaded up and headed back to
the bustling bars overlooking the Grand
Canal for an ice-cold Aperol Spritz...
when in Venice.ISLAND HISTORY
The Italian island of Poveglia has a
history chock-full of tragic events going
back thousands of years. During the Roman
Empire, the island was used to house
victims of the plague in order to protect the
rest of the country, forcing inflicted people
to live and die in isolation.Dead bodies quickly began to overcrowd
the island and thousands were dumped into
large, common graves. In many cases, the
bodies were burned. Some overly cautious
Italian communities even got into the habit
of shipping away anyone who showed the
slightest signs of illness, not a time you’d
want to catch a common cold. Many who
had showed any signs of being unwell were
dragged onto a boat, shipped to the island
and dumped on top of a pile of rotting
corpses. The terrifying, negative energy
that has been left in the wake of these
deaths remains, even in the island’s very
soil.