![]() ![]() The most notorious resident was Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary. Later it was a Riverside Hostipal where they treated contagious diseases. It is a place where over 1.000 people died after a passenger ship sank in the island’s waters. North Brother Island is a 13-acre piece of land located in the East River, a couple of miles away from Manhattan, New York. With many people saying this place is haunted, no wonder this island is illegal to visit, and we’re not sure anyone would want to go there. ![]() Now, you can still find washed up human bones on the island’s shore due to the horrific amount of humans killed there. It is safe to say that it did not affect the patients in a positive way, since the island already had a truly creepy vibe to it. Then, back in 1922, they opened a mental hospital here. People say that the land became so affected by the burned and rotten human corpses, its soil is now 50% composed of human ash. A terrible amount of people were dumped into the ground, buried in the same graves and even burned. Later, during the medieval era, when the plague returned, the island once again became a home to thousands of deadly sick people. ![]() It all started during the Roman Empire when the island was used to home victims of the plague. Poveglia is an island known as one of the most mysterious and creepy places in the world. Make sure you check our article to learn more about the Global Seed Vault! Today these lost stores have become of vital importance in war-torn and drought-affected Syria. It was used to store the genetic material of crops. The first withdrawal from the vault was recently made by Syria in order to recreate an International Research Centre in Aleppo which was lost to war. Policy is invalid here – even North Korea has frozen its seeds there. The vault contains 100 million seeds, a complete ‘backup’ of Earth's food-crop seed at the present time. It was placed on the side of a mountain so even if all the ice on earth melts, it will still be above sea level. It was built to last around 200 years and withstand earthquakes and explosions. It is sometimes called 'The Doomsday Vault”, because even in the worst scenario of a disaster to mankind it would preserve the diversity of the world's food crops and restore the plant kingdom. Deep inside the Arctic circle, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the Global Seed vault is hidden deep inside a mountain. ![]()
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