20 Islands That Hide Strange Secrets In Their Histories

Where do we find this stuff? Here are our sources:

“Taal Volcano”, Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program (2011)

“Enter Mexico’s Haunted ‘Island of the Dolls’ If You Dare: Thousands of Creepy Toys Hang from the Trees to Quell the Tormented Screams of a Ghost of a Little Girl who Drowned There”, Jay Akbar, Daily Mail (August 5, 2015)

“The Siege of the South Pole”, Hugh Robert Mill, Alston Rivers (1905)

“Antarctica”, Jeff Rubin, Lonely Planet (2000)

“Letter from Siberia: Fortress of Solitude”, Heinrich Harke, Archaeology Magazine (December 2010)

“Is an Island Off Cuba the Last Surviving Piece of East Germany”, Meg Van Huygen, MentalFloss (January 24, 2018)

“The Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozo”, Mayrhofer Zammit, S. Masterson Publishing (1997)

“Island of the Dragon’s Blood”, Douglas Botting, Steve Savage Publishing (2006)

“Le Malaise Creole: Ethnic Identity in Mauritius”, Rosabelle Boswell, Berghahn Books (2006)

“Palmyra: Isle of Death”, Karl Boyd, Lulu Press (2010)

“Pirates’ Buried Bullion May Be Found on Palmyra”, Newspaper.com

“Japan’s 007 island still carries scars of wartime past”, Diana Magnay, CNN (June 13, 2013)

“Hashima: The Ghost Island”, Brian Burke-Gaffney, Crossroads: A Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture (1996)

“The Abandoned Fishing Village of Houtouwan”, Alan Taylor, The Atlantic (July 29, 2015)

“‘World’s Most Haunted Island’ Up for Auction”, Tom Kington, The Telegraph (April 15, 2014)

“Strange Geographies: The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia”, Ransom Riggs, Mental Floss (May 14, 2014)

“A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867”, John R. Weaver II, McGovern Publishing (2018)

“Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex”, Owen Chase, W.B. Gilley (1821)

“The Loss of the Ship ‘Essex’ Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats”, Thomas Nickerson, Nantucket Historical Society (1984)

“Brazil’s ‘Snake Island’ Is the Place of Nightmares, We’re Pretty Sure”, Emily Thomas”, Huffington Post (July 4, 2014)

“Teikoku’s Complete Atlas of Japan”, Shoin Teikoku, Japan Publications Limited (1964)

“Clipperton: A History of the Island the World Forgot”, Jimmy Skaggs, Walker and Company (1989)

“This 552-Carat Yellow Diamond Is The Largest Ever Found in North America”, Roberta Naas, Forbes Magazine (December 14, 2018)

“Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony”, Lee Miller, Arcade Publishing (2012)

“The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives”, Brandon Fullam, McFarland and Company (2017)

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