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Gaiola Island is a small island just off the Gulf of Naples, with picturesque scenery and clear green waters caressing ancient relics.
Sounds like a dream place for a day trip on vacation right?
Well, even though this island, which also has a private luxury villa, looks like a postcard waiting for people to come visit and admire it, for a long time no one dares to go there.
The reason: the place has a mysterious past of unexplained deaths, and what was the private "paradise of the city's rich" has now been abandoned for years due to the belief that it is "cursed", after a terrifying series of murders and unexplained deaths and people who were there disappeared, drowned and murdered .
The island is located off the coast of Naples, with a picturesque landscape and clear emerald-colored waters, which wash ancient ruins - the place sounds like a dream destination for a day trip, but no one dares to visit it for years and it is abandoned and isolated.
In the distant past it was popular among the Romans, who even built a temple there in honor of the goddess Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory.
In those days the island was called Ipola and according to legend the Roman poet Virgil used it to teach his students there.
Ancient legends, on the other hand, are also responsible for the fact that the locals do not approach him anymore.
It all started with the wizard
A monk who was nicknamed "The Magician" lived in Gaiola in the 19th century and survived there with the help of fishermen who cared for him, until one day he mysteriously disappeared and the residents believed that he cursed the island before leaving.
After that a villa was built on the island and in 1911 there was a sea captain named Captain Gaspar Albenga who was interested in buying it.
But the rocks around the island were too high for his ship to crash and he drowned.
To this day, the remains of the ship or his body have not been found.
Other stories describe more unfortunate incidents, including that of Hans Braun from Switzerland who lived there in the 1920s.
His body was found dead and wrapped in a carpet, with his wife said to have later drowned in the sea.
A German named Otto Grunbeck, who owned the island for a short time, died of a heart attack in the villa and another owner, Maurice-Yves Sandoz, bought the property and promptly went insane and committed suicide in a mental hospital in Switzerland.
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The island also once belonged to Gianni Agnelli, who owned the Fiat car company, the Juventus soccer team, the newspaper Le Stampa, and more.
Agnelli is considered the richest Italian in the modern history of Italy and is called the "Uncrowned King" of Italy.
He too fell victim to the curse of the island and lost many of his relatives and experienced many personal difficulties in his life, at the height of which his son's body was found under a bridge after apparently committing suicide, and his nephew died of a rare type of cancer at the age of 3.
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Billionaire Jean-Paul Getty was the next high-profile person to be linked to the island.
In 1973, the Calabrian mafia, known as the 'Ndrangatta, kidnapped his grandson.
His captors demanded 17 million dollars in exchange for his release.
At first Getty refused to pay the ransom, saying that if he paid the ransom he would make the criminals kidnap the rest of his children.
After his grandson's kidnappers cut off the grandson's ear and sent it to him, he agreed to pay 3 million dollars to the kidnappers for his return.
The last owner, a businessman who owned an insurance company, Gianspeccola Grappone, was imprisoned for debt.
Since then the villa still stands empty and neglected and the island is abandoned.
It is now owned by the authorities of the Campania region, who established the Gaiola Underwater Park there and turned it into a marine protected area and can be reached by a short swim from land, but it seems that no one wants to get close to the cursed island.
And you can understand why.
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