Terrifying Cursed Island Mysteriously Kills Everyone Who Lives On It

The teeny-weeny island of Gaiola in Italy seems like every aspiring super villain’s dream. There’s just one problem: it’s cursed. No, I’m not joking. Despite only being a few feet wide – just big enough to support two buildings and a narrow bridge – the island has a disturbing history, fraught with eerie incidents and mysterious deaths.
The island of Gaiola, off the shore of Posillipo, takes its name from the Latin term caveola. In the 1800s a hermit nicknamed “The Wizard” was the beautiful island’s only resident. Superstitious local fishermen gave him enough food to survive upon, but basically left him to his own devices. But one day “The Wizard” mysteriously disappeared, leading locals to believe he cursed the island. All this would sound pretty far-fetched, were it not for all the other blood and tragedy.In the 1920s, the island and the small villa on it belonged to the Swiss Hans Braun, who was one day found dead, wrapped in a rug. Not long after, his wife mysteriously drowned while swimming in the sea. The villa’s next owner was Otto Grunback, a German man who died of a heart attack while living on the island.

After him, the island fell into the hands of pharmaceutical industrialist Maurice-Yves Sandoz, who committed suicide in a mental hospital in Switzerland. Its next owner, a German steel industrialist, Baron Karl Paul Langheim, was dragged to economic ruin not long after the purchase of the island.