Just off Italy’s southern coast, is a rocky island believed to be so cursed that many locals refuse to go near it.
Embedded within the wave-beaten outcrop, a tiny abandoned villa lies, all but in ruins, a mere 100 feet from the coastline of Posillipo, an affluent residential area of Naples. The island consists of two lumps of rock connected by a stone bridge. Known as Gaiola Island (or Isola della Gaoila), tourists, perhaps naively, flock here to snap holiday photos, unaware of her haunted past.
Maybe if they knew, they would steer clear as locals say it is infected with “Gaiola Malediction”—or the Galiola curse. That’s easy to dismiss as superstition or overblown folklore until one considers the strange sequence of events, deaths, and happenings surrounding the place….