A man who visited the ‘world’s most infected island’ was absolutely taken aback after coming into contact with ‘500-year-old coffins’ and bones.
The remains of over 200 people, as of 2016, are on Deadman’s Island and it’s a lot closer to home than you think.
The island has a haunting past (YouTube/Dara Tah)
Located near Queenborough, Kent, the island has a truly haunting past.
The hundreds of human remains are thought to have belonged to prisoners who died on hulks, which were basically ships that used to house convicts back in the day.
As you can imagine in the 18th and 19th centuries, conditions on board were rough, and it didn’t take long for disease to spread amid the poor sanitation.
It is believed that when the people onboard passed away, their corpses were buried in unmarked coffins on the island.
YouTuber Dara Tah (@DaraTah) recently took it upon himself to visit Deadman’s Island to show us what it’s really like.
“I spent the night on the island full of human skeletons,” he said.
The amount of human remains on the island was shocking to see (YouTube/Dara Tah)
“I have visited Deadman’s Island once before. It is a small marsh island in the south of England that was used as a mass dumping ground for possibly thousands of skeletons infected with the Black Plague but this time we’re spending the night.
“I found out about an area on the island called Coffin Bay which is almost always submerged underwater but during this time of year there is a small window to find it and search it.
Dara described the island as ‘freaky’ (YouTube/Dara Tah)
“Our window was at midnight, meaning we would be stranded on the island for the night as the tide went out and surrounded the island in a deep quicksand.”
After coming into contact with 500-year-old bones and coffins, the content creator was shocked and saddened by what he saw.
“There’s literally bones everywhere, oh my god, there is a rib bone, a leg bone, an arm bone,” he said.
“God, OK I feel freaked out that I’ve come by myself, just can’t believe that there’s just so much right here.
“Seeing that stuff is is very freaky, you just totally dissociate from it being a person but it’s a person that lived a long time ago and they just end up on on this island and no one does anything about it. It’s quite sad.”
However, Dara Tah did come to a somewhat philosophical conclusion and said: “But I like to think of it as a reminder of literally how lucky we are to be alive today.”
