Dead Man's Island

These pictures can be taken as frames from a horror movie, but these are real photos from modern Britain. Dead Man’s Island is a patch of land opposite Sheppie Island on the Medway River, and has long been the source of horror stories with heaps of decapitated corpses and red-eyed devil dogs. The island is actually full of human bones, and was used more than 200 years ago as a burial ground for convicts who died aboard a prison ship. Such carabels were very popular in England in the 18th-19th century.





Many of the criminals who by today’s standards would have been petty thieves were sentenced to death at the time. Sometimes executions were replaced by serving sentences on prison ships. Mortality there was very high, the bodies of the dead were buried on the island of the dead. Over time, waves and natural phenomena washed away the topsoil, exposing human remains.

































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