The Phantom Island That Haunted 16th-Century Newfoundland
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The ‘Isle of Demons' was said to be overrun with ghosts and ghouls.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9283125

The Isle of Demons appeared on maps of the New World for more than a century. But by the mid-1600s, cartographers made an important discovery: There was no Isle of Demons.

Bermeja, a 31 square-mile island in the Gulf of Mexico first charted in 1539, was only officially marked as non-existent in 2009, following an investigation led by scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.

  • Cyborganism
    4·
    1 year ago

    Imagine you land on that island and suddenly you’re a knight and you’re in the video game Ghouls and Ghosts.

    I’d be dead within a couple minutes.