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The villa on the island. Naples's legend has considered Gaiola a "cursed island", which with its beauty hides a "restless fate" , the "Gaiola Malediction." [4] The reputation developed from the frequent misfortunes and premature deaths in the families of its 20th century owners. For example, in the 1920s, it belonged to the Swiss Hans Braun ...
Fortunate Isles (Islands of the Blessed) Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology. Garden of the Hesperides. The sacred garden of Hera from where the gods got their immortality. Hyperborea.
An island between the Japanese home islands of Honshu and Shikoku formerly home to a chemical weapons plant in WW2, now home to a huge population of feral but largely tame rabbits. Om Banna: An Indian shrine dedicated to a supposedly-sentient motorbike. Omsk Metro: A metro system with only one station and a total length of zero kilometres ...
The Aleutian Basin, the ocean floor north of the Aleutian arc, is the remainder of the Kula Plate that was trapped when volcanism and subduction jumped south to its current location at c. 56 Ma. [8] The Aleutian island arc formed in the Early Eocene (55–50 Ma) when the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the North American Plate began.
Sakurajima (Japanese: 桜島, lit. ' Cherry Blossom Island') is an active stratovolcano, formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. [2] The lava flows of the 1914 eruption connected it with the Ōsumi Peninsula. [3] It is the most active volcano in Japan.
In 1922, the island became home to a mental hospital, where a doctor, reportedly, experimented on patients with crude lobotomies. He later threw himself from the hospital tower after claiming he had been driven mad by the spirits of the island. The island has been featured on the paranormal shows Ghost Adventures and Scariest Places on Earth.
The Inunaki Village (Japanese: 犬鳴村, Hepburn: Inunaki-mura, lit. 'Howling Village') is a Japanese urban legend dating back to the 1990s, about a supposed village in Fukuoka Prefecture, whose aggressive residents refuse to follow the rules of the Japanese constitution. The village is said to be located in the vicinity of Mount Inunaki, near ...
Coiro chose to shoot on the island of Ischia because one of her producers had a home there where they could film parts of the movie. While writing the script she used Google Earth to find interesting locations and one on Ischia she and the crew would arrive and illegally film in those locations without asking for permission.