A picturesque Welsh island where flocks of sheep, farm animals and puffins have risen has a sinister secret hidden just below the surface.
Some 20,000 bodies are buried on Bardsey Island; so much so, in fact, that it was once rumored that the bones were shodding out of nameless graves due to the sheer overcrowding.
The island, just 3 km from the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd, is known as the “Island of 20,000 Saints” because of the ancient ideals that the soil houses special homes that bestow sanctity on those buried there, Wales Online reports.
Its long and devout history dates back centuries, with legend claiming that the mythical figure of King Arthur buried on the island.
In the sixth century, the Welsh kings of Llŷn and Saint Cadfan are said to have founded a monastery at Bardsey, making it a key pilgrimage until the twelfth century.
A Celtic cross remains on the island today for the other 20,000 people believed to have died there.
Bardsey was so sacred that corpses were sent to the island in the hope that the soil would contain sacred property.
But, with the island measuring only 0. 7 square miles, every time a new frame was buried, others were pushed to the surface as the land was disturbed.
Residents reportedly used the bones glued above the one to make fences.
Last year, a circle of relatives of 4 people won a festival to start a dream life on Bardsey Island.
But they lasted ONE day when, a few hours after arriving, their 10-year-old son, Sam, fell on the rocks.
Farmer Ned, 44, and his wife Sophie, 45, were to spend 3 years on the island managing the nature reserve, a farm and an observatory with their two children.
But on the first day, Sam fell shortly after getting off the boat and had to be taken to the hospital with a leg injury.
Ned left to manage the island on his own and it lasted just over a month.
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