Why Heart Island is Totally Forbidden

[@mackpines]

These small islands off NYC have always fascinated me for some reason. I've read a lot about North Brother Island but, not much is written about Hart Island. Always knew it was a potter's field but, didn't know the island had a much broader history. Would love to see a full documentary about this mysterious place.

[@samanthab1923]

There is a doc about all the little islands surrounding Manhattan. It was on PBS & had a companion book.

[@ecamp6360]

@@mackpines How about Rat Island? I think it was for sale a few years back.

[@Supervillainmc]

They have prisoners taking care of cemetery . The prisoners are from nearby Rikers Island and they are like the ground keepers..

[@bluecollarnobody4217]

Good put them to work prison shouldn’t be easy

[@patrickstrong1521]

The first time I heard about Hart Island was from the TV show Pose. In the 80s, the island was used for many of the victims of AIDS

[@srfurley]

I am from the UK. I bought a copy of Melinda Hunt’s book and later visited New York several times between 2002 and 2010. On one of these visits I took the bus to City Island and looked across to Hart Island.

[@ecamp6360]

@srfurley Thank you for visiting the Bronx. Good for you! And for her. When I first met Melinda, I was put off. Maybe by the morbid subject, maybe because she was an intense single-issue advocate. But she has gotten results. Can't argue with that.

[@DLeadVox]

Bravo! another wonderful show. Thank you for bringing this to us!

[@eastsider85]

being here in nyc during covid was madness,remember seeing the mass graves on hart island on the news,its erie seening a mass grave alone,but for paranormal lovers this island is golden for sure,rip to all those souls

[@tr1k716]

Another top VOD my man, Keep up the good work my respect is your's...

[@jaimerosado3896]

I have lived in the Bronx my whole life, and yet I am just finding now about Hurricane Sandy’s desecration of the island.

[@ianpotter2128]

You should check out Partridge Island in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It has a very long history as a quanteen station, grave yard, WW1 and WW2 military station and lots more.

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@phlebgrl6064]

Thank you for this very well done video on the history of Hart Island near New York. I have been fascinated by Hart Isle for decades, but until recently not much had been published. Thanks to the “Hart Island Project” many changes were made to help people locate and physically visit their loved ones buried there. I’ve tried to read everything I come across regarding this unusual and somber place. Thanks for sharing this!

[@robertpsarudakis3474]

Great videos and thank you!

[@aaronx8006]

I’ve buried people on this Island in the early 2000s

[@Mr_nobody_2246]

Great video

[@MrLaneLove]

Hart Island I feel would best be a large park. A type of nature preserve, with trees planted & native flowers. A regular ferry between & as stated public use of the two building to be restored.

[@MrBibi86]

*Imagine how haunted the island would be*

[@eastsider85]

i believe theres a paranormal video on either this island or north brother island,either way ohhh yeah it has to be crawling with spirits

[@MrBibi86]

@@eastsider85 yeah. the amount of people that have been buried there.

[@this51man]

Holy crap I suggested this lol Fun fact, the first baby to die of AIDS in the city back during the AIDS outbreak in the 80s is the only person (in modern times anyway) to have their own grave and own headstone. It's encased in concrete since they didn't know much about it back then Also, the first city Potter's Field was at what's currently Madison Square before they decided in Hart Island

[@ecamp6360]

@@this51man Washington Square too, esp. from Yellow Fever ourbreaks.

[@lirrtrainwreck]

Don’t forget about the abandoned Nike missile silo base that used to be active during the Cold War on this island

[@blackman10970]

Growing up in the Bronx I’ve always known of people being buried there. I don’t think they honestly know how many people are actually buried there. It’s been said that they have dug new graves to find bodies already there unmarked

[@SticksNStones616]

Look up the Manhattan tribe. There is so much secrecy to the Bronx's history. A lot of wicked stuff and even other wild things we found out growing up there myself.

[@outlawalpha]

i Actually first heard about hart island because of its history as a POW camp from the civil war. the conditions there were terrible and a lot of men died from illness.

[@roseknott2832]

Maybe you could take your 360 camera and go thru the buildings?...

[@Less_Serious]

this sounds like something from Warhammer 40k

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

As a request pls do videos on forgotten Wisconsin history

[@Steve.Cutler]

I never saw the mass deaths youre talking about during covid on tv. Where can i find that information?

[@saroeunphok988]

Take a page from Buddhism culture, cremate your love ones. You don’t ever have to worry about them being unearth or put into a mass grave. Just imagine the amount of landscape you would gain from cremation

[@VineyardGaden]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. My gut feeling is that cremation would even prevent the evolution of ghost stories as we know it. Somehow it seems ghost stories revolve around the buried dead.

[@sherryhunter503]

protect yourself at home & out on the go.most people like being big on the screen outside the state..,where save meets no surcurity is needed..good day & B B safe..

[@nicholekidd6918]

im glad nyc parks took over make it into A park build A eroison walls

[@HighHolyOne]

Its easy to see why term burials became necessary in other parts of the world. The flesh would dissolve in time, after which the bones would be removed and the ground was ready to receive another. We haven't encountered this in the US yet, and may not except in the major cities due to the increased use of cremation, and now even mulching. Sounds terrible, but its the rapid disintegration of the body over 30 days, at which point all thats left is good topsoil.

[@dannyjones3840]

I grew up in the Bronx, and used to go fishing on the City Island Bridge as a kid as well as Orchard Beach. Good fishing out there

[@adrianteav]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@joannc147]

Ah, I used to sail near that island several times a week. Spooky indeed. You’re missing the part where the city used the island to incinerate confiscated drugs. Sadly, a few teenagers died during an attempt to dinghy over to Hart hoping to find drugs.

[@rirkc]

1:30 Tom Barrett, AKA Long Tom, not Long Tem, as stated.

[@icharli3345]

My dads 1st wife is buried there they said he has no rights they we’re divorced & she was an orphan 😢

[@brendakrieger7000]

RIP💔

[@cme1027]

Wtf??? I just left NY in 2019. This was not on the news AT ALL.

[@this51man]

It was. My mother was almost sent there during the peak of the pandemic in 2020 before we claimed her

[@cme1027]

@@this51man I didnt see it.. but I believe you.

[@geardo3635]

Title and description are incorrect, Heart Island is in Thousand Island region but the one in the video is HART Island in New York City

[@tinascousin]

Why is the name of the place misspelt in the title of the video? Even references in the comments spell it the right way. How did the makers of this video make such an elementary mistake?

[@Hebrew_Loc]

When i was lived in L.A. from the mid 80's through the early 90's i used to go to Magic Mountain pretty often, I loved riding Ninja, Colossus and Revolution, i also have been on the Edge, Z-Force, and many of the rides you've mentioned, i also got the privilege of ridding Cyclone the week it opened, it was sprinkling the day i went and the steel coasters were on a if its wet we don't run policy, so only the Woodies were running continuously, Cyclone was so new that the wood was still pine wood yellow and you could smell the cut wood

[@Mk99987]

HART Island!

[@iceowl]

the description is for Heart Island in the St. Lawrence river, not Hart Island. completely different places.

[@AmericanMephistopheles]

0:19 "plus migrants," is an understatement.

[@brendakrieger7000]

I just watched the film Island of the Dead🪦🪰🪰 Thanks for sharing this location!

[@mileshigh1321]

:19 seconds on the map at bottom left, it says NOWY JORK instead of New York ! 😂

[@OriginalStachuJones]

Probably, because it's in polish

[@darksepheroth4627]

Abandoned? Why would you even put that in the title?

[@Mk99987]

It is not abandoned.

[@cme1027]

What do u mean?

[@gloriajames3773]

They still use it. My father was buried there this month.

[@bronxhistory2051]

It is Potters field...People aren't getting buried there because the NYC cemeteries are overflowing 😂 If you don't have family or the proper funds that's where you go

[@BonnieDragonKat]

New York still uses this as a Potter's Field. I wouldn't call it abandoned in the slightest. Search KZbin. You'll find stories about people trying to locate people buried there.

[@gloriajames3773]

My father just got buried this month there. He died last month. Going to visit in two weeks

[@mightytax]

I live a 4 minute swim from here

[@ecamp6360]

I'm sure this is good, but... Id believevit more, if they spelled the name correctly. Its Hart Island, not "Heart".

[@tinascousin]

I have a feeling the title has been changed some time since the vid was originally published. There’s an earlier comment about use of the word “abandoned” in the title, but the title I’m seeing on 3 Dec 2024 is “Why Heart Island is Totally Forbidden”. But silly overblown clickbait references aside - arguably they’ve just changed from one to another, as the content proves the place clearly isn’t “totally forbidden”!! - I instantly lose respect for any video with a misspelling of its subject!

[@tobygoodguy4032]

Its Hart - not Heart Island.

[@BxLiteKid]

My cousin of buried here

[@DeanStephen]

The Department of Recreation??? That is just perverse.

[@bluecollarnobody4217]

You’re being very misleading and very disingenuous Hart island is there for people that aren’t claimed at the corners office or they cannot afford a private burial in a normal cemetery

[@bunny4205]

Seems silly we thought we'd have room to burry everyone

[@michaelwilber774]

Smh covid wasnt so terrible that they needed to steal thise people away from thier family's and burried in the middle of no wear island. who ever was in charge needs to be in prison.

[@carloscarrillo5107]

I'm from NYC. Some of my homeboys are buried there. Saddest part is I can't visit them. 😢

[@AdamAwesombrero]

@@carloscarrillo5107 Yes you can. NYC Parks give tours on select Tuesday mornings.