Just a hop, skip and a jump from the glitz and glamour of Manhattan, New York, you’ll find North Brother Island, a place with a dark and eerie past.
From the 1880s to 1943, this island served as a quarantine zone for patients suffering from deadly diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis, and leprosy, including the infamous “Typhoid Mary” Mallon. These individuals were whisked away to the island, far from the healthy population of New York’s mainland, where it was thought they could be safely isolated.
Mary, who showed no symptoms, was linked to the deaths of over 100 people she had prepared meals for after infecting them with typhoid in the early 20th century. She died in 1938, confined in a bungalow next to the Riverside Hospital on the island…