Man who visited 'world's most infected island' has heartbreaking reaction to chilling discovery

A content creator who made the journey to the 'world's most infected island' shared his sobering realisation after visiting.

When you hear the phrase 'world's most infected island', your mind may imagine desolate, faraway places filled with venomous animals or made uninhabitable by disease or nuclear fallout.

However, this time we're looking a little closer to home, at an island located not too far from Queenborough, Kent, which has the rather ominous name of Deadman's Island.

Located in the estuary of the River Medway, Deadman's Island is the final resting place of over 200 unnamed souls.

It's believed most of the remains found on the island came from people who died on board prison hulks moored in the area around 200 years ago, ships modified to house large numbers of incarcerated.

Not the sort of place you'd want to visit (YouTube/Dara Tah)

Conditions onboard the ships were, of course, atrocious and when an inmate died - likely from disease or poor living standards - they were buried on this uninhabited island.

But thanks to coastal erosion and rising sea levels, the centuries old coffins have since re-emerged from the ground, thus creating an ominous island covered in rotting coffins and bones.

The island is officially off-limits for conservation reasons, however, this hasn't stopped a number of morbidly curious people from heading over to have a look for themselves.

One such person was YouTuber Dara Tah (@DaraTah), who went as far as to stay a night on the island and document it for his channel.

"I spent the night on the island full of human skeletons," he explained at the start of the video, adding: "I have visited Deadman's Island once before. It is a small marsh island in the south of England that was used as a mass dumping ground for possibly thousands of skeletons."

Not a place you'd want to visit alone at night... (YouTube/Dara Tah)

Tah goes on to suggest the island was also a dumping ground for victims dying of the plague were also sent to the island, citing local legends, however this has never been definitively confirmed.

Plague victims or not, the place is likely not at the top of anyone's list for a long weekend, leaving Tah feeling very creeped out - and somewhat reflective.

"There's literally bones everywhere, oh my God, there is a rib bone, a leg bone, an arm bone," he said.

"God, OK I feel freaked out that I've come by myself, just can't believe that there's just so much right here.

"Seeing that stuff is very freaky, you just totally dissociate from it being a person but it's a person that lived a long time ago and they just end up on on this island and no one does anything about it. It's quite sad."

However, the trip did leave the content creator with a newfound appreciation for modern life, as he added: "I like to think of it as a reminder of literally how lucky we are to be alive today."