Say what again Billy?
Say what again Billy?
William DeToma (Billy)
Poveglia island
44 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
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Billy, Bobby, and Joey journey to one of the world’s most haunted places — Poveglia Island off the coast of Venice, Italy.


Once used as a quarantine zone during the Black Plague, the island became a mass grave where thousands of infected souls took their final breaths. Centuries later, it was converted into a psychiatric hospital — a place shrouded in horror and cruelty. Rumors tell of a sadistic doctor who performed barbaric lobotomies on helpless patients before meeting a grim fate himself, said to have fallen — or been thrown — from the island’s bell tower.


From the island’s cursed soil to its dark legends, SWAB tells all about Italy’s most haunted and forbidden island — as spooky season continues here on The Say What Again Billy Podcast.