Prison To Irishwoman “Typhoid Mary” Is New York’s Most Haunted Island

Once home to numerous quarantine hospitals, North Brother Island in New York City’s East River is currently unsafe and illegal to visit unless it can be proven to New York City that it is needed for academic or scientific purposes. 

Now full of decaying buildings and hospitals overrun with lush greenery, North Brother Island was where the famous Typhoid Mary was sent into quarantine.

Born Mary Mallon in Co. Tyrone in Ireland, she emigrated to the US at fifteen and became the first US resident identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with deadly typhoid fever…..Click Here To Keep Reading