A place for experiments: the ghost island near which planes crashed has been empty for 90 years (photo)

One of Scotland’s scariest islands has been abandoned for nearly 100 years after being inhabited for over 2,000 years. There have been three plane crashes since then. The Daily Star writes about it.

The largest landmass in the St Kilda archipelago, Hirta Island is where the islands of Skye, Iona, Arran and Bute often take center stage.

Located about 100 miles from the mainland, it is completely uninhabited and has harsh and uninhabitable terrain.

Hirta has an interesting history. It is believed that people have lived on the island for thousands of years because there is fresh spring water here, and the inhabitants of the region made their living from the meat and eggs of the birds they fed. The largest settlement was known as the “Village” with a population of over 180 at the end of the 17th century.

Later, the population declined due to disease and immigration. According to the Daily Record, according to the 1861 census, the island’s population was only 71 people.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the population decreased further, and in 1930 it was only 36 individuals. In August of that year, the remaining inhabitants, fed up with the harsh life on the island, requested evacuation to the Scottish mainland and left the island forever on board the HMS Harebell.

Since then, the island has started to get a bad name, as three planes crashed here during World War II. Although no one lives there anymore, it is believed that Hirta was used to conduct experiments by scientists with the Department of Defense and the National Trust. The island was also frequented by tourists.

In 2016, Hirta’s last surviving resident, Rachel Johnson, died at the age of 92 when she was evacuated from the island, just eight years old. He has only returned to the island twice in his life – once to shoot a documentary and the second time, at the invitation of the military, to see how his homeland has changed since his departure.

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It was also previously reported that only four people lived in the “British Chernobyl”. Marshall Craig is one of those people who refuses to leave the area. The man lived there for the last 20 years of his life and said he would “never leave”.