A lone island with a haunted past encompassing nearly a thousand years of war, deadly plagues, and an evil doctor with a penchant for brutal experiments on his patients sits abandoned and decaying with the only inhabitants being the ghosts that roam the crumbling hallways. Or is there more to the story?
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