TIL that in 1950, the Italian town of Colobraro declared itself “the town of the living dead” after a local curse and started wearing white sheets at night to protect themselves from misfortune.

https://travel.nine.com.au/destinations/spooky-italian-village-bad-luck/6e3f0690-93f9-44c4-8bdd-99ac0dadb23f
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