Has anyone actually been near Poveglia island in Italy?

Has anyone actually got proper proof for all the happenings at this island? Has anyone actually passed close enough to the island to feel any auras? personally i don't believe in ghosts or anything and i am a atheist but i do wonder if people do just make such things up for publicity or it really does scare people to death. Does anyone KNOW anyone who ever visited it? even though it is closed to the public and tourists now, surely some people know someone who managed to go there before it was closed off? and what they thought of it?