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Originally called Treasure Island [Ilha do Tesouro]Discovery Island [Ilha das Descobertas] It was a zoo on an island at the Disney World Resort in Florida, United States. It had 11 hectares, it was inaugurated in 1974 and it was not like other parks, here the characters gave way to real animals and the palaces and scenes of films to a diverse flora. Among the various attractions were a flamingo lake, a turtle beach, a crocodile swamp and more than 500 species of birds.
However, the island was far from being one of the most emblematic parks of a company that feeds the imagination of millions of children around the world and 25 years later it closed, becoming a great attraction for all fans of abandoned places, with the nature of the island to “swallow” everything that was left behind.
This was the scenario that Richard McGuire, a 42-year-old man from Mobile, Alabama, described to American officials as a “tropical paradise” when he was caught camping on the desert island.
On Thursday, Orange County officials responded to a complaint that a person had entered the island, on the eastern side of the Disney Resort at Bay Lake. The complaint was filed by a guard at the complex, which has been closed since mid-March, due to the pandemic crisis caused by the new coronavirus, as well as all attractions in Disney’s world, and who told agents that I had seen someone using a boat. , indicating that the area was closed to the public and with several posters with this information.
Richard said he did not hear anyone searching for him, despite the various units that attempted to do so on foot, in the water and in the air, and after several failed attempts to contact him. The man stated that he was sleeping in one of the old buildings and told officers that he did not know it was an area closed to the public. He had arrived on the island on Monday or Tuesday and planned to stay for a week.
McGuire was arrested, without incident, and Disney charged him with private trespassing and the company prohibited him from re-entering Disney facilities. On Sunday, the man would later deny that he was camping on the island, saying he was an explorer and was collecting images for a video on his YouTube channel.
