For decades the island has been abandoned, as it is considered enchanted. In 1935, two members of an ethnographic expedition disappeared on the island, all attempts to find them, proved fruitless. After some time, several families of the Elmolo tribe settled on the island, they were engaged in fishing, and the fish exchanged for bread and milk, but one day, the relatives decided to visit them, found only an abandoned village and extinguished fires. Several dozen people had disappeared from the island without a trace. Two expeditions from Holland and Germany went to the island again, but the same fate befell them, all disappeared without a trace. The island never revealed it's secrets.