Viðey (Videy)

Viðey (anglicized Videy) is the largest island in Kollafjörður Bay, located just outside Iceland's capital, Reykjavík. The island hosts Videyjarstofa (Videy House), cited in travel sources as Iceland's oldest stone building dating to 1755, and is a focal point for contemporary public art and memorialization, notably Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower (a light memorial to John Lennon) and Richard Serra's sculpture 'Áfangar'. Historically the island has served multiple uses, including horticulture (a historical reference to cumin cultivation appears in archival material) and settlement activity, and today it is principally a day-visit destination offering walking routes, birdwatching, and a cafe operating from Videyjarstofa. Access is by boat/ferry from Skarfabakki pier at Sundahöfn; a city plan proposed a bridge by 2030 but ferry access remains the current mode. The provided source set contains no accounts of hauntings, apparitions, poltergeist activity, or named supernatural entities associated with Viðey. A travel essay references surprising plant life discovered on the island, but this is presented as natural history rather than paranormal. Because no paranormal claims are present in the research notes, this entry records no reported phenomena.