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Pictures and history of 19th century insane asylums built according to a plan conceived by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a physician who believed good architecture could help cure mental illness.
Compiled by April Slaughter and Troy Taylor If spirits are truly the personalities of those who once lived, then wouldn’t these spirits...
What is it about abandoned mental hospitals? There is a lure there; not quite sure why. For many years, the abandoned state mental hospital in nearby Danvers, formally and progressively known as the Danvers Lunatic Hospital, the Danvers State Insane Asylum and the Danvers State Mental Hospital (you can trace the evolution of the vocabulary …
The dawning of a new era began with Kirkbride Buildings, beautifully adorned buildings offering hope for the hopelessly insane, or horrible dungeons with pretty curtains, you tell me!? In these beautiful mansion-like buildings, people endured shock and hydrotherapy, the most advanced medical help for mental afflictions in the era. If you were really not doing well, you were a candidate for a full frontal lobotomy to simmer you down some.
Author VL McBeath writes about Lunatic Asylums in the Victorian Era.
Ice pick lobotomies and electro-shock therapy...anyone with a fascination for dark stories should check out our list for the spookiest abandoned asylums in the world.
With his series ‘American Asylums’, photographer Jeremy Harris takes a look at the derelict architecture of abandoned mental hospitals. The images highlight the sometimes bizarre...
Abandoned mental asylums litter forgotten landscapes across the world. But these spooky buildings don’t compare to the fright you’ll experience inside the notorious Briarcliff Manor, the setting of American Horror Story: Asylum.
People are scared of mental asylums. But creepier than mental asylums are abandoned mental asylums. Abandoned mental asylums are places full of silence, silence that…
Tricked-out “haunted houses” are for Halloween amateurs. One local artist is well-versed in the real deal: Her hobby is visiting and photographing...
Prepare to be chilled to the bone in our heart-pounding exploration of the forsaken. In this spine-tingling episode, we step into the eerie world of abandone...
Scary Places: Abandoned Asylums And Hospitals For over a hundred years, the mentally ill were housed together in alms houses and converted jails, then...
There are some terrifying old spots out here in Tennessee, old asylums that will keep you up at night.
The word asylum runs shivers down the spine. Here are the creepiest abandoned asylums in Kentucky, some of which still stand today.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is an Abandoned Place in Weston. Plan your road trip to Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in WV with Roadtrippers.
For his book and project Abandoned Asylums, Ottawa, Canada-based photographer Matt Van der Velde took his camera into abandoned state hospitals, asylums,
Bartonville Insane Asylum, Peoria Illinois: Construction on the building began in1885 and were completed in 1887. ...
What’s worse than a former asylum? A haunted former asylum. We've rounded up eight of the most terrifying ones in the world.
