Hart Island serves as a potter's field for all of New York City, where over one million people have been interred since it was opened in 1869.
Hauntings, deaths, illness, and tragedy have long permeated the history of American insane asylums. Here are four of the most notorious real stories of haunted insane asylums.
In 1796, Quaker businessman and philanthropist William Tuke opened the Retreat in York, England, for the care of the mentally ill. Prior to this, those with mental health or behavioral issues were treated worse than the most heinous criminal—they were usually locked-up in bedlams, imprisoned in cells or chained to walls in workhouses. As a Quaker Tuke believed in the sanctity of life and of behaving kindly and morally to all humanity. This led him to build a hospital for the care of those suffering from mental health problems. At first, the Retreat was only open to fellow Quakers, but it soon opened its doors to all. The Retreat changed the way mental health was treated in England, and in 1818 the first of four hospitals, the Stanley Royd Hospital in Wakefield, was built under the aegis of the West Riding General Asylums Committee. A further three hospitals were built between 1872 and 1904—the South Yorkshire Asylum built in Sheffield, the High Royds Hospital in Menston and the Storthes Hall built in Kirkburton—which became villages for patients and all four hospital together formed the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Inspired by the Retreat, the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum pioneered...
Unlike the bleak public county asylums at the time, Holloway Sanatorium in Surrey was a grand mental hospital for paying 'insane' patients from the Victorian middle and upper classes.
Every face tells a story. Every picture expresses what the photographer wanted to show. These potraits are of inmates at West Riding Asylum, in Yorkshire, England. Taken around 1869, the images are captivating. Each face is life misunderstood. And shackled.
Are you in the mood for getting the stuffing scared out of you? Here are six abandoned asylums in Indiana that will make you uneasy.
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
While the treatment of mental illness has a long way to go, these pictures are a reminder of how far the field has come in just a few decades as patients are shown locked away in jails.
the project highlights the structures that were built as a form of therapy - reflecting on the thousands of individuals who lived in these places, some for the majority of their lives.
Urban Exploration photo gallery from my two visits to the abandoned Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane in New York State.
An abandoned psychiatric hospital that once housed the District of Columbia’s most mentally troubled residents has now become an abandoned wasteland. Constructed in 1925, the 200-acre, 22-building …
Touring the Indiana's Haunted Randolph Asylum. A bit of history and a bit of paranormal evidence. This is one ghostly location you don't want to miss.
An asylum is a psychiatric hospital where people with serious psychiatric illnesses are being treated, but some just got way so insane, it's creepy. Sure, insane asylums give us the creeps just by looking at their photographs, but wait til you hear the chilling true stories behind these hospitals. Here, we've selected the 10 creepiest and most
Touring the Indiana's Haunted Randolph Asylum. A bit of history and a bit of paranormal evidence. This is one ghostly location you don't want to miss.
THESE haunting photos reveal the crumbling remains of America’s abandoned asylums. The collection includes the private mental hospital where celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Zelda Fitzgera…
Little more beyond these images are known about these vulnerable women who were hospitalised for conditions such as female hysteria and modern-day anorexia nervosa
NIA JONES reveals five of Britain’s most sinister abandoned mental hospitals.
В последние годы XIX века численность населения Берлина резко возросла. И проблемы размещения людей были не за горами. К 1898 году Немецкий институт
Photographer Mark Davies spent more than six years visiting abandoned psychiatric hospitals, such as this one in Epsom, Surrey, to see what remains of the places where inmates once lived
Touring the Indiana's Haunted Randolph Asylum. A bit of history and a bit of paranormal evidence. This is one ghostly location you don't want to miss.
Mental asylums have a bad name – but they were originally places of sanctuary. See how they lost their reputation in our photographic journey
There are some fantastically creepy insane asylums out here in Tennessee - take a look!
An asylum is a psychiatric hospital where people with serious psychiatric illnesses are being treated, but some just got way so insane, it's creepy. Sure, insane asylums give us the creeps just by looking at their photographs, but wait til you hear the chilling true stories behind these hospitals. Here, we've selected the 10 creepiest and most
Australia, as a settled country, isn’t that old. Sydney and Melbourne are the two largest and oldest cities on the continent, yet we can only look back to the late 1700s for a Western history of th…
History of Renwick Smallpox Hospital with photographic documentation and urban exploration accounts by Tom Kirsch.
Pictures taken at Bethlem Royal Hospital in London - aka 'Bedlam' - between 1856 and 1857 were supposed to help doctors analyse mental health conditions via a patient's facial expression.
