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.
The Victorian Era may not have been the start of the institutionalization of patients with mental health problems, but it was certainly a period when the number of asylums and…
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
Hauntings and death are only a few of the freakishly hellish things that occurred in these places. The history itself is enough to make one's skin crawl, but the residual energy cast over these buildings have long kept the dead from leaving...
You might be suprised by the reasons for admission to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum from 1864-1889. Exposure and quackery, anyone?
In the 18th century, countryside farms and estate began popping up along the Hudson River on the west side. Find out the history of these lost villages.
Perhaps there's something special in the Scottish temperament that explains the presence of such an unusual number of stunning castle-like abandoned hospitals. A certain appreciation for history cloaked in moss, ivy, and - inevitably - graffiti, which is a jarring sight on the crumbling stone walls of rural Gothic mansions. Scotland is home to abandoned
A collection of creepy photos from the inside of asylums in the past.
These haunting portraits captured by Dr Hugh Welch Diamond between 1848 and 1858 give an insight into the lives of the women forced to live out their years at Suffolk County Lunatic Asylum.
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
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.
Images show women at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France during the 1870s, as medics tried to cure them and understand their disturbed state.
Between 1999 and 2002, photographer George Georgiou was living in Kosovo and Serbia, recently emerged from war. While in country, he managed to visit three psychiatric institutions. This is what he found.
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
Between 1999 and 2002, photographer George Georgiou was living in Kosovo and Serbia, recently emerged from war. While in country, he managed to visit three psychiatric institutions. This is what he found.
Taken by the witch. To read these words gives me some pause. Some ten years have passed without the tapping at the window, without the fingers dragging through dark hair, without hearing her song o…
Image 59 of 61 from gallery of These Images of Abandoned Insane Asylums Show Architecture That Was Designed to Heal. Courtesy of Matt Van der Velde
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
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.
Between 1999 and 2002, photographer George Georgiou was living in Kosovo and Serbia, recently emerged from war. While in country, he managed to visit three psychiatric institutions. This is what he found.
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These haunting portraits captured by Dr Hugh Welch Diamond between 1848 and 1858 give an insight into the lives of the women forced to live out their years at Suffolk County Lunatic Asylum.
Portraits from an English 'lunatic asylum' circa 1869
West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield opened its doors in 1818 as a place to house “paupers” with mental illness in the UK. The asylum was exemplary for the time, built to house 1000 inmates and cure them of their manias. The following series of photos were taken circa 1869 of patients at the […]
