Nov 30, 2020 · Explore the ruins of nine abandoned insane asylums, from the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane to the lobotomy laboratory of West Virginia.

Sep 2, 2022 · The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was supposed to be a place of peace and restoration, but it soon devolved into madness and mayhem — and the spirits of tormented patients allegedly still haunt its halls today. In 1858, construction began on a new mental health facility in Weston, West Virginia.

Nov 30, 2020 · Explore the ruins of nine abandoned insane asylums, from the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane to the lobotomy laboratory of West Virginia.

Nov 30, 2020 · Explore the ruins of nine abandoned insane asylums, from the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane to the lobotomy laboratory of West Virginia.

Sep 21, 2022 · In 1869, Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane opened near Seneca Lake in New York. The facility was built as an alternative to the prisons and poorhouses that typically housed patients suffering from mental illness at the time, where residents were often chained to their beds or locked in cages.

Aug 2, 2023 · This has left a swath of abandoned insane asylums across the U.S. They stand as eerie reminders of a time when people were thrown in padded rooms, restrained to their beds, or subjected to electroshock therapy.

Nov 30, 2020 · Explore the ruins of nine abandoned insane asylums, from the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane to the lobotomy laboratory of West Virginia.

Aug 5, 2023 · From the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum to the English institution that inspired the word "bedlam," explore the dark history of insane asylums. Insane asylums have a long, unsavory history — but they weren’t originally intended as sites of horror.

Nov 30, 2020 · Explore the ruins of nine abandoned insane asylums, from the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane to the lobotomy laboratory of West Virginia.

Apr 30, 2018 · Danvers State Hospital was originally called the State Lunatic Asylum at Danvers (a cheerful name, for sure). It was part of the countrywide concept – at least in the late 1800s – that people with psychological problems needed to be cured inside specially made facilities.