9 Abandoned Asylums That Will Make Your Skin Crawl - All That's …
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.
Willard Asylum, The Abandoned Mental Hospital Near Seneca Lake
Sep 21, 2022 · First opened near New York's Seneca Lake in 1869, Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane closed in 1995 — and the eerie building has since been left to rot.
Inside The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum And Its Haunting History
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.
Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past - All …
Aug 5, 2023 · Patients endured horrifying “treatments” like ice baths, electric shock therapy, purging, bloodletting, straitjackets, forced drugging, and even lobotomies — all of which were considered legitimate medical practices at the time.
Inside History's Worst Mental Asylums In 44 Disturbing Images
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.
Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past - All …
Aug 5, 2023 · One of the eeriest landmarks of Upstate New York is probably one you’ve never heard of. It is the abandoned Willard Asylum For The Chronic Insane, a sprawling facility that once housed the most vulnerable members of society: mental health patients.
Inside Byberry Mental Hospital, Philadelphia's House Of Horrors
Oct 21, 2021 · Inside Byberry Mental Hospital, The Philadelphia Asylum That Was Worse Than Any Horror Movie. The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry tormented its patients with almost no consequences from its opening in 1911 until it was finally shut down in 1990. Public Domain The “violent ward” at Byberry mental hospital. 1943.
Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past - All …
Aug 5, 2023 · Before modern psychiatric hospitals, insane asylums detained countless mentally ill patients, criminals, and other "undesirables" in brutal conditions. Some of these facilities held 10 times as many patients as they were meant to accommodate, with some unruly inmates being kept in cages in hallways.
Inside Nine Horrifying Insane Asylums Of Centuries Past - All …
Aug 5, 2023 · These asylums often housed those who were not actually “ill,” such as criminals, people with disabilities, and sometimes even immigrants. They were targeted because they were deemed unwanted by society — and thus, they were all banished together.
7,000 Bodies Found Buried Under 19th Century Insane Asylum
May 8, 2017 · New findings indicate that thousands of corpses are buried on the grounds of a Mississippi mental asylum that shut down nearly a century ago. Underground radar shows that as many as 7,000 patients’ bodies lie underneath what …