Here are 18 places where you can explore the ghosts of psychiatric history. An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain. The abandoned husk of a mental...

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.

Few institutions in history evoke more horror than the turn of the 20th century “lunatic asylums.” Infamous for involuntary committals and barbaric treatments, which often looked more like torture than medical therapies, state-run asylums for the mentally ill were bastions of fear and distrust, even in their own era.

The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.

Oct 4, 2023 · Here are some abandoned asylums in Michigan with stories that can keep you up at night with fear. 1. Traverse City State Hospital, Traverse City. Perhaps the creepiest place in the Traverse City area, this state hospital originally opened as an insane asylum in 1885.

Aug 2, 2023 · Starting in the 18th and 19th centuries, mental asylums emerged in Europe and the United States as places where the mentally ill could receive care. But "care" is perhaps not the right word, as early insane asylums often used chains, straitjackets, and isolation to keep their patients in check.

Jun 24, 2016 · Bryce Hospital, built in Tuscaloosa in the 1850s and opened in 1861 as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane, is being stripped to its frame so it can be restored. In 2010, the University...

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 28, 2017 · Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

Oct 19, 2017 · From a room stacked with the unclaimed remains in canisters of patients through the 1970s to the hospital's closed and crumbling corridors, this old abandoned insane asylum in Oregon is downright creepy.