Legend has it that a phantom rider gallops across the graveyard, much like the Headless Horseman. According to the “Haunted Utah” visitors have reported hearing footsteps and seeing shadow figures. The cemetery is outside of Mercur, Utah, a town that no longer exists because of the strip mining operations that …
Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors in 1952 as a pioneer in psychiatric health with its use of music and art as treatment. As a result of crowding, budget cuts and staffing cuts, the treatment offered to the patients began to suffer. In 1983, the Detroit News found conditions at …
Topeka State Hospital, formerly know as Topeka Insane Asylum was a real American Horror Story for the patients. One newspaper reported told of “a patient confined in leather straps so long, the skin was growing around the straps.” There were other horror stories about patients being raped, neglected, abused and forced …
Overbrook Asylum is located in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and its rumored to be haunted. The asylum’s serene surroundings was suppose to offer its patients peace and tranquility but instead it offered patients deplorable and horrible conditions. In 1917, The New York Times published an article that detailed an incident where 24 …
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Originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, the Penhurst State Asylum became a site of deplorable and horror conditions for the mentally ill. Although the asylum is now a Halloween house, the real horrible is the history behind the conditions and the treatment of the …
The St. Albans Sanatorium has roots bedded in the The Draper’s Meadow Massacre of 1775 and an all boys school known for advocating violence amongst the students. In 1916 the school was converted into a hospital for the mentally ill. The medical staff at the hospital practiced experimental procedures and treatments like Electroconvulsive …
Danvers State Hospital opened its doors in May of 1878. When it opened the hospital practiced humane treatments for the mentally ill, such as gardening and exercise regimens. However, due to the overcrowding of patients, Danvers devolved into an unsanitary, and dangerous place for both the staff and patients. Rumor has …
The Crenshaw House was a “station” on the Reverse Underground Railroad that transported escaped slaves and kidnapped free blacks back to servitude in slave states. The home’s third floor attic contains 12 rooms long believed to be where John Crenshaw operated a secret slave jail for kidnapped free black and …
