Top 10 Haunted Asylums

The history of “lunatic asylums” and their more modern replacements, psychiatric hospitals, is long, dark, and bloody. The institutions began as essentially prisons for people with mental disorders; the buildings were often just collections of empty cement cells to house those deemed abnormal. In the 1800s, when the mentally unwell finally began to be classified […]

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