Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica ...

Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of ...

Experience the eerie atmosphere of an abandoned mental asylum and state hospital, where decades of history linger in empty hallways and decaying rooms. Exploring abandoned asylums reveals haunting ...

The Eloise Asylum in Westland was once a poorhouse, a psychiatric facility and a general hospital that housed thousands of patients. At its peak, Eloise was a self-sufficient community spanning 900 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map dated 1886 shows the area of Summer, East Central and Asylum streets in Worcester. The area, later divided by the Worcester ...

"This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', curated by Mike Jay and Bárbara Rodriguez Mun̋oz, held at Wellcome Collection, ...

Ethan Krieger (He/Him) is an editor at DualShockers that got started in the writing industry by covering professional basketball for a sports network. Despite being a diehard sports fan (mainly ...

“The stigma and fear of mental illness began to go hand in hand with the stigma and fear of the institution.” Such narratives included books such as the 1868 “ The prisoners’ hidden life; or, Insane ...