The real-life abandoned asylum inspired the fictional Pennhurst Mental Hospital featured in season four of 'Stranger Things', ...
Eloise Asylum in Westland is part history, part entertainment and all spine-chilling. Once a poorhouse, psychiatric facility and general hospital that housed thousands, it now draws visitors from ...
Can you imagine thinking, "let's take this eerie, old, abandoned mental hospital and turn it into a brewery." Yes, there really is a former psychiatric hospital where the only therapy now is knocking ...
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 ...
Asylums have long captivated historians and urban explorers, serving as haunting reminders of the problematic origins of mental health care. Much like cemeteries, these institutions were used to ...
Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling. Some rooms held battered bed frames or operating tables. In one basement room, empty aside from a single chair, ...