Strait jackets. Lobotomies. Scary nurses reminiscent of Nurse Ratched. Audiences are both freaked out and captivated by psychiatric hospitals. That’s probably why it’s one of the most popular settings ...

The researchers gave the patients verbal commands, such as “telling them to imagine themselves swimming or to open and close their hands.” For 60 out of 241 of them, brain scans produced ...

Photographer Roman Robroek went inside an abandoned 19th-century asylum and his eerie photos show the remnants of the horrors patients were subjected to. The asylum — in an undisclosed location ...

Living; Spooky, dilapidated Searcy Hospital complex was state's first asylum for black patients. Published: ; Sep. 08, 2016, 12:18 p.m.

Scary asylums are a Halloween classic, but it’s time to retire the trope It’s hurting those suffering from mental illness. October 31, 2019 More than 5 years ago ...

Ghost Adventures at Asylum 49 where a nurse tells Zak something was killing patients. This week on Ghost Adventures, Zak Bagans and the team are headed back to Tooele, Utah, where they investigate ...

Movie asylums have long been shown as scary castles, haunted places, and/or torture chambers. When hospitals began shutting down in the 1960s and 1970s, films started depicting them as worthless ...

Beechworth Lunatic Asylum was open in a Victoria town in Australia from 1867 to 1995. Most of its patients, reports claim, never left the building alive and there were over 9,000 recorded deaths ...