Two films in theaters now are frightening audiences just in time for Halloween. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and It: Chapter Two both have all the elements needed to jolt us out of our seats ...

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 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y., July 15.--Ex-Policeman Michael Uhlman, of Geddes, who has just been released from the insane asylum at Utica, after a confinement of three months, tells a frightful story of ...

Columbus, Ohio; the Lunatic Asylum. Skip to content Skip to site index ... Destruction by Fire of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum at Columbus--Six Patients Burned to Death. Share full article.

In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients. It was the first to house Black people in the state, but when they arrived ...

A year-round haunt, Brighton Asylum has been staged inside a 13,000-square-foot warehouse in Passaic for over a decade. As the legend goes, the institution − which was known for its insufferable ...