Rolling Hills Asylum Originally, a carriage house and tavern servicing stage coaches stood there from 1790 until December 1826, when it was sold to Genesee County. The carriage house still stands on the property today. The tavern serviced travelers from Batavia, NY to...

Opening in 1874, the Athens Lunatic Asylum was one of Ohio’s largest facilities for dealing with the mentally ill. Locals called it “The Ridges,” and for years, it was the home of countless Civil War veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. As people...

When patients were committed to the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York, they arrived with a suitcase packed with all of the possessions they thought they needed for their time inside.  Most never left. The mental hospital had an average...

A place originally named “Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane” isn’t going to be the happiest place on Earth – and, for copyright reasons, could never name itself as such either – but through a ghost into the mix on top of that,...