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 ...

Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...

The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...

This year, I taught a brand-new class on the history of the psychiatric asylum with my colleague, Dr Hannah Proctor. "Bedlam and Beyond: The Controversial History of the Asylum" is a seminar-based ...

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 ...