Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map dated 1886 shows the area of Summer, East Central and Asylum streets in Worcester. The area, later divided by the Worcester ...

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 ...

BURIED AT THE SITE. IT’S CALLED THE ASYLUM HILL PROJECT. BUT CONSTRUCTION UNCOVERED HUMAN REMAINS AND GRAVES IN 2012. NOW, ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDIES PREDICT THERE COULD BE UP TO 7000 PEOPLE BURIED ON ...

Lacey Jordan had us wondering about this one. Did she ever. “My grandfather was born at Highsmith-Rainey in 1935,” Jordan, 35, says about the hospital that once stood hard along Bradford Avenue. “I ...

The grounds of Willard State Hospital, once the home of the largest mental institution in Upstate New York, once again lay abandoned as its last occupant, DOCCS’ Willard Drug Treatment Campus, has ...

Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville was home to thousands of psychiatric patients, one reform-minded administrator and arguably the area's greatest ghost story. The asylum closed in 1973, but 50 ...

PETERSBURG, Va. — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI - The dark, crisp nights of October might be just the perfect time to be led slowly through one of the old brick buildings that are part of the former Northern Michigan Asylum - and ...