Graylingwell Hospital opened in 1897, and Ms Millard said the hospital's first Med Supt, Dr Harold Kidd, had a "pioneering ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...

For some people, the allure—even the eeriness—of abandoned places draws them to dilapidated destinations year-round. For ...

The real-life abandoned asylum inspired the fictional Pennhurst Mental Hospital featured in season four of 'Stranger Things', ...

Nottingham pioneered the concept of publicly funded lunatic asylum in 1812 - but quickly encountered the problem of ...

On May 8, 1897, South Dakota Senator Richard F. Pettigrew introduced a bill on the floor of the senate. Its purpose was to establish “an Indian insane asylum” at Canton. The bill was read twice and ...