Dressed to scare, they creep around the dark corners of rooms on two floors of fright. They come from all walks of life, a retired Detroit schoolteacher, an administrative assistant at a college and a ...

Eloise Asylum in Westland is part history, part entertainment and all spine-chilling. Once a poorhouse, psychiatric facility and general hospital that housed thousands, it now draws visitors from ...

(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 ...

Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling. Some rooms held battered bed frames or operating tables. In one basement room, empty aside from a single chair, ...