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b'Mental Institutions, psychiatric hospitals, lunatic asylums\\u2026 whatever you want to call them, they can do good work if given the right resources and staff, helping patients to live through or possibly even overcome mental health crises. But even in the more well-funded locations, nightmares still occur according to both staff and patients. And even when those institutions are abandoned and left to rot, many refuse to release the tormented souls who have somehow found themselves entrapped there in the afterlife. We\\u2019ll look at haunted asylums, we\\u2019ll hear some horrifying true stories from both patients and workers about what happens inside asylums that are still in operation, and we\\u2019ll learn about the horrifying reality of mental asylums in the 19th century acting almost like amusement parks for paying visitors.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE\\u2026
\\u201cMadness In The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum\\u201d by Katie Serena for All That\\u2019s Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3k8t8far and Kathy Weiser-Alexander for Legends of America:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mryb2uv3
\\u201cAthens Asylum for the Insane\\u201d by Kathy Weiser-Alexander for Legends of America: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvx5kr9z
\\u201cThe Buffalo State Asylum\\u201d posted at The Scare Chamber: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2a5jacp3
\\u201cHaunted Asylums\\u201d by Christopher Myers for Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdt42kwa
\\u201cPsych Ward Horror Stories\\u201d by Duke Harton: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2a4avdvz and Isadora Teich: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/57t2z279 for Ranker
\\u201cSeeing the Sights at the Psych Ward\\u201d by Christy Box for Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr3bn87b

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PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/lunatic-asylum-apparitions-and-mental-hospital-horrors/

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