WESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Over the years, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum has garnered somewhat of a paranormal reputation, but it might be easy to forget that for more than 100 years it was a real, ...

During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared ...

Vulnerable patients were drugged, electrocuted and raped inside Queensland’s infamous Wolston Park Hospital over a shocking ...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia looks like the asylum of nightmares and for many, it was. But it started out as a place of compassion whose massive overcrowding lead to desperate ...

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

ROCK HILL, S.C. — As a kid growing up in South Carolina, if you were in the house cutting up or doing something bad, your parents would often threaten to “send you to Bull Street.” It was a common ...

(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 ...

Tucked away on the northeast side of University of Mississippi Medical Center's campus in Jackson is a patch of trees which has been left untouched — and for the most part forgotten — for the better ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

On March 23, 2010, Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as "The Affordable Care Act," or ACA. In 2009, in anticipation of it, Katherine Power, then ...