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Some things are scarier than the plague.
A r/nosleep master publishes his first novel in The Patient, a horrifying tale set in a Connecticut mental hospital.
Are you brave enough to enter?
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built to help make people well, but it soon became a living hell.
By Orrin Grey
Bedlam Asylum’s chilling past haunts us to this day.
Patients checked in, but never checked out.
Scores of people died in the facility—how many of their spirits remain?
In a quiet hamlet north of New York City, darkness grew...
Outside of Washington, D.C. lies an abandoned institution with a thoroughly disturbing past.
By Gary Sweeney
Its brutal past has made it home to some of the most intense paranormal activity in the area.
A ghost hunter shares unsettling anecdotes—and chilling audio—from investigations at two of America's most haunted sites.
By Olivia Mason
You don’t want to be caught in these hospitals after dark.
This historic hospital for the mentally ill holds a strange history—and an even stranger ghost story.
By Orrin Grey
These images are downright chilling.
These notoriously haunted places share long and violent histories and reports of souls who roam the grounds in search of redemption ... or revenge.
Enter into a historical nightmare.
By Gary Sweeney
Shuttered in 1987, the souls of those who lived there still haunt its halls.
"Sometimes I wish I never set foot in that hospital."
By Tim Nealon