IF the walls of the abandoned “lunatic asylum” on Peat Island could speak they would tell of the horrors experienced by patients, including children, on a site plagued by death and despair.

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum held its grand reopening Saturday morning, welcoming visitors with a special commemorative wine glass for the first 200 guests. Shouted questions at Trump have ...

Outside her door, someone had painted over what used to be a peephole. Building Six, as it was known, had once been the women’s quarters of Whau Lunatic Asylum in Point Chevalier.

I’ve always been fond of old things. Old shoes, long since trained to caress my feet. Old jeans that do the same for my expanding waist. Old coats. In student days a friend gave me his FCA coat ...

BURNING OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM.; Destruction by Fire of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum at Columbus--Six Patients Burned to Death. Share full article Nov. 22, 1868 The New York Times Archives ...

Welcome to the Aradale Lunatic Asylum, Ararat, Victoria, allegedly the most haunted place in Australia. ‘Over ten thousand people died in Aradale, so the place is full of ghosts,’ Buchanan said.

Aradale Lunatic Asylum is allegedly the most haunted site in Australia – a location renowned for cruelty and misery. In this edited extract from JAMES PHELPS ’ new book Australian Ghost ...