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Mental Health Notes

May 27th, 2008

Ghost Hunters Declare The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Haunted

“The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum creeps me out.” - Jason Hawes of Ghost Hunters during the “Haunted Asylum” episode.
Deserted prisons. Timeworn schools. Decaying mental hospitals. They all seem to offer luxury resort-style accommodations for those galling ghouls and pesky phantoms that, for whatever reason, just can’t seem to let go of this world.
Especially those buildings that […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 27 comments

March 25th, 2008

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Upsets Mental Health Advocates

According to The Charleston Gazette article Groups protest ‘lunatic asylum’ name, a pre-Civil War mental hospital in Weston, West Virginia has - after undergoing several name changes spanning the 19th and 20th centuries including “West Virginia Hospital for the Insane,” “Weston State Hospital,” and then simply “Weston Hospital” - gone back to using its maiden […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 16 comments