July 26th, 2008
It’s July 26, and for completely random reasons, it’s time for another edition of What Do You Really Want?
Since the last edition of What Do You Really Want?, there’s been a pretty well-balanced mix of serious and hilarious searches. So, I thought I’d represent them both. And, hopefully I’ve been able to point you in […]
By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments
May 27th, 2008
“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 -- 46 comments
March 25th, 2008
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
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