So, if you weren’t insane when you got there, you would be IF you made it out of there alive. I’ve read about this place many times over the years and watched a few videos, docs, etc…It’s mind blowing what went on there for decades upon decades.
I worked for the Central Virginia Training Center in Amherst, Virginia during the late 1980's. It broke my heart to see some residents were there for most of their lives because they were deaf. One lady couldn't talk she was admitted during the 1910's at the age of 4. Crossed eyes, child #11, post baby depression, having an opinion, most any reason and parents/ husbands would drop them off there and forget about them. The stories of resident's lives in their charts were horrendous. Forced sterilization, lombotomy's, eletro shock therapy, experimental drugs. There was much sorrow and pain within the walls of those buildings. They closed their doors in the 1990's and that was a day I was happy for. Great story as usual. Thanks.
Trans-Allegheny has to be the saddest place in the world. It bothers me alot because my son has Down Syndrome, and knowing that these sweet, loving children were taken there and disregarded, makes me cry. So many souls brought there for no reason and left to the abuse and sadness. Horrible. Thank you for covering this one. I know it was difficult to research. 😢
My youngest son has autism and the saddest place I remember hearing about was Pennhurst Hospital, I remember seeing it on the news back when I was a kid, terrible terrible place.
Especially for "No good reason", the fact that parents, husbands, anyone can leave some loved one there for whatever goddamn reason, that's horrible. I've been to the psych ward twice in my life so far, I can't imagine having to live there and having to put up with the constant attempted murders, rapes, inhumane experiments, whatever that went on there. I wonder if there's asbestos in the buildings, could asbestos be causing people to see things and people?
I have a friend who's ex-husband "sold" her to a mental hospital decades ago. She had post-natal depression. She lost an eye and much of "herself" before finally being released. She's strong, gutsy and smart, but I wonder what her life would be like if that had never happened. So glad that part of history is in the past!
@@raewren from what she has told me it was depression. Mild at that. Sounds like he quickly put a new family together after she was admitted. She doesn't talk about it really.
It's weird to me how the hospitals would pay you for bringing in patients, when comparing that to today's world. No wonder they were always overcrowded. Bless you and your friend. I hope she has peace with her past.
I grew up in a town that had a "lunatic asylum". The town itself seemed to have a ghost in about every other house and a few of the cemeteries but I never heard anything about the state hospital. The one place in town that seriously always freaked me out though, was the cemetery for the patients. Always got a super weird feeling when I was around it.
There was so much suffering going on in those places, so many deaths (and murders, in some cases), so much meanness, it's no wonder that they are haunted.
What a terrible and creepy story! Many sane people were turned into insane people in this house of horrors. So very sad that people were treated like Guinea pigs. It literally gives me cold chills just to think of what went in here. Thank you Dixie for sharing this story with us! Blessings always my friend! ❤️😊🙏
I live about an hour drive from there, yet never been there before. Things have changed and one can visit the building for history tours or paranormal tours and once a year in August they have a huge “lunatic” flea market (I never seem to make it there though) One thing I remember when I was young in the 70’s all it would take to get one locked up in an asylum was simply two signatures from family members or “friends” then you get in and you don’t get out. Great story Dixie 👍👍👍
For me, I think the scariest part of these stories is how easily someone could be thrown in there. Heck, some of my bad days at work could have landed me there.
My mom was watching something the other day with Josh Gates and he and his crew of paranormal researchers were at this asylum . I found it interesting. Bu sadly being from Alabama I will probably never get to see this place for m self. Another great video Dixie.
What a nightmare of a place . I'm actually surprised that they were permitted to stay up and running as long as they did . Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a blessed week 🙏😊👍
This one gave me cold chills! 😢 Thank you for such a clear narration and explanation of this place. I imagine it was difficult to learn about. Id never heard of it till i saw it here. Thanks again.
As someone with bipolar disorder, I really get creeped out by asylums. I remember taking a trip with my family to the mountains of NC and passing Broughton State Hospital in Morganton NC. It's every bit operational today, and is a bleak gothic stone building set behind iron fencing. Dreadful place. Now I live in SC and am close to the old closed down state hospital in Columbia. This place housed the criminally insane, so god knows it's probably got some stories to tell. I love a good scare though, so I can't wait for more episodes on some of the South's old insane asylums. Burrr.
I just moved from N.Ga to WV. Trans Allegheny isn't to far from me. I have a friend who use to work there. I'm gonna see about an investigation there. It'd be fun.
Up the road, about 30 miles from where I live, there was a place called Agnews Lunatic Asylum. Later on, in the 50's the name changed to Agnews Mental Hospital. The name change didn't matter, the place was hell for the patients. All you have to do is call this place Agnews,and you wouldn't know the difference. When I was a kid, I'm 62 now, parents would threaten their unruly kids with, " IF YOU DON'T STRAITEN UP, I'M TAKING YOU TO AGNEWS!" Parents were using that threat for DECADES, but,it worked.
Hello Storyteller I hope that you & yours are all well. The amount of energy that has been layered into the buildings, the contents of those buildings & the land it all sits on, has to be unimaginable…. Immeasurable. How many of us could tick off several of the “symptoms” that originally would get you a room there? I mean, seriously… I am a woman in what can be called my Crone years (beyond childbearing), a tendency to depression, opinionated, educated (I continue to learn, too), and!! I read books every single day. (7 last week) They’d never let me out. If you are one who believes that daemons are real, those kinds of places have enough negative energy & fear to keep them fed for centuries. Thank you for another great story. Much to think about there. Blessings ❤ ~Linda
Another great video! What a miserable place. It’s sadly amazing what the medical field thought about treating people with mental conditions back then. And sadly, some of them had nothing mentally wrong with them. One thing is sure, if you weren’t insane going in, you’d be insane after living there awhile.
I grew up in the neighborhood in the left of the picture on Arch street and then Chestnut street. I used to cut thru the courtyard walking home from school when patients were still there in 1992. Hunted all over the property, explored the buildings, all the graveyards. My now ex-mother-in-law worked her entire life there as a nurse and retired from the new Sharpe hospital.
Somehow two huge stone buildings, ranked as 1st and 2nd in the world, embody the worst of inhumanity. Irony at its darkest. Great, if disturbing, video.
A sad and creepy place. The local Mental Health hospital near me has partially turned into a normal hospital. The old buildings are converted into apartments where I would not wish to live. I worked in one of the attached cottages which felt haunted when you were alone - it felt sad and menacing at the same time. Beneath the old hospital were tunnels which staff used to use as short cuts in bad weather and there were still great bolts on the wall were unfortunate inmates were chained. Not a nice place. It was opened in 1833 and closed in the 1980s.
A relative of mine was empty threatened by the mother about being sent to Bryce hospital in Alabama it was horrible to listen to auntie threats to her and everyone just stood by and let it happen,😢 auntie turned out to be a narcissist and hated my relative I can only imagine what they had to endure when no one was around I heard them say maybe one day all the abandoned asylum’s would be struck by lightning and burin to the ground and I really don’t blame them for saying that.
Abandoned asylums are some of the scariest places in the world to me. When you think of all the suffering that went on in them, and all the negative energy they accumulate, it sends shivers up my spine.
Wow. Dixie. I had no idea this sanitarium was open into the 1990’s should have been shut down long time ago! So horrific was the treatment of patients. I had no idea it was used in the Civil War! I’ll bet there are many spirits of soldiers present. They were so young the are probably not even aware they are dead. The paranormal tours should stop! Let these spirits Rest In Peace, although they were undoubtedly abused and not treated with anything akin to any treatment. How terrible that you could just drop someone off due to masturbation, let alone other supposedly ‘mental’ issues. Geez if your wife back talked you, your husband could then just dump you off here!!? Great story Dixie! I’d love to see the records from this place! May all those souls finally find some peace! 🙏
I live a few hours from the Asylum and have been there. It is extremely haunted and a very sad place. The building is simply beautiful which somehow makes it that much sadder.
Very sad that this went on for so many years. Those poor people including the staff. How doctors could be so unsympathetic to their patients. It's easy to be cruel.
I've seen other videos on this location. Can't even imagine the horrors that occurred her. Not a place I would want to visit. No surprise it's so haunted. I'm sure the trauma these poor souls endured in life has left a huge imprint that may be next to impossible to erase. So sad.
Love this story I have also watched ghost hunters go in to this place thank you for a another great story but as far as visiting that place no thank you !😂
I am personally skeptical of the existence of ghosts, but I enjoy the stories all the same. Open-minded enough to consider the possibility that there is something there, a residual energy or something, even if I don't necessarily believe that a person's spirit remains. I do like learning about the histories of reputedly haunted locations. Haunting stories generally don't come up about places where someone died peacefully in their sleep after a long and happy life. But I'm at the other end of the country, in western Washington, and local to me we have the historical location of the Western State Hospital. Similarly to Trans-Allegheny, there is an old orchard, the remains of several farm buildings, and an old cemetery, where a lot of people were buried without names. I walked through there recently with a friend. Many of the headstones are still just numbers because of lack of records and the stigma against mental illness, but there have been efforts over the last few decades or so to find who is buried where and give them new headstones with their names. We noticed a couple of civil war veterans on the walk through. The hospital moved to a new building across the street and the original stood as ruins for a long time before finally being torn down a few years ago. Now there is a walking labyrinth there, and the grounds is a massive park, with walking trail around a lake and a lot of feral fruit trees spread from that orchard.
I actually live in Weston WV, maybe 10 min away from this building. My father worked there before it closed down, and he's told me personal stories about how bad it was...not to mention how many people actually escaped this place on a regular basis. It's a beautiful building in person, honestly, but there's always an ominous feel to it.
My poor grandfather got drafted for WW2. He was found to have tuberculosis and got shipped off to some horrible place. When I asked him about it, he said he decided if he was going to die it was going to be at home and he "got his self" out of there. He lived and recovered. Wouldn't talk about it. For years my grandmother and mother would test positive but never got it.
@@DixieAfterDark thank you. I would love to have heard the story of his "departure" but he didn't want to talk about it. My mom said all she remembered was going there and standing outside so he could wave at them.
Creepy story. Ive been to a few Asylums and all ive been to have some dark pasts. The things that happened in these places was real bad back in the day
I live near Weston and have been to Trans Allegheny a few times. I’ve done a historical tour and a paranormal tour. I haven’t had anything major happen to me. But someone in my group had gotten scratched. My mom has been numerous times and has had things happen as she went through the tour, like a huge metal door slamming. If they’re doing a historical tour and something paranormal happens, the tour guide is not allowed to acknowledge it. Any picture you see of Trans, does not truly capture the magnitude of this place. It’s absolutely massive. 666 acres to be exact. I plan on doing a ghost hunt overnight at some point. Hopefully soon.
Thanks for sharing. That's interesting that the historical tour guides aren't allowed to acknowledge anything paranormal. That makes me feel like things are more legit.
We visited TALA. I recommend it just for the history. We took both a historical tour and the ghost tour. I don't believe in ghosts but it was very creepy to walk in there at night. Sadly, we need to bring back institutions but in a better way because homeless mental ill people are everywhere now.
Very creepy There's a another haunted location you might like to see the Flinderation Tunnel They say it's very eerie and creepy the tunnel is a thousand feet long of pinch black darkness trains ran into the tunnel until the tracks ripped up by CSX in the 1990's it's a hike trail it was West Virginia's most eerie creepiest haunted railroad tunnel in the Appalachians The second haunted railroad tunnel you might like to see the moonville Tunnel It said it was the creepest tunnel of all in Ohio and I know all of the railroads in the south are really haunted including the Tri-Cities Region I did watch it last night and it was the most haunted asylum in the Appalachians of West Virginia
My cousin was admitted there during the 1940's. He had a nervous breakdown after his business went bankrupt. He owned a grocery store and let people buy in credit that in the end made him lose all he had. His Doctor assigned him for rest and recuperation. He never left and died there. No reason was ever given and his wife was destitute.
With your permission, Dixie, I would like to recommend a book: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. (If someone else has mentioned it in the comments section, my apologies.) Some of the reasons for admittance to asylums will surprise modern-day folks.
I’ve been there a few times and it is truly fascinating. One trip our guide was an ex nurse that worked there for years. She talked of a spirit of a little girl named Lilly. So many children were there due to the fact your husband could have all committed and go find another woman! Any excuse could be used. As horrible as it sounds there were parties and dances in the ballroom there. Many patients were homeless when it closed in 1994. Read about lobotomies and how they were preformed and using the same tool over and over. Terrible.
I truly feel for those that were housed there. I can imagine...especially the ones that didn't deserve to be there. But still, no one deserved the treatment these places used to do.
Just watched a video regarding the disappearance of the entire town of Edmonson Kentucky in the early 1960s. Have you heard of this case or thought of doing a video about it?
You know what? You did such a good job on this subject that you should definitely include assillams in your subject matter. Im sure you dont mean to but theres a certain amount of glea in yer voice as you describe details of the assilum
😆 thank you. The unintentional glee isn't for the asylum itself, I just enjoy weird, dark, and macabre history. Thanks for the suggestion though. There's another one more local to be I will try to cover in the future.
So, if you weren’t insane when you got there, you would be IF you made it out of there alive. I’ve read about this place many times over the years and watched a few videos, docs, etc…It’s mind blowing what went on there for decades upon decades.
Hello yes it was criminal they way people were treated and abused! Shame
I agree 100%
It still does in other places
I worked for the Central Virginia Training Center in Amherst, Virginia during the late 1980's. It broke my heart to see some residents were there for most of their lives because they were deaf. One lady couldn't talk she was admitted during the 1910's at the age of 4. Crossed eyes, child #11, post baby depression, having an opinion, most any reason and parents/ husbands would drop them off there and forget about them. The stories of resident's lives in their charts were horrendous. Forced sterilization, lombotomy's, eletro shock therapy, experimental drugs. There was much sorrow and pain within the walls of those buildings. They closed their doors in the 1990's and that was a day I was happy for. Great story as usual. Thanks.
I bet just working there was traumatic 😢
Bless you. That had to be horrendous to witness all that first hand.
Trans-Allegheny has to be the saddest place in the world. It bothers me alot because my son has Down Syndrome, and knowing that these sweet, loving children were taken there and disregarded, makes me cry. So many souls brought there for no reason and left to the abuse and sadness. Horrible.
Thank you for covering this one. I know it was difficult to research. 😢
My youngest son has autism and the saddest place I remember hearing about was Pennhurst Hospital, I remember seeing it on the news back when I was a kid, terrible terrible place.
@@cemeteryvisits Yes, I saw that documentary. It upset me greatly. Stayed with me for a long time.
Thank you. It was some dark research, for sure. Bless you and your son.
Especially for "No good reason", the fact that parents, husbands, anyone can leave some loved one there for whatever goddamn reason, that's horrible. I've been to the psych ward twice in my life so far, I can't imagine having to live there and having to put up with the constant attempted murders, rapes, inhumane experiments, whatever that went on there.
I wonder if there's asbestos in the buildings, could asbestos be causing people to see things and people?
@@Neku628 with the age of those building, I can pretty much guarantee there's some asbestos there.
I have a friend who's ex-husband "sold" her to a mental hospital decades ago. She had post-natal depression. She lost an eye and much of "herself" before finally being released. She's strong, gutsy and smart, but I wonder what her life would be like if that had never happened. So glad that part of history is in the past!
Depression or psychosis? Postpartum psychosis is a scary thing.
@@raewren from what she has told me it was depression. Mild at that. Sounds like he quickly put a new family together after she was admitted. She doesn't talk about it really.
It's weird to me how the hospitals would pay you for bringing in patients, when comparing that to today's world. No wonder they were always overcrowded. Bless you and your friend. I hope she has peace with her past.
I grew up in a town that had a "lunatic asylum". The town itself seemed to have a ghost in about every other house and a few of the cemeteries but I never heard anything about the state hospital. The one place in town that seriously always freaked me out though, was the cemetery for the patients. Always got a super weird feeling when I was around it.
I don't doubt that at all
There was so much suffering going on in those places, so many deaths (and murders, in some cases), so much meanness, it's no wonder that they are haunted.
Absolutely
I live 15 min away from this place. They started renovations last year and will be hosting tours in 2 weeks for Halloween!! Wish me luck😂
@@CameronAllen-r1s Heck yeah!!! Let us know how it goes.
What a terrible and creepy story! Many sane people were turned into insane people in this house of horrors. So very sad that people were treated like Guinea pigs. It literally gives me cold chills just to think of what went in here. Thank you Dixie for sharing this story with us! Blessings always my friend! ❤️😊🙏
I totally agree. I don't like the thoughts of it at all.
I live about an hour drive from there, yet never been there before. Things have changed and one can visit the building for history tours or paranormal tours and once a year in August they have a huge “lunatic” flea market (I never seem to make it there though)
One thing I remember when I was young in the 70’s all it would take to get one locked up in an asylum was simply two signatures from family members or “friends” then you get in and you don’t get out.
Great story Dixie 👍👍👍
For me, I think the scariest part of these stories is how easily someone could be thrown in there. Heck, some of my bad days at work could have landed me there.
My mom was watching something the other day with Josh Gates and he and his crew of paranormal researchers were at this asylum . I found it interesting. Bu sadly being from Alabama I will probably never get to see this place for m self.
Another great video Dixie.
I watched Josh gates do a documentary on this place
What a nightmare of a place . I'm actually surprised that they were permitted to stay up and running as long as they did . Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a blessed week 🙏😊👍
Bless you too. Yeah, it shocked me how far into modern times they were open.
Another great Video. God Rest their souls.
Amen
Thank you! Such a horrid story. The poor patients, subject to treatments that were basically experimental, is heartbreaking to listen to. 😢
Absolutely
What a sad story 😢 Thanks for sharing it. I couldn't imagine those people's thoughts and pain😢😢😢
Absolutely. I can't imagine.
This is my first learning about the history of this that was sad what happend to their patients that broke my heart R.I.P. to them i like your video
I'm glad you enjoyed this one. Yeah, it's a heavy subject, and I feel so sorry for them too.
I didn't see this til someone shared it out. Yayyyyyy.
Gotta love the "notification" feature 😆
This one gave me cold chills! 😢
Thank you for such a clear narration and explanation of this place. I imagine it was difficult to learn about. Id never heard of it till i saw it here. Thanks again.
It was a horrible place, for sure. And yes, the stories bothered me. I feel sorry for those that had to stay there in those conditions.
As someone with bipolar disorder, I really get creeped out by asylums. I remember taking a trip with my family to the mountains of NC and passing Broughton State Hospital in Morganton NC. It's every bit operational today, and is a bleak gothic stone building set behind iron fencing. Dreadful place. Now I live in SC and am close to the old closed down state hospital in Columbia. This place housed the criminally insane, so god knows it's probably got some stories to tell. I love a good scare though, so I can't wait for more episodes on some of the South's old insane asylums. Burrr.
Thank you! I'm going to look into more of these.
Creepy! Eerie! Spooky!👏👏👏
Thanks
I just moved from N.Ga to WV. Trans Allegheny isn't to far from me. I have a friend who use to work there. I'm gonna see about an investigation there. It'd be fun.
Let us know how that goes!!
Up the road, about 30 miles from where I live, there was a place called Agnews Lunatic Asylum.
Later on, in the 50's the name changed to Agnews Mental Hospital.
The name change didn't matter, the place was hell for the patients.
All you have to do is call this place Agnews,and you wouldn't know the difference.
When I was a kid, I'm 62 now,
parents would threaten their unruly kids with,
" IF YOU DON'T STRAITEN UP, I'M TAKING YOU TO AGNEWS!"
Parents were using that threat for DECADES, but,it worked.
Oh wow!!
Wow this was a particularly good video. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello Storyteller
I hope that you & yours are all well.
The amount of energy that has been layered into the buildings, the contents of those buildings & the land it all sits on, has to be unimaginable…. Immeasurable.
How many of us could tick off several of the “symptoms” that originally would get you a room there?
I mean, seriously… I am a woman in what can be called my Crone years (beyond childbearing), a tendency to depression, opinionated, educated (I continue to learn, too), and!! I read books every single day. (7 last week) They’d never let me out.
If you are one who believes that daemons are real, those kinds of places have enough negative energy & fear to keep them fed for centuries.
Thank you for another great story. Much to think about there.
Blessings ❤
~Linda
I agree. I hit a few of those check marks myself. Most everyone I know does. It's crazy to think about how loose they were on symptoms.
Another great video! What a miserable place. It’s sadly amazing what the medical field thought about treating people with mental conditions back then. And sadly, some of them had nothing mentally wrong with them. One thing is sure, if you weren’t insane going in, you’d be insane after living there awhile.
Absolutely
I grew up in the neighborhood in the left of the picture on Arch street and then Chestnut street. I used to cut thru the courtyard walking home from school when patients were still there in 1992. Hunted all over the property, explored the buildings, all the graveyards. My now ex-mother-in-law worked her entire life there as a nurse and retired from the new Sharpe hospital.
Oh wow!!!!
Somehow two huge stone buildings, ranked as 1st and 2nd in the world, embody the worst of inhumanity. Irony at its darkest. Great, if disturbing, video.
I know, right???
A sad and creepy place. The local Mental Health hospital near me has partially turned into a normal hospital. The old buildings are converted into apartments where I would not wish to live. I worked in one of the attached cottages which felt haunted when you were alone - it felt sad and menacing at the same time. Beneath the old hospital were tunnels which staff used to use as short cuts in bad weather and there were still great bolts on the wall were unfortunate inmates were chained. Not a nice place. It was opened in 1833 and closed in the 1980s.
I'm astounded at how far into modern times these places operated.
A relative of mine was empty threatened by the mother about being sent to Bryce hospital in Alabama it was horrible to listen to auntie threats to her and everyone just stood by and let it happen,😢 auntie turned out to be a narcissist and hated my relative I can only imagine what they had to endure when no one was around I heard them say maybe one day all the abandoned asylum’s would be struck by lightning and burin to the ground and I really don’t blame them for saying that.
Oh wow!! I'm planning to cover Bryce in the future. I have an ancestor that was there, and I have access to some of the letters he wrote while there.
@@DixieAfterDark oh wow and sad at the same time 😢🥺
Happy Labor Day to everyone - stay safe.
Abandoned asylums are some of the scariest places in the world to me. When you think of all the suffering that went on in them, and all the negative energy they accumulate, it sends shivers up my spine.
You and be both. Most of those stories break my heart.
Wow. Dixie. I had no idea this sanitarium was open into the 1990’s should have been shut down long time ago! So horrific was the treatment of patients. I had no idea it was used in the Civil War! I’ll bet there are many spirits of soldiers present. They were so young the are probably not even aware they are dead. The paranormal tours should stop! Let these spirits Rest In Peace, although they were undoubtedly abused and not treated with anything akin to any treatment. How terrible that you could just drop someone off due to masturbation, let alone other supposedly ‘mental’ issues. Geez if your wife back talked you, your husband could then just dump you off here!!? Great story Dixie! I’d love to see the records from this place! May all those souls finally find some peace! 🙏
I agree. I was shocked how long into modern times it operated.
It's so sad what happened here. I am so glad we have moved on from all this. It's so sad. Thank you for sharing And thank you for your knowledge xo
You are so welcome. I'm on board with you. I'm glad we moved on passed these types of "treatments".
An excellent post. Many thanks 🌹
Glad you enjoyed it
You did an awesome job on this! Thank you...
Thank you so much!
I live a few hours from the Asylum and have been there. It is extremely haunted and a very sad place. The building is simply beautiful which somehow makes it that much sadder.
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Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Thank you very much GOD bless Everyone Always.
It was huge with tunnels. What went on... unbelievable !
RIP ANGELS 😇
Thank you!!!
Very sad that this went on for so many years. Those poor people including the staff. How doctors could be so unsympathetic to their patients. It's easy to be cruel.
Very heartbreaking. The only way doctors could be like that is to view people as NOT people. Just my opinion though.
As a current psych nurse in the US, this is fascinating
Oh, how I'd love to chat with you. I'd love to know how many things have changed from those days.
I've seen other videos on this location. Can't even imagine the horrors that occurred her. Not a place I would want to visit. No surprise it's so haunted. I'm sure the trauma these poor souls endured in life has left a huge imprint that may be next to impossible to erase. So sad.
Agreed 100%
Love this story I have also watched ghost hunters go in to this place thank you for a another great story but as far as visiting that place no thank you !😂
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video
Thanks!
Great video on TALA!
Thank you!
Sad place but all I heard at 3:15 was The William J. Le Petomane Memorial Gambling Casino for the Insane. 🤣
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I am personally skeptical of the existence of ghosts, but I enjoy the stories all the same. Open-minded enough to consider the possibility that there is something there, a residual energy or something, even if I don't necessarily believe that a person's spirit remains. I do like learning about the histories of reputedly haunted locations. Haunting stories generally don't come up about places where someone died peacefully in their sleep after a long and happy life.
But I'm at the other end of the country, in western Washington, and local to me we have the historical location of the Western State Hospital. Similarly to Trans-Allegheny, there is an old orchard, the remains of several farm buildings, and an old cemetery, where a lot of people were buried without names. I walked through there recently with a friend. Many of the headstones are still just numbers because of lack of records and the stigma against mental illness, but there have been efforts over the last few decades or so to find who is buried where and give them new headstones with their names. We noticed a couple of civil war veterans on the walk through. The hospital moved to a new building across the street and the original stood as ruins for a long time before finally being torn down a few years ago. Now there is a walking labyrinth there, and the grounds is a massive park, with walking trail around a lake and a lot of feral fruit trees spread from that orchard.
I love fruit trees😊
@@kellysouter4381 Sadly it's in an area with apple maggots, and none of it is maintained.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I actually live in Weston WV, maybe 10 min away from this building. My father worked there before it closed down, and he's told me personal stories about how bad it was...not to mention how many people actually escaped this place on a regular basis. It's a beautiful building in person, honestly, but there's always an ominous feel to it.
Thanks for sharing that. I love hearing personal accounts like this. I bet the feeling there is very heavy, for sure
It sounds like it was a dumping ground for people others wanted to get rid of even if they weren't crazy
Absolutely
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Wow! This place was truly a mad place!
No doubt
My poor grandfather got drafted for WW2. He was found to have tuberculosis and got shipped off to some horrible place. When I asked him about it, he said he decided if he was going to die it was going to be at home and he "got his self" out of there. He lived and recovered. Wouldn't talk about it. For years my grandmother and mother would test positive but never got it.
I'm glad he got out. He was probably better off for it. Bless you and your family.
@@DixieAfterDark thank you. I would love to have heard the story of his "departure" but he didn't want to talk about it. My mom said all she remembered was going there and standing outside so he could wave at them.
Creepy story. Ive been to a few Asylums and all ive been to have some dark pasts. The things that happened in these places was real bad back in the day
Absolutely. Not saying things are great today, but they all seem to have a dark past.
This is so sad, it makes you cry.
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First time viewer. Nice video!
Thank you so much!!
I live near Weston and have been to Trans Allegheny a few times. I’ve done a historical tour and a paranormal tour. I haven’t had anything major happen to me. But someone in my group had gotten scratched. My mom has been numerous times and has had things happen as she went through the tour, like a huge metal door slamming. If they’re doing a historical tour and something paranormal happens, the tour guide is not allowed to acknowledge it. Any picture you see of Trans, does not truly capture the magnitude of this place. It’s absolutely massive. 666 acres to be exact. I plan on doing a ghost hunt overnight at some point. Hopefully soon.
Thanks for sharing. That's interesting that the historical tour guides aren't allowed to acknowledge anything paranormal. That makes me feel like things are more legit.
My mom and I are going there soon. We don't have the dates planned out yet but we're both very excited.
Sweet! Let us know how it goes.
@@DixieAfterDark I will!
Ayo, this hospital also held people just by playing with themselves (in an NSFW way)?! Woah, thats heavy.
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The patient that died and wasn't found for 8 days? In the early '90s? Holy shit!!
I know!!! I was shocked it was open for as long as it was.
We visited TALA. I recommend it just for the history. We took both a historical tour and the ghost tour. I don't believe in ghosts but it was very creepy to walk in there at night. Sadly, we need to bring back institutions but in a better way because homeless mental ill people are everywhere now.
Supported living can be a good option for those who cannot manage alone.
I could see that. I agree, they are still needed in a way, just nothing like they were.
Very creepy
There's a another haunted location you might like to see the Flinderation Tunnel
They say it's very eerie and creepy the tunnel is a thousand feet long of pinch black darkness trains ran into the tunnel until the tracks ripped up by CSX in the 1990's it's a hike trail it was West Virginia's most eerie creepiest haunted railroad tunnel in the Appalachians
The second haunted railroad tunnel you might like to see the moonville Tunnel
It said it was the creepest tunnel of all in Ohio and I know all of the railroads in the south are really haunted including the Tri-Cities Region
I did watch it last night and it was the most haunted asylum in the Appalachians of West Virginia
Awesome!! Thank you for the recommendations. I'll definitely check them out.
You should do a video on Milledgeville State Hospital in GA. Just as sad as this story.
Thanks!!! I'll check it out.
Wait, did you say that "Novel Reading" was a reason to be locked up in the mental institution? Did I hear that correctly?
That's what they listed...as crazy as it sounds.
My cousin was admitted there during the 1940's. He had a nervous breakdown after his business went bankrupt. He owned a grocery store and let people buy in credit that in the end made him lose all he had. His Doctor assigned him for rest and recuperation. He never left and died there. No reason was ever given and his wife was destitute.
That's so horrible!
Of all the things to not have in life. Not having your mind must be one of the worst. Then tortured because of it. Demonically Awful!!!
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With your permission, Dixie, I would like to recommend a book: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. (If someone else has mentioned it in the comments section, my apologies.) Some of the reasons for admittance to asylums will surprise modern-day folks.
Thank you. I've been needing a new book to read. I will definitely check this one out.
Those precious people may they all rest in peace with are Lord Jesus 🙏 😢
Amen
I’ve been there a few times and it is truly fascinating. One trip our guide was an ex nurse that worked there for years. She talked of a spirit of a little girl named Lilly. So many children were there due to the fact your husband could have all committed and go find another woman! Any excuse could be used. As horrible as it sounds there were parties and dances in the ballroom there. Many patients were homeless when it closed in 1994. Read about lobotomies and how they were preformed and using the same tool over and over. Terrible.
I truly feel for those that were housed there. I can imagine...especially the ones that didn't deserve to be there. But still, no one deserved the treatment these places used to do.
evil things happen in these places
No doubt at all
I've read so many different stories on this place, I lost count....
Absolutely.
The scariest part of this place is its history, not the ghosts.
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Just watched a video regarding the disappearance of the entire town of Edmonson Kentucky in the early 1960s. Have you heard of this case or thought of doing a video about it?
Hmm, haven't heard about this one. Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out.
The menopause ''afflication'' got me. And ''domestic issues'' sounds like a convenient term for men dumping off their side piece who got pregnant.
No doubt. I was tempted, but decided to not look into that much further. I'm 99% sure you are correct, and I would have aggravated me even more.
Sanctioned torture so so sad
Agreed
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You know what? You did such a good job on this subject that you should definitely include assillams in your subject matter. Im sure you dont mean to but theres a certain amount of glea in yer voice as you describe details of the assilum
😆 thank you. The unintentional glee isn't for the asylum itself, I just enjoy weird, dark, and macabre history. Thanks for the suggestion though. There's another one more local to be I will try to cover in the future.
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Hold on, i have asthma. I don't think I belong in a mental hospital 😮
Seems we're all lucky to be born in this timeframe. They were committing anyone for anything back then.
if you go to these haunted places you better show respect to the ghost and spirit
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I bet the "being superstitious" was OCD.
Whoa. Never thought about that, but you could be right. I can see that, especially having a slight touch of it myself.
@@DixieAfterDark It just hit me when I was listening to the story. It does make sense though.
@@ryvirkelley5047 makes sense to me too.
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