Full Description
A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.
Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society's worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death?
Journey inside the history of these macabre settings and learn about the horrors from the past that live on in these frighteningly eerie tales from Canada, the United States, and around the world.
Contents
A Note from the Authors
Introduction
A Word About Psychiatric Treatments
A Word About Sanatoriums and the White Plague
HAUNTED HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONS
CANADA
Alberta
Charles Camsell Hospital: We Don't Want to Be Here
Edmonton General Hospital: Three Hauntings
Pembina Hall: Love Beyond the Grave
Galt Hospital: A Vibrant Gathering Place for Spirits
Alberta Hospital for the Insane: A Woman Possessed
British Columbia
Riverview Hospital: A Very Scary Place
Vancouver General Hospital: The Phantom of Room
Eastern Canada
Centracare Psychiatric Facility: Eerie Cries and Shadowy Figures
Victoria General Hospital: Take Me to the Other Side
Ontario
Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital: Cries of the Insane at Century Manor
Kreepy Kingston Hospitals
Ottawa Civic Hospital: An Infinite Vocation
St. Joseph's Hospital: Ghostly Giggles
Quebec
The Grey Nuns Convent: Grey Nuns, Ghostly Children, and a Crypt on Campus
Royal Victoria Hospital
Saskatchewan
Weyburn Mental Hospital: Notorious Treatments and Ghostly Sightings
THE UNITED STATES
California
Wolfe Manor: Scream if You Can
Linda Vista Community Hospital: The Woman in the Bloody Gown
Colorado
Various Locations: Hospital and Sanatorium Ghosts of Colorado Springs
Illinois
Ashmore Estates: I Will ... Follow ... You
Peoria State Hospital: The Legend of the Graveyard Elm
Indiana
Central State Hospital: Fear and Distortion
Kentucky
Waverly Hills Sanatorium: The Most Haunted Location on Earth?
Massachusetts
Danvers State Hospital: The Birthplace of the Lobotomy
Metropolitan State Hospital: Murder and Empathy
New Jersey
Overbrook Asylum for the Insane: Frozen to Death
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital: Gravestone
New York
Riverside Hospital: Typhoid Mary
Rolling Hills Asylum: A Hotbed of Activity
Ohio
The Ridges: Etched in Stone
Pennsylvania
Private Residence: A Doctor in the Haunted House
Dixmont State Hospital: Guarding the Morgue
Pennhurst Asylum: Attractions and Horrific Histories
West Virginia
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Tragic Separation
REST OF THE WORLD
Italy
Palermo Hospital: The Disturbed Inmates
Poveglia Island: Real Life "Shutter Island"
Singapore
Old Changi Hospital: Malaysian Vampires and Blood-Soaked Beaches
United Kingdom and Ireland
Severalls Hospital: Bombed by the Nazis
Royal Hospital: Asking for Help from a Ghostly Roman Soldier
RAF Hospital Nocton Hall: Upstaged by a Tree
Newsham Park Hospital: A Ghost Child's Image Caught on Film
St. Thomas's Hospital: Ghostly Doctor Caught on Camera
Unidentified Garrison Hospital: Ghost Writing
Roe Valley Hospital: The Nurse with the Dead Baby
Ravenspark Asylum: Long-Buried Secrets
The Sleepwalking Dead: A Cautionary Tale
Hospital Staff (Worldwide)
HAUNTED PRISONS
CANADA
Cornwall Jail
Kingston Penitentiary
Carleton County Gaol
Old Don Jail
Pied-du-Courant Prison
THE UNITED STATES
Arizona
Yuma Territorial Prison: The Unlucky Seven Spirits
California
Lincoln Heights Jail
Colorado
Museum of Colorado Prisons
Connecticut
Olde Newgate Prison
Florida
Old Jefferson County Jail
Georgia
The Old Tallapoosa Jail
Idaho
Old Idaho Penitentiary
Indiana
Old Whitley Jail
Kentucky
The Old Nelson County Jail
Maine
Maine State Prison
Missouri
Missouri State Penitentiary
Montana
Montana State Prison Museum
New Jersey
Burlington County Prison
New York
Calaboose Grill
Ohio
Ohio State Reformatory
The Precinct Office Center
Pennsylvania
The Old Jail Museum
Eastern State Penitentiary
York Prison
South Carolina
Abbeville County Museum
Tennessee
Tennessee State Prison
West Virginia
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Wyoming
Wyoming Frontier Prison
Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum
REST OF THE WORLD
AUSTRALIA
Hobart Penitentiary Chapel
UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND
Kilmainham Gaol
Bodmin Jail
Clink Prison Museum
Crumlin Road Jail
The Tolbooth
Beaumaris Gaol
Ruthin Gaol
Conclusion
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
