Originally intended to be a hospital, this historic 1876 building was an asylum for the insane. As a result, it also ended up housing the criminally insane, like murderers, serial killers, and rapists.
It was built in a remote location on 500 acres, for the treatment of mentally ill patients. Although some of the unusual methods that were used sound more like a form of torture than therapy.
For example, morphine injections, salt rub simulation, alcohol, electroshock, lobotomies, and then to top it off even experiments were performed. These types of treatment culminated in many suicides and murders during that time.
Up Next in Season 1
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Boston Mills Cemetery
Registered to Boston Mills Cemetery Board. The first burial was David Williams buried in May 1823 in the bark of a tree that killed him. The cemetery was marked out in plots in 1858.
The land was given by John Marshall for three grains of wheat, representing past, present, and future.
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Hermitage Ruins
The Hermitage was originally built in 1830 by the Reverend George Sheed. The property is about two miles west of Ancaster, in the Dundas Valley.
Otto Ives (1804–1835) was the third landowner. He was an English officer who had fought in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
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The Lego Store
In part 3, Huntaphobia visits this location which sits on the land of a hotel that burnt down in the 1950s which killed six people.
The store owner is experiencing many things and even captured a full body apparition on his security camera of a young girl when the store was closed.
…But someth...
