Celebrities like marilyn monroe, zelda fitzgerald, truman capote, and rosemary kennedy sought treatment at the luxurious private mental hospital seen here. matt van der velde. unlike in american. This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in american history. 39.0988, 76.7864 notes.
But due to overcrowding in these facilities, isolation from society, and a limited understanding of mental health among doctors at the time, these asylums quickly devolved into sites of torture. patients endured brutal “treatments” like ice baths, electric shock therapy, purging, bloodletting, straitjackets, forced drugging, and even. 26 eerie photos of abandoned hospitals that will give you the chills. an operating chair inside an abandoned hospital in italy. roman robroek. some hospitals that date back centuries have fallen. From a room stacked with the unclaimed remains in canisters of patients through the 1970s to the hospital's closed and crumbling corridors, this old abandoned insane asylum in oregon is downright creepy. the oregon state hospital, formerly known as the oregon state insane asylum in salem, was built in 1883. while. Taunton state hospital. taunton state hospital in taunton, massachusetts is a currently operating psychiatric hospital (circa 1854). the hospital is said to be haunted by the ghosts of its frightening past. one of the few female serial killers, jane toppan, slaughtered 31 patients and a nurse in this hospital.
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