Care for the mentally incapacitated wasn’t always humane. Patients in nineteenth century insane asylums were often treated like animals, locked in cages and subjected to unethical treatments that were nothing less than torture.
Many of the poor souls trapped behind the gothic stone walls would spend their entire lives there, the daily suffering creating a mind-numbing existence that would never end. Some theorize that these old abandoned asylums are haunted because the dead were tortured and maimed to such a frightening degree, they couldn’t tell the difference between life and death. They continue to live out their tragic lives as though caught in a horrible time warp of misery and suffering.