The "haunted asylum" as the locals call it was first built in 1939 as a monastery. It was then sold in 1953 and converted into a religious institute for young men. It is in 1958 that tragedy first struck at the "Maison Notre-Dame de la Chesnaie" as it was called back then when 3 young teens died in a fire.
The building was then sold to the government in 1969 and converted into an insane asylum for adults. Tragedy struck a second time in 1988 when another fire killed 9 patients aged from 32 to 50 years old.
Now abandoned for more than a decade, this old mental asylum is viewed by many as haunted and has been the site of many ghost investigations by local paranormal groups.
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