What Was Discovered Inside This Abandoned Mental Hospital Is Chilling

This massive mental asylum has a dark history, and is hiding a disturbing secret in its basement. Though it was established to care for patients with psychiatric illnesses, the institution evolved into a place no one would ever want to find themselves. Read on to learn more about what went on here, and then watch the exploration footage by YouTube channel “The Proper People.”

The hospital once held over 9,000 patients, many of them children.

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The patients were subjected to treatments such as electroshock therapy, solitary confinement, ice baths and lobotomies.

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Some of these treatments were given as part of experiments, without the consent of the children or parents.

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So much remains from the hospital’s former life.

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This building also served another unsettling purpose. It was a designated nuclear fallout shelter.

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The structure sits on a maze of tunnels and small rooms meant to shield people from deadly radiation.

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Take a look at this eerily decayed mental hospital below:

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