20 Scary Images of the Creepiest Asylum Ever Built

Topeka State Hospital – Topeka, Kansas

It is a publicly funded Institution for the care and treatment of the mentally Ill people in Topeka, Kansas. The hospital was in operation from 1872 to 1997. In the early 1900’s, stories such as patients being abused, neglected or raped came out. Patients were often left confined or chained for long periods of time. However, in the 1940’s the hospital’s condition was changed for the better. In 1988, the hospital lost its accreditation to receive federal Medicare and Medicaid payments. The building and several others, were demolished in 2010.

 

  1. High Royds Asylum – West Yorkshire, England

This former psychiatric hospital opened on October 8, 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and located south of the village of Menston, West Yorkshire. The hospital was intended to be largely self-sufficient and was provided with its own library, surgery, dispensary, butchery, diaries, bakery, shop, upholster’s and cobbler’s workshops and a large estate partly devoted to agriculture and market gardening. The patients lived in wards and if they can, they were expected to work towards their keep either on the farm, in the kitchen, laundry or in various handicrafts. The asylum had become outdated and unsuited to modern psychiatric practice so they closed between February 25 and June 2003.

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