Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

Breslin embarks on an emotional journey in All That Remains, airing this Wednesday, March 11, on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.

In an upcoming RTÉ documentary called 'All That Remains', Breslin (commonly known as Bressie) will return to his native Mullingar to work alongside the families of the forgotten to honour more than ...

Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of ...

The Eloise Asylum in Westland was once a poorhouse, a psychiatric facility and a general hospital that housed thousands of patients. At its peak, Eloise was a self-sufficient community spanning 900 ...

"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...

"This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', curated by Mike Jay and Bárbara Rodriguez Mun̋oz, held at Wellcome Collection, ...

Experience the eerie atmosphere of an abandoned mental asylum and state hospital, where decades of history linger in empty hallways and decaying rooms. Exploring abandoned asylums reveals haunting ...