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From Mad House to Fair House!

This old asylum area in Michigan was opened in 1885 but closed permanently in 1989. Some recent reconstruction of the buildings has turned it into a flourishing hotel, office and shopping center.

Hilarious Joke: A Meticulous Plan Goes Completely Wrong

A doctor at an insane asylum decided to take his patients to a baseball game. For weeks in advance, he coached his patients to respond to his commands. When the day of the game arrived, everything went quite well. 

Murder Mystery: Killer Volunteers His Own DNA!

Shocked locals immediately suspected the killer must have come from the nearby asylum seeker’s refuge, full of foreign strangers. source The refuge was very unpopular and made locals feel threatened by outsiders. Therefore people blamed bleeding-heart politicians for causing the murder to occur.

Quiet Night In? Let These Amazing Movies Rack Your Brains

Stonehearst Asylum IMDb Rating: 6.8 A young doctor becomes infatuated with one of his patients after he takes up a new post at a mental asylum.

These Abandoned Sites Have Embraced a Forlorn Beauty...

A former mental asylum in Georgia. 9. An old Italian church in ruins. 10. An abandoned tomb discovered in Germany. 11. A chapel in the USA. 12. A chateau in France. 13. An abandoned mine in Germany. 14. A Czech church that is being prepared to be restored. 15. An abandoned power plant in the USA.

These 20 Vintage Images Will Take You Way Back In Time

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in a mental asylum just prior to his death, 1899. Loggers work on chopping down a tree in Portland, Oregon, 1915. Burlesque star Sherry Britton strikes a pose, 1930s. Audrey Hepburn's first-ever passport, 1936.

Travel History With These Amazing Photos of Yesteryear

President Lincoln standing tall in his White House Office, 1864 Mental health in the past: A patient in a restraint chair in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire, 1869. What an opium party looked like in France, 1918 The opening day of Yankee Stadium on April 18th, 1923.

The Encyclopedia Won’t Tell You These Unique Facts

Viktor Korchnoi, the first Russian chess grandmaster to defect from the Soviet Union Image source: Reddit During a chess tournament in Amsterdam in 1976, Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian chess grandmaster, quietly asked an English competitor how to spell the words “political asylum.”

Stranded in Lockdown: 8 Crazy Places People Got Stuck

The women describe the time spent at the abandoned mental asylum as "pretty scary at night." [related_articles] 5. Sharing a remote island with marsupials Not all quarantine experiences were as scary as the previous one, though.

These Deserted Yet Beautiful Mansions Have a Spooky Past

The mansion was home to the prominent Scottish family for a long time before it was converted into an asylum for the mentally ill in the 1930s. The story goes that sometime in the middle of the 20th century, fights and riots among the patients became common.

10 Ancient Artifacts That You Won't See In History Books

The 2,000-year old temple was once covered in large amounts of soot owing largely to the many people from the desert who sought asylum here and lit fires for cooking and warmth.

8 Dangerous Depression Myths You Should Stop Believing

Mental health is still among the most stigmatized areas of medicine, and there are many reasons for that, starting from the dark history of mental health asylums and ending with the very fact that it’s difficult to believe an illness can affect one’s thoughts and behavior.

5 Classic Suspense Books That Will Mess with Your Mind

Before he reaches their house, though, he encounters a mysterious woman, clad entirely in white, who has just escaped from a lunatic asylum. The interaction leaves him shaken and mystified.

Ten Art Pieces You Always Wanted to Know More About

The Starry Night is an oil on canvas, painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view (with the notable addition of an idealized village) from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise.

They Have Some Beautiful Items at the Metropolitan Museum...

Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh - 1889 Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his stay at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. The scene, which he found “beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk,” both captivated and challenged him.