Most Terrifying Haunted Asylum Stories That Will Spook You Real Bad

It is sad that people get spooked out by just visiting mentalasylums or even by spotting mentally challenged or differently-abled beings. Abandonedasylums don't need ghosts to make them creepy -- cages for humans, ruins of uncertaintreatments, and ice-pick lobotomies do the job just fine. It is but obviousthat any mental institution is bound to be emitting bad vibes, but a hauntedformer asylum? Well, now that's something that'll not just run a chill downyour spine but also make you go sleepless at nights. Here are some of thedarkest histories of abandoned mental asylums that will make go doubt if youshould read the next in line.

Danvers Lunatic Asylum, Massachusetts

Opened in the year 1878, Dancers Lunatic Asylum not onlyhoused mentally challenged beings, but also was a prison for sinners who werementally unstable. Imagine a house full of lunatics who have been accused ofsome gruesome crimes and are also madcaps. The number of admissions in theasylum increased so much that the hospital became understaffed and the deathswent so frequent and unnoticed that the staff discovered bodies of the prisonersonly when they started to rot.

Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, South Korea

Once the patients started disappearing from this psychhospital, locals grew suspicious about the incidents. There were rumours thatthe doctors, who were going insane, kept patients as hostages rivaling them tomadness and ultimately brutally killing them. It's said that the place was shutdown because of sewage problems, but as per the local lore, this psych hospitalis no less than a haunted graveyard.

Lier Sykehus, Norway

One of the most haunted spots in the whole of Norway, thisplace has been abandoned since 1985 but parts of it still house psychiatricpatients, who share their space with ghosts, shadows, and odd noises. Thereason why this became a death trap for a lot of humans was because a lot ofillegal drug testings that shouldn't be done on humans took place here,resulting in a number of deaths.

Narrenturm, Austria

It's hard to pick what's worse - the morbid history thattook place in Vienna's "Fool Tower", Europe's first insane asylum, built in1784 -- or its current use, the Anatomical-Pathological Museum, which featuresmore than 4,000 graphic, gruesome abnormalities, jars full of deformed foetuses,and sickening wax models of untreated STDs. Either way, there are enough elementsthat exist in the structure that will leave you with the creeps for a long time.

Rolling Hills Asylum, New York

This former Genesee County Poor House established in 1827counts over 1,700 documented deaths, including the poor, the widowed, theorphaned, the handicapped, the criminal, the alcoholic. Paranormal activitiesin this spook house include slamming of doors, screaming and screeching noises.There's also something known as the "Shadow Hallway", it's called so because ofthe shadows being spotted peeking out of the doors and the hallway, crawlingacross the corridor.

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West Virginia

Built around the Civil War era, the asylum was designed tohouse around 250 patients, but ended up holding more than 2,400. People werelocked in cages, lobotomized with icepicks, chained to things leading tohundreds of deaths and a palpable air of suffering. Also since the asylum wasbriefly a civil war military base, you would spot uniformed soldier-ghoststaking a casual stroll along the corridors.

Waverly Hill Sanatorium, Kentucky

This asylum tops the list of America's most haunted spots,with an alleged 63,000 deaths. Now, that's a number! Built in 1910, this placewas initially built to house cure for tuberculosis patients, but a trail of mistreatmentsand dubious experiments made many lose their lives and getting shoved in whatwas known as the "death tunnel", or "body chute". Spirits include Timmy, a boywho likes to play with rubber balls has been caught on tape; the nurse who hungherself in room 502; another nurse who fell from the same room's window; andscattered screams and footsteps.

Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, Australia

Before shutting down in 1995, this place saw 128 years ofterror with almost 9000 deaths. It comes as no surprise that a few people loiteredafter death. Faces floating in windows are a common sight, along with MatronSharpe doing her rounds, and children laughing. Tommy Kennedy, who used totransport the dead out of the asylum and died there himself, still hangsaround. There's also a woman who was thrown out of a window, and died in frontof the hospital because she was Jewish and the only person allowed to move her,a Rabbi, couldn't make it to Beechworth sooner.