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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 ...

During a fit of insomnia some years back, I was flipping through the channels and happened upon a ghost hunting show on cable TV. In this episode, the host was explaining that his team would be ...

Other scary asylum stories highlighted a fear of institutional cruelty — of authority figures with total power over vulnerable patients. “There was this kind of edgy nervousness around them, where if ...