The imposing stone facade of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, looms against the sky like something straight out of a gothic novel – except this particular nightmare was ...

There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about standing in the shadow of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia – a massive stone fortress where the line between history ...

WESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Coming off a night of severe storms in the northern part of the state, hundreds of children and families took advantage of the clearer skies and spent their Easter Sunday ...

WESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — The West Virginia State Hospital Initiative (WVSHI) has taken several actions with hopes of protecting historic cemeteries at the now Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston ...

And so, Kasabian seems to have finally accepted they’re nothing more than a bunch of louts with some good dance beats on their third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. ?Well. Almost. They’re ...

This is the Asylum on Blackwell's Island, under the care of Dr. R. L. PARSONS. The report shows that, during the year 1867, he had to treat 1,580 patients, of whom 941 were women and 639 men.

One enduring West Virginia legend posits that the first person of European descent to visit the land now within the ...

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