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 ...

Some five years later, the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation establishing a “lunatic asylum.” Ten acres of land and the unfinished building of the Fayette Hospital were purchased ...

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However, Prof Nigel Horner, from the University of Lincoln, said the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, as it was known, had pioneered the practice. The asylum opened in 1820 and became the first in the ...