Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...

The fenced-in parcel of dirt and overgrown grass in central Phoenix resembles an empty and neglected lot strewn with dead palm fronds, parched-looking trees and trash. Yet anyone who looks more ...

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 ...

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 ...