The Wandering Cryptid

While at the asylum it is hard to shake the feeling of someone looking over your shoulder. The endless corridors of chipping pastel paint did little in the way of easing this feelin. Rooms still furnished with steel frame beds, or rocking chairs facing the corners. The wind whistling through the windows where local kids have thrown rocks through. While this building has seen its fair share of better days, the same can not be said about those who lived within these walls. This asylum was one of the first in the USA to start the controversial procedure or lobotomies, shock therapy and hydro therapy. All have since been deemed a violation of human rights. This is not the end of the dark past of this asylum. In these walls many people died, so much so that in the acers behind the property, there used to be a grave yard. Filled with wooden stakes that only display a number for those who spent their last moments in the asylum.

While we have come a long way in mental health diagnosis and treatment these buildings stand as a reminder of our dark past in the way we “helped” those who needed our help the most