Join an exploration inside an abandoned asylum and experience its eerie atmosphere and forgotten history. Discover chilling ...

The late Stephen “Wolf” Cummings was committed to a psychiatric institution known as the Hawthorne Center outside of Detroit before he even hit his teenage years. It was an anguished period of his ...

Pennhurst opened its doors as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, which is possibly the most insensitive name in the history of institutional names, and ...

Elon Musk has a way of stirring things up with a single post. On February 17, 2026, the Tesla CEO and X owner dropped a phrase that's got everyone talking: "Make Asylums Great Again." It came as a ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner learns about the horrors one of her ancestors endured at a mental asylum in an exclusive clip from Tuesday’s episode of PBS’s hit series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis ...

Hidden in the woods, this cemetery began as a burial ground for enslaved people on the Mahone Plantation and later became the resting place for their descendants. While tracing family ties and ...

President Donald Trump veered off at his bombshell press conference into a digression on “insane asylums” that included bragging about how his mom thought he could go pro based on his Little League ...

UTICA — The public is invited to an exclusive screening of “Hidden History Unlocked” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24 at the Oneida County History Center, 1608 Genesee St. This captivating new film unveils ...

As the calendar makes the inevitable shift into a new year, as many as 31% of Americans said they had planned to welcome 2026 with New Year’s resolutions, with the most popular promises to exercise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Summer Street branch of Worcester State Hospital, built in 1833 and the oldest state mental hospital in Massachusetts, seen in ...