(CNN) — 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 ...

Eloise Asylum in Westland is part history, part entertainment and all spine-chilling. Once a poorhouse, psychiatric facility and general hospital that housed thousands, it now draws visitors from ...

"Haunted" places are popular Halloween attractions, but seasonal haunted asylums in particular draw fire from mental health advocacy groups like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI ...

Abandoned asylums hold a strange fascination. Their empty halls, peeling paint, and broken windows tell stories of lives once confined and mysteries long forgotten. Over the years, many of these ...

And after closing in 1981, the Eloise Psychiatric Hospital in Westland, Michigan, found new life as the Eloise Asylum. It’s partly an asylum-themed haunted house and escape room, while paranormal ...