The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...

During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared ...

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 ...

(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 ...