Haunted Hospitals

Agnews State Hospital Site

Santa Clara, California

Agnews State Hospital, originally known as "The Great Asylum for the Insane," was established in 1885 in what is now San...

Army-Navy Hospital

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas, was the nation's first combined general hospital for both U...

Athens Lunatic Asylum (The Ridges)

Athens, Ohio

The Ridges is considered one of the most haunted places in the world. The most chilling evidence is a permanent human st...

Austin State Hospital

Austin, Texas

The Austin State Hospital, established in 1856 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, stands as the first psychiatric facili...

Booth Memorial Hospital (Former)

Covington, Kentucky

The William Booth Memorial Hospital traces its origins to one of Covington's grandest residences. In 1869, industrialist...

Camarillo State Mental Hospital Site

Camarillo, California

When it opened in October 1936, Camarillo State Mental Hospital was the largest psychiatric facility west of the Mississ...

Central State Hospital

Indianapolis, Indiana

Central State Hospital opened in 1848 as the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, prompted by reformer Dorothea Dix's damnin...

Danvers State Hospital Site

Danvers, Massachusetts

The land where Danvers State Hospital once loomed has been steeped in darkness since the 17th century. Hathorne Hill rec...

Dorothea Dix Park

Raleigh, North Carolina

Dorothea Dix Hospital was the first psychiatric hospital in North Carolina, sprawling across approximately four hundred...

Elgin State Hospital

Elgin, Illinois

The Elgin Mental Health Center (formerly Elgin State Hospital and the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insa...

Eloise Asylum

Westland, Michigan

Eloise Asylum is the common name for what was once the largest and most complex public welfare institution in Michigan,...

Essex County Hospital Center (Overbrook)

Cedar Grove, New Jersey

The Essex County Hospital Center, known locally as "The Bin" or "The Hilltop," opened in 1896 as the Essex County Asylum...

Fairfield Hills State Hospital

Newtown, Connecticut

Fairfield Hills State Hospital rises from the rolling countryside of Newtown, Connecticut, a sprawling complex of Georgi...

Fort Steilacoom Park

Lakewood, Washington

Fort Steilacoom began as one of the first U.S. Army posts north of the Columbia River, established on August 22, 1849, b...

Glenn Dale Hospital

Glenn Dale, Maryland

Glenn Dale Hospital rises from 216 acres of overgrown Maryland countryside like a monument to suffering and death. Built...

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

Morris Plains, New Jersey

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital opened on August 17, 1876, in Morris Plains, built specifically to relieve the sever...

Highland Hospital Site

Asheville, North Carolina

Highland Hospital began as Dr. Carroll's Sanitarium, founded in 1904 by psychiatrist Dr. Robert S. Carroll, who pioneere...

Hill View Manor

New Castle, Pennsylvania

Hill View Manor is a massive 80,000-square-foot former nursing home and poor farm in New Castle, Pennsylvania, built in...

Hudson River State Hospital

Poughkeepsie, New York

The Hudson River State Hospital, built in 1873 as a High Victorian Gothic psychiatric complex designed by Frederick Clar...

Indiana State Sanatorium

Rockville, Indiana

The Indiana State Sanatorium sits on over 500 acres of land three miles east of Rockville in west-central Indiana, a spr...

Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Kings Park, New York

Building 93 is considered one of the most haunted locations on Long Island. Visitors report apparitions of former patien...

Linda Vista Community Hospital

Los Angeles, California

Linda Vista Community Hospital, perched on a hilltop in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood, stands as one of Americ...

New Hampshire State Hospital

Concord, New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane opened its doors on October 29, 1842, the seventeenth such institution in the Un...

Northern State Hospital

Sedro-Woolley, Washington

Commissioned by the Washington State Legislature in 1909 and opened to its first patients in 1912, Northern State Hospit...

Norwich State Hospital

Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich State Hospital for the Insane opened its doors in October 1904 on 172 acres of land along the Thames River in Pr...

Old Candler Hospital

Savannah, Georgia

The Old Candler Hospital holds the distinction of being Georgia's first hospital, established in 1804 as the Savannah Po...

Oregon State Hospital

Salem, Oregon

The Oregon State Hospital opened in Salem in 1883 as the Oregon State Insane Asylum, a sprawling brick institution built...

Pennhurst Asylum

Spring City, Pennsylvania

Pennhurst State School and Hospital opened in autumn 1908 as the "Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-...

Peoria State Hospital (Bartonville Asylum)

Bartonville, Illinois

Peoria State Hospital, also known as Bartonville Asylum or the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, operated from 1...

Public Hospital of 1773

Williamsburg, Virginia

The Public Hospital of 1773 stands as America's first institution dedicated solely to the care and treatment of the ment...

Randolph County Asylum

Winchester, Indiana

The Randolph County Asylum stands at 1882 US 27 South in Winchester, Indiana, a massive four-story brick building that h...

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, New York

Rated the second most haunted site in North America by Haunted North America, Rolling Hills has been featured on Ghost A...

San Antonio State Hospital

San Antonio, Texas

The San Antonio State Hospital, originally the Southwestern Insane Asylum established in 1892, sprawls across 640 acres...

Seaside Sanatorium

Waterford, Connecticut

The Seaside Sanatorium stands as one of Connecticut's most haunting monuments to institutional tragedy. Built on a sceni...

South Carolina State Hospital (Bull Street)

Columbia, South Carolina

The South Carolina State Hospital on Bull Street in Columbia was one of the first public mental institutions established...

Spanish Military Hospital

St. Augustine, Florida

The Spanish Military Hospital, now a museum at 3 Aviles Street, was originally known as Our Lady of Guadalupe during St....

St. Ignatius Hospital

Colfax, Washington

St. Ignatius Hospital was the first hospital to serve Washington's Whitman County, built on a hillside overlooking the s...

Starvation Heights Sanitarium

Olalla, Washington

In the remote forests of the Kitsap Peninsula, on forty-one acres of strawberry fields and ravines overlooking Colvos Pa...

Sunland Hospital Site

Orlando, Florida

Sunland Hospital was part of a chain of W.T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospitals built across Florida from 1952-1969. When a...

Taunton State Hospital

Taunton, Massachusetts

They call it "America's Most Haunted Asylum"—a place where some say the Devil himself checked in. Taunton State Hospital...

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Weston, West Virginia

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North Ame...

Traverse City State Hospital

Traverse City, Michigan

The Traverse City State Hospital, originally known as the Northern Michigan Asylum, was established in 1881 after lumber...

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

Trenton, New Jersey

The Trenton Psychiatric Hospital was founded on May 15, 1848, by mental health advocate Dorothea Lynde Dix, making it th...

Utica State Hospital

Utica, New York

The Utica State Hospital is considered one of the most haunted hospitals in New York State. People have seen faces looki...

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Louisville, Kentucky

Waverly Hills Sanatorium rises on a windswept hill in southwestern Louisville, a massive five-story Gothic structure tha...

Yorktown Memorial Hospital

Yorktown, Texas

Yorktown Memorial Hospital opened in 1951, built by the Felician nuns of the Roman Catholic Church with grants and deter...

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Edwin Shaw Hospital

Lakemore, Ohio

Edwin Shaw Hospital was established in 1915 as the Springfield Lake Sanitarium, a tuberculosis treatment facility built...

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Greenville Tuberculosis Hospital

Greenville, South Carolina

The Greenville Tuberculosis Hospital began treating TB patients in the early 1900s but later also served as an insane as...

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Wood County Asylum

Marshfield, Wisconsin

Despite the building being razed, staff at Marshfield Scrap Company on the former asylum grounds still report ghostly oc...