There's an old asylum that was built in the mid 1800s that became the largest one on the East coast. Many of their first residents were Civil War veterans and heroes. Although very beautiful on the outside, what happened inside wasn't exactly the most perfect environment... even for an insane mind. They performs lobotomies and shock treatments, among many other treatments, that would be considered cruel and unusual treatment to any human being in today's society. Local residents reported being able to hear the screams all the way across the river, in the local park during picnics. But it was a part of that little town's business, as more than %70 of residents worked for the hospital. The hospital was built and remodeled several times, due to the increasing of patients in the early 1900s. At one point, they had nearly 2,000 patients housed within the building which only had 300 rooms specifically for the patients.
By the mid-1900s, the hospital became worn out and very much out of date... and not to mention not needed anymore due to the increasing awareness of what many called "mental diseases" then, which now can be seen as normal (such as PMS and ADD/ADHD).
In 1981, they decided to close the hospital down slowly. They started to close off each wards, progressively. When they closed what used to be considered as the woman's ward (the building was split in half and the patients were separated by sex) and close all of the top floor of the men's ward, they had about 100 patients left. One of them was a young woman, blind and deaf.
One day, she simply disappeared and could not find her. They spent weeks searching for her in this hospital (just shows how big the building just is). Eventually they gave up. A couple of months flew by and some maintanance men went upstairs to check on a room... they found the poor woman completely naked, posed in the middle of the floor just like a person would be in a coffin (arms crossed over chest). Apparently, she starved too death and right before she died, she removed all of her clothes, founded them and sat them nice and neatly on the window, and then just laid on the floor as she died.
When they removed her body, it left a rather interesting mark...a stain to be exact. Since the room was surrounded by windows (about 180 degrees of it), the sun decomposed the body into the floor, much like it would do to a leaf that was left on the sidewalk. They tried everything to clean it up, but nothing worked whatsoever.
They say you can see the stain and feel her presense as soon as you enter the room. Many ghost stories have come forth, especially a popular one, such as a young college student becoming possessed one night when she touched the stain. She ended up killing herself in her dorm room, but not right before she had time to write on the walls obscene sayings... in her own blood. Due to the complaints that the room was too haunted to live in, the university had to close off that room and turn it into a boiler room. Especially after realizing that blood cannot simply be painted over- it comes right through the paint.
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I think I'm going to leave it up to you guys to decide what is true and what isn't. Happy Halloween Week!
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