WESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Over the years, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum has garnered somewhat of a paranormal reputation, but it might be easy to forget that for more than 100 years it was a real, ...

Using just their hands and small shovels to remove soil one scoop at a time, archaeologists have begun the arduous task of exhuming the remains of what may be up to 7,000 people buried at a largely ...

BURIED AT THE SITE. IT’S CALLED THE ASYLUM HILL PROJECT. BUT CONSTRUCTION UNCOVERED HUMAN REMAINS AND GRAVES IN 2012. NOW, ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDIES PREDICT THERE COULD BE UP TO 7000 PEOPLE BURIED ON ...

Ex-mental health commissioner King Davis, PhD, left, leads the Friends of Central State group, Dr. Ronald O. Forbes serves as the vice chairman, pose for a photo in Dinwiddie, Va., Monday, Sept. 14, ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

PETERSBURG, Va. — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

UMMC says there could be as many as 7000 burial sites of patients at the Mississippi Asylum for the Insane, which from 1855 to 1935 stood on what's now UMMC campus. If you purchase a product or ...