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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany, NY has had many incarnations. From poorhouse to asylum to nursing home to shopping mall...now, it's exclusive purpose is to provide a home for countless restless spirits.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky. |
0:07.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:14.6 | August 17, 1885. |
0:18.4 | The Leroy Times draws a sad picture of the Genesee County Almshouse. It says 62 poppers are huddled together |
0:26.6 | on the third floor, which is only high enough directly in the center for a man to stand erect. |
0:32.5 | There is little ventilation, and the air is foul and sickening, reminding one of the black hole of Calcutta. |
0:40.5 | April 15, 1890, Albert Henson, the tramp, whose pitiable condition was told in yesterday's times, |
0:48.5 | is now at the Genesee County Almshouse. His socks were removed for the first time since his feet were frozen. Large |
0:56.3 | portions of both feet came off. Today, remaining portions will be amputated. December 4, 1896, James |
1:06.1 | Driscoll, an inmate of the Genesee County almshouse at Bethany cut his throat with a pocket knife and died in a few hours. |
1:14.5 | He was 97 years old and was despondent because of failing eyesight. |
1:20.7 | March 31st, 1915. |
1:23.4 | Dead man's hand clutched fast to whiskey bottle. |
1:27.1 | John Oshman fell into a ditch and froze to death on his way to the Genesee County almshouse. |
1:33.6 | It was evident from the condition of the man's body that he had frozen to death during the night. |
1:38.9 | In one of his hands, he had a quart bottle about half filled with whiskey. |
1:43.2 | Oshman left the county home Monday afternoon, |
1:46.3 | without permission. It took me all of 30 minutes of research to find these articles referencing |
1:53.4 | the dark history at this location, a location now known as Rolling Hills Asylum, a place I have yet to visit. |
2:02.5 | So let's discover it and all of its hauntings together. |
2:07.2 | I'm Amy Bruny, and this is Haunted Road. |
2:13.5 | In East Bethany, New York, an ominous two-and-a-half-story building looms over Bethany Center Road. |
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