Hillbilly Deadtime Stories Ep 118 Brighton Asylum

Hillbilly Horror Stories Paranormal Podcast

Jerry Paulley

Natural Sciences, Science, Religion & Spirituality, History

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If you are listening to Hillbilly Deadtime Stories, you probably love Halloween.

Part of the fun of the season is going to haunted attractions

In the last several years, it has become popular to start a haunted attraction inside of a location that is actually haunted.

What can be scarier than being at a haunted attraction inside of a haunted location during the Halloween season.

A few of the more popular ones are run at Eastern State Penitentiary, Waverly Hills Sanitorium, Asylum 49 and Pennhurst Asylum.

Tonight, we will discuss a haunted attraction inside what some say is the most haunted location in New Jersey, Brighton Asylum

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0:00.0	If you're listening to hillbilly dead-time stories, you probably love Halloween.
0:29.9	Part of the fun of this season is going to haunted attractions. In the last several years,
0:35.4	it's become popular to start a haunted attraction inside of a location that's actually haunted.
0:41.8	What can be scarier than being in a haunted attraction inside of a haunted location during the
0:47.4	Halloween season? A few of the more popular haunted attractions are Eastern State Penitentiary,
0:54.5	Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Asylum 49, and Pinhurst Asylum. Tonight, we will discuss a haunted
1:01.7	attraction inside what some say is the most haunted location in New Jersey. Brighton Asylum.
1:24.8	Brighton Asylum in New Jersey has quite the history. The story goes like this. Brighton's industrial
1:44.2	complex, a series of old and decrepit warehouses, was used for housing mentally unstable and
1:51.5	psychologically damaged individuals back in the mid-1940s. Many of these patients were violent,
1:59.2	and they needed to be isolated for staff and patient protection. The most violent patients were
2:05.5	housed in the main central building, most commonly referred to as Brighton Asylum. If it sounds
2:12.7	like one of the scariest places in New Jersey, it definitely is. Minimal Risk Patients were housed
2:21.3	in building B located adjacent to Brighton Asylum. A beneath ground service tunnel spans the full
2:28.6	length of the complex, which allows staff to travel from outside to any building within the complex
2:35.2	without having to pass through the high risk and centrally located Brighton Asylum unless absolutely
2:41.5	needed. This tunnel was also used for medical deliveries to other buildings, and may be just as
2:48.8	importantly to keep the pride and eyes of the public away from seeing what was going on inside
2:54.9	Brighton Asylum. This is the true story of Brighton Asylum.
3:11.6	Above Brighton Asylum, on the second floor is the staff quarters. This is where most of the
3:16.3	resident staff lived while they were on duty. The quarters were home to many nurses, doctors,
3:22.6	orderlies, administrators, in-house lab technicians, and more. There were rumors of bizarre gatherings,
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