The Haunting History of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Deep Dive Discussion

Real Ghost Stories Online

Tony Brueski

Religion & Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Science, Spirituality

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ever heard of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum? It's a sprawling, abandoned Kirkbride building in West Virginia, and it has a pretty eerie history. The sources describe the asylum's architecture, the often brutal treatments used there, and its eventual closure in 1994. But what's truly captivating are the countless paranormal reports: shadowy figures, disembodied voices, and even the ghost of a heartbroken patient named Emily.

The sources explore the asylum's history and various theories about the paranormal activity, including residual energy, intelligent hauntings, and the power of suggestion. They even touch upon possible natural explanations like infrasound and electromagnetic fields. Get ready to hear chilling accounts from visitors, paranormal investigators, and even popular shows like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the paranormal deep dive from real ghost stories online and the grave talks.
0:07.0	All right, so today we're diving into a place that's become almost under a legendary for its haunted asylum stories.
0:14.2	The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
0:16.4	But what we're really trying to get at here is why?
0:19.1	Why is this place, why is it such a magnet
0:21.7	for paranormal investigators, ghost hunters, all of that?
0:25.0	Yeah, yeah. Is it actually haunted by like spirits, you know, ghosts or is there something else going on here?
0:33.0	Something maybe, I don't know, woven into the building itself.
0:36.0	What do you think?
0:37.0	I think what's so captivating about the trans allegheny linetic asylum is that it's not just an abandoned building
0:43.2	with a few spooky stories, right?
0:45.2	It's a place where the architecture, the history,
0:49.0	the human experience, all of that intersects
0:51.4	in a way that, I don don't know continues to fascinate us even
0:55.4	unsettle us a little bit totally and right off the bat you have this imposing
1:00.4	structure built in the mid 1800s in Western West Virginia.
1:05.0	Right.
1:06.0	Costs a million dollars to build which back then that's an insane amount of money.
1:09.0	Oh yeah.
1:10.0	Astronomer.
1:11.0	And they didn't just like throw it together, you know. It was designed,
1:15.4	meticulously designed based on the Kirkcride plan.
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