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The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

The Haunting Legacy of the Glore Psychiatric Museum, Part Two | Guest Maxwell Morgan

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Once a state hospital that operated for over a century, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, holds more than just a history of mental health treatment—it holds echoes of the past that still linger. Formerly known as State Lunatic Asylum #2, the facility treated thousands of patients beginning in 1874, including those suffering from mental illness and later, tuberculosis. But with a long history came controversy—stories of mistreatment, neglect, and death that left a lasting imprint.

Today, the museum preserves the artifacts of that time, but visitors and staff report something else: shadow figures in doorways, voices calling from empty rooms, and a constant, uneasy feeling of being watched. Electronic voice phenomena capture chilling warnings, and some say the spirits followed the collection when it moved to its new location.

Today on The Grave Talks - what remains both seen and unseen inside the Glore Psychiatric Museum, a conversation with curator Maxwell Morgan. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0

Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the haunting legacy of the Glor Psychiatric Museum with curator Maxwell Morgan.

0:10.8

Because I was reading that the museum pieces, some of the exhibits, that it seems to be kind of, that's what's haunted. It's more haunted objects than the building that it's housed be kind of that's what's haunted.

0:21.3

It's more haunted objects than the building that it's housed in is haunted.

0:25.5

What do you think?

0:27.3

I do not, I don't know about objects.

0:30.8

I think that would be the most sense, but I'm not like totally convinced either way.

0:35.5

We 100% claim to be haunted.

0:37.7

Like 100, every single person who works here has had an experience or has, says that they feel terrible in a certain room.

0:45.8

Like, it's just a fact of working here that you got to be okay with the spooky stuff.

0:50.5

So in the interview, it's like, okay, so just so you know, here's what we pay, here's your

0:56.9

benefits. And by the way, we hide it a little bit, a little bit, a little bit less than that.

1:04.2

I didn't find out, it's kind of like a local thing, like everyone kind of knows, especially now in

1:10.6

recent years that we've started

1:11.7

pushing our paranormal tourism. But like everyone has always been like, oh, that place is haunted.

1:17.0

Oh, I went there as a kid and it scared me. I was on a field trip and I felt someone, like it's just,

1:21.7

it's like our, it's like our only local legend, I feel like. It's very popular to think that

1:27.1

the asylum is haunted. And we get people

1:28.7

off the street or who like came here from a different country and they'll be like, hey, is this

1:33.3

place haunted? And we're like, absolutely. It's part of, I think it's part of the history. I've heard

1:39.2

some people say that like us doing the paranormal stuff is in bad taste or like profiting off of the pain that people

1:50.1

had when they lived here, which absolutely can be construed that way in some ways.

1:56.9

That's not what I meant.

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