Today on the Grave Talks, the Aradale Asylum.

The concept of a lunatic asylum was universal around most of the world from the 1800s to the mid-1900s.

Oftentimes, there were sprawling brick facilities designed to house nearly anyone that mainstream society didn't want to deal with.

From legitimate mental illness to simply speaking

a different language. There was no end to what could possibly qualify an innocent soul

from being locked away at the Aradale Asylum. Today, we hear the very true and very haunted

story of Australia's Arredale Asylum with paranormal

investigator William Tobone.

The town that's built it is called Ararat, which was originally a gold mining site where

the Chinese walked from South Australia, Adelaide in South Australia, down to where Ararat is now built.

They found gold and unfortunately the European settlers basically come and push them off their land

and the town of Ararat was established.

Now it's probably about it's about a two-hour drive from

Melbourne, which is our capital city and rural. And the belief in the old days, as you probably

know, with the asylums is that fresh air, sunlight, etc., was what would help the patients get better.

So Aradale was actually built on a hill.

It's up very high on a hill so that they could have this sun

and have this fresh air.

And there was actually three assail asylums built, uh, during this time, all, all in

the same idea to, to help patients, but built away from Melbourne so that you're not having

the lunatics so close to Melbourne.

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