Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting.

In this video we're going to go over three more of the worst disasters in history.

The final story has one of the most brutal incidents I've ever come across, and not because

of the scale of the disaster, but instead because of the horrific circumstances the people

endured.

So as a warning, although the events in this video are fleeting and non-descriptive,

they are still highly disturbing, so viewer discretion is strongly advised.

For many of us, few things conjure up images of hopelessness and despair like Victorian

era asylums,

and in many respects, these feelings are well-founded.

Conditions in 19th and 20th century mental health institutions were often about as bad as it gets.

Interestingly though, in the early 1800s, an innovative English doctor figured out that patients behave better and led more fulfilling lives

when they learned new skills and did meaningful work instead of being confined with nothing to do day after day.

This may not be surprising at all today, but this approach proved far more effective than traditional

methods, particularly at the Colney Hatch Asylum in Middlesex, England.

The construction of the Colney Hatch Asylum began in spring of 1849, and then after more than two years of construction, the first patients began arriving in mid-July of 1851.

This institution was located on the outskirts of London and was originally meant to house a large portion of the area's Popper insane, or in layman's terms, poor Londoners with debilitating mental health issues.

At the time, it was the largest institution of its kind in Europe, and unlike most of its

intimidating Greystone contemporaries, it was built in a trendy Italian style.

The residential portion of the asylum was surrounded by a typical 2,000-foot-long wall, but

with a 75-acre farm, dozens of workshops, and its own brewery and aviary, it looked more like a sprawling

country estate than a mental health facility. Inside, patients lived in wards separated by their

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