Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Where the Dead Never Left, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this classic episode of The Grave Talks, we step inside the vast, echoing halls of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum—a place where history and hauntings collide in unsettling ways. Once a cutting-edge hospital for mental health treatment, the asylum later became overcrowded, chaotic, and steeped in suffering.
Joining us is Brandi Butcher, Paranormal Event Manager at the asylum, who guides us through more than 160 years of chilling stories. From Civil War raids and whispers of hidden gold to experimental treatments and personal tragedies, the building has absorbed generations of pain, hope, and unrest.
Today, visitors and investigators report shadow figures, unexplained voices, and an energy that refuses to fade. Is it residual trauma locked into the walls—or something far more aware? Walk with us through one of America’s most infamous institutions and discover why the spirits of Trans-Allegheny may still be checking in… long after release was supposed to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, the Trans-Alegany Lunatic Asylum, a conversation with Brandy Butcher. |
| 0:11.3 | The Trans-Alegany Lunatic Asylum is located in historic Weston, West Virginia. |
| 0:17.6 | This national historic landmark served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, beginning |
| 0:22.6 | in the mid-1800s. This 160-year-old asylum holds fascinating stories of civil war raids, |
| 0:30.6 | gold robbery, and the efforts of determined individuals to help better the lives of the mentally |
| 0:36.0 | ill. It's also known as one of the most |
| 0:38.4 | haunted places in the U.S. I'm Carol Hughes and for Tony Bruske and today on this episode of |
| 0:44.8 | the Grave Talks, a conversation with Brandy Butcher, paranormal event manager at the Trans |
| 0:50.6 | Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Welcome to the show. Thank you for being here today, Brandy. |
| 0:56.1 | All right. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, first I want to get right to the name of this building, Trans-Alegany Lunatic Asylum. People might be offended by that. |
| 1:05.8 | But that is the original name of the building. |
| 1:08.7 | Absolutely. And that is, there is a lot of controversy with it, but one of our main goals is to educate, you know, |
| 1:15.8 | future generations about the brutal history of the past. |
| 1:19.8 | And that was the historic name. |
| 1:21.3 | So that's why we did adopt it when we opened up for tourism and education. |
| 1:25.0 | So the historic name is the trans-alligating lunatic |
| 1:28.3 | asylum, despite it not necessarily being, you know, PC. Right. Because at the time, that's, |
| 1:34.1 | I mean, that's what it was built for and that's what they named it. So you can't really sugarcoat |
| 1:39.9 | that at this point. Now, would you describe the building itself? If someone could see a picture of it, |
| 1:46.5 | what would they be looking at? Because it's ginormous. Yeah, a lot of people, even myself as a child, |
| 1:54.1 | when you see it for the first time, your first impression is that it is a castle. It is massive |
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