Today on the Grave Talks, the Trans-Alegany Lunatic Asylum, continuing our conversation with Brandy Butcher.

The Trans-Alegany Lunatic Asylum is located in historic Westin, West Virginia.

It's a national historic landmark and served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill beginning

in the mid-1800s.

The history of the building is fascinating, so if you have not listened to part one, go back

and listen to part one and learn all about the building itself.

I'm Carol Hewzen for Tony Bruske, and today on this episode of The Grave Talks, we continue

our conversation with Brandy Butcher.

She's the paranormal event manager at the Trans-Alegany Lunatic Asylum.

Now Brandy, any place that has an employee with the title, Paranormal Event Manager,

that makes me think there's obviously quite a few paranormal encounters

there at the asylum. There are. It's definitely a title I'm very proud of to get to experience

not just my own experiences, but everybody else's as well to hear the feedback from our guests.

And, you know, whether it be a famous guest that's coming into film or just, you know, a ghost hunting team that has their own, you know, group or even just the public coming in.

And there's always a lot happening at the asylum. I almost never have disappointed

visitors. What kind of background then do you have that on your particular resume? They're like,

she's the girl. Had you done paranormal investigations and had experiences in your own life?

I have. I had just, I've always been into the paranormal, even as a child where I grew up.

There are a lot of just local ghost stories, a haunted, abandoned tunnel, things like that.

So I grew up on, and we have some phenomenal folklore books here in West Virginia that a lot of us grew up on.

It was the book you were always trying to get out of the library before the next kid got it

because it was full of these West Virginia ghost stories.

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