Remember Donald Trump waxing on his good friend Hannibal Lecter on the campaign trail? Made you think he was the one who needed to be in the insane asylum. Now Trump wants to reopen actual insane ...

During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. President Donald Trump says he is open to the ...

The treatment of mental illness has an unsavory history, and the cruelty inflicted upon the mentally ill in asylums throughout western history has been well-documented. However, in the 1700s and 1800s ...

Donald Trump once again claimed this week that migrants coming to the U.S. are coming from “prisons” and “insane asylums,” but Seth Meyers thinks he’s figured out why Trump believes the latter.

And after closing in 1981, the Eloise Psychiatric Hospital in Westland, Michigan, found new life as the Eloise Asylum. It’s partly an asylum-themed haunted house and escape room, while paranormal ...