As a holiday of contrasts, Halloween celebrates sweetness and superstition — trick or treat. Traditions range from pumpkin carving and candy eating to the personification of werewolves and ghosts. Yet ...
"Haunted" places are popular Halloween attractions, but seasonal haunted asylums in particular draw fire from mental health advocacy groups like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI ...
For most people, it would take a lot of convincing to visit a supposedly haunted former insane asylum. But for Big Freedia, it required nothing more than an invitation from her “baby, Kesha.” ...
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SPRING CITY, Pa. - Since the last residents left more than 20 years ago, Pennhurst State Hospital has been vacant, its sprawling complex of buildings crumbling, overcome by brush in the suburban ...
The 2½-story limestone building stands alone on a rural county road in Jackson County. It is the only structure that remains on what was once the county "poor farm," a name given to farms set up years ...
As a holiday of contrasts, Halloween celebrates sweetness and superstition — trick or treat. Traditions range from pumpkin carving and candy eating to the personification of werewolves and ghosts. Yet ...