Broughton Hospital is a Psychiatric Hospital in Western NC. The cemetery on the grounds was opened in the spring of 1883. There are the remains of 1583 people. Including several infants born in the asylum to woman patients. The first Superintendent Patrick Murphy, M.D, refused to allow any patients remains to be given over to the NC Anatomical Board for disposal. Saying that if a patients family could not provide for a burial, the asylum would. There were times weather prevented the patient to b

Inmates waiting for trials take up much-needed bed space at Broughton Mental Hospital

Broughton Hospital In North Carolina Is Scarily Haunted