The real-life abandoned asylum inspired the fictional Pennhurst Mental Hospital featured in season four of 'Stranger Things', ...

(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 ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Pennhurst Asylum near Philadelphia, for example, opened as a haunted house in 2010. And after selling at auction in 2007, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virgina began offering ghost tours ...