A list left behind. Milledgeville, USA: THE CREEPIEST asylum in US history with 25K deceased patients buried in unmarked graves on the site has been l
A list left behind. Milledgeville, USA: THE CREEPIEST asylum in US history with 25K deceased patients buried in unmarked graves on the site has been likened by the explorer who documented it to the hit Netflix show American Horror Story: Asylum. Images from this foreboding place that was once the world?s largest mental institution showed abandoned beds throughout the decaying halls and X-rays of real people left behind. Ben James (29) from Cambridge, England captured these creepy images of the abandoned Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA. Opening in December 1842, the hospital was known as ?Milledgeville? by locals, with many people recalling being threatened as children to be sent to Milledgeville by their mothers if they were misbehaving. In its prime, the 2,000-acre plot housed nearly 12K patients at one time, making it the largest mental hospital in the world by the 1960s. In 1959, an investigative report from the newspaper, Atlanta Constitution, showed that the asylum was not being conducted correctly, with only 48 doctors to serve thousands of patients and none of them being a psychiatrist and even with some ?doctors? being hired from the medical ward themselves, they reported. There are still an unnerving plethora of over 25K unmarked graves of patients left on the hospital grounds, adding to the rumours that ghosts still roam the halls of the hospital. In 2010, the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities announced that the hospital would be closed, but instead, it has become home to forensic patients such as those who were found by courts to be not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetent to stand trial and short-stay acute treatment. As Ben roamed the halls of the abandoned buildings, he exclaimed how uncomfortable it was as it felt like a scene out of American Horror Story: Asylum, with beds and medical equipment left behind in the abandoned halls. ?This place is believed to be one of the most
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