Description
Ice-pick Lobotomies * Straight Jackets * Seclusion Cells * Ice Water Baths Sound like a scene from a horror movie? Welcome to the 19th century asylum located in Weston, West Virginia. It held the demented, the insane and the unfortunate. Come explore ghosts and haunted history with author Sherri Brake.Built in the 1860's to house 250, the asylum in Weston was overcrowded with 2,400 patients by the 1950's. Barbaric treatments, unsanitary conditions coupled with scandals, murders and suicides made for a nightmarish situation. To some it was a haven from the streets, to others it was hell on earth.
Author: Sherri Brake
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 09/28/2014
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781466401198
ISBN10: 1466401192
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
Author: Sherri Brake
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 09/28/2014
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781466401198
ISBN10: 1466401192
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
About the Author
Sherri Brake is a paranormal researcher, author and owns Haunted Heartland Tours. She has investigated hundreds of private homes, businesses, hotels, battlefields, prisons and asylums.She is a columnist and instructs classes on the paranormal
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