Mark Leslie & Rhonda Parrish 
Haunted Hospitals 
Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions

A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.



Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society’s worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death?



Journey inside the history of these macabre settings and learn about the horrors from the past that live on in these frighteningly eerie tales from Canada, the United States, and around the world.

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A Note from the Authors

Introduction

A Word About Psychiatric Treatments

A Word About Sanatoriums and the White Plague




HAUNTED HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONS
CANADA

Alberta

Charles Camsell Hospital: We Don’t Want to Be Here

Edmonton General Hospital: Three Hauntings

Pembina Hall: Love Beyond the Grave

Galt Hospital: A Vibrant Gathering Place for Spirits

Alberta Hospital for the Insane: A Woman Possessed

British Columbia

Riverview Hospital: A Very Scary Place

Vancouver General Hospital: The Phantom of Room

Eastern Canada

Centracare Psychiatric Facility: Eerie Cries and Shadowy Figures

Victoria General Hospital: Take Me to the Other Side

Ontario

Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital: Cries of the Insane at Century Manor

Kreepy Kingston Hospitals

Ottawa Civic Hospital: An Infinite Vocation

St. Joseph’s Hospital: Ghostly Giggles

Quebec

The Grey Nuns Convent: Grey Nuns, Ghostly Children, and a Crypt on Campus

Royal Victoria Hospital

Saskatchewan

Weyburn Mental Hospital: Notorious Treatments and Ghostly Sightings




THE UNITED STATES

California

Wolfe Manor: Scream if You Can

Linda Vista Community Hospital: The Woman in the Bloody Gown

Colorado

Various Locations: Hospital and Sanatorium Ghosts of Colorado Springs

Illinois

Ashmore Estates: I Will … Follow … You

Peoria State Hospital: The Legend of the Graveyard Elm

Indiana

Central State Hospital: Fear and Distortion

Kentucky

Waverly Hills Sanatorium: The Most Haunted Location on Earth?

Massachusetts

Danvers State Hospital: The Birthplace of the Lobotomy

Metropolitan State Hospital: Murder and Empathy

New Jersey

Overbrook Asylum for the Insane: Frozen to Death

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital: Gravestone

New York

Riverside Hospital: Typhoid Mary

Rolling Hills Asylum: A Hotbed of Activity

Ohio

The Ridges: Etched in Stone

Pennsylvania

Private Residence: A Doctor in the Haunted House

Dixmont State Hospital: Guarding the Morgue

Pennhurst Asylum: Attractions and Horrific Histories

West Virginia

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Tragic Separation




REST OF THE WORLD

Italy

Palermo Hospital: The Disturbed Inmates

Poveglia Island: Real Life “Shutter Island”

Singapore

Old Changi Hospital: Malaysian Vampires and Blood-Soaked Beaches

United Kingdom and Ireland

Severalls Hospital: Bombed by the Nazis

Royal Hospital: Asking for Help from a Ghostly Roman Soldier

RAF Hospital Nocton Hall: Upstaged by a Tree

Newsham Park Hospital: A Ghost Child’s Image Caught on Film

St. Thomas’s Hospital: Ghostly Doctor Caught on Camera

Unidentified Garrison Hospital: Ghost Writing

Roe Valley Hospital: The Nurse with the Dead Baby

Ravenspark Asylum: Long-Buried Secrets




The Sleepwalking Dead: A Cautionary Tale

Hospital Staff (Worldwide)




HAUNTED PRISONS

CANADA

Cornwall Jail

Kingston Penitentiary

Carleton County Gaol

Old Don Jail

Pied-du-Courant Prison




THE UNITED STATES

Arizona

Yuma Territorial Prison: The Unlucky Seven Spirits

California

Lincoln Heights Jail

Colorado

Museum of Colorado Prisons

Connecticut

Olde Newgate Prison

Florida

Old Jefferson County Jail

Georgia

The Old Tallapoosa Jail

Idaho

Old Idaho Penitentiary

Indiana

Old Whitley Jail

Kentucky

The Old Nelson County Jail

Maine

Maine State Prison

Missouri

Missouri State Penitentiary

Montana

Montana State Prison Museum

New Jersey

Burlington County Prison

New York

Calaboose Grill

Ohio

Ohio State Reformatory

The Precinct Office Center

Pennsylvania

The Old Jail Museum

Eastern State Penitentiary

York Prison

South Carolina

Abbeville County Museum

Tennessee

Tennessee State Prison

West Virginia

West Virginia State Penitentiary

Wyoming

Wyoming Frontier Prison

Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum




REST OF THE WORLD

AUSTRALIA

Hobart Penitentiary Chapel

UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND

Kilmainham Gaol

Bodmin Jail

Clink Prison Museum

Crumlin Road Jail

The Tolbooth

Beaumaris Gaol

Ruthin Gaol



Conclusion

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Image Credits

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Rhonda Parrish is the co-author of Haunted Hospitals. She has also been published in Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She lives in Edmonton.