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Elmwood asylum

Elmwood Asylum

A long time ago in the 1840's stood a big building, Elmwood Asylum.
The mentally ill was put into this place.
They were not treat very well, they had three sections in this hospital, the children, and the men.
On a daily basis they were pricked and poked with needles.
Everyone was put on medication, which they took everyday.
They walked around in zombie mode, and their speech was erratic at times.
The women were also placed in a certain floor of this hospital.

Sometimes, a patient in the asylum would try to fight off the guards.
It could be very loud in that place, but at times you couldn't hear a pin drop.
Some of the people were not taken care of properly, they had to hire and fire many workers.
There was this one patient, her name was Mary, she was only 20 years old and severly damaged from her illness.
She would sit in her closet everyday for hours, writing wicked things on the wall.
She kept saying that satan is her god. She would scratch the wall over and over again, until her fingers blead.

Mary was one of the patients that didn't make it.
She eventually commited suicide, she found a way to hang herself from the ceiling.
She left a bloodied note on the wall saying
" satan came to get me."
She was suffering from schitzophenia.
The voices in her head became stronger, just before she ended her life.
This is one, of many that never made it out alive.
The system had failed to many people, suffering from mental illnesses.

Many of the long term patients in Elmwood Asylum were buried  on the grounds with an un marked plot.
Many families didnt care about what would happen to the body after they were gone.
Eventually Elmwood Asylum was closed down and the building was left standing there abandoned.
Rumor has it that many dark spirits lurk around the building, and some still live inside.
Professionals were sent to cleanse the inside of the building before actually tearing it down.
It was left there for tourists to visit and learn about the history of Elmwood Asylum.

Walking down the long corridors, you can still hear voices, laughing.
The untouchable spirits were the worst ones to come across, because they were the angry ones that still remained inside and to them that was home.
Some closets, you can still feel the energy of spirits because that was the one place many had spent their time.
When you walk into a room, windows and doors open and close.
You can still hear babies crying or the moaning sounds of some spirits in pain.
These spirits are trapped inside, the only way to get rid of them is to cleanse the building.

Sometimes, the grounds keepers can hear the sounds of many spirits fighting on the land. They have heard way to many things that made them jump out of their skins.
Some of them don't want to leave because that was their home, while others were content after their soul was released.
If you walk by the building, you can feel them around you.
It gives you a chill across your back, just lurking the hallways, you can feel the sense of panic in the unwanted souls.
As you walk by the building, the lighter you feel because the further away you go, the less energy you feel.
Today, many spirits still hang around the grounds.
Nobody really knows what happened to these people a long time ago, and nobody will ever know, what really happened.