In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

A 200-year-old Victorian asylum is set to be transformed ... inmates who were abused in the early 1800s due to lack of education and arguably empathy for mental illness, it attracts ghost-hunters ...

either act right or you end up at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum. Founded in the early 1800s, the facility sat on Bull ...