it was the "insane asylum," where people judged by the state to be "incurably insane" were locked away. Local historian Don Wentworth believes it is haunted. "When you go up the stairs ...

County Road 500 West ... owned the haunted house land. The doctor's wife had a terrible illness, so Dr. Amhurst opened an asylum so he could harvest organs from the criminally insane and conduct ...

The imposing stone facade of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, looms against the sky like ... it’s a 19th-century colossus that will make your average haunted house look ...

That’s the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia for you – a massive stone fortress ... so visiting an allegedly haunted former mental institution wasn’t exactly in my comfort zone.

(Photo by Steven Allen Adams) CHARLESTON — A bill now on pause in the West Virginia House of Delegates could put the state between a rock and a hard place: deciding on what to do should the ...

West Virginia's Capitol dome is shown in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File) CHARLESTON – Several bills introduced on behalf of Gov. Patrick Morrisey made it out of the West Virginia ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill proposing vaccine exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons in West Virginia schools was rejected by the House on Monday. Senate Bill 460, which had undergone ...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is among West ... fascination with the eerie and unexplained, West Virginia has developed a statewide paranormal trail, guiding thrill-seekers to its most haunted ...

The West Virginia stretch of the trail is incredibly scenic as it winds right past the historic town of Harpers Ferry, which houses the ... any old abandoned asylum, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum ...

West Virginia has a calculated "haunting score" of 8.00 out of 10, putting it at No. 2 in this list. It's "home to the infamous Mothman legend and the haunted Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum ...