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.

A Note from the Authors Introduction A Word About Psychiatric Treatments A Word About Sanatoriums and the White Plague HAUNTED HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONSCANADA 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 ManorKreepy 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 CampusRoyal 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 GownColorado Various Locations: Hospital and Sanatorium Ghosts of Colorado SpringsIllinois 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 BeachesUnited 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