Once a place of "restorative treatment", Denbigh Asylum (also known as the North Wales Mental Hospital) has now been left in ruins.

But why do so many believe that this once-grand Victorian building is one of the most haunted places in Wales?

SOURCES

📚 Psychiatry in Medical Practice by W. Lindsay Neustatter

📚 North Wales Hospital, Denbigh 1842 - 1995 by Clwyd Wynne

📚 Ghost Stories From North Wales Asylum by Peter Glynn

📓 Michael, Pamela, and David Hirst. "Recording the many faces of death at the Denbigh Asylum, 1848–1938." History of Psychiatry 23.1 (2012): 40-51.

💻 https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/outrage-over-most-haunted-tv-2810932

💻 https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2023/11/denbigh-asylym-north-wales/

💻 https://madnessofnorthwales.com/the-role-of-mercury-in-the-treatment-of-syphilis/

💻 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7744477.stm

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-43652268

💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-38887938

💻 ​https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5165789/Student-snaps-image-ghost-caretaker-abandoned-asylum.html

💻 ​https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/25488360.denbigh-asbestos-roosting-bats-slow-progress-hospital-site/

📺 Most Haunted Live: Village Of The Damned, first aired 2008

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