The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built to hold 250 patients. At its peak, it held 2,400. For 130 years, the facility practiced bloodletting, insulin shock therapy, and lobotomies. Over 2,000 patients are buried in unmarked graves on the grounds. Now investigators enter its halls with recording equipment and return with voices — whispers pleading for help, screams echoing through empty corridors, footsteps in wards that have been empty for thirty years.
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