Visiting the asylum seemed like one was entering another era on many levels. The building itself, though eroded, still clung to its past. Every room, a piece of old equipment, and every scrap of paper told a story. Places, like people, carry the weight of their history, and sometimes, the weight is just too much to disappear even long after it has been abandoned.
To a paranormal believer, places like the asylum would be considered “haunted” because of the strongly felt emotions once attached to them. The idea behind it all is that energy, at its strongest and most powerful, leaves some sort of imprint in the physical world. So many patients and staff spent so much time in that asylum in lives full of anguish and despair; it doesn’t seem too hard to believe that this type of energy might stay long after the patients and staff are gone.
Whether you are a believer in this theory or not, you cannot help but feel the power of this asylum. It’s more of a memory – not a place. It breathes life into very close past events here. And perhaps that is just what is most unsettling in places like this: they permit you to face the weight of history and also the suffering of others and the fragility of your own mind.
