AMERICAN HORROR STORY True Crimes That Inspired Asylum

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There’s a reason so many horror movies and TV shows are set in abandoned asylums. The Victorian-era asylums, which were intended to treat people struggling with mental illness, were horrifyingly bleak places where patients were treated inhumanely, given old food to eat and even tortured. • In an early example of undercover journalism, Nellie Bly got herself committed to an asylum in 1887 to report back about what she saw behind closed doors, and the results were horrifying. • From the deaths and injuries to the letters that were never sent to loved ones, let’s take a look at what really went on behind closed doors at a Victorian asylum. • #Asylums #VictorianEra #History • Struggles of the perfectly sane | 0:00 • Bread and water | 1:20 • Writing letters never delivered | 2:40 • Alcohol for everything | 3:41 • Sitting, sitting, and more sitting | 4:57 • Restraints as a solution to nearly everything | 5:47 • Chloroform deaths and broken ribs | 6:38 • Asylum attendants gone bad | 7:35 • Electroshock therapy | 8:37 • It wasn't all bad | 10:02 • Read Full Article: https://www.grunge.com/141866/what-re...

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