We're continuing our limited paranormal October series called Shockingly Haunted with haunted hospitals! Join us this week as we bring you a selection of hospitals with dark pasts throughout the country. We also talk about how both the true crime and horror genres stigmatize mental illness, and how society has turn it into a bogeyman.

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Sources we used for this episode:

• https://www.psycom.net/mental-health-wellbeing/horror-movies-mental-health-stigma

• https://nursingclio.org/2015/10/29/ghosts-are-scary-disabled-people-are-not-the-troubling-rise-of-the-haunted-asylum/

The Danvers State Hospital sources

• https://www.danversstatehospital.org/

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/danvers-state-hospital

• https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/americas-most-haunted-hospitals-and-asylums/danvers-state-hospital/

DeJarnette Sanitarium sources

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-dejarnette-sanitarium

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler

• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/virginia/most-haunted-place-on-earth-va/

• https://www.piedmontforum.com/2016/04/05/ghosts-lost-secrets-lie-dejarnette-sanitarium/

• https://www.veganvictuals.com/abandoned-in-plain-sight-dejarnette-sanitarium/

Waverly Hills Sanitorium sources

• https://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

• https://ghostcitytours.com/louisville/haunted-louisville/waverly-hills/