(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

Explore the creepiest haunted asylum moments caught on camera during real paranormal investigations. This video captures ...

During a fit of insomnia some years back, I was flipping through the channels and happened upon a ghost hunting show on cable TV. In this episode, the host was explaining that his team would be ...

Dressed to scare, they creep around the dark corners of rooms on two floors of fright. They come from all walks of life, a retired Detroit schoolteacher, an administrative assistant at a college and a ...

Other scary asylum stories highlighted a fear of institutional cruelty — of authority figures with total power over vulnerable patients. “There was this kind of edgy nervousness around them, where if ...