The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is a large part of history in West Virginia. It is also a more popular tourist attraction and has been on a few supernatural television show. The asylum has so much crazy and a like fighting history. The asylum has so many opportunities to venture around the building and if you are lucky you can experience supernatural activity for yourself. The can take day tour that last an hour and a half or you can spend a night in the building. At night time the building drops about an average of 15 to 20 degree colder than the temperature outside. Also there is way more paranormal activity for the visitor to experience first hand. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was very long and ongoing process to build. The …show more content…
There is one ghost in particle that is kind of famous. She will interact with guests and corporate with ghost hunters. She was even on a few paranormal shows like paranormal Adventures and Paranormal Lockdowns. Her name is Lily. The asylum is not quite sure how she got into the asylum. There is one theory that The asylum is almost postive about. They say there was a young women that was committed to The asylum and they didn’t know she was pregnant. Throughout her stay at The asylum says she had been diagnosed with a bad disease. Luckily she was kept alive until the birth of Lily. The mother past shortly after, along with Lily. Even though Lily died as a baby, The asylum says her “spirit has grown and matured.” They say she would be about 3 years of age now. Lily’s Room is probably the most visited room in the asylum. Her room is known for the brightness and the joyful color. Lily’s Room is a bright yellow, which is not normal, because the other patient's room are a light grey or just plain white. She also has a variety of toys, stuffed animals, and candy wrappers scattered throughout her room. Lily is nutritious to what to play games with the people who work and take tours in The asylum. She will turn on and off flashlights and toss her toys around her room. She is notorious for making noise by laughing and playing with her ballet music box. There have been times when people have left toys or candy for Lily and have felt her holding their hand or even giving them a
“I’ll never forget it, she was modeling with a boa snake draped around her naked body, I feel like nobody really believes me when I tell them this story,” shared Rice. Although, Rice says that this Weirton Steel building is one of his most memorable trips. His favorite is an old insane asylum located near Wheeling, WV called Roney’s Point. “I spent four years researching this place and finally my senior year I finally found it,” shared Rice.
Life is filled with challenges and conflict. However only a few can overcome and escape the confinements of their problems, others remain left behind to struggle. Sue Monk Kidd displays this with the imprisonment that Lily deals with throughout the book. While Lily does finds liberation at the end, she first had to break free from the imprisonments of her secrets, T-Ray, and the torment from killing her mother.
From TRay who only knew ways to insult Lily’s mother, to August who always found the best in people, they “help” Lily
Mental illness affects everyone, friends, family, teachers, and most of all the person with the illness. Neal Shusterman wrote this book to show the effects of mental illness on the sick and their family and friends. The first, and most obvious, reason that Shusterman wrote Challenger Deep is to share his sons experiences. In the book Shusterman “tr[ies] to capture what [the] descent was like” for his son, and show us how scarry, disorrenting, and sad Caden’s Journey was (Shusterman Author's Note); additionally, Shusterman also shows the reader Caden’s highs during his journey to remission. Neal Shusterman's own son had Schizophrenia, which put a lot of stress on him.
Lily suffers from living with an abusive father. She also deals with the guilt of accidentally killing her mother, feeling unwanted, and not knowing the true reason her mother left. For example, “The gun shining like a toy in her hand, how he snatched it away and waved it around. The gun on the floor. Bending to pick it up.
Founded in 1883 by James C. Hawthorne, the Oregon State Hospital previously referred to as The Oregon State Insane Asylum has contributed to the success of present day society’s perception of mental health. Legislature passed an act in 1880, which allowed the Oregon state government to run a psychiatric facility (Mental Health Ass). The late 1800’s placed individuals determined to be a burden to society within the hospital to receive treatment. Mental health is currently accepted within American society and viewed as a disease rather than a mental disturbance and danger to civilization.
(Kidd 288) to obtain what she lacks. As a result of these factors and figures of courage, Lily conquers her old and timid self to grow into a strong and powerful young
This describes the condition of her room and her isolation that she is
In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey two of the main characters, Dr. Spivey and Nurse Ratched, have different opinions on the Therapeutic Community of the mental asylum where they work. The Therapeutic Community at the hospital, named the Combine by its patients, is supposed to make the ward a democratic place that puts its patients concerns and requests into consideration. Dr. Spivey uses the Therapeutic Community as a way to make the patients feel like they have more of a say in the way the asylum is run and wants them to feel comfortable. However, Nurse Ratched uses this free environment as a way to show her authority and force confessions out of her patients. Dr. Spivey wants the mental institute patients to benefit from a Therapeutic
It walked over to my bed and brought me downstairs into the basement. The thing sat me down and tied me to a chair and brought out a large tray of tools, there is no escape. I felt my teeth being ripped out, it started with the back. During this process a sound alarm went off, the entity vanished, and security ran thro the doors.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, considers the qualities in which society determines sanity. The label of insanity is given when someone is different from the perceived norm. Conversely, a person is perceived as sane when their behavior is consistent with the beliefs of the majority. Although the characters of this novel are patients of a mental institution, they all show qualities of sanity. The book is narrated by Chief Brodmen, an observant chronic psychiatric patient, who many believe to be deaf and dumb.
Page 51 The tone is quite twisted from the norm, little dry and wry, she 's the master of spicing up mixture descriptions with deadpan witticism. Lily 's tone unmistakably says so much about her and the way she observes the world. While she 's young and sometimes sensitive, yet never bubbly; her observations are often dry and even a bit sarcastic, suggesting she keeps herself distant from the world. Of course, sarcasm is hardly a rare quality in teenagers.
Today , in the 20th century , there is a shortage of care for the mentally ill and some are in jails and the streets because of the government won 't help their needs . So , you may be thinking it is no big deal and it may not affect you , but it does affect half million people out there . The patients who died in asylums , many years ago who were treated like animals .
The one person that was mainly influenced by this tragedy would be Lily because she had to suffer the pain of growing up without a
What made Lily change was the kind of people she was with and how they treated her. Back at Sylvan, the only people she ever talked to were T. Ray and the boys and girls at her school and they all treated her badly. Having to grow up with that kind of influence, she would think that everyone was like that, which is not true, but she wouldn’t know that. When she met August, May, and June, they treated her with something Lily has never felt before, love. They treated her like one of their own and eventually Lily does become one of them.