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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
Walter Jackson Freeman II (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in lobotomy. [1] Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman invented a transorbital lobotomy procedure.
Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. [6] The city was incorporated in 1846. [7]Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston is a previously abandoned psychiatric hospital that is purported to be haunted due to the many deaths of patients which occurred there. [ 150 ] Wisconsin
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia, USA October 16, 2009 ( 2009-10-16 ) The one-hour series premiere tells the tales of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum , which is reportedly haunted by a little girl named Lilly who is still looking for her mommy after her death.
Rep. Nancy Mace spars with trans activist who interrupts her at Georgetown summit: ‘Raging lunatic, pretending to be female’ Patrick Reilly November 22, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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A knife-wielding lunatic allegedly stabbed a man in the back at a Manhattan subway station for accidentally bumping into him on the staircase – only to be freed without bail Tuesday.