(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 ...

I woke up this morning with a song in my head. It was Booker T and the MGs' "Time is Tight," a really catchy track that put me in the right frame of mind to start my day. Here in the UK, Booker T and ...

The treatment of mental illness has an unsavory history, and the cruelty inflicted upon the mentally ill in asylums throughout western history has been well-documented. However, in the 1700s and 1800s ...

They were labeled insane—and in an age with no mercy, many disappeared. But one asylum in Oregon tells a different, haunting ...