One of Connecticut’s most haunted places has to be Fairfield Hills State Hospital, a place with a dark and ugly history. Like most mental hospitals of the time, the way that the patients were treated would today be considered barbaric and inhumane.
Standard treatments included things like psychosurgery, hydrotherapy, electric shock therapy, and of course, completely unauthorized full frontal lobotomies! There were countless suicides, and suspicious deaths in the hospital, and tales of unnecessary cruelty and abuse were rife. All of this is the perfect recipe for some restless spirits!
It is common for visitors to the old hospital to hear disembodied voices, screams and crying. These are presumably the spirits of long-dead patients reliving the agony of their so-called treatments whilst held at what is possibly one of the most haunted abandoned mental hospitals in the entire U.S.
There are also multiple reports of apparitions in white roaming the grounds, which are believed to be a mix of former staff and patients who are still bound to the hospital even in death.
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