Insane Asylum Worse Than Any Horror Movie

[@dknight25]

What's more insane in this whole story is they didn't close the asylum until 1990. That's over 50 years after the truth was revealed. Yikes!

[@savagetabby4931]

... still goes on..

[@rizdog5735]

Guantanamo bay still in operation

[@IRONRANGER837]

just a few years before i was born

[@catqueen1494]

I am utterly horrified at the kind of terrible things that happened in this place. Truly awful

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

There's way, way, way worse hospitals than this one. This is just the one that got exposed in the most public light.

[@stopitnow7762]

@@Frosty_tha_Snowman and then there's the 'experiments' certain government agencies performed on basically anyone - from unsuspecting citizens, to lower level military servicemen.

[@lindsaymichelle7814]

Stuff like what's being described here still happens, its on a much smaller scale, we can try to be grateful for that. But I've witnessed a good amount of some pretty similar awful evil things happening

[@saiteja-vh6kt]

@@stopitnow7762om

[@markgoggin4776]

Utterly horrified lol what a drama queen

[@nms9]

I had a mentally disabled great aunt that I never knew existed until she passed away because my great grandparents pretty much dumped her at an asylum and no one ever talked about her again. I have no idea how she was treated because I don't believe any of my family members ever visited her. I know thats what people did back then, but it still blows my mind.

[@einienj3281]

I'm sorry to hear that.. unfortunately it was pretty common, it still is.. 💔

[@vevitier]

My father was a psychologist in the mid 80’s here and he confirms the horror.

[@vincenzoaudittori1490]

Audio interview him on what he witnessed before he passes.

[@Movie_lover616]

Assuming your father was a qualified psychologist I can only imagine how terrible it must’ve been as he probably wanted to help the patients

[@michiamamomimi]

@@vincenzoaudittori1490 yes please

[@inny74]

No surprise how Insane Asylums were abusive to unwell people. Another insane asylum people should look at, which is less terrifying but still popular for those into paranormal activities would be the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. It has a less terrifying, but still abusive history of its own. They even have overnight tours there too.

[@rarebrownboi774]

Channel rarebrownboi its tru

[@dogmeowcat_dmc]

I like your profile pic :)

[@kgrfirdjy]

i would love to tour that place. people got sent there for absolutely bogus reasons.

[@greenliongirl07]

I was actually expecting this to be about Pennhurst, but then again most if not all asylums have stories of abuse.

[@wanderingheathen4426]

My great-grandmother was a patient at Byberry in the 50’s (maybe 60’s) She suffered from severe depression and an unregulated mood disorder. My grandmother always said once she got out she was never the same. She didn’t talk about many things that happened, so we don’t know what she went through. It still haunts to to this very day wondering what atrocities she probably suffered while locked away.

[@vic5015]

One of my college dorms was a former mental hospital. You could still tell. Unsurprisingly there were rumors that the place was haunted.

[@Benni777]

There are some ppl in these comments are saying how socked they are at seeing such horror, but honestly, I’m not surprised. As someone who is mentally disabled and met ppl how’ve been in these conditions, I’m not surprised that disabled ppl were and still are, treated horribly. We are looked at by the greater society as “less than,” “freaks,” and “people that need help,” and “need curing.” In fact, we don’t need help, unless we ask for it, like certain meds. And when we do ask for assistance, we would like to be LISTENED to and not ignored, unlike how ppl were treated in the past.

[@queenthot1438]

I wish I wassurprised an asylum would do stuff like this, but I’m not. I’ve been to a mental health unit before. that unit wasn’t bad, I know there’s a lot worse. I’ve talked to people that have gone through awful things at places like that and it’s far too easy for staff to abuse their power. I just cannot fathom how people can do stuff like this. Knowing humanity is learning and progressing with mental health helps me keep hope tho.

[@atthesunrise]

I agree. The stigma attached to mental health problems is still immense all over the world. "Reaching out" or asking for help is usually suggested in a very glib way, but this usually results in rejection.

[@steamnamebbderinvade__]

@@queenthot1438 So what places where worse than the unit? Retirement homes?

[@queenthot1438]

@@steamnamebbderinvade__ i know the unit i was admitted to was better than other units. i wasn’t saying there’s things worse than asylums, just that the specific unit i was admitted to was okay when compared to a lot of the other units that exist

[@einienj3281]

It's shameful how they treated people, still do.. inhumane and just plain abuse and torture..

[@einienj3281]

@Paradigm Shift They treated all colors the same in there, horribly..

[@einienj3281]

@Paradigm Shift They are idiots..

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

Yeah even for mentally insane poeple.

[@einienj3281]

@@dewaldsteyn1306 mentally ill people should be treated like any other sick person.. like any other person..

[@lindsayeller8649]

Willowbrook was horrible too. Back when Geraldo Rivera was still a respected journalist he did a piece on it. It's absolutely heartbreaking. My youngest son is autistic, non verbal, and cognitively disabled, the thought that he would have possibly been placed somewhere like that if he'd been born in a different time is almost too much to bare.

[@hankthecowdog115]

As someone who's been put in psychiatric "In patient" care, I can say that the system has barely improved. Myself and others were verbally berated, isolated when around others, and left alone for no reason in our locked rooms, held in a sort of medical limbo where they would refuse to let us out even if we committed ourselfs, or if parents, caregivers tried to get us released.Withheld medicine,teased, bullied by staff, some even tried to get us to have mental break downs. To this day I don't trust any kind of mental institution.

[@ppphhhoooeee]

Hope you ok now

[@denisepleines1513]

There seems to be a huge deficit in mental hospitals in this country anymore

[@pixie4549]

Sorry to hear that. I'm inpatient at a psychiatric facility and apart from therapy being a bit thin on the ground, most of the OT is DIY, I don't have any complaints. It's really helped me and my medication has been improved, while in the community it can be a really slow process to get proper help.

[@jennyneon]

Should make a horror movie out of that asylum.

[@blowc1612]

American horror story kinds touched in it.

[@Puffy_spider]

Im working on an animation about asylum 💀

[@AWIERD1]

Over medicating patients is still a problem today in crisis stabilization units in Texas. They only have 14 days to stabilize whomever is admitted so they will throw a laundry list of drugs at them, and often cannot attribute which drug if any was beneficial or unnecessary. I've also seen doctors over the phone order a restraint (sedation) and through carelessness or ineptitude administer 4 times the maximum dosage of Thorazine in a intramuscular shot. To be fair the nurse that carried out the order was guilty of negligence as well for not having checked dosing guidelines, but yeah this is 2022 and abuse still happens to these unseen people.

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

Finally, a title that sounds interesting. Was getting worried for a bit..

[@turolambo4978]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@uzilondon9278]

Yeah I haven’t clicked on a video in a while 💀

[@dadafgf9360]

🤣🤣🤣 me too

[@stepwitit4786]

Fr um migga

[@zachcrites4678]

Yeah they haven’t been the best lately

[@ives3572]

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

[@ScaryBaldMan]

I remember Byberry quite well. I lived in Philly and used to pass by it frequently. I even visited it once to help build a walking trail as part of a Boy Scout project. It was a scary place even in the 80's.

[@vic5015]

One time when I was in the hospital I saw a story on the local news saying that *hundreds* of unmarked Graves had been discovered of the grounds of the old state mental hospital. This was around Halloween too, making the atmosphere that much spookier. "Poor record keeping." Some of it no doubt intentional.

[@linkinwilson3650]

Nothing is worse than the Outlast asylum

[@robproductions2599]

that is the Outlast asylum

[@chrisnichols9014]

Arkham Asylum says hi.

[@tudorjason]

3:48 - "Taking pictures of the conditions inside was strictly prohibited". OF COURSE IT WAS. People! Freedom of the Press is a vital part of the Constitution! You have a right to record anything you can see from a public place! The Supreme Court ruled this using the 1st Amendment as its basis! Never back down if someone wants to quash your rights! If a government entity doesn't want you to record, you SHOULD assume they lack accountability and transparency!

[@slappy1234567]

Kind of like how Democrats are prohibiting photographing how January 6th prisoners are being abused and neglected. Very similar.

[@Osama_Zyn_Laden]

@@slappy1234567 happy insurrection day

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Ordinarily I would agree but freedom of press doesn't override patient confidentiality. And inside a hospital is not classed as a public place.

[@inny74]

​@@slappy1234567 Did you seriously have to bring politics into this? Do I really have to do this to this poor person? Know what I will. Were was the Republican party on this day, one year ago?

[@tudorjason]

@@slappy1234567 Or how a Republican Florida lawmaker wants to make it illegal to record police.

[@crazieanimefan1]

Never thought I'd hear the word Thorazine again...I had to take that as a kid when my ADHD kicked in and mixed with my Oppositional Defiant Disorder...I never recommend that stuff, it makes you a zombie.

[@goosespace3279]

Can confirm, insane asylums are scary

[@TheBritishAstronomer]

U went insane???!

[@Chill-Guy-s3e]

my first genuine wat

[@goosespace3279]

@@TheBritishAstronomer nah i Visited one, it was horror

[@JittiesAndTazz]

@@goosespace3279 he’s right - I’m the asylum

[@TheTimbs_]

@@goosespace3279 when

[@bernardmulligan5504]

What about Pennhurst Asylum? It's a haunted attraction now but back in the day it was just abandoned and my friends would sneak in at night. Rumor has it that when it shut down they just let all the patients go. That's why all that creepy stuff happens in east-central PA.

[@mrnubbones8626]

Those who tortured these patients deserved what they did to other 10 fold

[@nihil8436]

Torture still exists in psychiatry today

[@illiengalene2285]

Sadly, some of those conditions didn't change until today in some Autistic ABA clinics. Electroshocking children...

[@twocvbloke]

Sounds like a standard asylum, treat the people like animals, get away with it for years, nasty places...

[@tierefuerimmer9635]

Animals aren't mindless objects either and also deserve to be treated like sentient beings but I see your point treating ppl with mental illness/special needs like this is disgusting.

[@dannykeeler4018]

Plenty of people still get horribly mis treated just more hidden

[@heroesinhoodies1210]

Nothing more terrifying than old asylums. Outlast wouldn’t be half as scary if it was in an office building

[@juniper3749]

History is a very slow upward projection and it can never go fast enough

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Do you _really_ think state mental hospitals are that much different today? The only difference is staff are now searched on entry to stop them recording anything, and they have access to more than just Thorazine.

[@Grandpa...]

Yeah they are much better then back then, still definitely not proper care for psychiatric patients.

[@pixie4549]

Place I'm in is really good. I've really benefitted from being admitted, and I am in hospital as a psychiatric patient. Obviously I can't speak for other places from that perspective.

[@rizdog5735]

The government is here for a reason

[@jaidengames26]

Those good asylums always ended up crowded

[@methheadmayhemmiller8747]

For the female character that said “I love to torture cats”.. can we feature her in the next “worst punishments” video

[@DaNinja-mc6os]

Could you please do a episode about cramps and what’s happening to make them so painful

[@dadafgf9360]

Please we need more survival stories its been long 😭😭

[@HotChokolate007]

One I will point out is although accountability is better now some nursing homes still have an issue with over or erroneously medicating to subdue unruly patients

[@DarhaLB]

Thank God for compassionate people. We see those doctors and nurses were not. SMFH

[@JK-gm6kk]

Gotta watch AHS asylum again. So good

[@brokenbridge6316]

This place was indeed a horrible place to be in. Glad it's gone. May it stay that way.

[@toptiertech7291]

So I live in Philadelphia and when you said it was here I immediately wanted to go

[@HyperbolicArachnid]

everyone else: "This place sounds truly awful" Me: Funni homer simpson in cage

[@itsmarvin6999]

This gave me chills.

[@deer563]

Dude same 😦😨

[@wolfric951]

I was in more "modern" asylum for 2weeks for suicide attempt. Trust me, i was felling worse than i was before. Thanks to my dad that he listened to me and busted me out of there

[@somethingsomething7993]

and I thought the psych ward I went to was bad

[@emilyapricot1313]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Required Reading in my Gradeschool, featured a protagonist who plead insanity to beat a conviction and witnessed authoritarian control, electroshock therapy and lobotomies. I found it so terrifying as a child, that knowing, to this day your therapist could send you to a place like that, has made me mistrust the mental health community. I tried calling a therapy line from my company one time when I was under a lot of pressure from work and debt, and one of the first questions the answerer asked was ‘are you a danger to yourself or others’. I instinctively knew this was a trap question where the wrong answer would lead to the authorities being called. I hung up and never called back. 📞

[@abigailwollam6894]

It’s not a trap question. It’s very hard for them to involuntarily commit you to a ward. It’s a pretty standard question that drives which way treatment needs to go. If you need help, don’t let that stop you.

[@kyleludlow6121]

There's so many stories of this place! We used to go in the abandoned place as kids! I live down the street basically

[@potatomatop9326]

I miss that classic pc game called SAS Zombie Assault 2: Insane Asylum.

[@donm5354]

4:52 It was common to see human feces? Sort of like San Francisco these days :(

[@sevenwonders1717]

I used to think that Most People are "Good." Day by Day, I'm believeing Otherwise.

[@DarhaLB]

💯 Mee too for sure. Smdh

[@jakeg3126]

Why aren’t there movies about this, like a pretend it’s 1950s or something

[@starless4146]

Faith in humanity was struck down some Levels in this video. 😟

[@inny74]

You shouldnt be shocked. All lunatic asylums had some abuse going on at some point.

[@dawnkobylarz7126]

, hear you but they put out so much content it's like batting practice but their one of my favorites, Infographics is a great channel

[@LadyTarasque]

I find it sad whenever something that was doing good gets ruined for one reason or another..

[@antisocialantihero3464]

I got my face stitched up without pain killers when i was in 2nd grade at a regular hospital

[@XXAnthonyCarmineXx]

That’s different

[@loonysanity9638]

Wow...This place makes Arkham Asylum look like a vacation resort

[@chrisnichols9014]

Nah, Arkham Asylum is still worse. It's that bad.

[@Zeno.J]

Why does give me outlast vibes

[@danielhouser8845]

Had to watch & show this video to some of my family members I used to hang out there with a sister and brother I never knew exactly what happened there I knew it was a mental hospital wild story

[@jacksonfan221]

My family had a house about a block or two away from byberry. My grandfather would tell my stories that they would have non lethal bear traps in the fields to catch the loonies that would escape into the fields. Eventually the asylum closed and just let them out.

[@benmacdhui]

"resembled" torture...

[@mackenziel1266]

That place still doesn't have anyone as terrifying as Victor Chaos.

[@jeffgarcia5151]

yup, him and his NFTs

[@todshi]

Sure they did...the staff...

[@xahsinor4364]

And these places are still abusive now even to the kids,teens,children that shouldn't be in there anyway. The fact anyone is shocked just shows how this stuff goes unnoticed and unreported mostly cause the patients have no rights especially under age ones.

[@johncaze757]

They need to put cameras in these places and make it Livestream for everyone to see what's going on.

[@josetteandres]

I'm autistic, but I'm one of those cases where I can talk in complete sentences and function like a regular adult. Of course, with autism comes other mental health issues like depression, ADHD, anxiety, and OCD. Despite all of it, I have an IQ of 97, but it could be higher since I was having a panic attack during the IQ test. I didn't visually show that I was panicking, but if you hooked me up to a machine where you can see the patient's vital signs, my heart would've been racing, and my blood pressure would've been elevated.

[@QueenSephy2002]

Now do a vid on Ferald State School, they did nuclear experiments on kids

[@Movie_lover616]

I looked up the pictures cause I was interested and it truly is horrifying

[@CLO_UD]

Outlast is based on this very asylum

[@-JA-]

Thank you.

[@jodyamnpurrier-killingbeck1147]

Who else binge watching infographics.

[@carolinebilliot2298]

Damn…I bet the land is still haunted

[@auro1986]

if only people back then had the electronic gadgets and 5G high speed internet of 21st century then everyone would be sane

[@snorling9581]

Its never good when any place is litteraly called (or sounds like) bribary

[@twelling197]

I used to go there with friends in high school before it was torn down…creepy

[@salaciouscreations4323]

We call this all the family around for Xmas in the UK

[@Infernoblade1010]

Pennhurst was a very similar story

[@michaelphillips5327]

Finally, some recognition for my house.

[@thespookysir4485]

Speaking of asylums.....how about a "you vs pyramid head" video ? It's been a while since we had one

[@ptrovi]

In my country they still just medicate you... No talking or trying to understand you just drugs. Welcome to Serbia

[@whitewolfcrowley6550]

Talk about losing your head lol

[@aquaticlives2948]

@theinfographicshow you should make a video about the movie "shutter island"

[@anantmalik]

I have never heard a worse story. O.O

[@Abell_lledA]

One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates.🎈

[@smallies7154]

I hate when they mention a video with no links to it

[@Xnix_]

You should do a video on Pennhurst, similar to this and closed in 1987.

[@qui-gonjinn5014]

I wished it was still standing. It would be cool to explore the place.

[@willowbagasan5301]

Did the employees who tortured all those people get arrested?

[@jaybbuck15]

No matter if the title is interesting or not I’m at least checking in 🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@QueenShireen]

June 1990? Serious? That's 1,5 year before I was born. :O I thought in western countries all those horror houses where gonna since at least the 70's.

[@zenosama8505]

Insane they may be but human they remain

[@Ruby-Playz0340]

The people in the past were interesting lets put it that way

[@MUNDITO1974]

Infographics show are gangster

[@Owningpeople1]

When you live in Philly

[@gabr.7878]

Well dang

[@TheGeenat]

This is why I’d you want something done, you need to take matters into your own hands.

[@SMCwasTaken]

And people want to bring them back Absolutely disgusting, 4bus1ng someone isn't going to make them change

[@freddym99]

when world war 2 hits and ou realize that you are running a concentration camp

[@joshuablessing8610]

Now we know how we got outlast game series

[@multientertainers]

Watching infographic show after 3 months

[@DaemonetteLeilu19]

Sigh... i wish the treatment would still continue to improve today because we are still viewed as "crazy" 😮‍💨

[@jimmyengland428]

What a waste of resources.

[@autisticnonbinaryintrovert]

It’s true that just about every asylum that was abandoned is haunted by the poor souls of the patients. It’s so heartbreaking for all the patients to go all the treatment. Glad that mental health is taken very seriously today and not a curse from God. But they do not only put people with mental health issues but people with disabilities as well. Especially those with developmental and cognitive disabilities.

[@opadrip]

People that pretend to be insane to supposedly avoid a harsher sentence need to watch this video

[@chrisnichols9014]

Yeah, real insane people are pretty creepy. Asylums are horrifying.

[@EAWanderer]

Always people from poor backgrounds were exploited with all manner of atrocities! 🧠 🥶😱 You only need to play Silent Hill to have a vague idea