The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, located in Weston, West Virginia, is a 160 year old haunted site that many people visit each year (Trans). Even though the asylum is now abandoned, tours of the building are something people make plans to take. People assume the haunting of the Asylum was because of the restless souls of the patients that lived and died there (Trans). This assumption has not been verified. Sources say that it is definitely haunted by many different ghosts such as the lonely spirit of a young girl named Lily (Trans). Supposedly, she wanders the halls of the asylum, looking for a playmate. Lily has her own room in the asylum on its first floor. She apparently lived in the home her whole life, and was even born there. Lily passed at age nine from the cause of pneumonia (Trans).
Another spirit is her mother “E.” nobody specifically knows where she lives in the asylum. She passed soon after her pregnancy. Since there was tons of ghost or spirit activities, the team of ghost hunters filmed and investigated Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (TALA) in 2008, and ghost adventures followed in 2009 with a…show more content… The asylum was originally designed to house 250 with privacy and comfort(Legends). Instead, the hospital held 717 patients by 1880, 1,661 patients by 1938, and a dangerously overcrowded 2,600 patients in the 1950’s (Legends).The Asylum was so enormous that they even had an added on tuberculosis building, which was established in 1930. Over the years, several fires have been started due to the patients there at the asylum. That caused major fixing up to do. In 1994, the Asylum closed due to changes in treatments of patients and the mess of the asylum (Legend). The asylum was auctioned off in August,2007 to Joe Jordon (Legend). He re-opened the asylum for paranormal tours as well as evening ghost hunts
