EPISODE · Sep 5, 2026 · 1H 46M
7 True Mental Hospital Horror Stories _ _The Screams Were Coming From Beneath the Floorboard
from Buried Files · host Buried Files
DESCRIPTION:The walls of an abandoned asylum hold more than just peeling paint. Hidden beneath the floorboards, a horrifying truth finally surfaced after decades of silence. In the 1970s, staff at an Illinois psychiatric facility discovered a sealed crawlspace concealing the remains of a patient who had been "discharged" years earlier. Records of the disappearance had been meticulously erased, and the screams heard by others were dismissed as the product of troubled minds.This story is one of several true encounters from the dark history of mental institutions. From a hospital in Pennsylvania where the staff refused to enter a basement room after midnight, to a facility in Georgia where former employees still whisper about the cold spot in a locked ward, these tales explore the line between a forgotten past and a terrifying present. In an abandoned hospital in Ohio, a security guard's final report described "a sound like bones dragging on concrete." The guard never returned to work, and the room was sealed the next day . This episode uncovers the disturbing reality of what can be hidden beneath the surface when an institution is left to decay. Listen if you dare.
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