Episode 137 A Night in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

This week Laura, Krysta and Dean discuss the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, but first Krysta gives us some weird facts about potatoes and other similar tubers. Once we get done digging into that topic (what I did there, did you see it?) we go into the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. The building of this facility was initiated in 1851. However, with the Civil War, the Virginia legislature attempted to take the money for it's continued construction and put it into their defense as they seceded from the Union. However, those funds had already been withdrawn by Union Troops and taken to Wheeling, which led to the statehood of West Virginia. After this military start, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum went on to become a place that under many names attempted to treat the mentally ill, though often the cures were worse than the disease. Once we cover the history of the place we discuss ghosts and paranormal entities that live on site. And we also discuss television showws that have reported on ghostly events there as well as a video game that has an entire area based on the hospital. All that and more on this episode of the Family Plot Podcast!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.