After the controversy sparked over the adoption of the name “Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum,” and after I watched TAPS declare the place haunted, I haven’t really kept up with what’s going on in Weston, West Virginia (and all around the nation) regarding the old mental health hospital.
It’s not that I’m not interested. I just haven’t heard anything new.
However, that’s not the case with Mental Health Notes readers, Jason.
Jason recently journeyed to Weston to tour the hospital of a thousand names, and graciously checked in with Mental Health Notes to share a few details about and pictures of his adventures.
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Another bit of news I wish I’d known about during Celebrity Health Week.
It seems that Fox Television Studios began shooting a new drama in Bogotá, Colombia last week – Mental.
Given that the show will air on Fox International Channels in Latin America, Europe, and Asia – and I’m in America – one might wonder why I’m interested at all.
Well, it is about “Dr. Jack Gallagher, a rebellious psychiatrist in a Los Angeles mental health hospital who employs highly radical treatment methods,” so, naturally that interests me. And, according to Variety, “it will be shopped to U.S. webs [...] later in …read more

“The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum creeps me out.” – Jason Hawes of Ghost Hunters during the “Haunted Asylum” episode.
Deserted prisons. Timeworn schools. Decaying mental hospitals. They all seem to offer luxury resort-style accommodations for those galling ghouls and pesky phantoms that, for whatever reason, just can’t seem to let go of this world.
Especially those buildings that fall into the third category.
Such is the case with the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Back in March, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of the Sci Fi Channel’s “Ghost Hunters” and The Atlantic Paranormal Society ventured to the Weston, West Virginia hospital (which has undergone several name changes …read more