The DARK STORY of Danvers State Hospital - Inside the Asylum That Inspired Every Horror Movie

In Danvers, Massachusetts, people pay $2,500 a month to live in luxury apartments built on top of 770 unmarked graves. The building beneath their feet was once Danvers State Hospital, a massive Gothic asylum that opened in 1878 on land owned by the judge who condemned innocent people to death during the Salem witch trials. This is the full story of how a Quaker doctor’s dream of healing through architecture became one of the darkest institutions in American history, how it inspired H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham and eventually Batman’s Arkham Asylum, and what happened when a developer bought the ruins and turned them into condos. #DanversStateHospital #AbandonedPlaces #ArkhamAsylum #Kirkbride #AbandonedHospital #MentalHealth #TrueCrime #DarkHistory #SalemWitchTrials #HPLovecraft #Session9 #ForgottenHistory #AbandonedAmerica