Our trip to the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

On a whim a friend and I bought tickets to tour the old Weston State Mental Hospital (now using an older title called the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum). It was by far one of the most exciting things I've ever done. Some moments were just adventurous other times were exciting, frightening and adventurous!

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• ghost
• ghost hunt
• ghost hunters
• lunatic
• asylum
• trans-allegheny
• mental hospital
• ghosts
• scary
• haunted

[DANCE1MUSIC4]

where is this place ?



[markwithme]

@DANCE1MUSIC4 Weston, WV

[keekster325]

4:49, on the right side of the ramp at the bottom of the ramp, there appears to be an old man in a nice suit and tie with what looks to be a name tag.

[markwithme]

@keekster325 I saw this "man" in a couple of shots. I didn't mention this (or include them) because I thought it was just my over active imagination. This image was in 2 other photos.

[markwithme]

This was the first time I attempted to use movie maker. That's why many of the pics are repeated and there's no sound :). But I noticed that in that one particular set of pics, I had one out of sequence. It kinda spoiled the effect. But in short, that moment at TALA was a first for me. I had never experienced anything like this before. After the 'chicken' wore off it was actually pretty neat.

[markwithme]

the building is amazing! the architecture took my breath away. BTW I'm looking for tickets to other ghost hunts if anyone knows where i get my hands on them. Every place is sold out for the entire year.

[shgibby61981]

Orbs don't prove anything. I can make orbs right now. Most likely the orbs are dust particles.

[legoadiction]

i felt something grabbing my leg and i looked down and saw that my pants wear steched out

[mosssider]

they're.

[organboi]

OMG. 3:59

[dannukesem]

@DANCE1MUSIC4 Weston W Virginia

[dannukesem]

I just went there a few days ago, I was really impressed with the place.

[Baysox39]

@shgibby61981 If an orb is dust why are there not more of them? Some orbs can be dust but the round, colored ones are something a little more. What they are I don't know but dust? Come on.

[bipolarmom2]

@markwithme It is beautiful. But they made solid buildings then. The hospital was closed, as not enough staff, no money, and the patients were abusing each other. Such a shame...

[derbygirlj16]

idk if i was just seeing somethin but in the very last pic of this show there is a full face of someone in the window

[sandwhichforever]

it's probably just me, but i think the orb might not have been chasing you up the ramp- it kind of looks like it hesitates at the bottom, going back and forth, up a step or 2, and then decides to step away from the ramp- maybe it was curious about you and then got nervous and left you alone? (in the last picture i'm seeing it as the white blur near the door since it was white in the first picture, but idk) just thought i'd suggest it- what do you think?

[ThePrettygrl567]

@kababayanC2 I live close to the Trans-Alleghany Lunatic Asylum and no the hospital itself isnt off limits. But there are certain places in the hospital that are off limits because you can fall through the floor and die.

[LaurenGouldful]

Lol, been there, after the first hour its not scary

[evpinvestigations]

Great shots. Two thumbs up.

[EricVZ35]

Waverly Hills, Mansfield Reformitory and Moundsville Pen. have tickets available for ghost hunts this year. Those are the ones that I know of.

[DickWhittington1000]

@ursweetsacrfice (continuation #4) I have no intention of ever stepping inside one of those buildings again because after my supernatural experiences there, I know old Weston State Hosp. is definitely haunted!

[DickWhittington1000]

@ursweetsacrfice It was somewhere between midnight & 3AM, I felt like someone was starring @ me & I turned around on this very small elevator & there was a black image (no features just blackness and about 3 inches taller than me) of a man standing right up against me, though I felt nothing. Man did I scream, turned quick & tried to run thru the closed elevator door & bounced back, hitting the back of my head on the opposite wall, whatever it was just disappeared. Both events in 1983 or 1984.

[DickWhittington1000]

@ursweetsacrfice This's a continuation. When I saw the ghost in the bath rm tub on the 4th fl., there'd been a reek of rotting flesh at the same time and I'd thought a mouse might have fallen into the tube and died, looking into the tub is when I saw the old woman for 2 secs and she & the smell were gone in a flash. I never used that bath rm again and up until now have told only two people about this since. In the infirmary elevator while going to make a round of the wards upstairs (continued)

[DickWhittington1000]

@ursweetsacrfice I worked there on night shift for a year after college. My job required that I make rounds of the main building including the civil war part, the M.R. units in the old TB building, & the infirmary. The 2 places I actually saw ghosts was in the bath rm close to the stairs on the 4th floor main bdg., & in the slow moving elevator in the infirmary.Once in the mentioned bath rm I saw a semi transparent naked old dead woman laying in the bath tub.

[Aikidolover29]

That place is beyond monolithic its incredible the design is amazing it could have been a royal palace or home to a state house or something i think its like one of the biggest man made stone cut modern structures or something

[babygirl02318]

this suckss!!! where is the sounddd.

[MyYTFaves]

@IBCProduction If you have a high enough resolution camera (12+ pixels) and good focus on it, examine it closely. Sometimes faces (usually skulls) appear in those things. Whitish looking bubbles with very detailed and certain shapes of skulls. Look closely before brushing it off!