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Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, Australia
- mysterious world
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min read
Beechworth asylum also known in its later years as the beechworth hospital for the insane, and mayday hills lunatic asylum. It closed down in 1995 after 128 years of operation.
Numerous patients had died there before it was officially closed. The beechworth asylum used to hold a total of 1200 patients when full. 3000 patients are said to have died there in its 128 years. Anyone from your family could get you admitted there by getting a signature from friends or family and doctors specifying that you have mental disorders. As a result many people who did not even had a mental disorder used to get admitted there just by proving to the doctor that they were insane. Once admitted, a person would officially become insane due to the nature of the asylum.
Asfridhr (grounds of the asylum with high walls to prevent patients from escaping)
Due to its brutal history and deaths of the patients during rehab or while trying to run away, there have been many sightings of the spirits. One sighting is believed to be of a beloved nurse, Matron Sharpe, seen wandering the halls of the asylum. A patient whose ghost is said to haunt beechworth asylum is of Tommy Kennedy. Tommy died in the kitchen which is now part of a bijou theatre. Those brave enough to wander the asylum now have seen an elderly man staring out of a window and ghost of a young girl who tries to communicate with anyone she comes in contact with. The grevillia wing was a section of the hospital all patients feared, it has now been closed for entrance and is in a very bad state now. Patients were put there in straightjackets and even shackles we’re used as electroshock treatment. The two most common sightings in grevillia is of an unknown male doctor and of Matron Sharpe.
There have been many personal accounts of ghost sightings and unexplainable activity. The ghost tours being run at the beechworth asylum have become the most popular ghost tours on mainland Australia. Beechworth asylum is now considered to be the most haunted building in Australia.
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