Exploring Historical Insane Asylums

What if the insane asylums from the 1800s

weren't built for insane people at all?

Think about it.

People always say, "If there was a reset, wouldn't everyone have known?"

But what if the people who did know

were labeled insane?

In the 1800s, all across America and Canada, massive insane

asylums started appearing. Huge buildings, massive

stone structures, some of the biggest buildings in the

entire country

at the time.

But here's the strange part. Many of these cities were

just being founded.

So where did all of these insane people come from?

And how did they know there would be so many of them that they built

entire castle-like complexes to hold them?

Look at the Central Lunatic Asylum in Ohio.

It looks more like a fortress than a hospital.

Look at the Columbia State Hospital.

At one point, it was the largest building in the United

States. And then there's St. Vincent Hospital in St.

Louis.

They say it was built in one year.

One year in the 1800s with that

architecture.

So you have to ask yourself, were these buildings really

made to treat the insane,

or were they made to silence people who remembered a

world that no longer existed?