Insane Aslyum

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I would like to know if you know anything about an Insane Aslyum in Denver Colorado on 8th Ave 80220. It was an Insane Aslyum and an old folks homes then it was changed into lowcom housing and now they are our dorms and we can not find anything about them and we think that there might be left over ghost because of weird happenings. So if you know anything or how we can find anything out it would help. Thank You for Your Help.

-- Samantha (sb2418@yahoo.com), February 21, 2003

Answers

Have you checked: http://www.historicasylums.com/ ?

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), February 23, 2003.

Samantha,

This is a good question to bring to your local librarian or to a university librarian. There are probably all sorts of local newspaper records relating to the institution--and certainly there will have been newspaper stories relating to the various transitions in the purposes of the buildings. The librarian can also help you locate state government records relating to the "lunatic asylums" in Colorado, and what sorts of patients were housed in this particular one. Whether any of that will account for current weird happenings is another matter--I'd be a careful observer of those events to see if you can identify a more plausible cause.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), February 22, 2003.


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