Central State Mental Hospital -- Indianapolis, Indiana

In 1848, the Indiana Hospital for the Insane opened it's doors. In the late 1970s, many of the buildings were declared unsound and demolished. In 1994, the state of Indiana closed the hospital in favor of more advanced treatment methods.

It is said that some patients suffered inhuman cruelty and years of abuse while housed in this institution. Some patients who were diagnosed as "criminally insane" were kept in a state of near-perpetual restraint. Workers in the 1950s were renovating tunnels under the facility and discovered dark rooms in the recesses of the tunnels that still bore chains and manacles on their walls. One of the patients hung himself on the grounds.

Security guards still claim to hear the screams and moans of former patients on the grounds, and to see the blurry form of patients run by the guard shack. A woman screaming and moaning is heard in the old powerhouse by the boiler, and shadows are seen moving around the room. In the pump room a man was awakened by the sensation of being strangled, and he had the marks on his neck to prove it.

Demographics:
Campus Motel -- Est. 1960
Evans Building -- Est. 1974
Bolton Building -- Est.1974
Bahr Building -- Est. 1956
Administration Building -- Est. 1938
Carpenter Shop -- Est. 1937
Men's Recreation Building -- Est. 1899
Kitchen and Dining Hall -- Est. 1959
Pathology Building -- Est. 1895
Red Cross Building -- Est. 1955
Old Laundry Building -- Est. 1894