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The Asylum of Horror | Danvers State Hospital Cemetery, Massachusetts
Join host Kristin as The Grim steps into the forgotten field of Danvers State Hospital Cemetery — where nearly 800 souls lie buried beneath numbered stones in the woods of Danvers, Massachusetts, their names erased and their stories locked away by decades of silence.
Built in 1878 on Hathorne Hill — land tied to the family of Judge John Hathorne, whose name is stained by the Salem witch trials — Danvers State Hospital rose as a sprawling Kirkbride complex designed to heal 500 patients. At its peak, over 2,000 were crammed inside. What began as a vision of moral treatment became a monument to…
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