Construction on the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum began in 1858, and the grounds were used by troops during the Civil War. It accepted its first nine patients in 1864 but wasn’t fully ...

Inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, in the small town of Weston, it’s five or 10 degrees colder. The heating hasn’t worked since the Weston State Hospital -- as the mental institution ...

If you go Themed tours of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, 71 Asylum Drive, Weston, W.Va.; (304) 269-5070, www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com, are offered throughout the year. Prices range ...

— For around 130 years, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, formerly the Weston State Hospital, housed anywhere from a few hundred to nearly 2,500 people who were deemed in need of treatment for ...

In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 photo, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is shown in Weston, W.Va. The former psychiatric hospital is now being marketed as a historic and paranormal tourist attraction.

The campaign for Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) spent $540 at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. The former psychiatric hospital is now marketed as a historic and paranormal ...

WESTON, W.Va. – It’s an intriguing and provocative name that translates to Web hits, phone calls and tour tickets: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. To some, the title acknowledges hi… ...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum held its grand reopening Saturday morning, welcoming visitors with a special commemorative wine glass for the first 200 guests. More for You.

To some, the renaming of Weston (WV) Hospital to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum acknowledges history by readopting one of the many names previously held by the long-vacant, 19th century mental ...

WESTON, W.Va. (AP) — "Are you ready?" the ghost-tour guide in the cavernous foyer at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum addressed my 12-year-old daughter Emma, who was positively effervescing ...