Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Washington D.C. Travel and Adventure Show
"Nurse" Gwen Dolyn offers ghost and paranormal guided tours at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum tourist destination at the Washington D.C. Travel and Adventure Show at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday January 14, 2017. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a Kirkbride psychiatric hospital that operated from 1864 until 1994 by the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia, in the city of Weston. The Asylum has had apparition sightings, unexplainable voices and sounds, and other paranormal activity reported in the past by guests and staff. (Photo by Jeff Malet)