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Narrated by:
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Bob Baker
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By:
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Zachery Knowles
About this listen
For people who believe in the paranormal - ghosts, spirits, and other unexplainable encounters - most will agree that old hospitals and asylums are the most haunted places you can visit. With 13 chilling chapters, Haunted Hospitals delves into the history of the most infamous asylums, sanitariums, and hospitals on Earth, unlocking their dark histories and detailing their paranormal activities.
Take Waverly Hills Sanatorium, home to Mary, the apparition of a little girl who "wasn't normal". Left behind after a disease cut her young life short, Mary went from innocent in life to something more horrific in death.
Then there's Old Changi military hospital, where a history of wartime bloodbaths still stains the old abandoned halls - leaving behind chilling images in the minds of trespassers.
Or what about any of the other haunted hospitals contained within, where apparitions, disembodied voices, and strange occurrences are commonplace. With overcrowding and barbaric medical procedures being practiced, these buildings were the torture houses of the 20th century, and the eeriest haunts of the 21st.
Haunted Hospitals unlocks the dark histories of the most chilling abandoned hospitals from around the world. Every chapter describes the eerie and often frightening details of the best ghostly encounters. Are these sightings based on myth or true horrors? Only you can decide.
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Fascinating!
- By tamborine on 08-06-18
By: Stacy Horn
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The Colony
- The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles on Molokai
- By: John Tayman
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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In 1866, 12 men and women and one small child were forced aboard a leaky schooner and cast away to a natural prison on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Two weeks later, a dozen others were exiled, and then 40 more, and then 100 more. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of those who did were not contagious.
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Interesting
- By Matt on 10-31-06
By: John Tayman
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Nagasaki
- Life After Nuclear War
- By: Susan Southard
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the 70th anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes listeners from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the firsthand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation.
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Truly, A Heartrending Horrorshow
- By Gillian on 12-21-17
By: Susan Southard
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Here Is Where
- Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
- By: Andrew Carroll
- Narrated by: Andrew Carroll
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s 50 states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.
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A Man who Loves his Country
- By Daryl on 03-12-17
By: Andrew Carroll
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The Theater of War
- What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
- By: Bryan Doerries
- Narrated by: Adam Driver
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition. For years Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and hurricane victims, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society.
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Wow
- By Marisa on 11-09-15
By: Bryan Doerries
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Death in the Air
- The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
- By: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December fifth of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days.
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Interesting
- By irene on 11-27-17
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An American Plague
- The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- By: Jim Murphy
- Narrated by: Pat Bottino
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In An American Plague, Jim Murphy tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as George Washington and Benjamin Rush, who were involved in finding a cure for this horrific outbreak. Pat Bottino's captivating narration adds appeal to this interesting historical tale.
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Don't expect technical depth...
- By Ebird on 01-27-06
By: Jim Murphy
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Hell Before Their Very Eyes
- By: John C. McManus
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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On April Fourth, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the Fourth Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered, thousands of soldiers came face to face with the monstrous reality of Hitler's Germany. These men discovered the very depths of human-imposed cruelty and depravity.
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loved it
- By A. Adams on 10-11-20
By: John C. McManus
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Skip the 30min intro.
- By EErele on 05-09-15
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The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World's Deadliest Influenza Outbreak
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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In 1918, the world was still in the throes of the Great War, the deadliest conflict in human history at that point, but while World War I would be a catastrophic war surpassed only by World War II, an unprecedented influenza outbreak that same year inflicted casualties that would make both wars pale in comparison.
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Complacency can kill
- By MolllyT on 12-10-16
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My Life Among the Serial Killers
- Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
- By: Helen Morrison M.D., Harold Goldberg
- Narrated by: Helen Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.
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Boring reader,boring writing
- By P. Minor on 02-03-08
By: Helen Morrison M.D., and others
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The Lives They Left Behind
- Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
- By: Peter Stastny, Darby Penney
- Narrated by: Alex Paul
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a moving—and devastating—group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
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Not really the book I expected
- By B. Shaff on 11-09-17
By: Peter Stastny, and others
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- Kerri Connelly
- 05-21-18
Very good!
This was a great book! Well worth the listening! I greatly enjoyed the narrator and the stories. I liked that they gave a background to the places and made the stories come to life. I highly recommend!
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- Sarah
- 05-04-20
Incomplete
How can you possibly write a book, about haunted insane asylums, and NOT include Pennhurst?!?? Other than that glaring omission...I liked the narration and content!!
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- Gemma lathan
- 10-11-18
good book very informative
loved it . very interesting read. I found this book to be very informative reading. but some asylum descriptions I found to be a little too short. hence why I have given this book a 4 out of 5
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- Admiralu
- 04-07-18
True Hauntings of Hospitals & Asylums
This book is another great entry in the true hauntings series from Zachery Knowles. Each one covers a different type and this book covers some of the haunted hospitals and asylums. All were sad places to begin with and had much death and suffering to begin with. Much of it seems to stay with the locations even after being closed for many years. Only the the brave or foolish would want to visit these locations. A great spooky read. The audiobook version was entertaining as well.
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- Jessica
- 10-09-21
great book!!!!
this book was not only scary but educational the narrator did a wonderful job at describing each Hospital in all its occurrences I will definitely listen to this book over again and recommended to friends!!!
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- Kindle Customer Lawrence Allen
- 04-08-17
Interesting look into old mental institutions that flourished in the 20th century an became centers of abuse
Well written in easy journalistic style with emphasis on paranormal activities observed after the institutions had been abandoned.
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- Mollie
- 11-28-21
good stories bit
there are spots where words repeat its almost like someone hit pause an play back to back.
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- Ruthanne
- 08-30-17
love it . it's a page Turner. can't wait to read .
love the entire book ..a page Turner
the stories are fun
it's a good book can not wait to read others
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- Suzie
- 01-03-24
Solid information
This book had solid information in it. That was about it. Didn’t really give me anymore info I couldn’t get elsewhere
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- Roland Vellanoweth
- 05-30-23
garbage.
No real facts provided in this book.This is mostly just retelling the other people's stories when interviews and names and dates would have been more interesting for those who had first hand accounts.
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