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The Mystery Behind Bull Street Asylum
A place that is frozen in time with terror embracing every step you take towards it.
Many people thought it was strange how a Mental Health Asylum could be the source of love and pride for the people of Columbia. Bull Street Asylum was built in 1822 and was the second oldest asylum in the United States of America. Being one of Columbia’s five historic landmarks, the asylum was created so that it would not allow you to see the moon. It was believed that the moon contributed to the lunacy, the hospital representing its need to encompass and restrain anything that could be anything close to mental illness in the first place.
Being a relevant part of Columbia’s history, it caused a lot of clashes between explorers who were entranced with its background and the police who were trying to protect it from being trespassed. However, it harbored a dark past. One which was guarded after presiding over more than 200 acres of the land in Columbia. Secrets that would never settle well with modern-day era and its outlook on medical treatment.
People from All Walks of Life
The asylum was a massive place and spread over a lot of lands. It was designed to take in the mentally ill. Back in those days, during the 1800s, medicine had not made the same progress and had the same enlightenment as it does now. As archaic as it looks, the place held the same ideologies for the doctors and its patients. Things that could only be labeled as medical malpractice now were considered typical and treated just as frivolously during those days.
The asylum took in anyone that they felt needed the treatment they could offer. Even when black people were treated with disrespect and taken up as slaves, the asylum took them in as well, not that racism eluded them there. All the evils presented in daily walks of life outside of the asylum grew even stronger inside those walls, looming over people, magnified in intensity because no matter how big the asylum was, it was cramped with people. An asylum filled to the brim with patients left no breathing room.
