Photographs from the Psychiatric Hospital of Cleveland in 1946
Some years ago, the psychiatric hospitals were strange and disturbing, places of pain and suffering, and almost always of terror for the patients. Jerry Cooke and Mary Delaney Cooke, husband […]
Bethlem Bedlam: the London Horror Hospital
If thanks to a time machine you could visit the 15th century Royal Bethlem Hospital, you might think of seeing a horror movie scene. The notorious institution, which was the […]
Erzsébet Báthory: the Countess which was taking a bath in the blood of young virgins
The Hungarian Countess Erzsébet Báthory was beautiful, wealthy and mighty: she had everything every woman could dream in the 16th century. But despite this, her needs were always new and […]
Charles VI “the mad”, the King of France who thought he was made of glass.
In the Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries there was some “Glass Men”, and the king Charles VI of France was probably the most crazy representant. King Charles VI, […]
