Committed at Fairfield Hills Hospital
New England Legends Podcast
English - March 12, 2020 14:30 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 897 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History folklore monsters ghosts history legends newengland paranormal Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In Episode 134, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger drive up to the remains of Fairfield Hills Mental Hospital in Newtown, Connecticut. Opened in 1933, Fairfield Hills was touted as the latest and greatest in the treatment of people whose “minds have become deranged with strange fancies, and who have lost control over their thoughts and emotions.” But overcrowding and underfunding lead to conditions that were truly horrific, conditions that haunt us decades later.