Lecture/presentation exploring the history of America's haunted civic spaces including prisons, asylums, and graveyards as well as the power of these folk narratives to audiences today.

1. HAUNTED CIVIC
SPACES: PRISONS,
ASYLUMS, AND
“CHURCHYARDS”

2. WHY DO YOU THINK
PEOPLE BELIEVE
PRISONS, ASYLUMS,
AND OTHER PUBLIC
SPACES ARE
HAUNTED?

3. 2GHOSTS AND “CIVIC STRUCTURES”
CONNECTED TO THESE
PLACES IS THE IDEA
PERMANENCE
HAUNTINGS/GHOST STORIES
KEEP ALIVE NEGLECTED SPACES
CIVIC STRUCTURES LIKE PRISONS, ASYLUMS, AND
GRAVEYARDS ARE PURPOSE BUILT...
THESE PUBLIC
PLACES, BELONG TO
THE PUBLIC
IMAGINATION

4. 3PRISONS
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ‘US’
AND ‘THEM’ BECOME
VISIBLE
WE ARE ATTRACTED TO PRISONS BECAUSE OF WHAT
THEY STAND FOR...
PUBLIC COLLECTIVELY
CONFINES THE CRIMINAL,
OR THE “ABNORMAL”
OTHER

5. 5:08
HOW WAS EASTERN STATE DIFFERENT
THAN EARLIER/OTHER PRISONS?

6. 5GHOSTS OF PRISONS
EasternStatePenitentiary Moundsville Penitentiary
PRISONS
THE GHOST STORIES

7. 2:24
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
EASTERN
STATE

8. 7ASYLUMS
FOR CENTURIES, THE “MAD” WERE THE SAME AS THE
BLIND, POOR, SICK, AND ELDERLY...
“MADHOUSES” OFFERED
WEALTHY FAMILIES PLACES
TO PUT RELATIVES
1600S-
1700S
DOROTHEA DIX
CALLED FOR
SOCIAL REFORM
1843
PSYCHIATRIC CARE FELL
UNDER STATE CONTROL &
THE STATE OVERCROWDED
THESE AS ASYLUMS
1850S-
1900

9. 5:26
WHAT DOES THIS REVEAL ABOUT
TREATMENT EVEN IN THE 1960S?
PENNHURST

10. 9GHOSTS OF ASYLUMS
WaverlyHills
PennhurstAsylum
WaverlyHills nurse whohung herself?
ASYLUMS
THE GHOST STORIES

11. 1:25
HOW WERE PATIENTS TREATED AT
WAVERLY HILLS?
WAVERLY
HILLS

12. 2:23
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
WAVERLY
HILLS

13. 2:37
PENNHURST
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

14. 13“CHURCHYARDS” AND CEMETERIES
MIDDLE AGES
SINCE MIDDLE AGES, TOWNS IN EUROPE WERE LAID OUT
AROUND A CENTRAL CHURCH AND A GRAVEYARD...
BUT, OVER TIME
CHURCHYARDS RAN OUT
OF SPACE AND
CEMETERIES EMERGED
NEGLECTED, FILLED
WITH THE DEAD, THESE
PLACES WERE THE
PERFECT SETTING FOR
GHOST STORIES

15. 5:18
HOW DO YOU THINK CEMETERIES WILL
EVOLVE IN THE FUTURE?

16. 15GHOSTS OF “GRAVEYARDS”
St. Louis Cemetery#1, NewOrleans
Hollywood ForeverCemetery, LA
GRAVEYARDS
THE GHOST STORIES
ResurrectionCemetery, Chicago

17. 9:08
IS THIS A GHOST STORY OR AN URBAN
LEGEND?

18. 1:43
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS
ATTRACTION?

19. 1:13
HOW DOES THIS ATTRACTION DEPICT
ASYLUM RESIDENTS AND STAFF?

20. IS IT APPROPRIATE
TO USE ANY OF
THESE CIVIC SPACES
AS ENTERTAINMENT
DEVISES?

21. NEXT CLASS:
GHOST SHIPS AND
HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSES
HOMEWORK: NONE