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There are places we abandoned long before we abandoned the buildings.
Hospitals. Asylums. Orphanages. Sanatoriums. Institutions built to care for people... and sometimes to hide them.
CONDEMNED investigates the history inside the world's forgotten institutions, following the records, the people who lived there, and the legends left behind.
Because abandoned buildings collect ghost stories.
But sometimes the truth is worse.
Hospitals. Asylums. Orphanages. Sanatoriums. Institutions built to care for people... and sometimes to hide them.
CONDEMNED investigates the history inside the world's forgotten institutions, following the records, the people who lived there, and the legends left behind.
Because abandoned buildings collect ghost stories.
But sometimes the truth is worse.
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
28 minutes
English
United States
3 episodes
since Sept. 16, 2026
episodic
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Built on the belief that architecture itself could help heal the mind, West Virginia's Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was designed for just 250 patients. At its height, thousands may have lived behind its walls.
This episode of Condemned traces the institution from its ambitious beginnings through…
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Pennhurst was built with a promise: to educate, protect, and care for people Pennsylvania had nowhere else to send. What followed was overcrowding, abuse, human experimentation, landmark court battles, and nearly eighty years of lives reduced to institutional records.
In the first episode of Conde…
There are places we abandoned long before we abandoned the buildings.
Hospitals. Asylums. Orphanages. Sanatoriums. Institutions built to heal, shelter, educate—and sometimes simply hide the people society didn't know what to do with.
Each week, Condemned investigates one of these places, the peop…
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