Mental Asylum, Weston WV (Moundsville, Ripley: hotel, home, dorms)

[BJC]

Did anyone see the show this past wednesday 4/30/08 on one of the cable channels regarding looking for ghosts in this hospital? This gothic style of the building is really something! Anyone know what plans they have for this building. Nice hotel, even if a bit creapy!

[Threerun]

I don't know of any current plans for the buildings. but they hold truck mud bogging on the grounds..

[Silkdashocker]

I didn't see the show the other night on Ghost Hunters, but i did map the data and phone lines for the customer to use for the couple days of filming.

[BJC]

ok, so do you think it is weird creapy building, or a fine peice of gothic style that should be used for something nice? Can people get past what the building was once used for? I have an uncle that lived there for a few years, I do not think I would ever take him back there. I truly think bad things happened to him there, however for others who do not have an emotional attachment (good or bad) to it I think if someone can it should be fixed up, maybe like a spa. I know lots of $$$$ and no I do not have any, but some of the building put up today are SOOOO plain.

[snorpus]

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum dates to the 1850s/60s. When constructed, it was the largest cut-stone structure in the world.

Growing up, there were two places your parents would warn you about. "You keep it up, and we'll send you to Pruntytown" and "You keep it up, and they'll be taking me to Weston".

[Janipoo]

I have seen this show. I see they have ghost tours, I would love to go on it. I love the Ghost hunters show.

[appalachiangirl]

I've heard stories about the old prison in Moundsville being haunted. Don't know if I believe this or not.

[WVUPharm2007]

Pruntytown is the scariest place in the universe for a 12 year old boy. I'd have rather gone to Somalia than to Pruntytown.

[David Kennedy]

Fear of Abandonment used as a control technique...how quaint...my parents used that old chesnut everytime we would drive through the Pruntytown campus...and point to the dorms and building...dead silence would prevail for about 30 seconds...

As we become older and wiser...our prisons become other things...

[BJC]

gosh I am so glad to hear that my step-father was not the only one who used Pruntytown when trying to congtrol me!!!! it was only last year 2007 on a drive from our home in VA to Ripley WV that I saw a sign for Ptown as we were driving. I am 50 yrs old and it gave me a weird feeling!!!!