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  • Philadelphia Asylum: The Real American Horror Story

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    “In Philadelphia, the sovereign Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintains a dilapidated, overcrowded, undermanned mental ‘hospital’ known as Byberry. There, on the stone wall of a basement ward appropriately known as the ‘Dungeon,’ one can still read, after nine years, the five-word legend: George was kill here 1937.”  – Life Magazine, 1946   In 1903, the Commonwealth…