Thursday, April 28, 2011

Can you see the ghost in this picture? Spirits haunt derelict asylum

    Can you see the ghost in this picture? Spirits haunt derelict asylum

THEY are haunting images of bedlam - an Australian lunatic asylum that opened more than 170 years ago.
An exhibition by photographer Yvette Worboys titled Ghosts has captured eerie images of the former Gladesville Mental Hospital, in Sydney, which opened in November 1838 and closed in 1997.
Worboys, who has lived in the area most of her life, said she was drawn to the partly derelict hospital by its residual energy.
"There is quite a presence, an energy, there," Worboys said.

More than 1200 patients are buried in unmarked graves on the property. Ms Worboys said psychics asked to analyse her photos believed there was a presence in them.
"Mediums have looked at the images and seen a presence there," she said.

Read the full story in the Herald Sun

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