Once a place of "restorative treatment", Denbigh Asylum (also known as the North Wales Mental Hospital) has now been left in ruins.
But why do so many believe that this once-grand Victorian building is one of the most haunted places in Wales?
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📚 Psychiatry in Medical Practice by W. Lindsay Neustatter
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