10 Shocking Things Found In Abandoned Locations

This Welsh asylum of 1906 housed over 500 patients at its peak, and over the years, thousands of patients would have lived and died here. In the early part of the last century, once-incurable diseases such as syphilis would have killed many, while toward the end of the century, many had already been there for decades and were simply dying of old age.

From the 1950s, when a patient died, their autopsy would be conducted at a general hospital, but before then, the asylum had its own mortuary, chapel of rest, and graveyard, and would process the bodies of the scores who died there each year itself.

Records were kept of all official business that happened within the asylum, and deaths were no different, so every single one was recorded. Here, boxes packed full of death records dating from the asylum’s opening in Edwardian times through to the mid-1990s sit in an abandoned former dormitory.