10 Shocking Things Found In Abandoned Locations

Back to West Park Asylum again, and this time to the abandoned mortuary and pathology labs which sat nestled among the trees in a corner of the site. It had once been tucked away behind the asylum's chapel, but that was demolished back in the 1980s to make way for a staff car park.

Being home to up to 2,545 patients, death visited the asylum regularly, and the mortuary fridges had room for up to twelve bodies to be stored at any one time. One could wander the shabby abandoned wards of the asylum after closure and read the old log books that described patients dying in the night, or after a fall or injury. Blood and tissue samples were taken from some patients and stored in boxes or on glass slides, including these chunks of brain, sealed in paraplast blocks (a waxy paraffin-based substance) for later study. Being unmarked, no one now knows who they once belonged to, what they died of, or what lessons might have been learned from them.

Any that remained would have been eventually thrown away in skips or burned along with all the other fascinating artifacts this vast asylum once contained.