America's 10 Scariest Abandoned Asylums & Hospitals

4. Linda Vista Hospital - Los Angeles, California

Opened as the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital in 1904 as a railway employee hospital, it became the Linda Vista in the 1980s and superbly notorious. The hospital was located in one of the roughest parts of Los Angeles where gang warfare was rife. It also wasn't the hospital you wanted to be taken if you were caught up in a gunfight. Rumours were that patients, being from the less affluent end of town, were allowed to die. Though that was perhaps down to the fact that the hospital took in a large number of uninsured patients and had a high mortality rate due to the large number of gang violence victims that came through it's doors. That said, care wasn't the best and staff gradually filtered to other hospitals. Linda Vista was eventually closed in 1991.

Several paranormal investigations were carried out a Linda Vista. Perhaps the most famous was that the oft mentioned Ghost Adventures, which has something of an affinity for abandoned hospitals and asylums. Former investigator Nick Groff took off like a rocket into his co-stars when the full bodied apparition of a female patient appeared inches from his face. Linda Vista also served as filming location for shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The hospital was added to the National Register of Historic Buildings in 2006. It has since been converted into an apartment complex for senior citizens.