We had a family wedding this past weekend in southeast KS, and so we traveled the familiar path down highway 169. My cousin, Kerri, and her husband, James, mentioned how they had stopped off in Osawatomie, KS to check out the eerie site of the State Mental Hospital. It still operates as a mental hospital, and there are still some of the older buildings standing from when it was known as the Kansas Insane Asylum. I thought it would be interesting to see as well so we stopped off for a minute. It was pretty fascinating. The look of the place was right out of "Shutter Island."
Near the grounds we found a cemetery with 346 headstones marked only with numbers. According to an online article by the Pitch, these headstones all belonged to patients who went unclaimed by families. People were buried there up until the 1950s. It was disturbing and intriguing all at once.
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