This week, Brandt Olivia and Danielle are joined by special guest Abby Wilde of Cringe benefits. We start getting in the Halloween spirit as we discuss some of the creepiest and cruel sanatoriums.

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Episode Researched and Edited by Brandt Kincaid.

Sources for today's Episode:

1. An ice pick to the brain: The horror of the frontal lobotomy - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/an-ice-pick-to-the-brain-the-horror-of-the-frontal-lobotomy/C2X63F5EDPOOGYJKKSRYMKGZEE/
2. Why Danvers State Hospital Ranks Among History’s Most Infamous Asylums - https://allthatsinteresting.com/danvers-state-hospital
3. The Decline of Danvers State Hospital - https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/09/decline-danvers-state-hospital/
4. Tennessee's McKamey Manor: Torture on Demand - https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/coverstory/tennessees-mckamey-manor-torture-on-demand/article_760ac6f2-513f-5f7c-b1f2-d65d7452bb1a.html
5. Natural Medicine, Starvation, and Murder: The Story of Linda Hazzard - https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/natural-medicine-starvation-and-murder-the-story-of-linda-hazzard/
6. The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-who-starved-her-patients-death-180953158/
7. The cautionary tale of psychiatrist Henry Aloysius Cotton - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67009-2/fulltext
8. The Horrifying “Cures” Of Dr. Henry Cotton — America’s Biggest Quack - https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-cotton