The Real Hospital That Inspired Batman’s Arkham Asylum: Danvers State Hospital Documentary

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If you've ever wondered where the look of Arkham Asylum came from, it's a real place. Danvers State Hospital sat on a hill in Massachusetts looking exactly like the kind of building horror writers dream about, and its history is every bit as unsettling as its silhouette.

This video goes through what actually happened inside Danvers, from its ambitious beginnings to the treatments and overcrowding that defined its decline.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:28 Chapter 1 - Hathorne Hill: Ground Before The Building
4:40 Chapter 2 - Bradlee's Castle
8:23 Chapter 3 - The First Danvers Hospital
11:51 Chapter 4 - A Girl Walks In
14:45 Chapter 5 - The Math That Broke The Model
18:03 Chapter 6 - Death, Scandal, and Violence Behind the Walls
21:35 Chapter 7 - The Birthplace Of The Lobotomy
25:41 Chapter 8 - Eight Years in A Closed Ward
29:12 Chapter 9 - The Bet They Lost
32:43 Chapter 10 - The Long Unwind
38:08 Chapter 11 - Arkham: The Fiction That Outlived The Fact
42:02 Chapter 12 - Demolition, Fire, Rebirth
45:31 Chapter 13 - Marie Balter

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Core sources links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danvers_State_Hospital
https://www.danversstatehospital.org/demolition
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/history-of-danvers-state-hospital/