Laurel Asylum first opened in 1912 and quickly became one of the premier facilities mental health in the country for 36 years. Sitting in City of Hamilton, nestled quietly in the historical district of Lindenwald, Laurel Asylym became one of the most renowned mental health institutions in the United States. Leading the way was Dr. Sean Alucard, a mental health expert who specialized in paranoid sc
hizophrenia. Through the course of his tenure, Dr. Alucard performed hundreds of tests and procedures on a variety of patients. What people weren’t aware of, were the radical tests and treatments being performed by Dr. Alucard. Over the years, rumors began to rise. People began speculating about unorthodox experiments, reports of people checking in but never checking out and an almost occult like atmosphere. As the rumors started to become louder and louder, the State of Ohio stepped in and began an investigation into the daily operations of Laurel Asylum. When word began to spread of the investigation, Dr. Alucard moved his operation to the basement of Laurel Avenue. Each day investigators came and went, unbeknownst to them of the torturous experiments being performed under their feet. That was until that fateful day in December of 1948. Dr. Alucard was performing an experiment on a patient on December 4, 1948. He had strapped his patient onto a table, shaved his head and placed electrodes for his own brand of electric shock therapy. He shocked his patient repeatedly, making him endure agonizing pain. The patient struggled until he was able to break free from his harness. In a fit of psychotic induced rage, the patient grabbed a scalpel and killed several of the nurses before turning his attention to Dr. Alucard. The patient strapped Dr. Alucard to a table and the proceeded to free everyone who Dr. Alucard experimented on. The patients, mad insane by their torture wreaked havoc on the facility. They murdered everyone from the staff, including those who knew nothing of what Dr. Alucard was doing below. As for Dr. Alucard, he was tortured for hours all the while promising his work would continue. After the events of the Asylum Massacre, the facility was shut down and with the City unable to come up for a use or a buyer it was left abandoned. For years, the building sat empty and people began to forget about the events of that fateful night… until now.
