A couple flee South Sudan and end up trapped in an Essex house with peeling walls, dodgy wiring – and ghosts in the walls. Director Remi Weekes explains the ultra-scary film everyone wanted to snap up ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

Other scary asylum stories highlighted a fear of institutional cruelty — of authority figures with total power over vulnerable patients. “There was this kind of edgy nervousness around them, where if ...