A trip to the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, is quite the experience, especially if you stay overnight. Yes, overnight. You check in at 9:00 PM and out at 5:00 AM. Not for the feint of heart, it's the scariest thing I have ever done. So you're asking, what about sleep? No, you don't sleep.
The asylum is very large and a qualified tour guide will lead you to the various parts of the building. The main building is very large and you spend an hour on each floor. Our tour guide's name was Copperhead and he was excellent. Mind you, there's no electricity, it's very, very dark and on the night I went it was raining and stormy. Plus the building leaks, so you hear the drip, drip, drip of water all night. Yep, it's a very spooky experience.
I was there with fellow photographers and we were equiped with flashlights to do some light painting. Basically that means you shine lights, colored or white, as you photograph. We came with props.
I have also been there for day tours, fabulous for urban decay photographs and not as scary.
Till you get to the hole in the wall....bwhahahaha!!
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