13 Staggering Photos Of An Abandoned Asylum Hiding In Oklahoma
St. Vincent Asylum in Oklahoma City has a long and dark history that is still lingering in the heartland to this very day. The old insane abandoned OK asylum has been sitting vacant on NE 23rd Street for decades and has become a prime destination for ghost hunters and thrill seekers. The location is off-limits for visitors nowadays, but we found some rare photos of this creepy place courtesy of our good friends at Abandoned Oklahoma. Check them out, along with the tragic history that makes St. Vincent one of the creepiest places in Oklahoma.
St. Vincent began as a mental hospital in 1945, expanding rapidly over the next several years, while only treating male patients.
St. Vincent Mental Asylum was operated by the Brothers of Mercy - a religious order providing care for the mentally ill. Starting in the 1960s, murders began to surface out of the asylum. The first known tragedy began when a nurse inexplicably suffocated two patients. Unfortunately, the tragedies didn’t end there.
The asylum was then run by a priest named Frank Dolan who turned it into a drug rehab center.
Rev. Dolan also had an interesting past, as he was arrested for soliciting prostitution in 1984. Things again went horribly wrong when Father Dolan was killed on the property by the patients he was trying to help. The facility only lasted until the 1980s when it was shut down. The property is now believed to be haunted by tortured souls of the past.
The nursing order of Catholic brothers moved to the present location and built the ‘old’ section of the building in 1953.
These items were probably used in the common living spaces.
Many creepy things can be found lying on the floors, like this old doll that appears to be covered in wax from those candles...or let's hope it's candle wax and not blood.
You wouldn't want to walk into this room in the dark. Honestly, we don't think we want to walk into ANY of these rooms in the dark... or during the day. Or ever, for that matter.
The old couches and chairs are torn up and tossed all across the rooms.
The abandoned St. Vincent Asylum in OK was shut down in the 1980s after more than two decades of terrible happenings, including but not limited to the aforementioned murders. Some of the murders that occurred at St. Vincent are:
In 1962, a nurse murdered two patients by strangulation.
It is alleged that inmates often killed other inmates, though these claims are not confirmed.
Ashley has lived in Oklahoma for 25 years and is the Oklahoma staff writer for onlyinyourstate.com. When she isn't exploring Oklahoma, she enjoys visiting the beaches of California.
