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Abandoned lunatic asylum

These creepy snapshots of an eerie abandoned asylum will send a shiver down your spine. The old building, a former lunatic asylum in Columbia, South Carolina, opened in 1821, and was used to house traumatized veterans from the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865.

But the hospital is now in ruins after it was left to crumble – the insides have been stripped bare, with nothing left but peeling paintwork and gratified walls.

These eerie pictures were taken by urban explorer Bullet, who risked life and limb to explore the old hospital. (Caters News)

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