THE HIDDEN HISTORY
The Burleson Asylum was
originally built in the
late 1800’s to serve as
a treatment facility
for the mentally
insane.  The building
was operated by the
state for about twenty
years before it was
shut down due to
horrific reports of
abuse.
The Burleson Asylum went overlooked by
the state during the years it was in
operation, allowing cruel and
unorthodox experiments to be performed
on patients in the basement.  Some of
those experiments caused the
mutilation, disfigurement, and
ultimately the death of many who
resided there. Those patients too frail
or weak to take the pain of the
experiments, eventually passed on to
the other side.  Some were even rumored
to have been buried in the basement
before an incinerator was installed in
the early 1900’s.
When the state eventually
discovered the horrors inflicted
on the patients, the facility was
shut down.   Fearing criminal
punishment by the state, some
involved in the experiments chose
to take their own lives down in
the basement.  Since that time,
it is believed there rages a
never ending battle in the after
life between those twisted
torturers and their powerless
victims.
After the asylum burned down, the
building was rebuilt to serve as a
school in hopes of amending the
tragedies allowed to occur there in the
years prior.  The state also eventually
renamed the building the F.E. Burleson
Elementary School.  Today, the building
is commonly referred to as the Old
Burleson Building.  In 2000, the school
was relocated to a new location.
THE COVER UP
Surviving asylum employees were quickly
dispersed out of state to new jobs.   
Those who attempted to reveal the truth
were threatened into silence in the hope
of never allowing the tragic tales of the
horror and suffering to escape to the
public.  The patients who did survive the
basement were sent to regional hospitals
throughout the state, where their stories
could never be revealed.
However, the state
overlooked one small
problem.
How does one control those twisted and lost souls that
remain there to this day.....trapped, angry and
tormented, always hungering for that which has eluded
them for over a hundred years.....escape.