The Hollow Pines Asylum
Hollow Pines Asylum was at the end of a dirt road, all overgrown and quiet. For years, folks around here whispered about the old abandoned mental hospital—nobody went near it after dark. They said patients were left to die in the basement, and doctors did weird stuff until they just vanished. However, in 2014, a small group of YouTube ghost hunters, known as Phantom Seekers, ventured out, seeking to be the first to obtain proof. The video they posted was just thirty-one minutes long, and nobody ever heard from them again. The video starts out normal: shaky cameras, nervous jokes, a walk through peeling paint, and graffiti. The air was thick with mold and the buzzing of their gear. This place feels wrong, one of them said, but the others didn't care. They walked down a long hall until the walls changed—white padded cells, stained with rust where restraints used to be. One person whispered, You hear that? The audio caught faint scratching, like nails on the walls. They laughed nervou...