Up To 7,000 Bodies Found Buried Beneath University Of Mississippi Medical Center

[mfcorey1]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bodies-buried-at-university-of-mississippi_us_5911d47fe4b05e1ca201e553?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Researchers say they’ve discovered as many as 7,000 graves beneath the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s campus in Jackson.

The land was part of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum until it shut roughly 80 years ago, and experts say the find that was announced at the weekend potentially offers closure for families whose relatives vanished decades ago.

Research teams used ground-penetrating radar to painstakingly detect the suspected patients’ remains, buried in coffins, after uncovering 66 caskets in 2012, Dr. Molly Zuckerman, an associate anthropology professor at Mississippi State, told HuffPost.

According to Zuckerman, who is helping carry out excavations with the Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery Project, 35,000 people were institutionalized at the facility from 1855 until 1935.

[snooper2]

1. Imagine the fucked up shit happening at a 1800's era insane asylum

[mucifer]

2. Probably similar to people in solitary confinement for years in modern prisons in the USA.

[heaven05]

3. I wonder about

the racial breakdown of these 'patients'......... first thought

[standingtall]

4. Don't know who could be left to offer closure to

if the place shut down 80 years ago?

[moriah]

5. My great-aunt was in the Arkansas "State Hospital for Nervous Diseases".

She had five kids, an alcoholic wife-beating husband who died, and then was trying to do all the farming her brothers couldn't get to *and* the housework *and* the childcare herself. They thought she developed schizophrenia late.

Our family has bipolar disorder manifesting in these generations, so it's more likely she experienced manic psychosis and they had no way to tell the difference then, or drugs to treat either.

[underpants]

6. That's crazy