Thread: Haunt Name help/suggestions?

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We have a 20 yr old victorian that we do up for halloween...we might go non-profit/donations for charity this year and were told we need to have a haunt name. My hubby wants to have it an old "asylum" of some sort....and do our theme to tie into that some. Any suggestions as to what sounds good as "XXX Asylum" or the similar?

We usually board up the windows each year, but may "bar" them up this year with boards here and there as well to go with the crazy house theme. Suggestions?

Thanks a ton!

Universal's name for it was "Psychoscareapy" or something like that.

What city are you in, or are there any local colloquialisms that you can use to make a play on words?

For some reason when I think of Asylum names, I gravitiate towards H.P. Lovecraft: Shoggoth, Cthulhu, Azathoth...
Then there are titles such as "Shadowside Asylum", Dethsrayn (death's reign), Wollfsbane, Everdark, etc.
Good luck!

How about an English asylum name like:
The Moulsford Asylum or
The Earlswood Asylum

I hope you find the perfect name...good luck!

Ever heard of "Bedlam"? It's the oldest Mental Health Care facility in the world. The name is a Cockney abbreviation of its real name "Bethlehem".
Mental Health Care has come a long way since it opened in the 1200's. Back then if a patient was too violient, he would be forcefully submerged in an ice water bath until he calmed down. From this we get the term "Chill Out", still in use today. Overly aggresive patients would be chained to the floor, a practice that gave us the term "Lock Down". Chronically violent patients were fitted with square steel cages over their heads.
The place faced a financial crisis in the 1700's. To remain open, Management started to allow "Visitors" to view the patients for the admittance fee of one Penny. The visitors were given long sticks that they could use to prod, poke and arrouse the patients with. Gret fun, what? For an additional Penny, a visitor could touch (fondle?) a patient of their choice. This gives us the quaint English term "A Penny A Pinch". Ahh, London!
After the year 1600 or so, it was commonly held that most of the patients in Bedlam were sufferring from a new medical condition that had come across the Atlantic from the New World; Syphillis. Patients who were "cured" were discharged and given tin badges that they were to wear on their sleeve. This was considered a License to Beg. The most well-known of all the patients of bedlam was Sweeney Todd, the "Demon Barber of Fleet Street".
When I was living in London I wanted very much to go and see the place. They have a Museum. But Molly, my girlfriend at the time, wouldn't hear of it. We were in Stoke-Newington, in the North Side. Bedlam is south of the Thames, hard to travel to on the Underground. Road traffic is a joke. Plus, there's so much more to do in London.
To this day I regret not making the trip.

Wolfman, that was an interesting post to read Thanks!


For an Asylum Name... Hmmm....

What about:
1) Grisly Asylum: the haunt would consist of disfigured and gloomy, nasty, sickly displays of patients and scenes...

2) Moonstruck Asylum: the haunt would consist of patients who go crazy during full moons...

??? just some ideas

How about the name of a real asylum? Near my house is an old unoccupied asylum that I know is haunted!!!! It was called Barnes Mental Institute. As for knowing its haunted thats a different story