Sure...for example, one of the groups we did work for was the Department of Mental Health. We'd go to these old sites, and wander around in the basements. Aside from it being pretty creepy in these old buildings, we'd see stuff like shackles and chains still hanging from the walls, rooms(cells) with lockable iron gates, morgue rooms, what looked like blood smears on the walls, etc., where they used to lock patients up. The way it was explained was, back in the day, if you were not considered "normal", they just locked you up in those type of places. They didn't have the science or medical knowledge to diagnose autism, dyslexia, or stuff like that, so they just lumped you in with the true crazies. I guess alot of bad things happened that they don't like to bring up...
The other one I remember was the Department of Mental Retardation (what they called it back then), where at one of the sites, they used to experiment on the patients, irradiating them or doing drug trials on them. I don't think the families of the patients knew about this at the time. It came out later.
The other kinda creepy one was at this one site, where the facilities guy hands me this huge iron key, and says it's all that remained of the original mental hospital. Seems a patient set fire to the place...
