Established in 1605, by Dr. John Kilverstone and his wife; Amelia. Kilvertsone Asylum was built in mind to help those that suffered from certain mental illnesses. The Kilverstone Asylum was built to sit at least one hundred and fifty patients. People did state that Dr. John Kilverstone saved their lives; and even treated them with care. His methods were subtle and caring. He believed all the patients were more than just patients, but human beings. That they deserved life, even after death. His procedures were done to his medical ability, and more often than naught; the procedures were a success. Most of his patients were rehabilitated and were able to live normal live. While others would either succumb to their mental illness; whether they had taken their own lives or something went wrong during a procedure. This did not discourage Dr. John Kilverstone. In fact this made him want to discover what the mind can do, he wanted to know more. And in doing so Kilverstone Asylum was the go place to become better; and live normal lives.
In 1610 Dr. John Kilverstone discovered a medicine that could cure certain diseases that made the mind deteriorate. In fact this medicine people paid for, even selling their homes if they had a love one that needed to get treatment. The Asylum needed to expand because after years of perfecting his medicine more and more people were being admitted into Dr. John Kilverstone’s care. Everything was looking up and up for the Kilverstones. Until Dr. John Kilverstone had become ill, he had tried his own medicine upon himself; trying to get better. Instead he was progressively getting worse to the point he had to be admitted into his own Institution. Now with his wife, Amelia, looking after the patients of Kilverstone Asylum, things could only get better; right?
Amelia’s methods were more inhumane from that of her husband’s. She would make certain patients strip down naked, and go out into the freezing cold. Only to throw bitter cold water at them; making them either die from Hypothermia or to later have a limb be cut off because they had gotten severe frostbite. Amelia also had been known to sleep with the patients that she saw fit to please her in any way she had wanted. But that was not the worse of her ‘treatments’. She would go to the lengths was cutting off limbs without not knowing how; and those people she experimented on would soon die from bleeding out. This was not just to the adults but to the children as well.
Some stories reflected on that the children got the worse of her torment. One child complained that her jaw was hurting, so Amelia ripped the bottom part of the child’s jaw off. To only bandage the bottom portion of her face, her face eventually got infected; which made the child suffer and unbearable death. Another child was reported to have their left arm cut off to have a new one sown on; in which did not take. Eventually Amelia got tired of the child who constantly cried; she ended up stabbing the child over and over again with a needle that was filled with poison. She did not care, even if the child was already dead; she still injected the poison into the child’s bloodstream.
Other reports showed that Amelia would take women into the Water Therapy room and continued to pour water into the vast; until she saw fit. Amelia would drown the victims, the ones that she did not find sexually pleasurable; or remotely revolting in her eyes. For the men she would take them to get Electroshock Therapy, and either kill them or torture them because they were not deemed fit. Amelia often ordered lobotomies for the patients that did not even needed; the procedures. If a patient managed to escape, Amelia would always find them and kill them herself. What she would do with the bodies is cook them and feed them to the other patients.
There are rumours that she was poisoning her husband to take over Kilverstone Asylum, but these are just rumours, right? Wrong. Dr. John Kilverstone kept a journal explaining the horrors that were going on within the walls of the Asylum; though deemed insane himself, no one took his writing to heart. In fact in 1615, the doctor was found dead in his cell. From an apparent suicide; some speculate due to him not dying 'fast enough’, his wife hanged him to make the death look like a suicide. She then inherited Kilvrestone Asylum; and her acts only god more violent and sinister as time went on. Even when she had gotten much older, she would have certain patients come to her bedside so she could bite into their flesh. Not to just bite but to tear away a chunk of their flesh and spit said flesh to the floor. She had been given the name Dr. Torture before she died in 1625 from Tuberculosis. The patients, nurses, and other doctors had seemingly disappeared.
After years of being abandoned, in 1656; a local woman name Madame DuPree bought the Kilverstone Asylum and made the Asylum into an Orphanage. The Orphanage gained quite the reputation. At first a good reputation, the children that were not wanted; they were loved and cared for. When people did decide to adopt, the children were rather healthy and well. But as years would go by, the good reputation turned more menacing. Madame DuPree was now showing a much darker side to her. The children were being tied to their beds, forced to eat their own vomit, and go without water for days at time. She even concluded she would have her 'favourites’. These 'favourites’ would be the ones that were well fed, well loved, and got the best treatment. While others as frail as they were into forced labour. Some even cleaned when their arm was broken, or even a leg was broken. Madame DuPree was a very corrupted woman, and soon only cared for the money.
People from all over would still come to the Kilverstone Orphanage adopt the children that Madame DuPree saw fit to be adopted. If a child were to go past their 'expiration date’, she would have them killed and buried in the garden in the back. Sometimes the children were buried alive, letting their last breath be filled with dirt and their last sight would be that of darkness. Things were only get much more inhumane from there. There is speculation that Madame DuPree that would even force the older children to perform oral sex on her, the older children being anywhere from sixteen to nineteen. If things were not bad enough, Madame DuPree was once said that she slit a child’s throat in front of the others; to teach them a 'lesson’; she then went onto make the children drink the blood. If they were hungry they were allowed to tear the child apart and eat them. Sometimes the child would be still breathing, and Madame DuPree enjoyed every second of how the children would take a chunk here and there.
With the allegations getting worse, the authorities were brought in. Madame DuPree was arrested and charged with murder, molestation, abusive of a minor, and child endangerment. Though in the eyes of law, a woman that looked like her. She could not obviously commit these crimes; she would be released and was allowed to go back to the Kilverstone Orphanage. Where her actions had only gotten worse, and the death rate of the children ended up sky rocketing. What went from four or five every six months; became four or five every month. Madame DuPree was once again arrested; and this time formally charged for each and every crime she had been charged within the past. She was sentenced to death; the children that survived were released and given a new home. In 1686 Madame DuPree was hanged in front of her peers, and she vowed that;
'This is not over, I shall return from wherewith I go; and this town shall surely burn’!
Which her words did, in fact, prove to be more of a curse; in 1708 the town burned to the ground and the only thing left standing was Kilverstone Asylum. In 1709 people tried to destroy the Kilverstone Asylum; people mentioned that the building was the part that was cursed; the cursed resided in the walls. And the only way to destroy such memories was to destroy the building. Everyone that took part in the demolition of the building died from mysterious causes. As stories go, a man fell to his death; seemingly out of midair. He had not been on a ladder of any sort. A woman had been tortured by something that was not there. The authorities claimed; 'She was cut by an object no bigger than a knife’. But there were no knife marks, just rumours that swarmed her death.
The rumours continued on to about 1715, where finally everyone left the town leaving the building to rot in the place in which the building rested. Anyone that tried to purchase Kilverstone Asylum would become either gravely ill or die. No one could explain these supernatural events. That every single time there was good chance that someone could change the past of the Kilverstone Asylum or at one point the Kilverstone Orphanage; their life came to an end. For years the Kilverstone Asylum was passed up, and no one spoke of the torturous past that bestowed upon the foundation of death.
That was until in 1755 an Empress saw the building, and could feel the dark history that was behind the walls. The Empress’s name, well, the Empress that formally purchased the Kilverstone Asylum would be later known as; Empress Vandella La Mara. She saw potential in the history of the Kilverstone Asylum, and she was the only one not to neither feel ill nor die from restoring the infamous Kilverstone Asylum.
This is the story or rumours of Kilverstone Asylum. This is up to the reader to decide of what is real, or what is not. But sometimes rumours or stories all truth in them. Truth or be such a lie. Who knows? But the real question; Will we ever know?
There will always be warnings from the locals that had ancestors that lived in the horrific times of Amelia Kilverstone and Madame DuPree. That the place is to be cursed by any woman that takes own of the Kilverstone Asylum; for she is to be cursed by the first female inhabitant; Amelia Kilverstone. So do be careful, for the next woman that decides to run the Kilverstone Asylum just may become the next Amelia Kilverstone. Or maybe-Just maybe they will test their luck; but would they really want to?