Weston
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Oct 8, 2026
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A 65th to Mrs. Carol Baker.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A 15th to Chris Shay in Weston, West Virginia.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And an 85th to Harry J. Beck in Pittsburgh.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Happy birthday and many more to all of you listening in.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
Overcrowding and understaffing quickly became the new status quo.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum looms just off the main avenue of Weston, West Virginia.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
It's a sprawling, gray stone manor, once home to about 2,400 patients.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
A sweeping walkway leads up to its glowering facade, and a sluggish fountain splashes in the summer glare.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
The asylum first opened in 1864.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
Today, it's one of the few old hospitals still open for public tours.
Grace SnellCORRESPONDENT
Back in the 1850s, the town of Weston lobbied hard to have it built here.
Greg HillSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they actually got the brass band out when the inspection team came.
Carol HughesHOST
[eerie music] Today on The Grave Talks, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, continuing our conversation with Brandi Butcher.
Carol HughesHOST
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is located in historic Weston, West Virginia.
Carol HughesHOST
It's a national historic landmark and served as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, beginning in the mid-1800s.
Carol HughesHOST
The history of the building is fascinating, so if you have not listened to part one, go back and listen to part one and learn all about the building itself.
ZachAUDIENCE
I'm from Dubuque, Iowa.
ZachAUDIENCE
October second, twenty twenty-five, we took a trip to Weston, West Virginia to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum for a two-hour tour starting at ten thirty at night until twelve thirty in the morning.
ZachAUDIENCE
The building itself is extremely creepy.
ZachAUDIENCE
It is huge.
Korina BiemesderferHOST
According to her mother, the three-year-old was last seen at around 6.30 a.m. that morning, but when her mother came to check on her at 9.30 a.m., she was no longer in her room.
Korina BiemesderferHOST
Just three foot tall, 30 pounds, and wearing Dora the Explorer pajama bottoms, the pink princess sweatshirt, the little girl was barefoot and missing somewhere in Weston, West Virginia.
Korina BiemesderferHOST
It wasn't long before the Lunsford home was deemed a crime scene.
Korina BiemesderferHOST
and a child abduction expert with the FBI was brought in.
BrandyHOST
[laughs]
RobHOST
Weston, West Virginia.
RobHOST
Calling back-
BrandyHOST
Again
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And a 90th to Melissa Litzinger.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
An 86 to George Kachurik in Mount Lebanon, a 65th to Mrs. Pearl Baker, a 15th to Chris Shea in Weston, West Virginia, and an 85th to Harry J. Beck in Pittsburgh.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Happy birthday and many more to all of you listening in.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All right, here we go now, and it is McNally, McAnally on the mound, a right-hander, and Dave Cash batting a 269, two homers and 30 runs batted in.
Everett SolomonNARRATOR
I drove past that grain elevator twice, and I drove away.
Everett SolomonNARRATOR
But the week after, I shot a sanitarium outside Weston, West Virginia, 60 miles from Moundsville, which I didn't register as significant until I was already inside.
Everett SolomonNARRATOR
And the week after that, a rail depot in Cumberland that a historical society was fighting to preserve.
Everett SolomonNARRATOR
Both chutes were clean.
Mark MuncyHOST
So I was like, oh, we're so close.
Mark MuncyHOST
Let's just take a small trip up to Weston, West Virginia.
Mark MuncyHOST
And I'm like, oh, and there's a cool place I wanna show you there.
Mark MuncyHOST
And Weston has a lot of history.
Mark MuncyHOST
I don't know
Erika LanceHOST
why I keep falling for it.
Erika LanceHOST
I do, all the time, so trusting.
Mark MuncyHOST
Weston has a lot of interesting history.