{"id":2314,"slug":"lima-state-hospital-for-the-criminally-insane-lima-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Lima Hospital is the poured — the 'largest concrete' that's the building's record, the 'Pentagon passed' that's the only's rival. The 'hell's basement' is the called — the 'lawyer's words' that's the '71 verdict, the 'chamber horrors' that's the state's own. The 'one patient' is the opened — the 'built for 1,100' that's the empty's size, the 'newspapers mocked' that's the start's joke.","The '300 escaped' is the counted — the 'by '78' that's the total's date, the 'warehouse' that's the care's name. The 'Walinski ruled' is the changed — the 'dignity privacy' that's the '74 order, the 'rights spelled' that's the lawsuit's win. Lima Hospital is the layered — the 'hospital prison' that's the use's switch, the 'Attica filmed' that's the last's role.","The file keeps Lima Hospital: the poured fortress, the hell's basement, the counted escapes, and the ruled rights.","Lima State Hospital is the archive's Ohio file — the concrete giant that held 'hell's basement'."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Lima State Hospital is the archive's Ohio file — the fortress built for one patient first.","A hospital keeps its walls — the file's suggestion being that Lima's hold is the thick: the '14 inches' that's the concrete's depth, the '300 out' that's the walls' fail, and the 'rights ordered' that's the court's fix."]}],"name":"Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane","aliases":[],"type":"HOSPITAL","type_label":"Hospital","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_HOSPITAL"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"The 1915 \"criminally insane\" hospital whose patients rioted—and whose tunnel system survives.","full_desc":"Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is a hospital in Lima, Ohio, built in 1915. The 1915 \"criminally insane\" hospital whose patients rioted—and whose tunnel system survives. It sits in the archive under haunted places, historic hospitals and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access is restricted — check current rules before planning anything.","address":null,"city":"Lima","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":40.740679,"lon":-84.112091,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Former or operating state hospital grounds; verify access before visiting.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1915,"year_opened":1915,"year_closed":2004,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"State hospital batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1733,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Reported voices in the tunnels and a presence in the former wards. The institution's reports concentrate where the confinement was worst — the building's own floor plan supplies the map. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened 1915; closed 2004; the site became a prison annex. The institution's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1915","date_end":"2004","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported voices in the tunnels and a presence in the former wards. Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Lima, Ohio spent its working years housing the desperate; the reports suggest some of that desperation stayed. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access is restricted; check with the managing agency or landowner before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}