Insidious Sanctuary for the Misfits

Stories from the Forgotten Victorian Mental Asylums

Dear Readers,

Welcome to Berkana’s Macabre Museum - a place to achieve stories of deliberate pain that humans inflict on each other. This is not a bright place I admit, but it harbors truth with as much ease as these grim stories allow. These stories can be told because of their redeemable quality, a flicker of human courage and resilience shining through the darkest of circumstances that one could fathom. For those of you who joined me recently on this journey, this section used to be the primary section of Berkana. I tell these stories as much to myself as I do to you, to be able to comprehend the bizarre and dark truth about the world around us, the truth that is often lost through cultural appropriation and retellings by the people whose prime motive was to push the truth as far away into the shadows as possible. However, truth is a powerful force of nature, I say so because time and again it has stood relentless to confront people on their wicked deeds. Truth is my only ally on t…