Living in Total Horror, Haunted by Ghosts from Her Past
Welcome to Pines Place Mental Hospital, opened in 1934 by Dr. William Jackson with funding and aid from the state of Oregon for treating and housing of the mentally ill. For many, many years patients have come to this hospital, some released with an acceptable bill of mental health, while others become part of the daily landscape, spending the rest of their natural lives here. It’s kind of sad really, but somebody has to take care of these patients.
Over the past several years, the hospital has had an extremely high turn over rate in terms of staffing, from the head doctors on down to the janitorial and landscape crews. The turn over rate is usually quite high within all of the medical industry, though it seems to be extremely high for Pines Place in particular.
Pines Place was an enormous hospital with some 600 rooms for the treatment and the housing of patients, as well as more than 150 additional rooms on a separate floor with higher security for more dangerous patients and even patients who had committed murder, though had been ruled insane by a court judge and then convicted and sentenced to serve their time at the hospital where it was hoped that they could be rehabilitated and then eventually released into society. Though there were many who were to spend the rest of their lives as inmates of the hospital, and to never, ever be released back into society.
38 year old Millie Lawson was one of these patients, serving out a life sentence at Pine Place hospital. She had been declared mentally insane after it was believed that she had murdered her entire family. But there were some serious issues with her case that none of the staff could figure out. For one thing, she could not speak. Her tongue had been cut out of her mouth, and it also appeared that she had never learned how to read or write. Many believed that she was the victim of life long mental and physical abuse and the murders she committed were a result of her decision to exact revenge and get even with her abusers. It wasn't known at first how badly she was haunted by her past, but the truth would eventually come out.
Neighbors of the Lawson family, who’d literally known the family for nearly three decades thought that Millie died when she was around eight years old. Little did they know that Millie was kept chained up in a bedroom closet for three decades before she finally escaped, allegedly snatching a butcher knife from the kitchen and slaying her parents along with her older brother while they slept. She was discovered by the paperboy walking in circles around her home, staring down at the ground still holding the bloody butcher knife.
The story of the Lawson slayings made national headlines for weeks and weeks and though many therapists tried to crack Millie’s code, none were successful in getting her to react, one way or another about the incident, eventually determining that she was mentally insane. It was then that she was officially declared mentally ill and admitted as a ‘lifer’ patient at Pines Place Hospital.
Pines Place Mental Hospital "The Millie Lawson Story", is a story of supernatural and paranormal activities that haunt not only the Lawson household where the murders took place, but also Pines Place, where her past catches up with her. Millie is surrounded by the ghosts of family members all of the time, though they pick and choose when others get to see them. The horror that Millie's past brought with it urged her own nurse to investigate Millie's past and attempt to bring to an end the horror and the haunting that she was subjected to.
Welcome to Pines Place Mental Hospital, opened in 1934 by Dr. William Jackson with funding and aid from the state of Oregon for treating and housing of the mentally ill. For many, many years patients have come to this hospital, some released with an acceptable bill of mental health, while others become part of the daily landscape, spending the rest of their natural lives here. It’s kind of sad really, but somebody has to take care of these patients.
Over the past several years, the hospital has had an extremely high turn over rate in terms of staffing, from the head doctors on down to the janitorial and landscape crews. The turn over rate is usually quite high within all of the medical industry, though it seems to be extremely high for Pines Place in particular.
Pines Place was an enormous hospital with some 600 rooms for the treatment and the housing of patients, as well as more than 150 additional rooms on a separate floor with higher security for more dangerous patients and even patients who had committed murder, though had been ruled insane by a court judge and then convicted and sentenced to serve their time at the hospital where it was hoped that they could be rehabilitated and then eventually released into society. Though there were many who were to spend the rest of their lives as inmates of the hospital, and to never, ever be released back into society.
38 year old Millie Lawson was one of these patients, serving out a life sentence at Pine Place hospital. She had been declared mentally insane after it was believed that she had murdered her entire family. But there were some serious issues with her case that none of the staff could figure out. For one thing, she could not speak. Her tongue had been cut out of her mouth, and it also appeared that she had never learned how to read or write. Many believed that she was the victim of life long mental and physical abuse and the murders she committed were a result of her decision to exact revenge and get even with her abusers. It wasn't known at first how badly she was haunted by her past, but the truth would eventually come out.
Neighbors of the Lawson family, who’d literally known the family for nearly three decades thought that Millie died when she was around eight years old. Little did they know that Millie was kept chained up in a bedroom closet for three decades before she finally escaped, allegedly snatching a butcher knife from the kitchen and slaying her parents along with her older brother while they slept. She was discovered by the paperboy walking in circles around her home, staring down at the ground still holding the bloody butcher knife.
The story of the Lawson slayings made national headlines for weeks and weeks and though many therapists tried to crack Millie’s code, none were successful in getting her to react, one way or another about the incident, eventually determining that she was mentally insane. It was then that she was officially declared mentally ill and admitted as a ‘lifer’ patient at Pines Place Hospital.
Pines Place Mental Hospital "The Millie Lawson Story", is a story of supernatural and paranormal activities that haunt not only the Lawson household where the murders took place, but also Pines Place, where her past catches up with her. Millie is surrounded by the ghosts of family members all of the time, though they pick and choose when others get to see them. The horror that Millie's past brought with it urged her own nurse to investigate Millie's past and attempt to bring to an end the horror and the haunting that she was subjected to.
