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The Agnews Insane Asylum

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The Agnews Insane Asylum, located in San Jose California, is now owned by Sun Microsystems and known as “Sun Microsystems/Agnews Developmental Center”. The State of California built the Agnews Residential Facility in 1885 as a place for treating mentally ill patients, instead of housing them with criminals or in hospitals with sick and dying patients as was the practice prior to 1885. In 1906, a terrible tragedy struck the area as a tremendous earthquake shook the ground all around the local area. This terrible event marked one of California’s greatest loss of life in a single incident when the main treatment building, including the clock tower, collapsed and killed the 112 residents and staff who were inside. Even today after the buildings have been torn down and new ones built people report screams on foggy nights and strange things happening in the new dorm rooms just built there. Doors open , lights are turned on and off and horrible smells just seem to come up out of the fl