Severalls Hospital—Colchester, England


If you haven't figured it out, a lot of the scariest haunted hospitals in the world are former psychiatric hospitals. To a point, this makes sense. Psychiatric hospitals house people who have tortured minds and equally tortured souls. 
Severalls Hospital was, for a very long time, the leading hospital for electroshock therapies and lobotomies in all of the UK. This was a place where psychiatrists reigned supreme—and any kind of rule that mandated kindness or empathy towards the patients was thrown out the window. 
Many of the people who were given "treatments" at Severalls weren't mentally ill at all. In fact, there have been records where everything from moody teenagers to women who gave birth out of wedlock were given these treatments against their will. Many were never the same again, and some even died during their stay. 
This hospital was also affected by tragedy in World War II. 38 women were killed in Severalls due to German bombings, with many more injured. 
It's hard to really peg what makes Severalls one of the more terrifying haunted locations in the world. Most people describe a very deep sense of fear, sorrow, and mourning when they get on the campus. Plenty more claim to see shadow people lurking in the corners of rooms. 
Once in a while, people will claim to feel like they are pushed—or that they feel unseen eyes watching them pass by. However, much of what makes this such a scary hospital is the fact that it just doesn't feel right. 
Severalls doesn't allow visitors, and it's now abandoned. However, some lucky (and foolhardy) people might still choose to take the classic urban exploration route to see if stories about hauntings are true... if they dare. 

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