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The haunting images are not one for the faint hearted, and the locations of said hospitals - although confirmed they are in Italy - cannot be revealed. It has been confirmed, however, they
were Italian Asylums - otherwise known as Manicomios - which were used as mental hospitals. Now overgrown and eerie, they were shut down by the authorities in 1978. The snaps were shot by
Thomas Windisch, 32, from Graz in Austria, who said the asylums can get very creepy when there aren't many people there with him. Speaking about the shoot, he said: "Doing research
in history about these places, you realise a lot of bad things happened there. "In asylums it's sometimes scary when you know you're alone in there and a door slams moved by
the wind. "But I love places where you're captured by the past. It ignites my imagination and i can see the places in my mind like they've been in the past and what might
have happened there." The images tell a story about what happened in the past with random wheelchairs now overgrown with thick shrubbery and ivy creeping up the spokes. The bath tub
filled only half full of - seemingly rain water - is enough to create shivers. Thomas added: "I've visited so many you would say "scary" places that I got used to it. So
I'm not scared, but I most definitely experience the place's intense atmosphere."
