Behind walls of old asylum where 9,000 patients died and ghosts still haunt halls

Behind the walls of an old mental asylum are rumours of ghosts haunting the run-down brickwork.

Beechworth Lunatic Asylum was open in a Victoria town in Australia from 1867 to 1995. Most of its patients, reports claim, never left the building alive and there were over 9,000 recorded deaths there.

With limited understanding of mental health problems, a lack of developed medication until the 1950s and some seriously ill patients, retaining equipment like strait jackets along with electric shock were used to keep patients in check.