Old Book

Perhaps the most notorious story to come out of the Peoria State Hospital is the story of a man known as, Manual Bookbinder, who was later nicknamed, “Old Book”.  When Book first came to the asylum in 1902, he was a mute and was said to have worked in a Read more…

Cemetery III

The cemeteries are the ones similar to the movies… but these are not as they seem and even more original than one could ever imagine.  Endless rows of stone, listing a faded number assigned to that of the forgotten and unloved.   The stones change from era to vanishing era.  Some Read more…