Asylum Revealed

We'll have to prove you're not insane at all." I had little faith that I could mislead the doctors at the facility, let alone let me go again… and my client clearly even less so. Nellie Bly is the pseudonym of groundbreaking American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. As a writer, Bly liked to champion female workers, but under editorial pressure she was repeatedly pushed to the 'women's pages'. Nellie took matters into her own hands and left for Mexico to work as a foreign correspondent. In 1887, Bly moved to New York, where she applied to Joseph Pulitzers' newspaper, the New York World. For an undercover assignment, she feigned insanity so that she would be imprisoned in Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, where the most brutal abuses are rumored to have taken place. Nelly managed to escape from the asylum after ten horrific days and wrote in her world-famous 'Ten days in a mad-house' about the atrocities and neglect she had seen in the psychiatric hospital. Will you be able to escape from this godforsaken place, or will you, like many others, be locked up for the rest of your lives…?