A century-old burial site revealed forgotten patients from a former psychiatric hospital.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — A mystery has been unearthed in a Skagit County cemetery, where hundreds of lost and forgotten graves have been discovered dating back more than a century.
Most of the graves are for patients from the former Northern State Psychiatric Hospital.
The Northern State Hospital Cemetery in Sedro-Wooley officially recorded 1,487 “respectful” burials, but what has emerged is far more complex and troubling than the records suggest.
John Horne has made it his mission to uncover the truth about the forgotten cemetery.
“I just keep poking
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