The Courageous Women History Of Aberdeen State Mental Hospital

In the late 1700s, Bedlam cells in an adapted coal cellar at Woolmanhill were used to contain mentally ill patients, a very unsatisfactory situation. Thus a site for a Mental Hospital was chosen, an enclosure known as Clerkseat, near Berryden. It was opened in 1800 and Aberdeen’s hospital for patients with mental illness, the Royal Cornhill Hospital still stands there today.

An obelisk in the grounds of Cornhill hospital commemorates John Forbes from Newe, Strathdon. Motivated by his friend, Susan Carnegie who founded Montrose Asylum in 1781, the first public asylum in Scotland, he gave £10,000 towards the building of the Aberdeen Asylum. The story following two Nurses Judith and Jean frantically attempt to solve the mystery of the child's death and the fate of patients transferred to a research unit in the hospital. What is happening on this unit that turns these patients into the black eyes, walking automatons unable to relate their terrifying stories? Ella Land is committed to Aberdeen by her husband, Gerald, an aspiring New York politician, who believes her psychic readings and casting of astrological charts are dabbling with the devil and destined to ruin his chances for governor of New York. Despite the courageous actions of Judith and Jean, Ella is transferred to the backward. Time is running out as Judith attempts to reach Angela Cutoni, Ella's longtime friend, who holds the key to Ella's release from the hospital and Gerald's political demise