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5 min readThe Asylum That Wasn't What It Seemed
A private investigator, whose name he keeps to himself, was hired three months ago to find a missing woman named Monica. Monica had been forced into court-ordered treatment at an upscale psychiatric facility called the Wasserman Center after a DUI arrest turned up more than a personal-use quantity of illegal drugs. She called her family after her mandatory treatment ended, saying she was taking a cab back to her apartment. The cab driver dropped her downtown—she said she had an errand to run—and that was the last anyone saw her.
Her sister, the PI's client, was suspicious. Monica had sounded strange on the phone: her language stilted and toneless, where she was usually loud and extroverted. The cab driver told a similar story. Other investigators had turned up nothing concrete, but they had heard rumors about the Wasserman Center—unethical experimental treatments, excessive secrecy, the kind of thing that belonged in the real-life horror studies of abusive mental hospitals from the early twentieth century. The center passed every state inspection with flying colors. There were no grounds for a police investigation.
The PI decided to do what other investigators wouldn't even consider: get himself committed.
Inside the Wasserman Center
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:18) **The Investigator's Setup** - A private investigator is hired to find a missing woman named Monica, who disappeared after leaving a high-end rehab facility called the Wasserman Center.
- 2 (05:52) **Inside the Facility** - The PI is admitted to Wasserman and is surprised by how nice and open the facility seems, but he still can't find any evidence of wrongdoing.
- 3 (09:32) **The Discovery in the Wards** - The PI sneaks through the hedge and finds a group of patients standing in silent, transfixed rows, showing signs of a horrifying medical procedure.
- 4 (12:45) **Confrontation with Dr. Wasserman** - The PI is caught by the facility's director, Dr. Henry Wasserman, who calmly admits that he has seen what is happening.
- 5 (17:56) **The Neonatal Ward** - Alone in the room, the PI discovers a one-way window revealing a nursery filled with severely deformed babies, one of whom is being held by the missing woman, Monica.
- 6 (20:56) **The Doctor's Philosophy** - Dr. Wasserman returns and explains his twisted rationale, claiming he is not experimenting on the children but rather quarantining their evil mothers.
- 7 (28:43) **The Case of Monica** - Wasserman details the specific evil of Monica, revealing that her crime was not addiction, but a calculated plot to trap her family with a deliberately deformed child.
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