Lunatic Asylum
Augustus’ Diary
March Monday 8th 1999

They bought someone new in today, we could hear the screaming from the top floor. Even though I was scared I had a look out of the window to see if I could see who it was. There was a long black car like a hearse parked at the admittance doors and four men were struggling with a fifth figure who looked like a woman possessed. The men were having trouble hanging onto her and she was flailing around like a mad scarecrow. Another man got out of the car and went in through the doors, I couldn’t see his face because he wore a long black cloak which obscured his face and clothes. Some of the security people came out with a straight jacket, in total it took eight men to hold her still enough to get her into the jacket. The man in the cloak stayed outside after all the others had gotten back into the car and watched as they bought the woman into the asylum, she was still screaming.

Okay, it’s a couple of hours later now but she’s still screaming and screeching, no one else dare go down and see whats happening. I went to the end of the corridor and tried to listen but she made no sense and the orderlies couldn’t seem to make the medication work on her and they were panicking. Eventually they sent everyone back to their rooms.

March Tuesday 9th 1999

I didn’t sleep very much last night, the woman seems to have been screaming all night, the orderlies look as though they are at the end of their tether and I can still hear her even now. Everyone seems to be staying as far away as possible but I am going to see if I can find her.

It didn’t take me long to find her, they put her in a padded room. I walked past the room they did have her in and it was covered in blood. I listened in to the conversations as they were cleaning the room. Apparently they caught her trying to smash herself headfirst into the walls and said they moved her to a padded room for her own safety and others. She also tried to bite anyone that came near her. So I went to the padded rooms, she was still screaming and banging herself against the walls, she was still covered in blood. I looked through the window in the door for quite awhile, she looked really scary.

I finally got the courage to knock on the window and she flew towards the door, her hair was all over the place and stained with blood, her lips were curled back in some sort of rage and her eyes didn’t seem focused or drugged, they just seemed distant as though she wasn’t in the present. I told her my name was Augustus and for a second she seemed to focus before resuming her screaming. I went back to my room.

March Wednesday 10th 1999

She screamed all night again. I went to see her again and had the same result, she focused for a second then carried on screeching. I don’t think she has slept.