Italian City Gets Super-Creepy Art Inside an Abandoned Mental Hospital

Abandoned psychiatric hospitals typically don't need much help to be creepy. So you got to respect what Herbert Baglione has done with this shuttered facility in Parma, Italy. If his crepuscular entities sliding over the walls don't give you chills, you might've been born without a nervous system.

Baglione is based in São Paulo but has painted these ghostly guys on public walls and in abandoned sites in Paris, Madrid and undisclosed locations. It's part of a project he calls "1,000 Shadows," which seems to be an experiment at keeping urbanites trembling at night over every bump and creak. The sinuous, shape-shifting (and anatomically correct) umbra-creatures bend in impossible positions, slither into darkened rooms and peer out from demonic eye-slits. They fit right in with Baglione's other Stygian endeavors, like a recent show in Mexico City called "Obituary" that saw him painting with his own blood.