Five Hospitals You Don't Want to Check Into

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Avid I Met a Possum readers (Hi mom and Jennifer!) already know that a few friends and I took it upon ourselves to investigate the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Mass., last weekend. We had such a blast that we've decided to return to the area in the fall (preferably October) to do a whole Haunted New England kind of thing. So I was doing a little research on what is in the area and found a handy little list of paranormal locations in the States. I was pretty surprised to see how many hospitals made the list. I guess I shouldn't be – it's very House on Haunted Hill (the 1999 version with Geoffrey Rush, not the 1959 Vincent Price film). Obviously some terrible things were done to patients before modern medicine intervened, so it's not too off-base to think that some tortured spirits are still lurking about. Below are a few of the (allegedly) haunted hospitals I found most intriguing – hopefully you will too.  

Fairfield State Hospital (AKA Fairfield Hills)

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Despite their best efforts, the city of Newtown, Connecticut has been unable to squelch Fairfield State Hospital's eerie reputation. Then again, they have allowed it to be used for several decidedly spooky shoots, including Sleepers and MTV's Fear. The asylum has been in Newtown since 1931, but most of its buildings have been standing empty for the past 13 years. At its peak period of operations, it housed almost 4,000 patients. Fueling the scary stories is the fact that its numerous buildings are all connected by underground tunnels. Were these simply for transporting patients during bad weather, or was it an easier way to dispose of dead bodies?

Glenn Dale Hospital

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Glenn Dale opened in the same era as Fairfield State – the 1930s was a popular time for mental institutes, apparently. Well, actually, Glenn Dale wasn't originally used for that purpose – it was a tuberculosis hospital with one building for adults and one for children. Eventually the tuberculosis problem died down and Glenn Dale was repurposed. It closed in 1982 due to asbestos and structural problems, but before it closed it was (supposedly) home to the criminally insane. As with Fairfield State, the buildings are connected via underground passageways, which people have been exploring since the day Glenn Dale officially closed its doors. Exploration might not be the best idea, though, and not just because of the asbestos (although that should be an obvious deterrent).

One rumor says that when the hospital closed, the remaining patients were just turned loose. Having nowhere else to go, many of them simply broke back into the abandoned buildings and lurk there even today. Another story goes that a police officer went to check out the buildings himself after getting a call that the buildings were being vandalized by a bunch of kids. After he went in, someone in the vicinity heard gun shots and called the police. When the police arrived, they found the first officer standing in one of the rooms, staring straight ahead at nothing. He had emptied his gun firing at something that no one ever found.

Norwich State hospital

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Connecticut is a popular spot for haunted hospitals, I guess, because Norwich State Hospital can be found in Preston and Norwich, Conn. Oh, and guess what else? More underground tunnels. The mental hospital was built in 1904 and had 151 patients the very day it opened. By the 1960s, the hospital reached a record high of 3,186 patients. Perhaps piggybacking off of the success of MTV's Fear, VH1 sent contestants of the Celebrity Paranormal Project here but didn't quite represent the place accurately: they fixed old, coverless couch cushions to the walls in a small room and told the celebrities that it was an old padded cell for the truly disturbed patients when in reality such a room never existed.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

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Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, has been called the most haunted place in the U.S. Some reports put the number of deaths that occurred at this tuberculosis hospital at more than 60,000. While I had some problems digging up ghost stories from some of these allegedly haunted sites, stories from the Waverly Hills Sanatorium are plentiful. When WHS opened in 1926, it was considered the most advanced TB hospital in the world. Still, at the time, not much was known about the disease and how to treat it, so a lot of the treatments were extremely experimental – these patients were more or less guinea pigs. Lots of them exited the hospital via the "body chute", a tunnel that led from the hospital to railroad tracks that allowed for discreet corpse disposal.

In addition to the dying tuberculosis patients, at least two nurses committed suicide at Waverly. In 1928, the 29-year-old head nurse, pregnant and unwed, hanged herself in the nurses' station. In 1932, another nurse who worked in the same room leapt off of the balcony to her death several stories down. Creepy stories include a chef who still walks the kitchens (you can tell he's present when you smell freshly baked bread), apparitions of a woman with chains around her arms and legs and blood dripping from her wrists, ghostly children wandering about and eerie red glows. Troy Taylor, a paranormal author, visited Waverly Hills with Louisville Ghost Hunter founder Keith Age and experienced plenty of paranormal activity. In Troy's own words,

"Keith was standing in the corner, looking at the changes on the meter scale, when an empty plastic soda bottle came seemingly out of nowhere and struck him in the back. As he turned to see what had happened, an overhead fluorescent light fixture suddenly came loose from the ceiling with a loud crack. With one end of it still anchored to the ceiling, the other end swung loose and hit Keith in the side of the head. The long burned-out bulb that remained in the fixture shattered when it collided with Keith and showered him with glass. Before he even had time to react, he heard the sound of a brick scrape across the concrete floor. The noise came from the opposite corner of the room and when he looked over, he saw the brick moving across the floor towards him. With a lurch, it shot directly at him and as he scrambled to get out of the line of fire, it hit him in the small of the back. Needless to say, he quickly retreated from the room. The other investigators had not seen where the brick or the soda bottle had come from, but they had clearly heard the brick move and had seen both objects strike Keith."

You can read more about Keith and Troy's experiences at PrairieGhosts.com.

Athens Lunatic Asylum

Giving Waverly a run for the "Most Haunted Abandoned Hospital in the United States" title is the Athens Lunatic Asylum in Athens, Ohio. After opening its doors in 1874, many of its first patients were Civil War veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. What has proved to be one of the most enduring stories from the Asylum occurred more than 100 years after its grand opening, however: on December 1, 1978, a patient named Margaret Schilling disappeared from one of the active wards. They found her body more than a month later in the top floor of ward N. 20, which had been abandoned for years. The official cause of death was heart failure--probably due to her exposure to the December cold in an unheated section of the hospital. Her death isn't the weird part, though – what's weird is that her body left a stain that you can still see today.

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One of the reasons ALA makes the Most Haunted Places in the U.S. list is because of its strange location. If you draw a line from each of the five cemeteries around Athens, the shape ends up being a pentagram with Ohio University being right in the middle, which is where ALA is located. I couldn't actually find a map that backed this theory up, though – does anyone have one?

Like I said, there are a surprisingly large number of abandoned hospitals and asylums scattered across the country. Are there any in your town? Let's hear your stories!


If you're coming back to New England, research Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, MA. Also the subject of a movie "Session 9" if you've seen it. They've turned the hospital into condos recently, but some of the original structure remains, as I understand it. Also, they've had a couple of strange things including fires happening there since the condos were built a couple of years ago. Anyway, the session 9 movie was actually shot on site before they built the condos.
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May I recommend a visit to Staten Island, home to the Farm Colony, Seaview Hospital, the notorious Willowbrook State School and the former Staten Island Hospital/Smith Infirmary? Lot's of creepiness, ghost stories and unsavory history in these locales.
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jersey has alot of hospitals that are abandoned, they are under tight surveillance which sucks but i would like to check out some of these, nice list
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I think I've seen session 9.
I've heard a lot about Waverly Hills and Athens, since I'm not far from either. I've read in a number of places that Athens is some sort of paranormal center and even a "gateway to hell"...which, if you're from ohio, is pretty hilarious.
I love this type of stuff. So scary and cool.
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A quick Google Earth check shows the pentagram thing in Athens, Ohio isn't quite true. If you want to see, here you go:

http://mboffin.com/stuff/no-athens-pentagram.png

It's not perfect because I just quickly sketched it out, but it's a stretch to construe any five of those possible cemeteries as making a pentagram around Ohio University.
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Pennsylvania is notorious for their abandoned mental institutions. There was a place called Byberry in Philly that was absolutely amazing. I really suggest you research the place even though it has been demolished. Another really eerie place that I believe is still up (not for long unfortunately)is Pennhurst in Spring City, Pa. These places are so notorious that it's easy to get arrested there. They are still interesting to research none the less.
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Roosevelt Island Between Manhattan and Queens used to be dedicated to prisons, asylums and hospitals. I still know of 2 abandon sites, one is on the southern tip. That whole island is weird though. Growing up i knew no normal people who grew up there.
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this isn't a hospital or asylum, but there is the old gun powder factory behind King's Island here in southern Ohio. in order to get there, you have to follow this long, winding road down by the river and during your downhill descent, you see the factory towers.. it's all creepy and stuff.. but apparently there was a gun powder blast that supposedly killed around 30 people and shut down the factory. when you walk through it, there are holes in the floor that you could easily fall to the next floor and hurt yourself. the staircases are super narrow and multi-stacked.. very dangerous. the large rooms are vastly dark and any small noise freaks you out.. some vandals painted pentagrams on the floor and set up fake headstones with bricks.. they are actually not scary at all, but just the demeanor of the whole factory sends you home with chills... but there's no trespassing (when you're 16 and impressionable, this means nothing) and the cops do patrol the area. and then there's the screaming bridge in west chester (where i grew up).. but that's a different story nd unrelated to asylums and the such.
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Dylan Bennett:

I checked out your link and if you eliminate the 3 dots in the center and just use the outside ones you can get a very neat pentagram shape with Ohio U dead center. Draw 2 triangles connecting every other dot for each one. Wow!!
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I see that Veronica has already mentioned the old Danvers State Mental Institution in Massachusetts but I would like to reiterate her point. When I was a kid my friends and I would sneak up through the woods and look around the property which included the large main building and several other smaller, but no less scarier, buildings. This was only done during daylight hours and it was still creepy and scary as hell....I couldn't image being up there at night.
Too bad its now gone...
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I live near Bartonville IL which aside from being a creepy town, is the home of an Abandoned Asylum. there are many rumors surrounding it but from what I gather it was a mental institution that was shut down after body parts started showing up at the near by dump. the architecture is that of a 1950's B-movie which makes it the destination of many a brave teenager, however it has been condemned for decades so now the only entrance is threw an underground passage way into the tunnels that connect the buildings. there is also a cemetery on the grounds that is filled with small white tombstones that have patient numbers on them. it's an all around creepy place and if you do go there and you see a bonfire out front, just turn around and step on the gas...it might be an urban legend but I'm not about to try to find out
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I grew up right by Glen Dale hospital. Its really creepy. A lot of kids would party in the underground tunnels in the 90's. They have a police bunker they built on the grounds because of all the kids wanting to explore. This page shows a lot of more recent pictures of it. http://www.opacity.us/site32_glenn_dale_hospital.htm#gallery57
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I used to deliver coffee at Fairfield Hills hospital, and when I was a program coordinator for a mental health clinic, I got to know some of the people who used to stay there. Reports of people being chained to the wall in the cellars, and one catatonic patient left alone for so long in one spot, his legs fused together! not sure i believe that one, but I know the tunnels were used to move patients from one building to another to prevent thier just running into the woods. I have a document given to me by the staff there detailing the atrocities. Its now a state parks and rec facility. Very peaceful place (in the daytime) but still gives you chills knowing what went on there.
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The "Spook Files" at Ohio University has a map. It isn't geometrically perfect, as some folks claim it is.

There are some strange things that happen in Athens, but most of them can be explained fairly easily, and most of the more ridiculous stories are just local folktales with no basis in fact. I'm glad you gave the real story of Margaret Shilling instead of the "Scariest Places" version. Athens is a great town with a lot of strange history; the Ridges (the new name for the ALA) is a sad and beautiful place that is being renovated slowly by the town and university.

If you call they might even give you a tour (I took one at night about 8 years ago, it was fascinating).
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Wow, two of them have underground tunnels. To me that makes it a lot creepier, because so many stories of ritual abuse involve underground tunnels. Because after all, if you are trying to deeply mess with someone's head and cover your tracks at the same time... which so much of the stereotypical ritual abuse stuff is for (masks, etc.)... there isn't much better than a freaky underground tunnel especially in a @#!!$ shut-down haunted insane asylum. If I lived in OH I would so bug those tunnels and see who I caught....
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Apparantly, the Danvers State hospital site is the original site of the Salem Witch Trials, where they hung the accused. Might just be an urban legend though, however it is quite near where Salem is today...

Also? Session 9 is one of the creepiest movies EVER. When I watch horror movies, I usually end up laughing at them because I never get scared. Session 9 had me turn the lights on and call a friend after I watched it, I was so freaked out.
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There is an abandoned hopital in the small town where I live. Its sad that such huge buildings must go to waste, but this one is full of asbestos, and the cost of demolishing it is way more than the value of the land. And repairing the buildings never was considered after the new hospital was built, and no potential buyer could afford to get it up to code.

I used to work there, many years ago. It was disgusting compared to hospitals today, but it was all we had at the time.
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I wonder why not just tear down these places and set up a shopping mall. A win-win situation all around. But then again...where would drunk teens go to get scared out of their brains? ;)
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Not in New England and not abandoned! The Oregon State Hospital was built in 1883 and portions of the hospital are still in use today. Stories of the hospital being haunted (and just plain creepy) stem from facts. Over 5000 cans of cremations are warehoused at the hospital, the remains of unclaimed patients from over a hundred years ago. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed at the hospital, based on Oregonian Ken Kessey's book. Not a horror movie per say, but does show the real life horrors of life in a mental hospital. Check out the wikipdia page, I recommend the link to Pulitzer Prize winning articles from the Oregonian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Hospitalthe

Salem, Oregon - not known for witches, but still creepy. Many buildings have tunnels underneath them that are haunted. Personal fav has to be North of Salem though, the catacombs under Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Legend has it that Ted Bundy killed a co-ed in the tunnels under Sackett Hall dorms and haunts them still. Stories found on the web just point to a missing person who may or may not have attended OSU that may or may not have been killed by Bundy. Having lived in Sackett Hall it is very creepy and portions of the dorms are not used, but if you look in the windows you'll see kitchens and sewing rooms that are all set up/stocked as if still in use. The "catacombs" or tunnels connect the different wings of the building, house the steam heating pipes, and many are accessible to residents. I locked myself out of my room at around 2am one winter. My only option was to go into the tunnels to get to the front desk for a pass key. Institution green walls, old doors with "Ted Bundy Lives Here" written on them...I never locked myself out again!
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There is a pretty neat abandoned asylum near Middletown, CT - on the way to Durham, if I recall correctly. It includes a graveyard where the tombstones have numbers instead of names, most likely to "protect" the identities of the families who sent their people to the same. Massively freaky if you go there at night.
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on Long Island the most notorious is the Kings Park Psychiatric Center, i guess it was opened in the late 1800s and was in service until 1996. A ton of kids from my highschool used to go there and explore, its really creepy at night, but now it has a ton of security, which i guess is less scary than the squatters that were there, but its a major issue since it's tresspassing on new york state lands. http://s.albalux.com/webpage/main.html for pics and for wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Park_Psychiatric_Cente
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This Monday night Paranormal State will be doing an episode on Willard Psychiatric Hospital in upstate NY. I live about a half hour away. I am interested to see and hear what they found.
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Haverford state hospital in PA is a pretty creepy abandoned mental hospital, unfortunately they're tearing it down soon. My Mom worked there when it was stil open, she said it was hell, she got hit over the head with a pool cue once by one of the inmates.
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The body was in that spot for a month which would have caused some major eww bodily fluids - it would have been cold, but not that cold - and depending on what they used to clean the area or IF they cleaned the area I could imagine some kind of stain developing. My guess is they didn't clean the floor because the wing was abandoned. The other is of course that it is a fake, but the fluid of the damned is more creepy right?
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Why hasn't anybody mentioned the hospital where the events that inspired The Exorcist took place? The hospital still operates, but the floor that it all happened on is sealed off. Maybe it's just me, but I find that to be tremendously creepy.
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Riverview Mental Hospital, in Coquitlam, British Columbia is partially abandoned. Even a few reports of ghosts, these things happen when over 13,000 people passed away here since 1904. We even have urban explorers: http://wraiths.org/Riverview.htm
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Oops! I see that the link to Wraiths, has changed. http://www.wraiths.ca/Riverview.htm
See this site: http://riverviewhospital.blogspot.com/
For a more complete history..
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Oops! I see that the link to Wraiths has changed: http://www.wraiths.ca/Riverview.htm Urban lurkers...
A more complete history is found here: http://riverviewhospital.blogspot.com/
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woah creepy.there's also laurel hospital. where two prisoners have escaped and shot at least 1 person stolen a car and got themselves shot.
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The body stain was most likely from where the body was there so long, it's just discolored the floor from the sunlight. Kind of like when you leave a car parked in the grass for a long time. The numbers on the tombs in most hospitals are because most are owned by the state, and the state will not pay for customized engravings because of the cost--unless a family member pays for it.
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YOU PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. I GUESS THATS WHY THIS COUNTRY IS SO FUCKED UP. PEOPLE WASTING THEIR TIME ON THIS GARBAGE WHILE THE REAL EVIL SPIRITS ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN OUR FEDERAL GOVT. FUCKING ASSHOLES.
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Regarding the pentagon, did the person who refutes
the claim use a map that is "drawn to scale"?.
In other words, if not drawn to scale then it is not
accurate.
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Apparantly, the Danvers State hospital site is the original site of the Salem Witch Trials, where they hung the accused. Might just be an urban legend though, however it is quite near where Salem is today…

Not an urban legend! The majority of activity concerning the witch trials took place not in Salem proper, but in Salem Village, which later was called - yep - Danvers.

And while non one is exactly sure on this, they believe that some of the condemned were hung on the hill where Danvers Hospital stands today.

Small wonder H.P. Lovecraft mentione dit in so many stories.
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Three photos down from the top at the link below you'll see the old buildings of Rockland Psychiatric Center in Rockland county, NY. After being evicted from my pad in Manhattan I lived in one of the buildings still in use. Rent was free but I had to take meds. While I was there there was the "re-count" business after the 2000 election, then the 9-11 events and the promotion of Gen. Myers immediately thereafter, and nobody made any comments about any of that so I thought I was really nuts.

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/rockland_psychiatric_center_1.htm
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There a set of Colonel quarters on FT. Huachucha AZ that used to be a hospital in the last 100 years (dont know the exact date) but i have seen the houses and actually worked in one to remodel it (I didnt know its history at the time). Reports of rocking chairs moving mysteriously and cries from a baby are told. When i was remodeling it back in 2002(remind you i had no idea at the time) i was the only one in the house doing my Electrical duties for Yaqui electric in Sierra Vista AZ (look it up its real). Thes house are OLD... i mean OLD.. and i hear clattering and banging downstairs... So i said "hello" down the stairwell and heard no responses. So i made my way downstairs thinking another contractor had entered the building.
Nobody was around.. i looked outside and there was no extra vehicles.. i searched the who'll house including the walkway underneath the building where we also were doing work.. Nothing.... Spooky i tell you.. REAL spooky. On the same military base there is an old cemetary with a hanging tree still in existence where you can still see the rope burns on the tree branch.
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@ Nicholas from February:
Actually that hospital was torn down a number of years ago. It was the Election Bros. Hospital in St Louis, Missouri, if you're interested in researching it. Supposedly, the floor *was* closed off, but I haven't seen anything to substantiate that claim.
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Quick note on the St. Louis hospital - it was Alexian Brothers Hospital. Here's a link:
http://www.thecabinet.com/darkdestinations/location.php?sub_id=dark_destinations&location_id=old_alexian_brothers_hospital
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There are a lot of sick people commenting on affairs they know little about. Do they know that these hospitals were often used as sanatoriums for TB patients?

What are the ghost stories about, if not about prejudices about people with mental problems? Only "crazy" people are ghosts?

A friend of mine lost his mother at one of those hospitals. An autopsy revealed she had a cancerous brain tumor which couldn't be detected in the 40's. Ghosts? Crazy? Just WHO is crazy?

You people should be ashamed of yourselves!
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There are a lot of sick people commenting on affairs they know little about. Do they know that these hospitals were often used as sanatoriums for TB patients?

What are the ghost stories about, if not the prejudices against people with mental problems? Only "crazy" people are ghosts?

A friend of mine lost his mother at one of those hospitals. An autopsy revealed she had a cancerous brain tumor which couldn't be detected in the 40's. Ghosts? Crazy? Just WHO is crazy?

You people should be ashamed of yourselves!
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first of all danvers state hospital was not built over the site where the witch trials took place...it was built over the site where the house of the judge presiding over the trials stood. second of all...drg12...lighten the hell up. a bit touchy on the subject of being crazy or what? also, if you had done any research at all before going off on this site you would know that many mental hospitals were previously TB hospitals. no one said only crazy people are ghosts...but ghosts or spirits are people who suffered much in life and death...so when you walk into a place that was full of suffering and pain dont be surprised if you find one or twoo lost souls...otherwise known as a ghost. now take a chill pill and do some reading...youre uninformed to say the least.
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Alexian Brothers Hospital where the movie "The Exorcist" was made from was tore down and a new one was built, St. Alexius. The wing where the boy was at is now the parking lot, from what i hear. my aunt works at that hospital.
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In the early 90s when I was 15 I was sent to Fairfield hills for drug rehab. Court ordered, it was an option either do 18 months in juvenile detention or get 9 months at a rehab. The decision was easy! lol I was able to go to a rehab because I was caught with marijuanna, so my lawer asked for the rehab deal. Anyway,
I lived there for 7 months before I couldn't take it anymore and I escaped, later to get caught and go to detention to serve my full 18 month sentence, that sucked!
I didnt know the history then as I do now. I remember people saying they heard distany screams at night from the other surrounding buildings, and other people said they saw people walking the grounds at night. Which was weird cause that was against the rules there and security patrolled the grounds every night looking for trespassers.
I recently visited the abandoned campus to show my girlfriend and to help make a map of the campus, there are none to be found, yet. We took a bunch of pictures of the buildings and when reviewing them saw something really weird!! Two of the buildings we photographed had weird almost psycadelic patterns and colors! Im not making this up! The colors are purple and yellow and are kinda like zebra stripes. It almost looks like the pictures are taken with one of those cameras that only pick up heat, if anyone has experienced this before let me know.
I loaded them onto my computer and I was over looking them closely and all of a sudden the stripes were gone?! I still have the striped images on my camera, Id like to develop them with the stripes on but I almost think my camera software is trying to fix the images after I load them, hence the reason for the stripes dissapearing!?
Anyone with info or is curious to see the pics email me at runeski74@yahoo.com. Im not making any of this up, I live in Ct and would even meet with someone to review my pics in person.
Fairfield hills was known for its labotomy surgery, hydrotherapy, electric shock therapy, insulin shock therapy, and many other torturous therapies being done against the patients will.
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Enjoyed reading this post. Interesting you mention the underground tunnels. I was reading about similar tunnels aka "body shoots", where they'd remove the bodies of dead patients via the underground to avoid freaking other inmates. Pretty grim stuff! Interesting read.
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The old Rancho Los Amigos rehab center is a massive complex that people like to say is haunted. It's in downey, california and it's been abandoned for atleast 20 years, the only reason it hasn't been torn down is because lots and lots of cats call it home.
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Superstitions and fairy tales. Sure, they're creepy places, but that's because our imagination gets to us (myself included). I'm disappointed to see so many people posting here really believe in ghosts. The account of the guy with the "ghost meter" getting bricked was good for a laugh. Does it measure boo levels? Haunt voltage? Big claims require big evidence. Hold it up to the sharp light of science and it shrivels into nothing.
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I also enjoyed reading this. I like the research you did.

What about Pilgrim Psychiatric Center and Kings Park Psychiatric Center. Both are located about 15 minutes away from each other and both were some of the largest hospital's of their kind. Attached are some photo's from my visit to both hospitals.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremygarretson/sets/72157622722136566/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremygarretson/sets/72157618511981952/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremygarretson/sets/72157622538398833/
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In addition to the numbered/nameless graves mentioned in post 26, there is an entrance to a series of underground tunnels nearby. I believe the entrance is on the side of a hill (it's been a while. The place is equally creepy to anything mentioned above. Local legend knows the tunnels to be rather vast as well. Also lots of rumors about torture... oh yeah, and numbered graves(wtf?!?). The mental hospital as of a couple of years ago was known as CVH, been a while since I've lived down there though.
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this is facinating...but what causes people to abandon these mental institutions? The pictures are so eery,they give such a sense of loneliness.
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I recently found out that in 1964, my great uncle was a 'resident' of the Oregon State Hospital. His room was on the 3rd floor and he jumped head first to his death. I wonder if his spirit is still there. I've read a lot of tragic and sad history at that place although I haven't read much evidence of hauntings.
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