305 Comments Posted by John

Code - i was up there a few times, i heard and saw a few things that i could not explain. freaked me out!

I live pretty damn close to that hospital. I've driven past it, through it, but never went in. Kings Park Psychiatric Center is another one that I would like to "Visit" one day.

yes i was wondering what kind of danger is in this place? i have been ghost hunting for a while now and it has always caught my eye. from what i hear there are cops and dogs on the property is this true? i understand your point about not tearing it down its beautiful and the history of this place is amazing
please get back to me with any more info.

thank you for your time and take care.

I'll take two bars of soap, a box of Oreos, a pack of smokes, and a microwave, please. Oh, and a pound of ground beef. XD

"Not enough money" is a lousy excuse. It would have taken 10 minutes with a hammer and chisel to add the patient's last (or first) name. Then at least they wouldn't have been buried under a numbered grave like a common criminal that the state is ashamed of and wishes to anonymize.

Seriously, I can't comprehend the tiny-minded Puritan moral sickness and shame that would cause an institution of doctors to toss another a long-suffering patient's body in a hole with just a number like a euthanized dog.

Hydrotherapy was supposed to serve as an adjunct to the sedatives and tranquilizers that existed in the pre-Thorazine age. The most common form was prolonged baths, in which they basically strapped down agitated patients in warm water for hours a day in the hope that it would calm them down. Catatonic patients got ice baths or ice wraps for the opposite reason. Neither one worked very well, but that's why you see so many hydrotherapy tubs in turn of the century era psychiatric institution.

Hi Gaebler 1988,
I was on D Ward, but it that was before your time.

Daron,
2 nd floor, turn left, that is A Ward, but, like I said, it was used for a daycare during the day. They brought little kids in during the day and they stayed there, it was a daycare.
At night it was empty.
And if they needed extra room for seclusion, you was placed in here.

If memory serves correct, there is a chain link fence down in the basement that closed off an area of the tunnel.
I'm pretty sure of it.

Hi Motts,
Sounds like your in Worster? Or Springfield?
You have been in there Motts, and I'm sure some where along the way you traveled that route to an extent.
I doubt if you get in from the main lobby area, like we did when it was open, the lobby just had candy machines and soda machines, (LOL, Almost used POP, Have to remember it's called Soda in MA, )
Offices on the left hand side, only 3 or 4 offices though, Mr. Heathwood's office was the first or second office on the left, then the door into the place.

Hi Allyssa,
no problem, I don't mind answering questions.
If you have questions, please ask them.

it's amazing, I still remember the layout of all the places I have been in, from Wellington Hall, to this place, to Devereux, RFK, kolburne etc, I still remember, but yet, I couldn't tell you what I had for lunch yesterday. LOL.

That's about it for my tour. The 4th floor has classrooms and medical on it.
Not too bad for someone who hasn't been there in 22 or 23 years. And not too bad for remembering the layout of B Ward, and that has been 34 or 35 years ago.
Not too shabby if I say so myself.

Leave the area and return to the stairwell. Go up the next flight of stairs. To your left is E Ward. To your right is B Ward.
The only place I have been on E Ward is the Seclusion rooms that are on the right hand side just before you enter E Ward.
Let's turn right and head down to B Ward.
As you enter B Ward there should be a door to your left, this has a hallway in it and on your right hand side as your walking down this hallway are rooms, these are seclusion rooms.
At the end of this hallway is a single door, this was an office. My room is directly to your right.
When you turn around and leave this hallway, I think the office is directly in front of you.
turn left, and there is a door on your left, this was the bathroom, (Did I leave the bathroom out on D Ward???)
I think there is a door just about opposite the bathroom, I think this was a large room, we slept in here, continue onward, there is a door on your right, this was the room that they had toys in. Continue onward, a water fountain on your left, and a room kiddie corner on your right, this room was used for visitations.
I beleive the rest of the tour here is like D Ward, a shower room on your right just a little bit down the hallway and another room with that stairwell on the left.
We can now enter that and go up to the 4th floor, or return back to the main stairwell and head up that way.

NOTE: When I said to your right was a large room, this was my room? That should be left.
Then the other room to your right