153 Comments Posted by Kim
- Location: Foxboro State Hospital (view comments)
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- Location: Danvers State Hospital (view comments)
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- Location: Danvers State Hospital (view comments)
- Gallery: Dreary Skies
- Location: Danvers State Hospital (view comments)
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- Location: Northampton State Hospital (view comments)
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- Location: Greystone Park Psychiatric Center (view comments)
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Now, let me just clear some things up for those who don't seem as interested as I over researching the hospital.
1) It was not shut down because of structural damage. They just tell you that because who's going to believe the real reason? The reason they shut it down was because "supposively" the head of the place was "murdered." He definitely died, but no one knows how. But know the structural damage story is a crock of shit. However, the inside is still falling apart. Stairways are collapsing along with cielings and floors. And more than that, if you mangage to get part the Morgue, make sure you're wearing really good shoes because unless you want tetnus...there are rusty scalpels and scissors and other such sharp things on the floor.
As to the part about taking it down, I drove by there the other day with my boyfriend and asked him what the huge building was because I had never really payed any attention to it. He says to me that it's the hospital. So if they are tearing it down, they haven't succeeded in taking it all down yet. Also, I was looking at the site 1856.org or whatever it is, and other sites dedicated to keeping it open, and I believe you can get petition papers if you're determined enough. I don't think it's to keep the whole Hospital, but at least the Main Building.
Furthermore, asbestos things HAVE been found in NSH so please be careful should you choose to go.
Now, the other day I was having a discussion with one of my best friends and we were talking about how they want to build condos and housing units on that land. I do believe that has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Why would anyone in their right mind, build housing units on the burial grounds of a place where there was unjust murders and torture and suicide?
I want to tell you about the scariest thing that has ever happened that I was close to about that Hospital. A couple years ago, my boyfriend was the sweetest guy in the world. No lie. He was a little crazy and obnoxious but he's a guy. So him and 3 friends decide they're gonna go to NSH. They were there for 4 hours. They lost one of their friends. Finally the cops and state troopers came in after them and they left without their friend. A couple weeks later, in the paper there was an article talking about how the kid they left there was now in a mental institution. Not to long after that, my boyfriend would have these moments where he would black out and become someone totally different and try to kill himself. Finally they put him in a mental institution. He nearly managed to kill himself there too, but was stopped the doctors who had come by to see him. Finally it went away and he's okay now, but he's never quite been the same. One of my friends also told me that just being in there long enough will make people want to kill themselves. It's a scary thing.
Although I have every intention of at least going once, I don't recommend going.
- Location: Northampton State Hospital (view comments)
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