36 Comments Posted by Lee

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looks like something out of silent hill
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Your photography is brilliant. I recently found another site that had a bunch of exterior pictures of this place which did this beatiful kirkbride building no justice at all. Their photos almost made the building appear like a low class dump. I am able to appreciate the artistic vision and detail of your photos more than I already did after finding that other website.

p.s there are many scans of old beautiful postcards of this place on the official worcester MA website - if anyone wants to go look at them.
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Night of the living dead.....
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Does anyone know what the strange light is in the right side doorway? It looks odd and unlike a "normal" reflection...
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The Devil's Tonsils.
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Looks like the execution room in Flensburg Prison.
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Like an Egyptian tomb.
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Reminds me of early post war Prague.
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Sadly, this reminds me of a female suicide that's been hanging for a long time.
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Robert Ballard should come here. He can't walk around on the TITANIC but this would be just as good.
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Great picture. Reminds me of the deck of the TITANIC.
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There is a type in use now that looks like a hospital bed. The body lays on a tray like the one on the guerney pictured above, but a hollow "mattress" covers the body. You could be in the lift beside this "bed" and never know it contained a deceased patient.
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I've worked as a Funeral Director for 15 years. This style of mortuary refrigeration is a real pain to transfer a body from. The low door is fine, the next two are hard to lift from when placing the body on a stretcher. I pity the backs that lifted the body up on to the top compartment tray. Sometimes a lifting device was used to lift the tray up to the compartment so the tray could be slid in, but more often than not is was a back breaking lift. I don't miss these at all. They didn't keep the bodies very cold either. The seals around the doors were ineffective and the only insulation inside the walls was sawdust.
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It's actually a Grecian Urn Casket with a full couch lid.
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Damn kids