89 Comments Posted by Mark

...I've never been to the Danvers Asylum before to brake-in & look around, the only real reson that I *Know* anything about the Danvers Asylum is because of the movie 'Session 9'. I Live out in Framingham, MA, & Me & few friends of mine Broke into another mid-1800's Kirkbride Asylum....the Abandoned Worcester State Hospital...which is right directly next to the ACTIVE Worcester State Hospital & The place was crawling with Armed Security Guards Driving Marked white SUV's...We had to be all dressed in black, head to toe with resperator masks so-as not to breath-in anything that would be very bad for is to breath in...They were all Decked-Out with Flash lighs & There was me, "the Big Guy" of the group Carrying a 75 Lbs. Hardened Steel Pick Axe Over one Shoulder in case of Squatters, Dangerous Animals, etc.....once we got in, it was pretty lame...I Had a co2 gassed pellet hand gun that looked just like a .44-Magnum Six Revolver in a chest holdster, a bat came out & Buzzed one of my friends, I unloaded a full cylinder into the bat before he could fly back to his nest or whatever.....

This is wicked scary looking..

very cool shot

It is most defenitly being patroled just sometime you can get in past them. I however got cought the last time i tried to get in.

just a follow up, the noises i herd at 1 am was back in the 90,s during our snowmobileing and at that time there was no police or milatery activity. now the entire property is fenced in.

i posted on another picture. last year i was almost arrested trying to go and have a look around. i grew up about 6 miles from there. we used to snowmobile threw the areas between buildings in the mid 90's. the place is gaurded by the police and there are some outer buildings probubally newer constructed one being used by some part of the milatery. but i gaurenty there is activity in several buildings there. and around 1 am i have heard some really freaky noises in the courtyard area.

the entire place is about 70 feet above the nearby river to high to flood. more then likely there to repair the concrete pillers to maintain there strenght

penhurst was heated by steam and the steam pipes still cary steam under ground to other nearby buildings that are being used by businesses. steam radiaters get really hot.

I almpst got arrsted last summer trying to get back to see it again i grew up 6 miles away from it. it is all gaurded by the millatery and police now

im not really sure what it is i remember there was dried cat poop on my basment wall but it crusted and flaked like the whit epaint in the picture and blood jsut stains and it is a mental hospital and ive seen in a documentry a patient who was in a straightjacket in one of these rooms and he kept hitting his face into a wall and his eyebrow was bleading and he wiped it on the wall and it looked almost the insact same...... kinda chilling reminder if you want to take a look at the movie for your self its called Faces Of Death 2

Jen is right ive seen these in many medical books the way its used is you put your arm in an L position and ur elbow bends right behind were the leer makes a Y and its use to re-set a dislocated elbow/broken elbow

after seeing alot of your pictures im pretty sure ive been here and i remember that i had to drive down a road and there was a gate and a house next to it and i knock on the door and the guy told me to get outta there at first and then i ask if i could take some pictures for a highschool class nad he agreed after some minupulation man if you think these pictures are amazing you should go there yourself its not hard to find at all and its amazing yet creepy at the same time

the top of it looks like the mary murry it might be part of the raritian fleet? or maybe the " jarret said that her name starts with sea could it possibley be the seawells point that john mentioned

Hey Dave that ferry boat thats off the jersey turnpike is actually named the Mary Murray after some girl in the civil war and it wasnt scrapped but rather abandonded on the rairitan river and there are 3 smaller boats around it here is a sight that gives you more information abandondednj.com if u click around youll find it but its a very eerie i took a travel on it once and theres a bunch of paint chips on the floor nad paintings and mirrors and a captains journal it sorta give you a feeling that somebodys watching you you can email me for more information FORTMOEDC3@aol.com

Looking at the baked enamel interior and the type of door hardware and door gasket I'd guess it was made in the 1950's. Albeit I'm a fridgy from Australia but back then there weren't that many hardware manufacturers. The shelves are still made that way in commercial fridges.

Fantastic photos by the way. I only wish I had access to such historic buildings here. The oldest buildings I've been through date back to the 1920's.