3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Actually it was originally an inebriate asylum. More info can be found here: http://www.opacity.us/...o_state_hospital.htm

The boards are makeshift supports to help prevent the building from collapsing. I believe it was the only preservation effort made sometime back in the 1970's.

I'm pretty sure it was all there...

Candace made it for a film project, it involves some sort of syrup but I don't know the exact recipe.

Thanks Bri, yes it is the entrance to the violent ward.

Ah, I knew they had a technical name, thanks guys!

I believe one of these ceiling cuts you speak of helped aid in the ultimate demise of the environmental inspector killed at Byberry... I think the hole left uncovered had rotted out the metal staircase, which collapsed under the inspector as he started to descend it a mere 3 days after I was there to shoot this gallery http://www.opacity.us/gallery55.htm

I'm not insinuating that it was the fire department's fault by any means, it just jogged my memory there.

Leaves... the door up top was probably open.

The floor above and below was disconnecting itself from the walls on both sides, making it dangerous.

Are you sure? Most of the building burned down in 1991...

Wow that's weird, I was just thinking of walking past Bellevue this weekend to check it out.

John - I chose most of the poses, although I wasn't all too sure on what to have her do exactly in some shots. Yes bringing a bow into here was most definitely a concern, and extra precautionary measures were taken to avoid problems, although the arrows did not have heads on them... that would be a very bad idea!

Yeah there was some extra fake blood (syrup) from a previous film laying around her house so we brought it along.

Most patients who died after 1920 were donated to medical science or buried in local cemeteries, but prior to this some were buried on the grounds of the state hospital, but there are no markers or plot records remaining.

The best resource might be to visit the Northampton State Hospital Burial Site Project

Actually you needed to walk past the morgue to get to the autopsy viewing theater, where there are many seats (I assume they had a decent sized crowd at times).

I think the tiles are pretty standard medical construction materials, easy to clean and non-absorbent, nothing too fancy...

Yup it splits below.. and there's a small "hidden" spiral staircase on the right that leads to a room in the attic space.