48 Comments Posted by William

THERE IS A FIGURE OF A SKULL TOP OF WWINDOW DOOR!!!

hay una figura de un craneo arriba de la ventanilla de la puerta!!!

looks like a butthole

Jezzibug, settle the hell down. Your a little too nervous for my liking. yes police and fire dept. do use abandoned buildings to practice in. I they are practicing in such a place then they have had building inspectors as well engineers go through the building and check it out to make sure it is safe for such activity. what is so wrong with repurposing these old building for this use. it's cheaper than building new just to destroy it. sorry about my spelling, i didn't spell check this time.

I do like the stonework. Nobody pays that much attention to detail anymore; nobody cares.

It looks like a Kirkbride type of architecture. Anyone who's spent anytime in a Kirkbride type building would never want to live in one. They give me the willys!

It may have been built as a lock down room, with the exposed conduit; I'd say it got remodeled as an office. Isolation rooms / wards have nothing in them that can be removed or torn away from the wall and used as a weapon in any way.

(By the way; William is not my real name. I am still trying to keep the skeleton of my past in the closet)



These were used for temperate control treatments. One tub was filled with hot water and the other was filled with an ice bath. The "voluntary" patient was restrained then placed into the hot bath until their core temperature was the same as the water then quickly hoisted from the hot side into the ice bath and remained in the ice bath until their core temperature was the same as the surrounding water. The more disturbing thing is that I know for a fact of a hospital doing these treatments as recently as of 1995. That was the last time i had to go through such treatment. When it was investigated later there was a massive cover up to the abuses and mistreatment's at that hospital. what bothers me most is it is still an operating hospital to this day, no telling what goes on there now.

(By the way; William is not my real name. I still trying to keep the skeleton of my past in the closet)

As a person who spent most of his young life in mental facilities I can tell you we (as a society) still do lock people up "and throw away the key." It is very, very easy to get anyone committed, all you have to do is prove that they are a danger to themselves or others; then once the person has any kind of history of mental problems you can have them committed at the drop of a hat. As I became older I worked as a commercial plumber on quite a few remodel jobs at several hospitals including a some very, very old ones (100+ years). One such hospital is located in Washington, DC; during the remodel there I can across old storage rooms in areas that had been closed for asbestos issues, where I found many, many boxes of records. Also in the basement of one of the sealed building were flooded tunnels that when pumped dry revealed a large room with a dirt floor that had graves in it. It was later found out that during the civil war that one of the hospital graveyards was moved due to several high ranking officials and high ranking prisoners being buried there. It was originally intended that the bodies just be stored until such time as they can be returned to their final resting place. The reason they were buried was to keep down on the spread of scavenging animals and the smell. each grave was marked with a simple cross and a small brass plate with a number fastened to it. The numbers were then supposed to correspond with the name of an individual written down in a ledger. Unfortunately like most treasure in history, the ledger was lost or destroyed, nobody no for sure but it was rumored to have been lost in a fire; it was also rumored that some of the people buried there were famous leaders and the government has covered up the loss of their bodies with fake graves. (I will not state what leaders i have heard that were buried there, but needless to say it's unbelievable if the rumor is true.) Anyway back to the topic of the age of the records in the boxes in this picture; I'm 35 so the woman that said that all these patients were probably dead, your probably wrong. The mental hospital I was at when I was younger was opened in 1850 and is still operating to this day in North Carolina. I left that hospital in 1995 and my files were closed in 1997. So yes there is a very REAL possibility that the patients whose histories are in this photo are still alive and well.

(By the way; William is not my real name. I still trying to keep the skeleton of my past in the closet)

As a person who spent most of his young life in mental facilities I can tell you we (as a society) still do lock people up "and throw away the key." It is very, very easy to get anyone committed, all you have to do is prove that they are a danger to themselves or others; then once the person has any kind of history of mental problems you can have them committed at the drop of a hat. As I became older I worked as a commercial plumber on quite a few remodel jobs at several hospitals including a some very, very old ones (100+ years). One such hospital is located in Washington, DC; during the remodel there I can across old storage rooms in areas that had been closed for asbestos issues, where I found many, many boxes of records. Also in the basement of one of the sealed building were flooded tunnels that when pumped dry revealed a large room with a dirt floor that had graves in it. It was later found out that during the civil war that one of the hospital graveyards was moved due to several high ranking officials and high ranking prisoners being buried there. It was originally intended that the bodies just be stored until such time as they can be returned to their final resting place. The reason they were buried was to keep down on the spread of scavenging animals and the smell. each grave was marked with a simple cross and a small brass plate with a number fastened to it. The numbers were then supposed to correspond with the name of an individual written down in a ledger. Unfortunately like most treasure in history, the ledger was lost or destroyed, nobody no for sure but it was rumored to have been lost in a fire; it was also rumored that some of the people buried there were famous leaders and the government has covered up the loss of their bodies with fake graves. (I will not state what leaders i have heard that were buried there, but needless to say it's unbelievable if the rumor is true.) Anyway back to the topic of the age of the records in the boxes in this picture; I'm 35 so the woman that said that all these patients were probably dead, your probably wrong. The mental hospital I was at when I was younger was opened in 1850 and is still operating to this day in North Carolina. I left that hospital in 1995 and my files were closed in 1997. So yes there is a very REAL possibility that the patients whose histories are in this photo are still alive and well.

thats prison life for ya. =/

im very suprised there is no vandalizism, nobody would dare to touch that!

Nice Shot!

i remember this church from my child hood all the pics bring back memories

it's defentlyy hauntedd becausee i honestlyy went there withh 2 fo my friends and i brought my dog with me and sonn after we went in my dog justt started burging butt i wasn't really paying attention to him till we go to up to 2nd floor and when we enter a room and we hear breathing close to us and we just all run outt .......