70 Comments Posted by ack

I see orbs/ghosts, and this was obviously a shock therepy room where they would burn cat hair before bring pacients in, just to make it that much more horrible. The cats where kept in drawers and never fed and often died in the cabnets. Yes that is a soap dispensor not a light fixture...

Now that we have it out of our systems, we can move on to making useful posts =)

Motts also posted an explantion of "why green". It involved a complex set of chemical reactions that made the paint easy to clean and resliiant stain and scrubbing.

I can't tell because I am not there, but did that brick crumble because of vandals or because of rot? If its by the hands of vandals then this place could be left standing for a few more years, provided the vandals don't have at it...

Ok! Enough with the "I see ghosts" posts. Motts is obviously using long exposure times and using his flashlight to show you as much as the hallway as he can. The long exposure time allows him to more or less paint the place in light alittle at a time while the camera takes a really long snap shot of the hall way. The reason the rest of the hall is not blurry is because it is not moving... Because he is unable to light the entire place all at once he uses this tenique MANY times in dark places. Get used to it.... and stop looking for ghosts.

My guess is, that they turned this room into an impormtue shower/bathroom. They left the stairs there for one of two reasons I can think of.
1) It offered some kind stablity for a fairly mobile pacient to cling to while waiting to get into the shower. It also might have provided some kind of PT. Warm water loosens up muscles and having the stairs there they might have walked them a few times to help keep limber.
2) Since this is a make shift bathroom they where too cheap to remove the stairs. It costs money to rip things out . Why spend money to rip something out the pacients don't care if it stays or goes?

Twug, these curtains look to be out of reach, while the walls are at perfect kick hight for smacktard vandals.

Shoot don't loot...

I swear you must pull of with a truck full of lonely chairs =P

It's not so much the ball pit itself that gives me the willies, but the placement of it. Alone, in a cold room, this is very much a lonely chair shot. I get the sinking idea that children where placed in the ball pit and left alone in the name of "play time" because they wouldn't be able to hurt themselves. The idea that it could be used as a tool of neglect instead of what it was indented for makes me sad =(

I'm so glad socitiy now just lables our kids with ADD and keep them at home, over medicated.

Your a brave man standing under that

Dirty looters! At least you left one for Motts to shoot.

I hope that it all comes down and kills anyone that would raise a rock to something so beautiful.

Wow this place is in good shape, some peeling paint but really outside of that there is very little damage!

And now we know how the place was shut down....