25 Comments Posted by marie

This picture is amazing. I feel like I am suspended in the air. Great angle.

Amazing shot, I love how you capture the expanse of the postage. Makes it seem like you are part of the history. Photography at its finest in my opinon.

my friend and i were just out there, literally about an hour ago! we snuck back and explored. the entire little abandoned street and area gives an erie feeling. so glad we found this site an read up on yet another theory as to what this place used to be. thanks!

Wow. This reminds me of the beginning of the Phantom of the Opera. I almost expect it to magically transform into what it was in it's prime. Still, magnificent photograph, just beautiful.

Yes this was a very scary place. When I was about 10 (about 1964) the dance school I went to went to the Dever State Hospital and performed for the children. I was very very sad, they were not taken care of at all and at that time the children were consider retarded, but as I look back most of them had Down's Syndrome I can still remember their faces and hands reaching out to us. Very sad.

wow :| that shadow looks like a little kid or something:|

actually when things become 'mummies' there mouth natuarly do that, so it probably didnt die screaming....
but still that is so creepy!

I grew up near this hospital. I spent observing this site from Commack Road when I was young. I recently met a nurse that worked in this hospital many years ago and she told me that all the scary stories that we heard as youngsters were all true.

they need to leave this place alone make into a tourist place i don't want to see this place tour down

anna, all that paper in a pile was once boxes. they were shiped there full o medacine

there is a pillow and a matress anyone want to go to bed?

there are to tables in this room y r there tables in the other room?

maybe for the spitters or biters or the ones who tried to kill the doctors or nurse's remember they weren't all there

yeah but some of the cells in a prison had a place to use the bathroom did any of theses rooms have that? what i have seen in this picture i can't really tell if they had to go to the bathroom wut did they have to do use it on there selfs?

makes u really wounder what happen in here i wounder how the doctors and nurse's i don't know y im getting goose bumps looking at this picture