62 Comments Posted by nance

That's the fun part , Dave, sneaking around. My daughter and I used to go to all kinds of places and explore. Those were the best times of my life!

This is just fantastic!! I love abandoned amusement parks for some reason! A really great website is www.amusementparknostalgia.com. Thanks, once again, Motts!

This arch looks very dangerous.

Great info and pics, Ladyhawke. It's good to know at least some people care about what happens to at least some of these structures.

Why do these places just sit around and "waste" away?

Wish that was someone else I know going up that chimney! :-)

Maybe some of those fairy tales aren't really that good for out kids??? That IS kind of creepy; even for me.

Another good website: www.amusementparksnostalgia.com. Shows lots of pictures of abandoned parks with coasters and everything just sitting there rusting or rotting away. Just don't understand that.

If everyone would just understand that everyone has their "OWN" distinct personality and that's why not everyone agrees on any subject; I think we would be less defensive. : ) I do have to agree with J.R., though.

I really hate to say this, but the book I just finished on Danver's said that some of the really older patients actually walked around in their area naked; which I thought was very shocking. People got committed many years ago for things today we wouldn't bat aneye for; like hitting too much, arguing, or just getting in minor trouble. Some were as young as 6 and they lived their whole lives there. Since it was the only home they ever knew, alot never even wanted to leave.

Session 9-"What are YOU doing here?"

I just finished a book on Danvers. It was written in 2005 so iy's fairly recent. There was an interesting part about all the graves that were discovered; incidentally by the Danver's State Hospital Memorial Committee; who they, themselves were former patients. The graves were neglected for so long and so over-grown, the committee had to search and they finally discovered them. 768 people were buried at Danver's and they were marked only by a number. The state "supposingly: lost the records of which name went with which number, so the committee memebers had to research the death certificates in different town halls in order to identify them. I really felt that was really sad. As the book states,"Each had been a unique individual in life yet here they were unnamed and unacknowledged in death. The committee cleared the site and said,"These graveyards have been forgotton--as these people were in life. There are voices here that haven't stopped speaking yet. We are their living echoes." This truly got to me. So if Danver's is no longer there and they build condos or whatever they're going to do, what about this cemetary. Does anyone know?

And who bought them and what are they going to do with them? Also, who gets the profits from the sale???

Why on earth would they create these "little" rooms? What exactly was their purpose?

You just don't see buildings like this anymore and if they keep going like they are, we never will.