1 Comments Posted by newspeak

I read about this place in WEIRD Maryland. There's a picture of the facility's water tank, and a few other pix. Some weeks ago I was going south on 193 on a silver-gray afternoon & I eyeballed a holding tank that looked like the one in the book pic,, just floating over the tree line. I made two wrong right turns, trying to use my visual fix on the part of the tank that I could see from my car, befre I remembered that you have to access MD 450 to get to Glen Dale road. Once I turned onto this, the whole grounds loomed before me like a ghost town. I really thought that they'd torn it down by now....but....
It's wild, how it all just hangs there, like buildings in those spooky George DeChirico and other surrealist paintings. I just drove by, checking both sides of the road out from my car. I saw the police trailer that I've read about. I don't blame them for wanting to keep people out. The hospital suffered financially in its waning years as a useful facility, and the asbestos discovery was the last straw: everyone was ordered out then. The removal of this asbestos by qualified personnel and its safe disposal (OSHA regs are serious biz, y'all) would cost a mint for whoever finally wants to be responsible. People underestimate what happens to a structure after it's closed down, abandoned, the heat, water and AC are turned off and then it's left that way for decades. Deterioration progresses at an increased pace. Glen Dale hospital is, I'm sure, extremely dangerous to any visitors because of its advanced weakened state, and I wouldn't recommend any "casually curious Sunday afternoon" strolls and just plain nosing around this place. Also, I imagine that all the legends about this place are bunk, though the stories are good fodder for midnight around the deep woods campfire tell your best spooky stories outings. And the "ghost town" looks of this place are interesting. Cheers!! SMB