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Barry Farms has a lot of history in the D.C. area. There have been talks of closing the housing development ; so it too could soon be an abandoned property to explore.

patients were treated like a guinea pig instead of an actual person.
and the ones who had very severe and disturbing conditions were
kept in the tunnels of the mental facility so nobody could see them.

they also performed some kind of shock thepary(sorry cant
remember the name)and these treatments were so severe that
patients would often break bones.

they also performed lots and lots of lobomoties which included
ice picks and needles into the brain to silence violent patients.

that bathroom is horrible ....not one roll of toilet tissue ...

Awesome!!!

my father was an alcoholic. his frist trip to pilgram state hospital was when he got the dt's.that was around 1957 when i was 15. thereafter he was there and many other state hosp. mostly pilgram state. i remember visiting him in those scary builings. it seems he always wanted to be admitted late at nite. the last nite we admitted him we go a telegram the next morn. telling us he was dead. i was always told he choked. years later i was told he was murdered that nite. cant say i missed him. that was a nitemare life.

wanderer- so great you got around to halcyon! i am a confirmed
architecture obsessive, and have looked at so many great buildings
in America, but there is just sometthing about seeing this one up
close, that is just somehow very thrilling, i guess...

J Margolis, thank you so much for your post, it says so much,
so succinctly, yet so very poetically. I find it very moving.

it IS time to lay Halcyon Hall to sleep, to the realm of all our collective
dreams of her. Or maybe it is Halcyon Hall herself who dreams, and
we are merely bit actors in her dramatic teleplay.

I selfishly hope though, she sticks around a little longer.....

The blue tile windows & these stairs are my fav. Excellent pics.

perhaps some regret? it looks almost like scooby doo got an extension, it looks like this was here when the hospital was still functioning, the patients tell a story no one will ever really understand or have ready answer to, maybe the3y saw something evil or knows the man with thew horns from experience, or the woman with the red eyes has some regret for some known action only to the past, or the patients knew her all too well, as i have said before the mystery of the mural is something that only the past can explain, but with the building gone as i have come to understand, it makes it all the simpler just to ponder what once was, maybe the answer will come to us someday....

I search the kit seal for the 40xs6..can you help me please???lol

hmm hate to say it but i thnk San Haven is a creepier place :/

My parents just visited the area and told me that demolition has started on the Pines. Sad =/

This place was clearly attacked by zombies. See the empty zombie apocalypse survival ration cans in the corner of the zombie shelter?

i'm just going to put failed triforce out there. giant rats have difficulty with making triangles.

Also a peephole so the shooters could see their undead targets.

@Binky
And still another example of how naiive they were. As you can see, they also put the shutters inside the windows, thinking that a thin sheet of wood would stop the zombies from entering.