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The beds seem to be conversing, and ready to quickly arange themselves in neat rows at the sound of approaching foot steps.

That's a Classic! A very complicated array of historic and scenic beauty. It looks like a scene out of an old movie, or a building ravaged by war. I love the blue.

I'm ready for the show to start, anyone else?

I wonder what it is about this shot that says "The Shining," because that was my first thought too... maybe it was the suggestive title that triggered one of the first images that comes to mind when I think of twins in the context of creepy/decay.

is ther old girl still standing Ratchet knows

Motts, you mentioned that the last time you came you didn't find this,right?

Hmm this mark like Gary mentioned looks very uhmm...natural,too natural in fact.For some reason,i'm getting a feeling something or someone drew your eyes toward it and tried signaling you by showing it,because well you didn't actually expect seeing this and it is said that sometimes spirits address people by showing them out of the ordinary things.
Yea never know.

Must of been a children's room,yea know play room.So just to show that and calm the children they put the clown there.It's quite scary actually ahaha.

I actually live in Brentwood and if you go by where the new plaza is,there they are just standing cold and subdued in time right next to a lively plaza.

It is saddening and every time my family drives in back of the city bank park around past the soccer/flag football fields,we past by it.And every time we pass by i swear i feel like time is going so slow and chills go up my spine.

The sad thing is my grandmother(who is not dead at all,thank god) used to work there,i asked her about it and she said just one sentence "it was frightening,and that practically summed up what the patients felt and what PSH was.yet i'm pretty astonished that right next to pilgrim state, lies another hospital for the crazed,which i believe is pretty much a recreation of PSH.


This such a pretty building though every time i walk by it,i feel how some many patients felt...depressed and subdued

Should we add lonely soap dispensers to our list of shots to look forward to? :)

This seems like a very sad place...I hope that all the people that were there are OK now, I pray for them. Were there any Art or Music Therapists employed there at the time? I know there was a Music Therapist at Met State-that seems like a very sad place too. I worked diagonally across the street at The Fernald State School as a Music Therapist. I worked with the non-ambulatory and non-verbal profound mentally retared clients. Even though they could not speak, they could still vocalize to the music and work on a variety of fine motor grasps and gross motor movements by manipulating muscial instruments. Music is a universal language, and they responded well to this medium. I love working with this population of clients.

Behemoth indeed! The scale of this monsterous piece of iron is truly amazing! For some reason, I also find these types of industrial decay fascinating. I wonder how much "torque" that thing had!

I've always been fascinated with the Bonner Building. It's a shame that this too was demolished. When it was a fully operational hospital, it served many patients. It was still relatively new-what a waste of resources! Another fairly newer hopital, St. Vincents in Worcester, was also closed. It was only about 50 years old. I can't stand waste. If you were born in the Depression, there was NO waste. My dad said there used to be an old saying back then, "Use it up, wear it out, make it due, do without." Nothing went to waste.

What's cool about DSH, is that not only does it look like a castle, but also has the architecturial elements of a large church. It's a real shame that they closed Our Lady of the Hill Chapel on the property so soon. The patients could have used some spiritual support. Also, keeping it opened could have brought on blessings to keep the whole campus opened and perserved. Prayer IS powerful-and so is the Blessed Mother and Jesus. They tried to close our church, St. Joseph's in Worcester, but with alot of prayers and rosaries, we got the church back again!

Looks like a very dangerous place to be.

Blue because it probably soothed the mental defectives.