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Ahhhhhh....I've been wanting to know what this building looked like inside for at least 20 years! Thanks Motts!

Lynne
This is SO true... the grandmother of a friend of mine in NYC was buried in an unmarked grave( and this was the 1980's!!) . Her family was poor, so they just purchased space in someone else's plot.
On a personal note, my own great great grandmother was buried in a "potter's field" somewhere in NY state in 1909. My grandmother's family was dreadfully dirt-poor( her father was an abusive alcoholic who squandered his salary on the "creature') and when my g-grandmother died of typhoid , there was no money to bury her. Though my grandmother was only 9 @ the time, she remembers being taken to the funeral in a "surrey with the fringe on top" but the funeral itself taking place in a bleak field sans headstones or markers.
Unfortunately, the location of my g-grandma's grave has never been found.
In later years, my grandfather, who worked for the NY court system and had access to tons of records, tried in vain to find the location through burial records for the year 1909.
Unfortunately my grandmother herself died in 1995, before the largest advent of the internet, but I intend to keep searching for her mam's grave

On an aside Lynne, THANK you for what you do, from someone who suffers from a mental illness...

Thank you Motts/.. this pic has indeed moved me to tears.. Thank you for bringing out the loneliness, yet humanity,
I am bipolar, as are 3 other close family members. I can only think that in an earlier age, when the stigma and shame were so great, that I or my family members could have ended up in one of these facilities for life, abandoned in life and death

To those on the board who feel it necessary to mock and dehumanize the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, you have no idea what might lurk in your own family trees and circles of friends.


M
"a looney" finding her way back into the world of sanity

For about 2 years, I was an outpatient @ a Behavorial Health clinic @ a county hospital/medical center.( I also had a close friend who worked as a CNA @ the same hospital for a year) They serve clients psychatric, developmental and physical disabilities. One of the long term patients i used to see on my weekly appointments used a similar sort of wheelchair/walker combo, only in pink( I THINK he might have had either Downs syndrome or CP)

ive actually been inside there... I would never wish it upon anyone... it was at night and that place just has alot of bad things still going on inside it. the history on it though is really interesting. If any one gets a chance you should go to the buffalo library and look at the old news paper reals. theres real articles about like how they would burry 3 and 4 people in a coffin and lable it as 1 person to cover the sky rocketing death rate and extreme neglect.

As someone who suffers from bipolar disorder( though only recently diagnosed) I can truly empathize with the pain and feelings of the long forgotten patient or patients who left these scratches.
I am truly thankful to be living in an age where those with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities are not hospitialized long term( except in extreme cases) but, through therapy and drugs, are able to live in the community and achieve.


Truly haunting m

contact your local legislator about opening it for walk through tours and overnighters, also point out it would bring in lots of revenue. Volker hung up on me LOL

My friends and I are trying to go to Glenn Dale, but we're not so sure about the cops.
Could anyone who knows this place extremely well give me a realistic idea on how bad the cops are and whether we should go or not? Tips for avoiding cops/gaining legal entrance to the place would be much appreciated. im not trying to get caught. My group of friends are moderately experienced at urban exploration, yet the closest we have come to cops was seeing one about 70 yards away in the courtyard at Henryton.
my email is
alw_kimaera@yahoo.com

any info would be much appreciated.

Motts,
I love the play of light and shadow here.
Back in the summer of 06, my best friend and I visited this place. My friend lived in upper Passic county only about a half hr's drive from this place( however he was familiar with the area, his mother having grown up in Haverstraw).
We mostly walked around the grounds and took pics like this one, of the facades of the buildings.( this was an impromptu exploration trip and neither of us were sufficiently clothed for UE). We DID enter a basement in one of the buildings, which house a variety of old beds, chairs ect.
Unfortunately,we didn;t make it back that summer or last.

I always love the people who mistake this for a real ghost

Its just Light Graffiti, made by lowering the camera's shutter speed and dragging a light across the area youre taking the picture of. You can do some really neat stuff with Light Graffiti, you should try it sometime

What a beautiful fire escape. I used to live in the town where this place was, and not once did I even notice those when passing the place.

Big door

Its time to dance to the, "Jailhouse Rock, " song by Elvis Presley

They must have kept delicious steaks and hams in that giant refrigerator

Another movie scene