I remember going here in summer of 2002 but i cant remember if the chandeliers were up or down. It was also around 1am so it was dark. Private tour for about 6 of us from one of the guards.
well,ah,thats........
not..............
strangest thing,
but its' a beautiful thing :
as I had stated before,I love murky underground water.So strange though..
Regarding the comments about flesh on the bottom,in tech school(yes,1971)the young man who sat next to me told me of an experience one summer in an outdoor pool.
He said he felt something when he dove to the bottom.He dove to the bottom again with his eyes open and found a blueish bloated body on the pool floor.He reported it to the life guard.No one had been reported missing.
Regarding the comment about suction on a stream bottom,I knew a girl in Sunday School(yes,1968)who drown that way.It took me decades to track the story down.It seems Bond Bread on the hill overlooking Tacony Creek(Phila.)at times took in water that way.
She was about 13.Her brother hanged himself in a Florida jail cell the summer before.He was 16.
I'm surprised at Lynn's comment about institutions killing people and cutting them up,though its' true (don't forget to experiment on them first!)
I very much enjoy viewing the photos of historic buildings. It makes me sad that these beautiful majestic building are not being used today, it almost seems wasteful. I would like to see these incredible buildings be used again perhaps not as Asylums, but for other means. It is horible that people were cruel the mentally challanged. However I do belive the world itself is cruel and these people need refuge...not abuse and mistreatment that once plagued them, but locations of growth away from the cruelty of the world itself.