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It has to be a ghost. It just has to be.

...actually, that IS a very interesting tub. *blinks*

For a seclusion room, it does have a unique beauty in this shot. Good pic! :-)

Very unique. I <3 this pic. Good shot, Motts!

o.o! OMG. Poor kitty. :'(

And Harly, seconding what you said.

Motts,

I found your website by mistake yesterday.. rather strange but it was march 24th and I had just called in sick to work and cancelled the baby sitter, whose name is Irma...I know its rather reaching, but I felt I was meant to find this site. day 2 and I am halfway through all your tours...anyways, nice job, I enjoy this very much, and aaaah!!! all the pics with you (or other human forms)in them, when not expected make me jump!!!!

Before the Kirkbride Hospitals came into being the mentally ill were mainly kept in prisons and much worse places. Kirkbrides whole idea was to have a place where the insane and mentally ill would be treated with dignity and respect and given windows for sunlight and colorful areas to live in as you can see in many of the Kirkbride pics. My mother had schizophrenia and spent 5 years in the Kirkbride hospital in Fergus Falls, MN. from about 1960-1965. I used to think that they were all treated inhumanely (her included) until I started investigating more into it all. The Kirkbride in Fergus Falls is probably in the best condition of any of them and they have tours also! And I would definately like to go. I just found a site called flikr.com and if you search kirkbride you will see that a whole lot of people are very interested in seeing inside these buildings. Anyone can download their Kirkbride pics onto the site and it is so amazing to see these memories of the past.

Terrifyingly amazing....

My first job-I wasn't out of school yet- was @ ICR in Phila.
It was and still is a cancer center.In fact thats' what the "C" stands for and still does as it since has changed its' name.
Anyway I said all that to say this:I was around and had access to a lot of cool stuff. Bad stuff. Dangerous stuff. Peligro.And me being as demented as I am,well,you get the picture.
The job itsself was gross and disgusting-and I guess dangerous, but I was around so many cool people from different countries and the job itsself was easy going no pressure,although I think I might be radio active among other things.
And I did a lot of exploring and snooping around oh yes.Sort of early Urbex inside the bowels of a still living breathing building.
Chemicals,man I'm tellin' ya.Uncork an old bottle who's lable couldn't be read and it growls at you.Accidentally dropped mercury on a silver spoon and they amalgamated.(look that one up) Melted glass in bunson burners and made things like tobacco pipes.
Stole Sodium metal (oops I did it again),took it home and threw it in water and it blew the hell up.Killed the hedges overhead and released a cloud of hydrogen gas.(sodium is wierd:it begins hissing and melting as soon as you take it out of dry vacuum and it begins to react with moisture in the air)
These things were good for starters.

So cool that info has been found on these.
So often ......info is lost.
So often we wonder.....

This guy is missing a few critical gears... But in this world there are going to be money hungry (and/or drug addicted) scrappers. It's a shame...

I would submit that this is the skeletal remains of a cat which wasn’t considered therapeutic.

you're an idiot. why the hell do you need to steal from an abandoned hospital. what are you going to do with the trays? nothing. so leave it there for other explorers to see. don't ruin it for everyone.

I was really enjoying these pictures.

wonderful :)