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I was just there( 9-23-07), on the site and saw what has been done with the Kirkbride building. Totally renovated and beautified!!! Too bad that it is a condominium city now! At least they kept the Kirkbride. Session 9, the movie is what got me interested in the place, see the movie!

Can't hide in the corner here.

Man! You hitb the nail on the head.....SILENT HILL

this place used to inject children with polio vaccine before it was given to the general public, they experiemented on kids! This was an evil place and the people who worked there were scarier then the patients!!!

Letchworth Village was closed because the patients there were seriously neglected and abused by the staff. It was terrifically overcrowded. At oone point it was housing 4,500 patients at a time. Kids who were committed did not all have beds they slept on the floors and were treated like animals. It was not unlike the conditions of WillowBrook Institution which was also closed. Geraldo Rivera reported these abuses on the news years ago and made major investigatory reports and it blew these places wide open...now, they have been closed. Letchworth was one of the largest mental health institutions on the East Coast. It was an astounding disgrace, the way the patients were treated. Many of the patients were seriously ill and mal-treated. I've seen video of the reports and they are truly disturbing. Human beings should never be treated that way and it should never be allowed to occur again. The staff consisted of Doctors, various therapists and lots of aides, that truly never have been allowed to work with innocent sick people, including children.

Awesome!! Descent into the pitch black abyss anyone?

Great shot of the hat and coat. The stalls still have a amazing agelessness to them after 25 years. I did a lot of research on this mine, and found out that it only operated for 15 years, but had the largest number of employees at the time of shutdown; 1500 at least! But even with all the miners working there, even for only 15 years, the mine was abandoned in one day. From the looks of things, it seems that everyone left in a big hurry.....wierd.

Hi!!! I am back!!!

Damn! Makes me think of all the POW's back in WWII.

Stunning shot.

dis stuff aint scary

Hey what sort of flash do you use? This lighting is really good considering the windows were boarded.. the flash on my d40x is basically only good for like portraits in direct sunlight... I could never get a shot like this in darkness.

oh friggin CREEPY!!!!

love this picture

is there someone in that window?

kinda sad that they made this room happy and cheery when all the kids were miserable