I've seen those before; Italy, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi. Sometimes they have handles and sometimes they don't. We simply called them "bomb drops". Aptly named if you eat the local cuisine.
i drove by glen dale last night to see if the buildings were still there and they are as creepy as ever. i often went to glen dale from '87-'89 and I'm sad to say i'm responsible for some of the destruction but at sixteen it was fun to smash windows! I heard all the rumors of it being an insane asylum, 'halloween' type stories of someone going crazy and murdering everyone, weird 'x-files' type disease outbreaks, and the tb story. but honestly, in the state that the hospital was left in, it was very easy to believe the more outrageous stories. We would find wheelchairs, boxes of medical gloves, hypodermic needles, stethoscopes, etc.. The older kids claimed to have found straitjackets but I never saw one. anyway, it was left as if something really fucked up happened, and at the time it was seized US property and not county property and was a federal offence if you were caught and not a county offence, contributing more to my 'x-files' type conspiracy. I never saw anything 'supernatural' but there was always creepy things happening. we would often find satanic graffit and mutilated cats and dogs. we would find blood stains in the morgues, and i found a bloody, fleshy crutch once but i always attributed them to satanic or wannabe satanic pranksters. I'm so glad this site is here. the visits to Glen dale are imprinted in my memories but seeing these pictures is really something else.
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The past 26 years I have work at a Mental instituion in Salem Oregon, USA. It was built in 1883 and they are tearing it down in the next couple of months. There are wings that are closed since 1976 (i bleive or near there) talk about creepy, we store equipment there so sometimes I go over there to retrieve things, the pictures of DANVERS look almost exactly like our hospital, very interesting......... I am going to miss this place............
Iused to live in taunton and me and my friends used to go here to drink and get high. bealive it or not there is still one functioning building there. and if you ever go in any of them tunnels there about 100 degrees because they still use steam to heat a few of the buildings..