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I love those lamps....

by the way .. on the way out we saw a bunch of keys, so we took them. you could see the burn marks on the metal. its creepy. i still have mine.

for room 414.

me and a group of friends were there 2 nights ago and we got inside through the window ... we went to the 4th floor which is the end .. the floor was caving in so we went to the 3rd, and of course nobody could have gotten up or down without us hearing/seeing. when we were on the 3rd floor everybody shut up and we heard 3 heavy footsteps...when i say heavy i mean basically stomping. so us girls [lol] got scared and cried..so we left. then i was there again last night .. and we saw a light in two of the windows on the side of the turret. somebody saw us who lived in the house in front of it or something so we ran to our car. when we were drivin down the road to go home a state trooper FLEW past us. wow we just got away. it was amazing though.

Looking at CNN today 04/04/07 , some portion of this complex is on fire.

...I've never been to the Danvers Asylum before to brake-in & look around, the only real reson that I *Know* anything about the Danvers Asylum is because of the movie 'Session 9'. I Live out in Framingham, MA, & Me & few friends of mine Broke into another mid-1800's Kirkbride Asylum....the Abandoned Worcester State Hospital...which is right directly next to the ACTIVE Worcester State Hospital & The place was crawling with Armed Security Guards Driving Marked white SUV's...We had to be all dressed in black, head to toe with resperator masks so-as not to breath-in anything that would be very bad for is to breath in...They were all Decked-Out with Flash lighs & There was me, "the Big Guy" of the group Carrying a 75 Lbs. Hardened Steel Pick Axe Over one Shoulder in case of Squatters, Dangerous Animals, etc.....once we got in, it was pretty lame...I Had a co2 gassed pellet hand gun that looked just like a .44-Magnum Six Revolver in a chest holdster, a bat came out & Buzzed one of my friends, I unloaded a full cylinder into the bat before he could fly back to his nest or whatever.....

Very Art Deco in style.

A few British mental hospitals were equipted with projectors. Even when they were closed the projectors were left behind.

If you didn't know, the labels are made of Dymo Tape.

As far as I know it's still available from office suppliers.

i was just checking in here when my wife called me to see the news there was a 4 alarm fire at danvers last night !

YouTube has many information films on it, especially the ones by Sid Davis.

wow is a way this kinda look a little sinister and neat att at the same time...

Just went to Glendale Hospital tonight and it was a somewhat good experience up until the police were after us. I am the leader of a ghost hunting group in Virginia and we underwent an expedition to the hospital late in the PM. We investigated pretty much every building from the first one on top of the hill (In front of the new neighborhood) all the way to the the smokestacks. Served to be an interesting experience until, again, the cops were all over us.

First we heard dogs, police dogs in the distance. For anyone reading this, when you hear dogs that means leave. Next three to four cop cars came onto the property surrounding the building we were by, the smokestack building. We evaded them and made it to the second layer of pine trees. We stayed there for about 45 minutes. While we were trying to wait out the cops, a police helicopter came flying above the property. The police were searching the wrong side of the property because we now had run to the otherside closest to the neighborhood where we first entered. We were about to enter the neighborhood and drive away, but our cars were surrounded by cops. Eventually the cops drove away and set the trap. When we eventually made it back to our cars, the police were all over us before we could leave the neighborhood.

Based on our experience with the cops, they have K-9 units, nightvision goggles (which we saw and they can see you from 200 yards away. The police officer said they saw us when we first stepped onto the property), and motion sensors. We received our trespassing ticket/arrest whatever and will probably have to do some community service and pay a hefty fine. The police said they catch about 20-30 people a weekend so I would recommend not going there unless you want to get caught. They said the facilities are closed due to abestos.

They caught 7 people about an hour before they caught us.

The buildings had a lot of warm and cold spots. I took some interesting still picture and we have everything on camcorder. We still have to check the EVP, and we're hoping to get something on that. The smokestacks are still filled with human ash. Overall, a good experience minus the police. We all do not look forward to going to court in Maryland when we live in Virginia, and paying from what I've been reading about a $600 dollar fine.

Makes you wonder if it was punishment isolation or protective isolation. An open railing, no mesh on the third (?) tier - not a walkway where guards would be fighting to get an inmate into a cell, one thinks.

Nevermind...a few pics later cleared that up. How cool; the thick paint peeling off, retaining the imprint of the bricks it adhered to for so long.

...is that brick wallpaper peeling off above the doors...? lol