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WOW! i had all but forgotten about the old glen dale hospital. it was good to see it again. but now i live in albert lea minnesota. born and raised in landover, md i'll never forget it. i still talk about that place 10 years later. thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Did you just peek inside or did you pry it open after you took the picture? (just kidding) Truthfully, I don't see how you resisted . Awsome Photo!!!!!! Wish I'd been there. My kind of place.

I'm just on the first picture and I'm lovin' it. You are good, real good. No. THE BEST!!! Can't wait to tell my daughter about this. She will FREAK. We love stuff like this. Keep it up!!!!!

I went there tonight and was in this room very creepy at night but a cool place.

If their Corona is half filled with cigarette butts then they've already finished it Randall, but nice try.

Perhaps you should direct your disapproval towards their wicked smoking habit instead of them visiting an abandoned building.

Whoa, Randall - chill. It would be a little warmer than out on the street or down by the river where a lot of them currently are (those who have survived living on the streets, that is). I assume you are down there handing out blankets and sandwiches, right? If not, don't come here and give us your own personal guilt trip. This is an urban exploration site - not a personal flogging spot.

DEAR STARDUDTER I HOPE YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY ARE ABLE TO SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IN SUCH A PLACE SO THE GOOD MEMORIES CAN CONTINUE!

Nah, it's not coming down just yet.

Not that I know of. It was a rumour but a lot of people still want to save the hospital as a hospital (not necessarily the Kirk). The proposed plan right now is to consolidate Worcester and Westboro and build a new hospital on these grounds.

Perhaps,before you unroll your sleeping bag and finish off your corona,you may want to take some thorazine or meloril and feel a little like the person who lived in that room felt.

I wonder what most of you would write if you were a patient at Danvers in the 1950's - 1960's.How would you like to be totally disabled with mental illness and confined to a hospital with thousands of very sick people.Some people spent their whole life there.

i wonder how much they go for?.....thats if found!

Vale,

I have worked at many different institutions, two of which have subsequently shut down and I was aware they were closing when I left. There is always stuff leftover everywhere, but every time I leave I don't take so much as a pencil with me. It's called "stealing." It's old-fashioned, I know - so sue me for having an over-developed conscience.

At the same time, and assuming you don't have a conscience about that sort of stuff, when the property belongs to someone else and you are trespassing, people get a little wonky, worrying you could get hurt and they could get sued (for you voluntarily putting your silly self on their property illegally - go figure). However, as soon as you (or me or anyone) starts removing items, defacing the property, setting fires, and/or publicizing where these places are, the owners stop making it so "easy" for people to get in. Sure it's just a little trinket and souvenir to you. To the people who own these places it's one more reason to step up security and then no one gets to see anything any more. If you can't think of it as stealing, think of it as you are personally making it harder for the rest of us to get to see these places.

I could be wrong, but it is my understanding that landfills are public domain, in which case you aren't stealing when you remove something. There is an extremely large difference between removing something from public domain and trespassing onto someone's personal property and removing items that you may want. Hypocrisy is where it's OK if you steal from some place because you haven't had a face to face with the owner, but you wouldn't steal from somewhere that is "active". If someone wants to trash whatever they have purchased, it is legal in this country, best as I can tell, and even if you and I think it's a doggone shame, it's still the law. And heck, even if it isn't "the law" most of us still know what is right and what is wrong, and calling other people "hypocrites" doesn't give you any better rationale or "purer reason" for stealing someone else's property.

End of soapbox rant.

Erin, as I looked at these pics, I was asking myself the same (somewhat morbid) question that you asked. I personally don't have any experience with crypts as everyone who has passed in my life was buried and not crypted. (cryptified? crypticated?) But like you I wonder if one were to visit a place like this say a month or two after someone was laid to rest, would the air in there be just a little too much to bear? Have coffins always been made completely airtight, even back in the days when ones such as these were placed?

I stand corrected.

Admin, can you please remove the URL link to my site in the above post please, cheers.