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This place is DEFINATELY spooky.. I've been one of the idiotic youth's who've gone inside.. and traveled through some of the underground tunnels.. no joke.. hehe.. and it's definately a shame that it's gonna be redeveloped actually by the company my mother works for.. avalon bay communities.. what a place this is gonna be to live in eh? hehe

"Insane people" = "people with psychiatric issues" (or problems or disorders). This isn't about being politically correct - it's about the real pain that a person feels when someone calls them "insane" or "crazy" and likens their time at a psychiatric facility to being in a "circus." Where I currently work (and at almost all other facilities and clinics across the nation) it is considered verbal abuse to call someone "crazy" or "insane," so you see just how easy it is to be "abusive" . . .

Corey,

Abuse went on there and everywhere. In your state. In your city. In your neighborhood. Maybe even in your own house. Why the desperation to find out if it happened here versus closer to your own home? Are you going to do anything to help anybody if you find out that "torture" went on? Some days it seems that people are getting their kicks from thinking that people with psychiatric issues may have been mistreated - a vicarious thrill that I find disturbing. Given the lack of funding and public support that occurred back then I can assure you that abuse went on at some point, if only for the fact that there wasn't enough money or staff to see to the needs of a very large number of people who had some pretty serious problems. Also, many of the techniques that you call "torture" were standard medical or psychiatric practice at the time. It's hardly fair to wait 50 to 100 years and then condemn people for not having today's knowledge.

If you are searching so frantically for something terrible that happened and yet aren't doing anything to help stop it from happening again, it's called "voyeurism" - it's getting a kick out of other people's misery. People who lived in orphanages, prep schools, and boarding schools had many, if not all, of the same experiences that happened to people in psychiatric and developmental facilities, yet I don't see many people running around looking for old boarding schools to find ghosts and "tortured souls". This is just another way of staring at people who are different, but it's a little more "politically correct" than doing it directly. Still boils down to the same thing, however.

If you are REALLY interested ("interested" meaning "caring" versus "staring"):
1. Learn the history of the field before you pass judgment on everyone.
2. Volunteer some time in the field to help others and see what the state of the field is like currently so you can talk from experience and not from some sappy second-hand faked story you saw on "Ghost-busters."
3. Learn the issues as far as funding for mental health in your state and nationally.
4. Vote to support the appropriate use of funding for mental health issues and encourage your friends and family to do the same.

P.S. Yes, I am a nasty old wench who probably doesn't deserve to live for being such a Crabby Appleton about this. :-)

looook!
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There's the upper lobby and bar

This is definitely one of my favorite galeries now =]
Danvers is still numero uno though!

Jeff, how do you know the vandals were illiterate?

Drie looks a little snowey.

1 tequila 2 tequila 3 tequila...window?

"the rockstar pushed the door open to find a vicious hotel dwelling zombie eating gummy worms on the hotel floor...

And that was about the time he got himself to a rehab clinic =]"

Don't forget the part where they shot them with paintguns. =8-o

that place aint scary at all i have been there so many times

Who decorated this place lol? It's crazy tacky. I like it =]

With all the insane people, it was a circus and hence the reason a toy was at the facility. Probably in an employee area, and was a joke one of the nurses bought for a doctor.

Have you heard what they did to Danvers? It's insane. Heh, no pun intended.

Motts, might I suggest at your next visit to NSH to get photos of the docks....were they just used to haul oil to the power plant or also to haul in patients? Have you found any decomposing bodies in any of the buildings of NSH? Did you see any interesting paperwork? I would be quite interested in seeing photos of it. Also, I wanted to know whether you noticed any of the tunnels were sealed off from buildings and if the tunnels are accessible only from buildings or if they can be accessed from outside?