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OMG! there's another patty! guess I'll have to use an alias. hey patty, wish I was with you guys, but I'm in the midwest.

Believe it or not, I was born in St. Margaret's in the year of 1980...Kinda weird stumbling across it...That's where a piece of my history began...Now where will it end, but more is what I have done in between...Thanks guys for the beautiful photos...No matter what, history lives everywhere...

What kind of retarded butt-whipe would write POOP in there own crap? What kind of insane world do we live?

yea me and 2 other friends went up there on august 19th i belive it was. it was after a redskins pre season game. anyways. we were drunk as shit and were dumb enought to park right at the mouth of the community and walk up the hill to the adult ward. well we "sneak" all the way up to the front door of the adult ward and i guess the cops were changing shifts and we saw some headlights so the 2 of us bolted to the big pine or w/e tree and my other friend was frozen in his tracks at the door so i ran back to get him. we hear someone coming so i laid down by a bush and he just found a spot near me. yes the cops use night vision because thats how we found my other friend. well he took us back to the car searched us and all that stuff. got our id's and told us that if we ever came back again that he would fuck us in the ass! no joke at all! the only reason he let us go i think was because we were all fire fighters and he was just gettin off his shift. it was like 2 or 3 in the mornin. well anyways he chewed us out for a good 30 to 40 mins before he let us go. well that was my experiance. if u want to know more about it or about glenn dale u can call me. [edit: please don't post phone #'s]. ive been up there many times and only caught once.

Out of all of the things I have seen on this sit,this is my favorate.I love vines,and they are in most of the places you have been,but this one is the best.

I am pretty sure that this park was used in the movie Cry Baby .

Janene,
Thanks for the correction on Alumnae Hall. I don't remember much about which one was which, I was just a tot when we used to drop my dad off at work there when mom needed the car. Pop worked there from the early 40's until the place closed in the wee eighties. We're all sadened to see this beautiful old building fall to ruin. In all the years dad worked there, I never had a single "tour" of the place. Both of my brothers remember the elevator shown in Motts photos - they worked there during summer vacations while the girls were away. Still, lots of fond memories and tons of dad's stories about the place - Meeting folks on the internet with similar interests in Halcyon/Bennett has been a wonderful experience. Maybe our collective energy can have a positive effect on the situation?
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Man, I now know how to easily keep kids out of exploring urban ruins... get a "Halloween Sounds" CD, stick it into a player on repeat, put it somewhere in the building where it will echo just enough to sound like the place is haunted.

I'll bet it works better than any alarm or security guard alive.

"A picture is a painted poem. Those who deny it are simply men who have no poetry in their composition."
-J. Comyns Carr, "Coasting Bohemia", 1914.

i went there wit my friends and it scared the hell out of me! it was raining and cold, never go back again. plus we wrer skipping skool.

looks scarey like really scarey!

why poop?

I was in this fuckin hall. it was so freeaky..i saw red eyes in a window!

This place was built with creatures like Andrew in mind! May you visit often in your dreams Andrew!

Darice,

Does being legally insane mean your eyes don't work?

How about you try thinking about it. :)