We lived very near the complex. Over the course of time from the fifties through the sixties we called the authorities about wandering, lost and bewildered patients crossing our property. None seemed dangerously crazed but were intrigued with our horses and family pets.
I do have one other story I feel shouldn't be told...one shouldn't speak of the dead.
This really needs to be the setting of a horror movie. I would totally watch it cuz it just looks like the perfect place to add a psycho-path and a killing scene. I know this sounds kinda mean for such a sad, depressing place but wouldn't it make a great horror film?
Have explored all the buildings of the Glen Dale property hospital late at night.
Never heard or saw anything strange, but you get a weird feeling walking through all the different buildings with a few friends and nothing but a flashlight shining the way ahead of you. At any moment you think your going to have someone coome up behind you in the darkness, or shine your light inon of the abanded rooms and see something, or maybe here sceams or a strange noise. If you want to do some exploring and be kinda freaked out, i strongly suggest that you check out Glen Dale hospital.
joshpine- if you hate drains, you'd really hate my favorite swimming hole. It's at the base of a big waterfall at an abandoned power station in Conway, MA. There is a big whirlpool under the falls, strong enough to drag you into it and to the bottom, but not so strong that you can't swim out of it when you need air. There's nothing so refreshing on a hot, humid day as to let a whirlpool suck you down to the bottom of a cold river! jasonpine, you also mention stepping into something gross in the lake. The same thing happened to me, except I was on these abandoned railroad tracks; I was looking ahead and suddenly my foot sank into something that immediately REEKED. I looked down and my foot was down inside a rotting dog! I can still remember it all too vividly!
i live within 5 minutes of this remarkable building, when i was younger we went there quite often, but now its getting harder and harder to visit due to police patrolling the area, definately an awesome building, i remeber when i was a little kid we heard explosions, well we called the police and they told us they had found chemicals, or a biohazard type of waste or some sort, and they had dug a hole and were blowing it up. sort of cool,
my mother was there in the 50's as a patient,, dead 36 years now, can't find out why she was there, no paper work , no one would say, electric shock treatments, ice baths,