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Lynn- Yes. I worked 3-11PM, and just before the overnight ("third") shift came on, we'd go through each ward, changing any wet bedding, escorting certain people to the bathrooms, etc. We were "tripping"! And sometimes I got to "trip" in a building I had "floated" to.

The way I interpret Mike 1968's comment is that he was there and saw the plaque with his own eyes. Not that he was there in 1927.

Dying is my worst fear and looking at this gave me the chills...The chrome metal around the place makes it look so prof but the debri makes it soo haunting ,
Morbidly beautiful :)

Is that an old building out the window? Or just rotting curtains? Or what? I can't really tell for sure. I notice that as I go through all these galleries (and happily I have a long way to go yet) my favorite theme is what is outside the windows of interior shots (the view, basically). Some of those details, enlarged, would be beautiful photographs in their own right.

This was the perfect time of year to take these photos- beautifully dreary.
Belchertown State School also named buildings by letters: A (recreation building), B, C, D, E, F, G, K, L, and M. I'm not sure why there were gaps in the sequence. There were other buildings too, with more normal names (Tadgell Nursery, The Infirmary, The School Building, the Farmhouse, the "cottages (#1-9) etc. Later, after I left, all the letter -named buildings were renamed to appear more "home-like" (but nothing could ever make them home-like!)

Put up a facade of being something good and real? You mean, kinda like Disney? I wanna ride too!!!

K Building, at Belchertown State School, had a fenced -in recreational yard called the Bullpen.

heh no bother.

If I'm reading correctly, and the stories arent just mere myths..I believe that this place didnt actually "help" any of the patients. In reality they put up a facade for the families and loved ones, but while inside they experimented on them to learn about their dissabilities, and what made them that way. I'm truely fascinated with this place, its looks and also the amazing stories that come from it. Im really curious to find out what truely happened here, and why it was shut down.

Oh, Dr. Sketch, please don't hold ANYTHING back!!

Er, is that Tex or John?

This picture - this whole place - is just sad. A dumping place for people no-one was too eager to have.

I thought I had stumbled into Uranium once, because something else was glowing in the dark! Turns out, it was a glow in the dark condom! :D (Do you know how hard I'm holding back a Uranus joke???)

Well, don't I look dumb? Maybe I shouldn't post when I haven't gotten any sleep... Sorry again, I thought (for some reason) that you were serious!!!

That "examination light" is an old Ritter X-ray unit.