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I just visited this place (old main) last Saturday (I drove up from Hartford Ct area). Yeah, the place is amazine; even more so than these incredibly well-done pictures depict. There are about five places to enter, obviously in the basement. I found one on a stairwell so I quickly got to lighted floors. The windows in the doors to the small rooms says it all...Steve.

If you look at the opening page of this building it tells you about the building and the people that lived there. the people were keep active in the community by going on trips. maybe the reason the mural is not tagged is because there is a 800 bed meduim secuity prisoin on the rest of the buildings. so it helps to read the very first page.

to Michelle-SHUT UP!!!!!!! that place has been drawing curious people ever since it shut its doors in 92' . i know we all went there and never pissed on anybody's porch or belongings or whatnot,as with any place that holds any attraction to a varied assortment of people DSH is frequented by all types and you have to take the bad with the good,you can look at any number of wilderness paths and see graffiti and bottles strewn about but that doesnt mean that ALL the people out there are littering. DSH should've been maintained and could've remained open so people wouldnt have to sneak in, as i remeber it wasnt all that hard i the 90's to get there you just needed the balls to get thru the wierd mist and the noises, but as it's gotten harder and there are less and less accesible routes into it those who brave the arrests are forced to sneak in however they can,if it bugs you so much i suggest not staying up at night peeking out your window to see if theres anyone there and i also advise not passing judgement on all who do choose to brave the circumstances !
and to salemgirl - look up DSH on google and there are any sites that state the main witch hunter built his home on the hilll where the hospital now stands and the actual hangings were done in danvers , right down the road from the hospital.

I just read about this recently . Sad to say but this is what happened. In hydrotherapy the person was put into a tub a canvas i believe under them and one on top streched sp tight up to the neck. the paient then was then inmersed in cold water the jets going this could go for hours or days. Many paitents died from this form of treatmant that is why it didn't last for a long time like ect and other treatments have. If they had a BM while in the tub it stayed in the tub no fresh water.

well, i guess that answers my last pic's question lol. but, those doll thingees have been in there for years so whoever said that was his work is probably older that he sounds but .....:P

hey motts are the weird-o doll-thingee's still in there?

Wow i c ant believe that place is closed.didnt they used to have concerts there in the early 90's??? it's sad to see a place where so many had sooo much fun turned into a derelict weed farm....
Hey motts do you know anything about the old pier/amusement houses in asbury park,n.j?

They've already torn down the chapel and many of the outer buildings.i remember these tunnels from the few times we snuck in there as teens and i will never forget it.I heard some freaky ass s*** down there. It's haunting just to look at these photos...motts you are the man!

damn thats a sick photo i havent been there since high school in the early 90's and dont ever remember the place seemin like it would be that bad in that short a time. it was always spooky as hell and i remember the run thru the field to get there used to scare me almost as much as getting in did. I wonder tho' how the hell do you get in there in broad daylight motts??? amazing dude good f'in job!!!

collection cases from 1999 probably wouldn't have any educational value. also, hospitals, companies, and governmental agencies are required to retain records for certain periods, varying depending on the type of document. documents are destroyed to protect the company, hospital, agency, not the patient. the "destroy date" is the date that the files must be kept for, not the date they must be destroyed.

Morgues wouldn't have freezers, they would contain refrigerators. Wouldn't they?

Good thought, SLS!

Thanks, weasel.

Great texture in this shot

it looks like the light on the right side of the shot belongs to a train of some sort...like an old abandoned subway station