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The Goths originated on the island of Gotland in the Baltic, to the best of our knowledge, and split into two groups as they migrated south across Central Europe. The Visigoths, or West Goths, settled in modern Romania during the second century. The Ostrogoths, or East Goths, settled farther to the east on the northwest coast of the Black Sea. In 376 AD the Visigoths were driven from modern Romania by the Huns and moved south across the Danube. Their strength was estimated at 60,000 men, women, and children. They defeated a Roman army from Constantinople, settled briefly south of the Danube, and then pushed into Italy. In 409 they sacked Rome under their king Alaric and then moved north into Gaul. The Romans gave them southwestern Gaul. From there they eventually extended their rule into all of modern Spain and Portugal.

The Gothic Age


As the third year that followed the year on thousand grew near, there
was to be seen over almost all the earth, but especially in Italy and in Gaul, a
great renewal of church buildings; each Christian community was driven by a
spirit of rivalry to have a more glorious church than the others. It was as if
the world had shaken itself, and casting off its old garments, had dressed
itself again in every part in a white robe of churches.

Vilia,

I do not dislike Goths. Someone made a comment under mine that was incorrect and added my name to it. I am especially insulted that an ugly sexual slur was attached to it. I will say, though that if your definition of a Goth as "accepting, respecting and daring to live" doesn't fit people who choose to work in a very difficult field taking care of people when others are critical of them for doing it, I don't know what does. And it takes a lot more courage to do that than to wear different clothes and listen to different music and to "dare" to think different thoughts. A large number of people who frequent this forum would describe themselves as Goths, so there is no bias about that here. What there is bias about is the silly people who come here pretending to be Goths, as you said. Maybe rather than jumping the people who may not know the difference between a true Goth and a Goth-wannabe you could do what many of the rest of us try to do - try to educate people about the differences between public perception and reality.

by the way, thank you for bringing these lost asylums to the public eye for us to look at. in reality, it's probably the closet most of us are going to get to most of these places considering demolition is on the way for most of them (unforunate indeed!).

motts,
this is another remarkable shot! i have some good pics of danvers from a distance but, i' have not been fortunate enough to get "in" and really see the place. the tours were a joke in that they only took 20 people once a month. i'm sure that didn't even scratch the surface of the amount of people who want to get in. for now, we will settle for your great pics to allow us "in".

newbe, information on entering the property is not permitted on this website.

Literate vandals??? Is that POSSIBLE?!?!
; p

hey I was thinking about going in and I was wondering when the best time to go is and how do you get past security

Haha, Yay! someone who knew the State's motto. I"m from CT and the little plants in the seal are olive branches. I Love this site and was suprised to see how many hospitals were actually in my boring little state. Keep the pics comming!

Very cool - good eye for details. Keep it up.

Lame tags with marker.

I have to say I have mixed feelings about the demolition of some of these sites.

On the one hand, it will be a shame to lose them. On the other hand, however - many of them have outlived their usefulness.

I think the true sin in this isn't the demolition of abandoned and decayed buildings - but the abandonment to begin with. Allowing such treasures to rot away until there isn't much left that can be done aside from tearing them down is the true "crime."

I've seen this same quote written on the wall in another psych hospital, I can't remember which though, I think it was in PA... kind of strange.

I live far far away from Danvers, so I don't have many chances to scout things out, find entrances, and make my way around without getting arrested.

Well, sometimes we doctors like to sit down on something comfortable whilst giving exams. Nothing wrong with that is there? :D

I visited here a couple times. It's so intriguing. I would like to go with someone who actually has been through here, isn't scared and knows stuff. I went with a group of guys and I had to lead the way! We were only in one of the patient wards main floor and a bldg marked as main floor refrigeration on the map we had, then we got chased out by security, not caught tho. E-mail me- bebetheqb@yahoo.com