Ha! I had the same embarassing thing happen. I took some pix of my dogs and one of them came out with an eerie glow each pic I took of her. Then someone suggested I had left greasy fingerprints on the lens and that she was on that side each pic I took. Wiped it off and the pix turned normal. :-( Oh well, I still have the pix and they still look pretty cool. 8`-)
To me, the rooms with the "remnants of former patients" is also fascinating. It tells me "this is who were are, this is our building, please don't forget us!"
Its very true. Since the majority of the MR clients I worked with were state-funded we also had to fill in all the paperwork. And trust me, there was a lot of paperwork "for the state".
I have a photo with a ghostly image on it. But I think one of the strangest things that have happened to me was last Wednesday. I was on the 3rd floor in the middle of the main entrance and took a step through the door way and my right foot started to go through the floor, yes I was going to go through the floor, but something pushed up on my foot hard enough to push me back hard enough that I had to take a step back so I did not fall over.
When I first entered this building I witnessed with my own eyes doors open and slam shut. These were doors where the rooms had no windows.
I have talked to other fire fighters that once had to rescue some kids from the 3rd floor because all the doors closed and the kids could not get out or off the 3rd floor.
This was back in the late 90's like 98-99.
That Gothic script on the front is very cool. But yeah, I wonder why they felt the need to put the name of the institution on the doors? It's not like anyone's going to pinch it...
i'm not sure what the web site was trying to imply, but it basically talked about old ways that mental illness was treated with back in the 1800's. that was one of the things listed on there and it said that sometimes mental issues would be acredited to teeth and various other parts of the body, as well as using labotomy. pretty twisted treatment if you ask me. although what you have said does make some sense. if a person is impaired physically or mentally and they had an abcessed tooth, i can see why they mistake that for a fit or mental problem-so much was misunderstood back then, you could be institutionalized for anything