1,062 Comments for Ypsilanti State Hospital

The facility I was at also had a bowling alley and theater. We weren't that crazy....at least I don't think so.

I was in such a place for a couple of months. We would get our medication from a half door as such.

the lines in the image are a reflection of the pipes above near the ceiling, but it does not explain what it is reflecting off of. I have been here before, around the time of these photos...there are def. ghosts here!! We took a camera with us and picked up sounds we couldnt hear at the time, like hard sole shoes walking away!

I can only imagine the number of patients whos faces were mashed up against that screen looking out. Nice perspective.

i started working here about 1984, i think . i was here until it closed. It contains many tortured faces of insanity. It featured stories to vast, too numberous to tell. and too shocking to tell. State workers are heroes trying to survive, the faces of the mentally insane, or mentally handicapped as called now. It was the best of times and the worst. thanks for the memories.

@ Steam Power (though the comment is two years old haha)

I live in Ypsi, and grew up near here. From what I was always told, the Forensic Center was for people who had been declared criminally insane. They actually ended up building a HUGE new replacement for this right across the street (the old property is now a Honda plant).

It was always kind of scary living near here and the Huron Valley prisons (men's and women's). Every once in awhile you'd see a whole crap load of cop cars out, and hear a helicopter...and you knew to stay inside and lock your doors haha.

The hospital had everything, dentist, hair salon, gym. Every thing we needed

This is definitley a quiet room when locked it turned into seclusion. I as a kid I was put in here for everything. Don't talk back if you don't want to go in.

I lived in this hospital on the childrens ward for a yr and a half. I left right before it closed when I was 15. This is was what our view looked like from our bedroom windows. Not a nice place at all. The building was infested with cockroaches that would fall from the ceiling panels. Sad sad place.

Nice photo. I wouldn't mind having that sign for my room lol.

was york woos center in one of these buildngs? i was there when i was a kid but i dont remember.

i'm beautiful & my mother is a beautiful !!!!!!

Thanks for the great pics. If memory serves me correct, that hall leads to the employee lounge. My grandparents retired from there when it closed and my mother and two aunts were house keepers there until it closed. I have memories of that place you wouldn't believe from visiting my mom at work. Kind of a scary place for a little child to visit. Unfortunatly for you, I have family that remained working there until the day it was demolished. They worked in the shop building way out back and were in charge of checking the building during the day to make sure no one was locked in anywhere. I guess what Im trying to get at is they had keys and would had let you in anywhere you wanted and provided stories. But Im sorry to say it's to late now. But thank you very much for the pics. I drive by the now Toyota plant every day on my way to work and remember the great building that once stood there. Thanks for the pics as odd as it may sound it was a part of my families history.

Toyota? Yea! Ghosts in the accelerators!

hmm tearing it down to make a car business evan tho many people died horible deaths and spen there entire lives there and now there resting place is disturbed. hmmmm that wont atrract ghost!! lol