1,062 Comments for Ypsilanti State Hospital

this a bed room.

it made tears come to my eyes seeing this i worked at this place from 1978 till closeing. it was home ans a save haven for so many i remember see the remaining patience crying as they were given a sack lunch and sat free on the streats of downtown ypsi. and told good luck , and than the next day as i drove through town looking for work seeing then holding will work for food signs.

when they closed this place down, all the mental patients were taken to half-way houses near Prospect Park in Ypsi. You can still see them roaming around in the park, eating out of trash cans. Pretty sad. The State never should have cut funds for Psychiatric Care.

I live in Ypsi. This is really creepy. Nice shots, by the way.

does anyone know if the place was haunted or not?

is this the place that had a pool in the basement or on the first level.

Amazing shot. It looks like a place I saw in Virginia surrounded by trees and woods.

Looks like my room. LOL. Great shot.

Interesting shot. Very Silence of the Lambs.

Interesting shot. Zombies, lol. Banging some poor patient's head on the wall just shows how many of the attendents were both ignorant about mental illness and how they often hired real a$$holes.

Very sad indeed.

wow. we have green tiles like that in our bathroom. great shot.

i wonder how many buildings on this site could be potentially haunted?? They are all extremely beautiful and eerie. I love it. :)

That was "A" building.

I worked in that hell-hole from 1971 to 1973. That picture shows a locked gate from the main ward to several "seclusion rooms". When one of the patients started to get rowdy, we would get a group of several (as many as needed) attendents and toss him into the seclusion room and lock him in. It was kind of like soletary in a prison. Usually we would give him a shot of Chlorpromazine in the ass and we would ALWAYS bang his head against the wall on the way in, to reinforce the learning experience.
I don't feel good about this part of my life and I almost never talk about it. It did happen though.