485 Comments for Manteno State Hospital

That poor woman's life is what horror stories are made of. Slowly losing one's self to the callous actions of inept "experts", academically interested in the case with no concern for the person. Her torture and the ultimate destruction of her being over decades is just horrific, almost beyond imagining.

Oh my. I looked up her story. :(

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Oooh. Imagine how beautiful this would have been back in the day...it's still beautiful now!

Wow, look at that ceiling! Awesome.

Looks to me like someone has too much time on their hands.

+1 JoniG
I've been silently enjoying for a long time now and part of what I enjoy is reading the comments and looking for what others see in the photos.

Being from the deep south, screen doors always seem comforting to me. They remind me of summers on screen porches playing go fish and of my great grandmother's back door.

http://www.kirkbridebu....php?f=18&t=1341

This article tells the story... Haunting upon reading the article and understanding what happened, but beautiful in the way Gennie was commemorated in the paintings.

I love the way the window is the main focal point and how the decay of the room around it seems to circle it. Amazing work

This is not desecrating a beautiful old building. Read the story. This room was a scene of torture and the writing commemorates one of the victims. It is a very powerful comment.

The photo evoked a powerful response emotionally, before I read the story. I have heard of ice bath treatment and the stark mad writing combined with 4 baths made me think of that. This is one instance where the decay and abandonment of such a place is a good thing. The story behind it is horrific, even more than the image conveys. What it describes is nothing short of torture, just as bad as anything I have heard of from the holocaust. Taking a sane, normal person and systematically, legally abusing them until they lose their mind is something from the worst nightmares of society. Thank you for sharing such a powerful, thought-provoking image.

maybe my high school art class could do something like this, minus the vandalism, but the pic is a pneunominal ( yeah spelled wrong) shot

....."mattress"....:-*....

JoniG--WAIT!! Don't swoon until we can rummage around in one of these storage rooms and find an old matress to put behind ya! (We'll try to find the least moldy one...;-))