485 Comments for Manteno State Hospital

Thanks for this never herd of Gennie. Loved those photos too.

Motts, enjoy your journey. I cant wait to see your new pictures. I wonder what a polish soap dispencer looks like.

some doorways look like big nasty mouths to me.

Youve heard of golden showers.... thats all i can think of.. it started out as a funny thought but then.......

Its what you would see if you could look into my head.

Thanks Tom =)

i'll give you both cookies
if you stop saying cookie =)

this is worse than the soap dispenser
epidemic ha

bit big for a locker room, isn't it?

the roof isnt low,
im guessing
it was a wide angle lens that Motts used?
makes it look closed in.

New pics =)

They used to put residents in tubs of ice water for hydrotherapy...sometimes they put them in a tub with some type of cover on so only their heads stuck out. We had one client that used to spin in the tub ala the exorcist...

I like to read the posts before looking at the picture. Then I already have a picture of it in my mind...and yes, it does look like someone really wanted out of there...or really wanted whatever was in there...

I still can't get the sound of shuffling feet, gurgling drool, and the cries of an insane mind out of my heart whenever I see these bleak pictures. Not that the picture is bleak...but once you entered these "hallowed halls" life as a "normal" person was over forever.

must have built during the aesthetic movement....

The ascention...only there is no savior in this place...