4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

amazing how even a heater was made artisticly

does any one know the room number this is in????

I think she was trying to say that instead of complaining about how they were, do something about how they are. I didn't read that she was attacking ghost photographers (of which I include myself) specifically...

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I, however, will. As someone who has been photographing ghosts since the late 90s, the sudden interest in it really pisses me off. Now that there are TV shows with people who, by the way, seem to go out of their way to break every rule for ghost photography, every idiot with a camera is seeing orbs. I looked at one picture someone took, then promptly smacked them for claiming that their cigarette smoke was a ghost. I'm so sick of reading the "OMG, it's a gohst orb!" posts on here. Did anyone stop to think that it might just be dust? These are old buildings... Motts isn't trying to photograph dust, so he doesn't have to check conditions like we do. What was the pollen count? What was the weather like? Knowing your surroundings is so important, and in photos like Motts' you can't know what he captured unless you were there and know there wasn't anything else.

To those who are attempting to photograph ghosts and are doing it right, I salute you and say thank you. To everyone else: you're making us look bad. Get another hobby.

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Well, actually, I wasn't referring to you or even thinking about you - in the least teensiest tiniest way, and I am not sure I actually called anyone an idiot for ghost hunting - yet - but I do seem to have unintentionally drawn some blood.

I admit I do get concerned about people who are more interested in dwelling on the gory details of the bad times some of these folks had in the past than seeming at all concerned about ways of assuring that they have a good time in their present lives. So if that draws blood, well . . . .

Well, hell, perhaps nothing. If caring that these folks and their staff have a better life and wanting others to think about them while they are still alive so they don't end up having unhappy lives and feeling compelled to haunt abandoned places as round unattractive orbs forever makes me an activist, then I admit - I am guilty. First degree guilty and premeditated and even pre-medicated. I've certainly been called worse things than that, and by better people, but in my warped mind being a mental health activist and a staff activist is a good thing. If you lived in one of these places you sure as hell would be looking for an activist, I can promise you that.

OK - now I'm confused - was that intended as an insult? It's odd, I take that as one of the highest compliments anyone can get, so even though you didn't intend it, I thank you from the bottom of my cold, sterile, ghost-free heart, small as it is. :-)

"Once again, rather than being a little Johnny-one-note and bitching and whining about what hell-holes/ghost pits these places were/are, I am hoping to Christ y'all (especially those of you who constantly come on here and bleed about this) are getting off your asses and getting out there and doing something about it. If you're gonna talk the talk, walk the damn walk."

So okay Lynne it's a crime that some of us are interested in paranormal activity or parapsychology?Just because not all of us are on some crusade for the rights of mental health workers/patients or whatever does not make us idiots.

The internet is filled with little trolls,people that do their best to make chats and forums and other things unpleasant for others.Why do they do this?Who knows.Perhaps they have unhappy lives?Perhaps they are just dickheads?Sound familiar Kevin?

Absolutely, Tony!

If you look down at the steps, those windows in back look like a very angry face....With only one eye...Maybe its a pirate, with one eye patched.....LOL....Ladies, maybe a pirate dance in front of this angry pirate?

I don't know, they were removed before I could see them. They were most likely auctioned off, which is what typically happens to hospital furniture and equipment when they close down.

Haha, I had a dream about Opacity last week (may have been the Nyquil, that stuff does some strange stuff...) Anyways, Motts was leading a tour of some abandoned place, and we had to climb down narrow walkway things, and I didn't like it because I am afraid of heights if I am not protected. Then we were like climbing down into this building and it was looking so pristine, like someone still lived there. Then all of a sudden everyon was turning to get out as fast as they could, I'm still not sure why (perhaps they spotted Covenant? lmao) and I was trying to gather my things and it was taking forever, and everyone was passing by me...I hate dreams like that! Especially those with an overwhelmingly evil presence that lingers in your soul for a long time.

you know, Motts, in a place like this, when you are alone is a wonderful feeling...all of that beautiful architecture and the work it took to place it... when you are alone, it is just for you.

Hopefully, the projectors were removed for preservation, not some other purpose. Motts, you said they were in very good condition, right?

Annalisagail, you think too much ;)

Love this pic

i stood in that very spot over this weekend and what u see is all real