4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

LSD........shrooms....

haha yeah perhaps this one

http://www.opacity.us/image1501.htm

till his skater friends trashed it that is

Poor, poor Jimmy. Atleast he made it to a morgue, not sure about that one, but a morgue.

thats a good thought Jo...look like the rope broke though....poor Jimmy :(

hey Lynne....is that blood? it looks like someone bashed their face against the door and split their cheek and broke their nose....and blood...yes blood, B-L-O-O-D went everywhere >;P

To me it looks like the hallway of a skate center. I'm interested in the rope leading to the door. "okay, I will tie this rope to my waist. If i'm not back, don't come for me pull me out with this rope"

diamonds are a violent mental patients best friend

what...is with the top half of the walls and the ceiling?....if you flipped the hallway upside down it'd be like walking the hallway to hell....scum green with unreachable doors and only one "exit"....gruesome pic...but beautiful

Step back, Stephen King.

Mmmmmm Kay !!!!!!!!!!!

Now, I know that it's hard to trust the credibility of those who say they've been there. Now, I can honestly say I haven't been there, although it's right down the road from me. A lot of my close friends have gone in there and it has fucked them up. It's some of the sacriest things I've been close to, and I still have every intention of getting in there.

Now, let me just clear some things up for those who don't seem as interested as I over researching the hospital.

1) It was not shut down because of structural damage. They just tell you that because who's going to believe the real reason? The reason they shut it down was because "supposively" the head of the place was "murdered." He definitely died, but no one knows how. But know the structural damage story is a crock of shit. However, the inside is still falling apart. Stairways are collapsing along with cielings and floors. And more than that, if you mangage to get part the Morgue, make sure you're wearing really good shoes because unless you want tetnus...there are rusty scalpels and scissors and other such sharp things on the floor.

As to the part about taking it down, I drove by there the other day with my boyfriend and asked him what the huge building was because I had never really payed any attention to it. He says to me that it's the hospital. So if they are tearing it down, they haven't succeeded in taking it all down yet. Also, I was looking at the site 1856.org or whatever it is, and other sites dedicated to keeping it open, and I believe you can get petition papers if you're determined enough. I don't think it's to keep the whole Hospital, but at least the Main Building.

Furthermore, asbestos things HAVE been found in NSH so please be careful should you choose to go.

Now, the other day I was having a discussion with one of my best friends and we were talking about how they want to build condos and housing units on that land. I do believe that has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Why would anyone in their right mind, build housing units on the burial grounds of a place where there was unjust murders and torture and suicide?

I want to tell you about the scariest thing that has ever happened that I was close to about that Hospital. A couple years ago, my boyfriend was the sweetest guy in the world. No lie. He was a little crazy and obnoxious but he's a guy. So him and 3 friends decide they're gonna go to NSH. They were there for 4 hours. They lost one of their friends. Finally the cops and state troopers came in after them and they left without their friend. A couple weeks later, in the paper there was an article talking about how the kid they left there was now in a mental institution. Not to long after that, my boyfriend would have these moments where he would black out and become someone totally different and try to kill himself. Finally they put him in a mental institution. He nearly managed to kill himself there too, but was stopped the doctors who had come by to see him. Finally it went away and he's okay now, but he's never quite been the same. One of my friends also told me that just being in there long enough will make people want to kill themselves. It's a scary thing.

Although I have every intention of at least going once, I don't recommend going.

I could be wrong but I believe the substance on the floor is some sort of wood shavings.

Entropy is a dynamic force that is unavoidable and unrelenting. Decay is nature's recipe for natural recycling. Death is everyones anodyne.

I can't get over how blown away I am that so many things were left behind in all of these locations. I explored an abandoned dog track recently but it was no where near as cool as these places.

I'm such a huge lover of old and sometimes (I'll admit it) creepy stuff. What I wouldn't do to have a "shopping spree" in all of your locations. Yet, I have to say that I think it's wonderful that they haven't been pillaged and you can deliver such amazing in situ shots.