4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

wow!i thatz awesome gave me the chillz but me like like :D

I love going into old buildings with so much history to them. I currently work in a building that used to be a hospital during world war 2. I have seen where the morgue used to be and it is so cool. you can actually stil see the lines on the wall as to where the doors used to be that held the bodies. I went down there a few times and actually caught an orb in action while TRYING to take a picture! Yeah it was freaky. I would love to talk to anyone who has been here and see how their experience was when they first saw the morgue

Motts - do you use LAB mode in photoshop to pull the colors? I'm studying this now and so far this looks like the best example of it. These photos are incredible and moving. I've always had this facination with the hospital. I went in to one of the "doctor's houses" a long while back. There were crazy paintings on the walls and there was a big pit going deep into the ground..from a tunnel I assume? anyway. Awesome.

Damn! You scared me after last photo. Whoa!

i've stood there and it makes me so sad to know that its all gone. we spent the night there once in highschool on a dare and as creepy as it was it was an amazing building and we forgot to be scared when we started walking around checking things out. it had more of a feeling of intense sadness than anything creepy.

i've been lurking here for quite a while and finally decided to leave a comment. as a criminal justice major i can understand the patients fears of living on the outside world after so many years of living inside. its a problem we study, how to help long time prisoners cope with moving into the outside world and living there. even people who have only served a few short years have trouble readjusting back into society. imagine suffering from a mental illness or some other condition that incapacitated you and being expected to learn how to live outside the hospital after spending perhaps the better part of your life there!

i feel bad 4 the guy in that room

dude thats creepy

All hope is fleeing.

All I want is to go home and be with my family.

As I stand here in this empty, cold , and lonely room, I can feel their pain. All the people that were here before me are here with me now. They keep me company and reassure me that I am not alone. I cry to them because I know not why I am here, is it because I am unloved? Did I do something wrong? Why was I thrown into such a place? This is where I shall live and die. Listening to all the voices from the past, that were so badly treated, their screams
are my song to fall asleep to at night. Will I ever get out of this personal hell? only time will tell.

Amazing Gallery!!!!

Hallucinator that is creepy cool. Motts, did you enhance the blood on those? Very disturbing, to say the least.

I think all of these pictures you've taken are just INCREDIBLE. i've always wanted to go to noho state hospital since i was young. My dad works at Smith College and i went there with him constantly, always driving by this hospital. It's a shame to see that they're converting them into condos though (in my opinion, i don't think anyone would want to live on these grounds, due to what took place here before.) Visiting here would've been such a pleasure, but thanks to you I got to see inside it without actually being there. I've heard tons of spooky stories about it at night. Anyways, thank you again for taking these. Not only are they fantastic, it's almost like being there with you as you took them. It's just too bad it's all going to be gone soon.

i find it extremely beautiful. such a picture gives me chills at just the raw elegance of it.