4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

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You should get your lungs inspected after being in their
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JUST SUCKS THE TORE IT DOWN
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where is this place at? can I go and look around?
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I had a few friends who found this place, on accident. They said there were needles everywhere.
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MJ, I am truley intrigued by your story. Please tell me more about what happend to the state hospital when you were there. It would be greatly appreciated.
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really super scary picture of the basement; i would never go down there 'at least not at night
anyway;
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i thought that north hampton state hospital was allready dimolished?;i heard that there wasn't much left to it anyway' and also noone was allowed on the property now;quote me if i'm wrong;
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ahhh - beautiful shot!

And i love that you titled it "Helix" it's one of my irrational pet-hates that peopel call these things 'spiral staircases'. they're NOT spirals! they're HELICES!

imagine a piece of wire being wrapped around a cylinder. you've just made a helix. the width of it remains the same all the way along.
now wrap the wire around a CONE. that's a spiral, the width gets smaller towards one end.

As these staircases have a constant width all the way down, they're helices, not spirals. i have no idea why this irritates me so much, it's such a small, insignificant thing!
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how big is the morge and is there any fire down there like in the tunnel
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I just happened to be browsing the Internet in search for NSH history, saw this pic expose'. Loved it, cause I used to walk the grounds, looking through some of the ground floor windows. Could almost feel the lonliness and despair of the past residents. Now I live on the west coast of California and since MA is a part of my history(a better part, I might add!!) I just felt it to be right to search a part of History. THANKYOU!!!
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very elaborate for a mentle institute!!!
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Absolutely amazing. Truly beautiful
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Wow.... Just wow...

Absolutely gorgeous. Wow...
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ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING!!!!!!
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This one is my favorite. So much sadness and despair....and captured so beautifully.....