1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

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Love your fireplace photos! Something about old fireplaces that creep me out
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Very eerie looking room! Probably get plenty of good EVPs in this one!
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Is all this torn down now? Man, that was hauntingly beautiful!
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You betcha it's haunted!
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Dont know why they always put condos and apts up on this kind of land--yes, pretty sure some freaky stuff will be going on there!
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Very creepy hall--this probably kicks butt at night!
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awesome! just dont make them like that anymore
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Love those cupolas!
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My mom came by the other day and I was telling her about this site and she looked at me and said ' why are so intrested in mental hospitals" especiallys ones that arent open.. I mean I explained ofcourse but I thought it was funny that she asked me like I was weird or the only person in the world that enjoys this and I told you " Ma you have no idea what kind of market online and other wise this has" she was a little surprised..But I know u guys have to love it just as much as me if not more...lol
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It also may have been to lock up patients belongings that were of value if they mistakingly came in with something worth anything...
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I love it so much, you know I look at some of the things in these pics and say to myself those things are so old you could get a pretty penny for them. I know that there is patrol at most places but some one should try to roll that out of there ( I moticed it had wheels) because even though it is a bit of a mess I know that someone would pay good cash for that...
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We've seen lonely chair shots. now Motts will amaze us with a lonely lightbulb shot.
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CAKE !!!!
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i think it's for children whom decayed
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I lived in Foxboro also. I never knew about the cemeteries, as a kid I guess I just thought that when a patient died, their family came and brought them home to be buried. I remember hearing shouting and screaming while walking down Chestnut St., in front of the wards. I can only imagine it was hydrotherapy time, or some other 'treatment' time. There was an escape alarm that would pierce the silence of day or night if a patient went missing. On a couple of occasions I remember being home alone when that alarm sounded. I don't mind saying that it made me kind of nervous (I was 9).
I had friends whose parents worked at FSH. There were lots of stories of orderlies bullying, pushing, shouting and threatening patients. Injuries that were passed off as accidents, I wonder how many ended in death. It sounded like the perfect job for somebody with a anger problem.
Horrible things happened there and the construction and botched remodels should be more careful to preserve those graves and the grounds of this place. There should be more respect.
Foxboro was a wonderful place to grow up.