3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

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Your work is very beautiful. Now i must go out, explore and shoot!

Thanks for the inspiration!
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I'm so glad that society is somewhat more accepting now....this seems so dated....We all have our insanities....but we're not placed in a world like Danvers.
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I have found this gallery absolutely amazing. If I have a few billion to throw around property in MA sounds rather nice. I love history and preserving it. If they will not save these then morecredit to you Motts for immortalizing what once was on film. You are a wonderful artist and I do hope to see more from you in the near future.
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Ever been there?
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Wow, that's quite the active imagination we have, isn't it? A building can't be good or evil, it just IS. Only when it's used is it good or evil, and then it's all based on what it is being used for at that moment. Isn't it a little excessive to do all of those things for an OBJECT?
Oooh, it VIBRATES!!! I can think of a number of people who would like that!
I never thought I'd quote Thomas Covenant, but "It's just a building!" (tm) It isn't evil, I promise!
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Hate to rain on the admiration, guys, but reality is a bit different here. I have been there, I have known people who were in there not only after it closed but as patients while it was still in operation. The things that went on there... the way the property just VIBRATES with barely contained despair and anguish... the stories I was told growing up near it... the thing needs to be DESTROYED and the whole property razed to the soil. Then I'd probably like to see it nuked, turned to glass, and the glass crushed up and sent to space. This place is EVIL and there is no positive reason for preserving any of it.
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I was actually in this room during a tour . Doug is correct, this is the actual room where Lobotomies were performed. Very small room. Some bad Karma in this room!!!!!!!! If only the walls could speak!
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Thanks for posting Kathie, we'd love to hear any more memories you have of DSH when it was still operational!
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I just found this website and can't stop looking at these pictures. I worked at Danvers State Hospital in 1967. I also lived in Middleton and could see the "Castle" from my house. These pictures bring me back in time. I can rmember walking the huge hallways and the solariums. I can hear the large steel doors slamming behind me as I walk from one ward to another. I remember the weight of the keys that were tied around my waist. These pictures are amazing, but to see this building in this state also saddens me. Thanks for the great pictures!
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If anyone wants to see moe pictures of Danvers, although I'm doubting much of this is original work look here: http://www.jeremybarnard.com/
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Half the comments are from people who have never been to the NorthEast and seen a Red Maple tree in the Fall. This color is a common sight.
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Aw crap, you got her started again! Lynne dear, here's your cumezykyana thingy, now quit hurting your head. We need those brain cells intact! :D Soon you can have a wiki waki woo too!
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[Thump thump thump]

Just pick a more credible source, please, instead of the black-&-white folks who get paid large consultation fees to say this.
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that is one ragged looking chair
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Hydro "therapy" like insulin shock "therapy" was cruel...end of story. And modern day ECT kills brain cells, destroying peoples memory in the process. http://www.breggin.com