3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

Lynn, I love your comments, I enter this site every day for the beautiful pictures that just take my breath away, and I always hope that you have a comment or a storie to share with us, please don't ever stop.... thank you

This is a great photo, I will like to have seen this place when it was still in use, it feels so sad and lonely just to imagine people inside of those little rooms.

I am sorry for this comment, but how can americans be so ignorant and destroy a beautiful place like this, with so much history, here in my country we would not dare destroy something like this, it's part of history, yours is a strange country, you want a walmart or simple apartments instead of this building, I'm so angry right now and I am not even american, but I love all of you guys who can appreciate this beautiful place.

I'm in the process of writing a book about the people I took care of for many years. I don't know if this is the proper place to talk about the poor unfortunate people who lived there.

But you know, you had to know these people and you really understood why parents stopped coming to visit them. The were so burned out from caring for thier mentally ill child for 50 or more years.

Don't blame the parents for giving up..They wanted to live the rest of their lives without the trauma of being beaten by their son or daughter, or have checks and money stolen from them, Some even had to move into elderly housing because because they lost their home to fire or going bankrupt. (sp) because of their child.

Mentally ill people are some of the most selfish people in the world. it is me, myself and I - with no thought of what you are doing to another person..But These people are sick and when you understand what their illness is, then we can try to go ahead and bring some kind of peace to their shreiking voices. and minds .I can tell you about what Danvers State use to be like in the 30-40-50's..THis was when DSH was a self-governing little town of its own. The patients, staff, doctors, nurses, all worked together to make the community work...I know a lot about these times because my Uncle was a patient there during these times...and often at night when all the patients were asleep our nurse would come down and tell what it was like years ago - it was not a pretty place.
One movie you might want to find " The snake Pit" made in 1946. It was made on the grounds of DSH, but most of it was made in Marblehead...tthis is what an insane assylum was like ,My book is going to make" One flew over the cucoos's nest" and Girl interrupted look like a nursery school tale...

The person that made this website is an artist indeed.
BUt perhaps yo can get a picture of the fields and lower road and get a thread going on "Hospital life in he early days" so I don't take all the space here....Sorry I took so long to get back - but these pictures bring back memories for more stories...Even a nice shot of the old castle because this is where I'm going to take you. when it was a thriving self-sustained working community..

yeah i've seen session 9 and i didn't know it was filmed at this place. Its a creepy movie but didn't like it tho. its just too cheesy... sorry if everyone else likes it on this page...

I think the tracks were for the laundry carts.

No, but I think I remember a photo of something similar... was it a caged-in hallway that had patients on one side and employees on the other?

Motts, did you happen to notice the area in the basement, where the entrances said something that prohibited employees of the hospital from entering and that the area was for patients only. Because I cannot figure out why they would not allow employees but allow patients.

This is the basement area i believe..... did you happen to notice the metal set of tracks in the floor, because I followed them and they led to a strong locked door which I could not get open, and I am really interested in knowing what the tracks were used to move. So if you know, please post it.

I was in a similar hallway in the hospital earlier in the night, but there were overturned desks and filing cabinets strewn about...on the ground are many interesting documents which have information from the time about Electroconvulsive Therapy stating that it would cause the patient and his thoughts to return to normal. There were also accident reports about injured patients. The injury reports included things such as patients injuring their hands after punching through windows. I even found one stating one patient had pushed another down the stairs. The Danvers State Asylum is extremely interesting, but extremely dangerous. I also travelled the underground tunnels where there is certainly a large amount of asbestos around all of the pipes and on the ground. There is also a unbelievably large amount of mold convering whole walls within these tunnels. Then there is the collapsed flooring on many floors. So I reccomend visitng, but also being very cautious as the many warnings on the walls will tell you.

oh what a pitty, no ghost-pic. =P the low contrast of his head and the copper behind makes him look like a transparent appiration. really f* freakin. 8-O

nontheless danvers hospital and the hill where it was build on is what ghost experts call 'the epicenter of haunting energy'. u really got some balls to enter this place. ;-)

Oh yeah, that's my friend standing on the tower :)

ok i can see it now. theres something what looks like a black transparent person standing on the stone balcony right ahead and staring at the photographer. maybe the copper plates at this position faded to black by any reason but if so its unusual to the other copper plates which are all in good conditions with its green patina. but it *really* looks like a ghost. best ghost pic of all and with a good chance for being a real ghost-pic. now this pic cached me up. :)))

motts did u notice any figure on the balcony when u took the pic? where u alone? did u feel somehow like being watched?

omg i think theres a ghost on that balcony over there!

Did you go down into the tunnels were they sent people when they had typhoid? Or is too dangerous now?