3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

Patients.

Patients are to hospitals what inmates are to prisons. Get it?

You sure it wasn't just a mirror you were looking at?

Thanks for sharing that.

Usually I have trouble seeing the "ghosts" you people are always seeing... but this is a first for me not being able to see a skull or the stairs it's climbing...

Did you skip class the day they taught you how to spell the name of Governor Dummer Academy?

Funny that you still call it that since the name has been officially changed to "The Governor's Academy" since July 1, 2006.

is that peeling pain, mold, or fire damage on that door?

I . . . I . . . I think I love you! :-)

Sorry, my above comment seems to of posted in error. So hopefully here is the whole comment.

I first started to poke round this site in August (07) due to my discovery of Pennhurst. I was looking for any accessable information on that school as it is I am unable to read the wealth of information at Elpeecho's site. I am blind, well and the computer screen access program I use doesn't read PDF files to well so I was trying to find anything I could...

I love this place! Some of the pictures are very hard to see, but reading all the comments provide, in most cases, enough information to get something from each pic.

I've looked through several gallerys of photos and read hundreds of comments and I'd like to make a few points, things that have come up in my mind...

1. It's rather funny, if you think about it. When these places were up and running people would not want to go there if it were the last place on earth, or if they were there a bunch of people would give their right arm to get out, as is shown in "Suffer the little Children." The reporter asked several people if they liked it there or would they go home if they could. One man said that would be his most loved wish.

Now, it would seem we have the reverse. Now that these buildings are falling away to rot and rewin you've got to have security to eject people from the buildings.


2. I don't know how exactly to put this. But, maybe the reason so many peoplego in there is because they've heard all kinds of horror stories, some totally B.S., some with a spot of truth and others that are true all the way... And with the way the buildings look now, all broke down and falling apart, they think this is how it has always been and it fules their fire as it were.

3. I'm not sure if I can get behind all this haunted house type stuff. Maybe there is something to it, maybe not. But to my way of thinking, if you go in expecting ghosts then that's what you'll get. Or think you'll get. If you go looking for tormented lost souls of people who lived or died here, then that loud thud you heard must be a ghost, surely it couldn't be... say... a light falling down from the seeling because it finally broke free due to the seeling weakening over time.

and finaly, 3. There is a gallery on here of a girls' school, not some sort of training school for handicapped girls, but something like a finishing school or something. The buildings in the pictures there look just as broke down as the pictures of the state schools. But here is something interesting... People don't say about the girls' school. "Oh those poor lost souls it must of been awful living there and so on..." They say nice building, like the lighting stuff like that.

I wonder if they'd say the same sort of stuff if they were presented with a set of photos from a state school and photos from a girls' school without being told what is what?


Yes, I can understand that the state schools, asylums were over crowded and yes, I know lots of bad things happen. It is unavoidable... When you have so many people crammed together like that and not a whole lot of staff, things are gonna get kinda bad. It's like this in some of the state schools for the blind. I myself have seen it and have friends who attended the state schools for the blind and they've seen it, hell even been on the receiving end of things. Articles have been published regarding the poor conditions of the state schools. So I know it happens.

See the may94 issue of the braille monitor on the national federation of the blind's website www . nfb . org in their braille monitor archive. Also check out the article called "Flaorida school for the deaf and blind not a safe place for children" also located in the archives of the braille monitor. That article tells about the scolding death of a 9 year old girl, Jennifer Driggers...




Sorry, have totally lost my thoughts, my 14 month old daughter just crawled in here and into the laundry basket. LOL but I think I've made the points I set out to make...

sooo awesome i say wallpaper!

sum of you have serious dellusions, lucky the treatment is more therapeutic now.

Are we talking arson here or what? =8-o

what kind of creepy things???

Hey does that look like a skull coming up the stairs

Hey I wonder if they had people Magazine or Allure