3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

this is beautiful

Write it, what the hell are you waiting for.

Damm't Lynne, will you just write the godamn book and get it published. I mean, your just nickle and diming right now, get on with it, love.

How sad and meaningless, you know, why bother.

motts , dont take my kodachrome away!

they spend 15 years keeping people out and then let people walk a construction site ?

jackie, i cant believe they would do that ,you are lucky if god forbide something was to happen in those unstable tunnels they could maybe lialble.

I whent up there last week ( I'm doing my history progect on D.S.H) we talked with one the the construction workers who was taking us around the site..It looks so different from the last time i was up there. its like backwords. I think the most disturbing news this man told us was they were diging up bodies everywhere.
I guess they have permission from the state or somthing that give them the right to do so if the bodies are in the way. I think this is terrible.

The man was very very nice though, he let us right up..

so if anyone wants to go up and check it out, you probabaly can.
me and my mom said that we had family in the cemetery ( we dont but..we had family up there) so thats how we got in
the man also told us there was a tunnle open and he could take us inside in stuff

they kept some buildings like the shacks idk what they were exactly but the door said they belongs to " A".

i still cant belive whats goin on up there though..its rediculious..

i just picked up the book danvers state a memoir of a nurse in the asylum. it has some interesting info although it is not the best writting i think it could have more content. still somewhat interesting.

The irony is, when this hospital was in use I don't think that tree was there, it looks pretty young to me. So when the person woke up all they saw was an empty field, sad.

Where's Hank?

it looks like some one has slept in there

wow it is nice but then you think about the people in side and what they went though in the mental place

I can't truly speak to to the hauntedness of theold Danvers State. Growing up I heard all the stories. I know my dad checked out footsteps in the attic, on more than one occasion in the B and A buildings. (security normally didn't go there). I never had anything I could chalk up as paranormal happen to me in 16 years of the night shift. However I always had the feeling of not being alone in many spots within the Kirkbride building, when I was physically by myself.. The Bonner building was also haunted by most accounts,. especially in the basement, where the morgue was. Even when the place was active it was a dark and very spooky place to be.

The prefrontal leucotomy was developed by Egas Moniz of Portugal, for which he later won the Nobel Prize. Psychiatrist Walter Freeman and neurosurgeon James Watts changed the operation to the more familiar trans-orbital lobotomy and were at George Washington University Hospital, although Dr. Freeman traveled across the country to "spread the good word" about lobotomies.
http://www.geocities.c...styone/freeman01.htm