1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

beautiful, i somehow get a sense of peace from this picture. Very nice shot.

they way you photographed this hallway reminds me of a sinking ship - great shot!

I agree on the minature thing, I was thinking the very same thing. The front smaller buildings look totally out of place like they don't belong.
Motts, you said the walkway between the large building and the smaller building is full of junk?
Do workers and or patients have to go from building to building via that walkway? Those buildings sure dont look like theyre in use!
Also, what is that at the bottom of the pic - looks like shurbs maybe?

seems pretty silly to me to paint over stainless steel... its easier to clean up than a painted surface....I wonder why they did that.....

hey mott just wanted to kno about sumthing if some stories were true or exaggerated ive had an obsession with the place ever since my friends went in there with a video recorder there intentions were to go drinking, smoking,and shrooming to tripp out after a while my 2 friends lisa and ashley went with the video cam(sry forgot to mention this was back in 2000)they walked into a room with a stair case against the wall they heard a little girls voice lisa turned around with the camera(now what they both saw was extremely clear and to i dont know how you would put it but it wouldnt make you think twice.The girl was telling them that they should leave because they did not belong there,they started walking away from the girl started screaming at this point telling them to leave the building when they turned around ashley started screaming back at the girl they started walking away further from the girl the girl screamed one more time loud enough to echo through whloe complex lisa turns saying alright well leave as the video camera looks upon the stairs she is no longer there(note:there was a flash light on the camera bright enough to capture anything the girl age ranged between 7-11yrs old

Are these houses for sale? Purchasing this one would make a nice addition to my collection. Very interested.

these was...by far...my favorite series of photos. i'm originally from massachusetts (attempted many times to get into danvers...unsuccessfully) and have always had a great interest in abandoned homes. allowing my mind to wonder about years past...were the families inside happy? where did they go? where are they now? i often think about christmases and birthdays celebrated during better times...

this particular series makes me teary eyed.

i now live in tulsa, oklahoma and have started scoping out different areas and old neighborhoods. old shacks/homes left during the dustbowl...burned foundations of homes and businesses left behind after the huge race riot earlier in the 1900's.

old homes left behind in the once thriving brady district (once the richest area in tulsa...it is now inhabited by the truly destitute)...stairways and cement paths leading to nothing...

man. i ramble.

anyway. amazing site. absolutely.

Looks really steampunk, like something out of a Jules Verne novel...

I'd love to see interior shots. Love your work Motts!!

Hey Motts, Did you get inside any of these Houses? Love to see the interiors!!

WE WERE THERE LAST NIGHT TOO! and almost got arrested but thats not important

I can get a can of Pepsi at work for 25 cents, but a bottle of Aquafina is a buck. Go figure.

I wonder if that machine still works?

my grandmother worked here many, many years ago. i remember going there as a little girl with her when she picked up her paycheck--i'm 51 yrs. old now, i was about 4 back then. sure was a spooky place !

Not much, about 9 feet.

"Served in Cans," oh the modern amenities!
Thirty-five cents for a can of Pepsi, I would estimate the year about 1978. I was just a kid, but I remember the price going up fro thirty to thirty-five cents about then. Of course, it could be much earlier. Stand-alone vending machines with no "competition" sometimes allow companies to jack the price up.
Chris, some supermarkets/dept. stores here in the U.S. vend their housebrands super-cheap on the premises.