1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

Very depressing and creepy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not the Golden arches Huh??????

I believe they were removed due to instability concerns.

what ever happend to the smoke stacks ???

Superman42, youre crazy if you wanna buy it... and god isnt real, just so you know

Looking at those and the new safety symbol they are mid 80's early 90's in age and do not contain PCB;S.

This building is all the way in the back of Pilgrim... if you're familiar with the Graveyard its over there. That graveyard is frekking sick how they labeled the people as numbers when they died... its over by one of the towers.. abandoned area of corse... and yet again crawling security >_<



Jackie-age 14.

So like I was at Pilgrim [[briefly]] yesterday. Didn't go in this building or anything.. but it pisses me off that they want to destroy such a beautiful work of art, and security is crawling over by the Devil's Arches. >_<

i snuck inside here with a couple of friends. it isz really really creepy inside.


felt like dere were people around yo everywhere.



cops always are doing routine check ups here so b aware of that if you ever want to sneak in.

omg. i went inside of this house in this picture. omg this brings back a lot of memories.

it felt really spooky in there.



cops came and showed up that day oh man. pilgrim is right around the corner for me

what building is that in? 23?

Pilgrim certainly does have many stories and some cruel one's also. I worked for the state for many year's on the ward's and heard a lot of stories from employee's that were there in the late 50's and 60's. King's Park Hospital was beautiful. What great scenery and also storie's. I Worked at both.

this is crazyyy
AMAZING photography skills

My uncle tended the boilers at this plant...the stacks were huge...it also had a steam whistle they would blow at noon and six pm and tthe sound traveled at least ten miles he started working there in 1931,left in 1949...during its heyday. they worked twenty four hours a day,7 days a week some intreresting facts...the boiler tubes were big enough for a man to crawl in,the top of the boiler was over 30 feet high...he recalled the use of inmate trustees that would shovel remains from the autopsy room directly into the fire box....he also worked the steam heat in the wards...he recalled inmates would sit on the steam radiators till there flesh cooked like meat,the screams form the severe wards could be heard all over the grounds

My aunt (lula) and uncle (chicki) worked there in the 70's to 90's. My aunt was a nurses aid in the womans ward. my uncle was the ambulance driver. they both lived around the bend in bayshore. I once went to visit my aunt at the ward. Not a lovely place to be. it was echoey and noisey. Alot of the patients screaming and talking among themselves or to themselves. I was checking out the place because my aunt thought I could get a job there. but quite frankly, you have to be a special soul to work there. and have a huge tolerance, in addition, you might need a little wrestling experience, cuase when the patients got frisky or violent, you and the other nurses were the only one there, to calm them down until the "bouncers" came to help. most of the patients were or seemed normal and quiet. It wasn't for me.
At about 1971 my mother and her husband who could not handle my brother had him admitted to Pilgrim State. I never thought his condition was that bad, to send him to that type of hospital, but they did. My aunt and uncle tried getting him out. It took a long while for this to happen. it's very difficult to get them out, once they're in. They took custody of Billy Boy (william) once they got him out. Eventually the army took him for the next 20 years. They didn't think he was a crazy and he functions well today. Yup, he still has emotional problems, but today's medicines do well by him.
last month I drove past there,( I live in Jersey now) and saw it seemed a little abandoned and desolate. Now after seeing the photos I realize it is abandoned. I didn't know that. Yes it was a vast campus and very beautiful where the doctor homes where. it should be renovated and saved by the state. that would be a lot of work, but it can be done. it's done all over the country, and the neighborhood is still good. many improvements have been done. it was always very hispanic but I notice a lot of portuguese and columbians now as well. good foods and good shopping. I hope everything works out for my childhood neighborhood. I enjoyed reading all your comments about the old place.