1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

My parents accidentally ended up here after turning onto the wrong exit on their first date and my mom totally freaked out because it was getting dark. That was like 16 years ago I think.

You people are very strange....

My great grandmother suffered a breakdown at the hands of her abusive husband, and was given a labotomy . She was housed at Pilgrim State Hosp. for 62 years. she died in 1990 @ the age of 82. i would love to visit.

these are FD (forced draft fans) they force the primary air threw the boiler along with the products of combustion threw the stack breaching and up and out the stack

in the power house where i work we record
Red- tempature
Purple- flow Gas
Green- flow steam
Blue- flow oil
and they have to be changed every 24 hours

the morgue is located in the basement of building 23. bldg 23 was the med-surg bldg, the clinics, OR and recovery room. we students learned alot of basic nursing in these bldg's. i remember having to go down there to bring a body to the morgue or to go to the oxygen supply room to bring up the large oxygen tanks that were used for the pt's up on the 4th floor ICU. you were never allowed to roam the halls alone as a patient may be wandering about. there were several girls in my class that got beat up by pt's and then left, but i stayed as i loved the whole place and was intregued. i lived on campus as i came from upstate and learned and saw alot. it is such a special place.
and by the way the cemetary is that empty field just off the south service road of the LIE, you won't find any head stones but only stone plagues with numbers on them. you would have to go to administration bldg and match the number with a name in a log or registry book. this was the only way to identify the person in the cemetary. of course we students use to go out there to party at nite. but we never desicrated or stepped on the stones.

i went to PSH from 1971 to 1974 for nursing school and it was the best 3 years of my life. you had to live there to feel the specialness of the place. i cry every time i go through the hospital grounds because it is horrible to see what time and progress has done to such a special place. i could ramble on but i don't want to bore anyone. but if anyone wants info about it you can email me at lindad51@ optonline.net. great memories!!!!!!!!!!!

that building is actually in use still. i was kicked out because these guys were working there. they were doing some type of work in there.
very odd. and i've been yelled at a few times from being near there.
lucky you got in.

you should all check out: http://lioddities.com and look at the forums/message boards for pilgrim. wonderful pictures, stories and facts. i interviewed there, and there are no more inhumane things going on there. and the things didn't happen to everyone, and not everyone who works there now, are the bad people. i just found out my great grandmother died at pilgrim. i was never told that. i found her death certificate... i was just told she died from lots of strokes. this shall be interesting. i want to get her records. can someone tell me how? my lioddities username is stellarx33, and my email is stellarx33@aim.com this is a good site. i like it.

worked at psh 36 years, retired nov 06, anybody know me

it's easy to get in, but no so easy to get out

Probably the top shelves were used for body parts

I think about that often too Dave> Motts says he uses appropriate masks for aesbestos etc. but I think about all the other ppl. who talk about breaking into these places like it was nothing. There are so many dangers, not to mention it is often private property. I'm not preaching; do what you will - it's just something to think about.

Ihope that they removed the PCB filled transformer fore that machine

I just checked the place out. Apparently the state cops actively patrol the entire premises, which I found out the hard way. Still, I walked away with some coal and almost got a fire brick.