5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

HOPSCOTCH!!!!! What memories!

LLI- Thanks for the names- I'll do searches on them tomorrow. ( I've been on the web just a little too long and need to get out for a walk.) I can easily believe the stories you mention. Things do happen. At Belchertown State School people "escaped" fairly often. One guy from K Building ran out naked into the snow. They used to sound some kind of loud horn when there was an "escape"; I remember, as a kid, being scared whenever that horn blew. Years later, I myself was sometimes forced to stay late so that I could join a "search". Anyway, I'll check out that info tomorrow. Thanks again.

I agree with you Isabeats, it's a cool urban legend but it is certainly not true.
However, this urban lengend did stem from some truth.
Many years ago at Long Island's other asylum called Pilgrim a patient did escape. Now mind you she didn't escape from the compound of the asylum but she got out of the building.
This happened back in the late 1960s when the hospital was badly understaffed. Apparently on one cold winter day one of the exits near a common room wasn't working right ( I think the lock was broken so the alarm wasn't sounding). A female patient pushed on the door and it opened. The place was so badly understaffed that the staff member didn't see what had happened.
The woman walked outside, in broad daylight, in the freezing cold. She didn't freeze to death outside but she was an older woman who devolped phemonia (sp?) due to the incident and died in the infirmary a few days later.
That's one of the famous Pilgrim stories. Kings Park (as seen in the photos above) didn't seem to have as nasty as a reputation in real life yet Pilgrim is a marvel.
A nother real Pilgrim incident which you can google and check out if you don't believe me is the case of Adam Berwid who was an inmate at Pilgrim in the 1970s. Berwid was so violent that a tag was placed on his clothing stating that the authories should be notified if he escaped. Through some bizarre loop hole on December 6 1979 Adam Berwid was given a weekend pass and went home to Mineola where his ex wife and children were living. Berwid killed his ex wife with a knife to please the voices. The children were unharmed.
I know it sounds like a legend but if you search google you'll find the reports.
I just thought I'd share because you seem to really be into asylums (like me) and I find some of these stories to be really creepy, especally the true ones. Pilgrim is a lot nastier than Kings Park though, maybe because it's been around longer?
Anyway other names to check out (altough some of these names are false, the real ones were never released due to privacy issues but the incidents true) involving unfortunate Pilgrim patients are:
1.Marcus Jackson

2. A 31 Year Old Nassau County woman Diagonsed with borderline personality disorder

3. Guy Delaney

4.Michael Berstein

5. Beulah Jones

6. "Mr. Cooper"

Okay just go to google and type in those names alongside maybe "Pilgrim" put it all in quotes and you're sure to get results. So far that' all I know about real life LI mental patient horror stories. :-)
Sorry about my spelling. I miss the spell check when it's gone.

D- If you're kidding, what you say is amusing, considering all the urban legends that come up on this site
and that deserve to be laughed at. But if you're serious about what you are saying, let me say it's absolutely NOT TRUE. It NEVER happened. Even a bad horror flick would't go this far! (I wish those Smileys were available here, because there are a few I'd put to good use!) D, be careful in this world- it's full of lies and liars and it's best to figure that out. If anyone told me a story like this, I'd ask for proof: witnesses, articles, photos, anything!

alot of them were just left their. They locked the doors
and left and never looked back. Some of the people who were locked in escaped. When i went their a few weeks ago i did see a few people in the woods. The people who didnt escape stayed and died then a few mounths after they closed a crew went back to remove the bodys and put them all in the feilds outside.

First: Where do you see a stairway?

Seond: Why would people be staying in a stairway?

The colors are amazing in this one

That looks like the stairway to hell. People actually stayed in there.

The comments made by Tom is not me. Please use another name Tom!!!

sorry what language is being spoken here? "yo diz my home boi" talk like that and you may find yourself in one of these hospitals as a patient and not a visitor.

could maybe do with a quick vacuming, how could people live like that?

Now that is a very depressing bedroom! If you couldn't get around, it would make anyone crazy!

Honestly, I never realized Mental Illness was so wide-spread until I got on this website. It really is scarey to think so many many people, not just today, but years and years ago had so mental handicaps.

Looks like the body of the bird was a tasty meal for...something.

So much for patient confidentiality!