1,591 Comments for Glenn Dale Hospital

It really was a lovely old building, even in the 70s. The tons of windows were for sun and fresh air, and the patients got regular outside time on nice days.

By the way, one of the reasons it was torn down (besides the asbestos, of course) had to do with Marion Barry's plan to build some kind of a luxury resort on the site for government staff and visitors. Never happened (as was the case with a number of Mayor Barry's grand schemes). The remaining patients were transferred to DC village, which was far more blighted than Glenn Dale had ever been. The move must have been traumatic for most of the patients, and the care at DCV was never, ever as good as it was at Glenn Dale. It makes me sad to think what some of the patients I'd gotten to know must have suffered at DCV, which had a reputation for being a TRUE house of horrors.

Lexi, they did not burn the bodies. The smell would have upset the patients AND the staff, and during the TB years, it would have been too dangerous. When patients died, their bodies were either turned over to their families or buried in one or another public (pauper's) graveyard offsite.

The sad fact is, a lot of very sick children lived at Glenn Dale, certainly during the TB years, but also during the later years when it served people with the most severe physical handicaps I've ever seen. There are numerous reasons why a quadriplegic child with hydrocephaly, for example, might not reach adulthood.

And to whomever suggested that the peeling paint, which is just a result of age and the elements, indicates claw marks, you're letting your imagination run away with you. When I was visiting Glenn Dale, the nurses and aides caring for those children were some of the most caring people in the world. It takes a special kind of person to work with disabled children day in and day out, and while the place always looked old to me (in the 60's and 70's), the staff did try to make it as cheerful as possible for the kids.

Glenn Dale was never, ever a mental hospital. When tuberculosis treatment advanced, and TB patients no longer needed isolation, Glenn Dale expanded its services and began taking in people with severe physical disabilities. I remember a lot of paraplegics in wheelchairs and quadriplegics on gurneys. Some of the elderly patients had dementia, and even some of the younger ones were understandably depressed...particularly those whose families never, ever came to visit them. (That was a common situation, even for some of the kids in the children's ward.) But no, there was no shock treatment going on. Patients diagnosed as needing that level of psychiatric intervention would have been placed in a different facility altogether; Glenn Dale was simply not staffed or equipped for administering ECT.

Thank You For Everyone Sharing Their "Ghost Stories" Here.
Limited Time, I Was Only AbleTo Read Thru half Way Down But Will Come Back later.

Glenn Dale Was my Fathers Name Is How I Got Interested in This pages, He's Passed On now, & He Didn't Attend Any Asylums, Yet Still This Has My Devoted interest.
Ghost "Unbelievers" Don't & Won't Understand "Encounters" Until It happens To Them & Then They'll Lie To ThemSelves & Make up "Logical Excuses" (Oxymoron Intended For Purpose) To Explain(?).
My Life Has Been Saved many Times By The Spirits, Violated many Laws of Physics Undoubtedly & I'm Super Rational & Debunk My Own "Logical Excuses".
Spirits Are mainly Previous living Humans Dead To Humanity. Moved On To A Higher Vibrational Frequency & Living In A Non Human Dimension, Evolving To Their next Life Or What Ever Phase Of Spiritual Evolution.
Ghosts Either Haven't "Let Go" Of Earth-Boundedness By Either Choice Or Major "Trauma" here Screws With Their releasing Themselves. They relive their "Traumatic Experiences" When humans invade their "Premises" Or They Still Call Their Physical premises "Home" & Get Fissed When Humans Invade Them.
Some people Are Too Arrogantly Strong Or Such Strong Dis-Beleievers That the Ghosts Don't "Waste their Energy" (= Powers of Electromagnetic Forces They Have developed) On Arrogants Visiting Their "Areas" So Why Not Everyone has same experiences With "Ghosts" Ghosts Have Ego's Also because Ego Is not physical.
Too long A Topic ... I'm In Minnesota, & Want to Be With Ghost hunters When they go Out Looking. The Spirits That helped Me, Stay Invisable, Yet I want to be in A Group Collective Experience.
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I know this is a late posting, but I'm going to "thank" Lynne and Stephan for their enlightening understanding of what is a "Tap bell and Mouth gags" and what they were used for. They both was on to something and both stands correct as far as I'm concern. I work at a mental health facility that's associated with a medical hospital and it's mandatory that every health care workers take a TB test every year. I've been negative for the last 7 yrs (knock on wood)...matter of fact, I've been negative all my life, so I'm good and happy about that. Stephan word of advice to you, don't get so frustrated when others may doubt you. Just know you've did your research and knows what you're talking regardless what others think or may think they know. Very good research on the part of you and Lynne...thanks you

"Some rooms oddly painted black".....ah wow, that alone is enough for me not to even entertain the thought of wanting to see those rooms, especially at night. I could only imagine what they were used for. If you wanna call something "evil", this would be it. Makes me ((shudder)).....

Another area of this place you would not catch me visiting, dead or alive. This is the most creepiest photo out of all of them, to me. I'm surprise they don't have pics of the incinerators....makes my hairs on the back of my neck stand up.....ugh!

However fascinating these places may be for me, you wouldn't catch me dead up in one of them...oh snap, did I say "dead"?-->Oops! But anyways, if I was to get enough nerves to go inside a place such as this, the beds in the BASEMENT would definitely not be a spot I would want to have my presence. This would make for a good haunted attraction though.

I'm very curious to know what this is and used for. It looks foul and very sinister

Whoever that was that said "Joe boy can't spell too well" needs to speak for himself. Both him and Joe boy are horrible spellers. What school taught them? Or did they even go?

I've always been mesmerized and fascinated with places like these, especially the asylums rather insane or hospitals. I'm always researching these kind of places and I must say, they really do creep me out but that's what I love about them. Wish there was pics of what this place looked like while still in operation, before it closed. It would definitely make for a really good horror flix

I lived in Glenn Dale for 26 years and the hospital was five minutes from my house on the government farm next door (also abandoned now). I worked at the hospital in the Medical Records Dept. every summer from 1953 to 1963 while in college and teaching. I walked through this doorway every day. It looked a lot different then (: The hospital grounds were beautiful and in the winter were perfect for sledding. I wish they would restore the grounds and put the property to good use.

Reminds me of the movie a haunting in conneticut. But i think it would be cool to lay down on the slab and have a well trusted friend close it to see whats its like to be inside.

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