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Many years ago, as a teenager, I passed the Glenn Dale Hospital on my way to the beaches. It wasn't until this past week that for some odd reason my youngest son, now 42, mentioned the hospital and that he and some friends had been in some of the buildings on Halloween. I guess this is a great thing to do. I would just love to tour the ruins. This evening my husband and I drove by it. It must have been beautiful in its time. As often as I drove by it I never gave it a thought until just last week. It would be nice if you could tour it.

Very interesting story my friend. I have my own paranormal group to. It is called, NFPS. Two weeks ago a went to famous haunted fort called, Old Fort Niagria. Pretty cool place. I spent the night there and I caught a door slaming by itself. And I heard foot steps above me in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep. I decided to walk up there and there was no one there. So I ruled it being a haunted place. I like to play it by the book like the worlds famous ghost hunters TAPS. Well that is my little story.

Just went to Glendale Hospital tonight and it was a somewhat good experience up until the police were after us. I am the leader of a ghost hunting group in Virginia and we underwent an expedition to the hospital late in the PM. We investigated pretty much every building from the first one on top of the hill (In front of the new neighborhood) all the way to the the smokestacks. Served to be an interesting experience until, again, the cops were all over us.

First we heard dogs, police dogs in the distance. For anyone reading this, when you hear dogs that means leave. Next three to four cop cars came onto the property surrounding the building we were by, the smokestack building. We evaded them and made it to the second layer of pine trees. We stayed there for about 45 minutes. While we were trying to wait out the cops, a police helicopter came flying above the property. The police were searching the wrong side of the property because we now had run to the otherside closest to the neighborhood where we first entered. We were about to enter the neighborhood and drive away, but our cars were surrounded by cops. Eventually the cops drove away and set the trap. When we eventually made it back to our cars, the police were all over us before we could leave the neighborhood.

Based on our experience with the cops, they have K-9 units, nightvision goggles (which we saw and they can see you from 200 yards away. The police officer said they saw us when we first stepped onto the property), and motion sensors. We received our trespassing ticket/arrest whatever and will probably have to do some community service and pay a hefty fine. The police said they catch about 20-30 people a weekend so I would recommend not going there unless you want to get caught. They said the facilities are closed due to abestos.

They caught 7 people about an hour before they caught us.

The buildings had a lot of warm and cold spots. I took some interesting still picture and we have everything on camcorder. We still have to check the EVP, and we're hoping to get something on that. The smokestacks are still filled with human ash. Overall, a good experience minus the police. We all do not look forward to going to court in Maryland when we live in Virginia, and paying from what I've been reading about a $600 dollar fine.

I lived about a 1/2 mile from the hospital (on Bell Station Rd.) until I was 10 yrs. old. This was from 1967 - 77. I remember a fully functioning hospital. I vividly remember at Christmas the hospital would put up a big star on the hill facing 450. It was exciting to see it lite up at night. Boring but true!

How did you get pictures of this place during the day

could anybody give me some info on the security at GDH. i went there 4 years ago but i would really like to go back and see it again.

"tap bell" might refer to the bottle the stomach contents are collected into. this is just a guess, but "bell" sometimes refer to a certain shape of beaker or bottle. tap might indicate an opening in the top for collection of fluid from a tube or syringe. again, just a guess

stephen is right, i think. sorry, lynne :)

mouth gags were an inherent part of a procedure to obtain a sputum sample from a patients stomach (to test for TB germs). i'm having trouble posting a link but there is a page about it on a canadian website if you google "gastric washing"...should be the first result

man somebodys ben using that lamp

it gives me the creeps it is like a horror movie

creepy this looks creepy even the sockets

ʹm freeze, how many tears, I can image it

Hey when I went there I sat on one of those in the childrens morge and took a picture too.

>>Giudice
>>Kasi

Mother fuckers! You fucking pathetic assholes are the ones fucking that place up, and way to think your being reconized, along with every other 700,000 "meaningfull" tags and shitty art, the only souvineres we took where pictures and could hardly even reconize the sheer beauty of the buildings with all the paint on the walls. Well, at least you where "cool".

Giudice!!!
Omg. i was there with you. Haha. and yeah if neone else goes there, look beside the giant pot leaf and it says "Kasi and Ash." Omg. it was pimp. were going back.