1,591 Comments for Glenn Dale Hospital

LJ, Read the disclaimer for this website regarding the disclosure of locations names and methods of entering the property.

There are plenty of people you can talk to in the forum... please come sit and have a cup of tea with us.

I'm very interested in photography and the paranormal. My interests right now are black and white photos or old abandoned places, such as this. I only recently found out about this place and it seems like a great place to check out. You say there are lots of cops and is very dangerous. Can you please tell me how you were able to get these photos and not get caught? Is there anyone I can talk to? Please email me at sr_mldn@yahoo.com.

If anyone knows any other abandoned or "spooky" or "haunted" places please feel free to email me at the adress above.

It's amazing how high nature will climb.

i hear this place is the most unsafe and vandalized abandoned hospitals in maryland. its sad to see that hoodlums would do such a thing to a wonderful place. i've known about glenn dale for quite sometime now. never had the chance to go because most of the equipment is gone or broken. i'd love to see an abandoned hospital with stuff still intact. i know im asking for a lot because most hoodlums tag or break stuff in these amazing places. same with henryton. can't we just explore these places without hurting them?

those are the woods where me and 3 others heard a girl scream 3 times ,,,scary

from that balcony that you see on the left is where me and 3 others heard a girl scream 3 times from the woods.

ive been to glenn dale with a bunch of freinds numerous times. and i have a couple different stories wich are very weird. the first time i ever went there was around 2 am in the fall and it was very dark there was no moon out. i was with my girlfreind and 2 freinds. it was about 65 degrees outside so it was roughly warm, we are walking up to the main childrens building and as soon as we get around 50 feet of the building the air got very cold, and we could actually take a step back, feel warm air, then take a step forward and feel a silent cold coming from the building. that night we walked around the childrens hospital and the mansion and thought we heard things, but i think it was because we were paranoid. so we left.... then we came back about a week later with the same 4 people plus another four. one of which was a man who had been to glenndale in the 80s when it was first shut down. the advice he gave us before we convinced him to come was this "When you go to the basement make shure your flashlights are off" i was confused and asked why, he said"you dont want whoever is down there to know your comming" hearing this i was pretty shook, so i gathered a larger group of freinds to make it less scary. anyway we were in the childrens hospital and we found a small deck which i believe stretched out across the front door facing the woods...all of a sudden 4 of the 8 hear a girl screaming help coming from the woods. it sounded distant. i myself heard a scream 3 times, the others say they heard it 4 times, anyway, we couldnt explain it so we kept touring the place and eventually covered the entire childrens sector. as soon as we exited 3 of the people we were with said they heard somthing yell "HEY" from the roof of the hospital including my girlfreind. we then walked towards the smokestack, and we were walking past the 2 small buildings on the right and we all heard a very loud crashing noise come from the first one, it sounded like the roof was caving in. i dont know what to make of that building but we avoided it. we went to the smokestack and walked back to our cars thru the feild when we stumbled apon a manhole covered in grass which we tried to open to get to the underground tunnels, but it wouldnt budge, then the veteran of the hospital said he could see a red dot coming from the childrens hospital, he pointed it out to us and we were watching this dot for about 10 seconds until it dissappeared, that freaked us out so we decided to get the hell out of there and upon exiting we stumbled apon a graveyard,,,scarry. that night we actually drove my freinds car through the grass and up to the childrens hospital,,,how much dumber could we get... the third time we went we went to the main hospital and we got to the 2nd basement looking for the morgues, and it was completly filled with water up to my freinds calfs. he turned around because he said hed lose his shoes in the mudd. nothing weird happedned that night. then resently i went with another group of freinds. we parked across the street in the neighborhood and proceeded again to the child hospital once we left there me and another freind hear a weird laugh sounding like it came from the little courtyard of the child sector, we ignored it. we proceded to the smokestack. right when we got close to the stack all of us heard a little girl make a moaning noise,,,there was no wind,, nothing out there but us...we were definantly spooked....wait it gets better... we walk around the smoke stack and we saw a light coming fromt the other side of the building, the first thing i think is,,,COPS, we run towards the car full speed and we could see the spotlight coming out from the building and towards us,,,we run all the way till we can see our cars and low and behold, i see a cop car parked behind my car. we all gather underneath one of the huge pinetrees and watch the cop, who apparently we find out was watching us with his night vision binoculars. we hid out for about a half hour and 2 times we heard a walkie talkie on the other side of our tree. we could also see the searchlights searching everywhere across the feild except our little nitch. then a park police rolls up and catches us hiding. so after all we got to go to court and do community service and pay a 600 dollar fine...great huh, we totally could have gotten away if our cars were not parked visibly from the road...goodluck and park far.

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All - it seems the former resident entry was copied from another site. see http://forums.ghosttow...amp;page=3&pp=10 ) Here is another entry from him:

It seems that you were in A hosp where the children's ward was. Try anything in the nurses quarters its on B campus and the building with the arch walk way) particularly the wing on right side. I used to play in that wing as a child when the hosp was opened and had strange occurances. There are 2 unoccupied MD houses that had lights turn on/off. The first is seen from Glendale Rd. the second is actually a duplex and is closest in to B hosp The duplex on the left side would in the late spring/early summer in the evenings would have music playing. The 2 apt buidlings in the rear of B hosp campus are questionable. Also the baseball diamond, in the mid summer if you look towards the water tower just after sunset around 9-10p), you may see lights. When it rains in mid summer in the afternoon, there is flooding on the B campus along the utiliy rd that leads to the baseball field. After the rain there is waist deep pool of cool summer rain. If that happens, in the tree line along the road the property boarder) there is a path that becomes evident. If it is dry, the leaves of the bushes are too full to view it. The path only seems to be seen after a hvy rain

Dear Former Resident: Please share more if you could. I've only been to one "abandoned" hospital and it was an organized tour but oh, so fascinating! (it was Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville) I love medical history and those who tell the history I find equally interesting.

Former Resident ,Thank you for the history !

Not boring in the least, fofmer resident. Quite the contrary.

A former resident

if it is the building that I am thinking of, I used to live in that very place. I moved in in 1973 and lived there untilit closed in 1981. There are several residents quaters. The larger residents houses are on the "B" hosp. side and can be seen from Glendale Rd.Those were single family houses and reserved for physician's w/families.

There are 2 buildings on B side that are set back behind B hosp that were orginially designed for unmarried physicians residents. I lived in one of the two buidlings. The buildings had lovely old oak trees surrounding the quaters. I left many memories under those oaks. The patio that you spoke of was a sleeping porch and I slept on it in the summers because the buildings did not have AC. I kept my horses in the back of the property and rode everyday around the water tower (in my youth, I climbed that several times on a dare) and the baseball diamonds and back to the "Agriculture farm" all the way up to the DuVal estate.

Some people report hearing cats. There were several farrel cats who befriended the patients and lived in the B hosp where the more independent patients lived. There was even a house dog named "Chip"

"A" hosp is the larger building and housed the children and the patients who needed more high level nursing care. There is a stage on the ground floor near the cafeteria where I sang christmas songs to the patients. There were patients at that hosp who knew me before I was born. They came to the baby shower that was given for my mother in my honor. Sadly I saw many patients grow old, lonely and die before I lift the area.

Of interest is the 2 story colonial house that is the first one leading down the drive to B hosp. It is the first house seen from Glendale Rd. In the 60's, Dr. Keller hung himself in the 2 floor bedroom. After his family moved out, it was never occupied. I went in it several times and found that it was in remarkable good shape-no cracks in the walls or evidence of animals invasion as I would expect of such an old building. The furniture was left behind downstairs, but there was no furniture in the bedrooms. Several times, I saw lights go on, and sometimes hear the radio play despite the absense of an occupant. But that happened in several other buildings as well.

And there are tunnels. They connect the two hosp and the phy's quarters. There was a tunnel under my room that led to B hosp and a fall out shelter as well. I have been in the tunnels, they are narrow and in places I could not stand upright in them.

When I moved out, I lift a passage in the closet of master bedroom where I spent my youth. For those who would brave enough to venture in and explore it awaits. Years after the hosp was shut down, I returned to the buidling where I lived and the passage was still there. Perhaps you could find it.

I have been in EVERY building on the entire complex including house staff quarters (where visiting MD stayed), nursing quarters(the large building seen from Glendale Rd that has the arches) and the ground staff (the large apartment type buidling on the left side of A building) lived in the 30's. I could share more, but I have bored you enough.

A former resident of Glendale

Wow, these photos bring back memories. I must have roamed these halls 20 times as it was the 'hip' thing to do in high school. I remember there was an elevator shaft room (complete with working door - a rarity in that place) that we would hang in. You could hear all the goings on in the building. We actually headed down into the tunnels that connect the two main buldings. The also give access to the resident houses. Its a shame they never did something with this place, it would have made a nice campus. I recall one halloween when taking some friends who had never been I ended up in the hospital by myself. I was overly confident, ran across the lot to the main buliding and was 1/2 way up the latter when security spotted me. I ended up running into the hopsital to avoid being busted. (was always a major fear of mine to be in that place alone) but being arrested was a greater fear so it took some of the fear out of the hopsital itself. Thanks for the memories...Were there pics taken with persmission? If anyone is interested I had an almost fool proof way of gaining access (accept that one halloween)

At a large TB hospital in the middle of an epidemic this might have been possible, but not at a psychiatric facility.