576 Comments for Haverford State Hospital

I've been staring at this photo and i think i saw the guage jump.DG...

Surely this light would be worth a couple of grand ,why do they leave things like this that vandals could break in a second.? I know urban explorers wouldn't but it wouldn't last two seconds in my town,bloody vandals DG...

In response to RC I agree their releasing heaps of mentally unstable people in Queensland so the government doesn't have to deal with them.I work in mental health and hate what i see as far as the way some poor misfortunates are treated.DG...

Looking at these photos is riviting .It's better than goin to the movies DG....

Boy Motts,you really do have a good eye for detail and you get straight to the cruxt of the subject.I'm not gay but i think i'm developing a non sexual crush on you lol DG...

No grafitti so far,I can tell this is not the Gold Coast QLD.The bastards spray stuff and destroy places just about as soon as the become abandon.I have a good ectoplasm picture a girl gave me from a Gold Coast bowling alley.Three ghosts dancing together it,s super creepy.DG...

Great effect,nice shooting.Looks like a ghostly box jellyfish.

Hey Motts,your always in the right place at the right time for these great photos.Urban exploration is not that well known in Australia were i'm from but i thought i liked ghosts,turns out i'm now ,thanx to you more interested in photographing abandon buildings so thanx. DG...

I've always thought those things look like a snake opening its jaws.

if your trying to do a biopsy on tissue of a deceased person you wouldnt want to contaminate it with another persons fluids

Wow i can't believe its gone. I have such fond and hellish memories of living at building # 9 and building # 4 for two 4 month terms. It saved my life but it was also hell at times. I remember sleeping 20 hours a day. I was on Melaril and sometimes thorazine. I was there when jody keane was there. Dotty cushing and karen van burean and there was one guy i forget who had the spaciest eyes and wild hair that was like lighting had hit him. I also miss carol bremiller and another older female with the last name baer from east lansdowne pa

Oh there was also maggie who was the cutest little woman without teeth who smiled so sweetly. Rod Stewart had just written the song maggie mae and we would sing it to her. Many times i volunteered at the bowling avenues. The cafeteria was a great hangout. I loved getting the paper dollars good for only buying at the cafeteria. I remember when a neighbor named grabor graber from springfield delaware county threw a chair out the window of building number 4. I remember when my neighbor Steve gentile was thrown in there for being gay. What a shame being gay was back then. I was there for suicide after being caught for wearing womens clothes. I later had a gender change which confirmed my early childhood needs to resolve my GID. Dr Armstrong was a tough Dr and she ran building number 9. I loved a few of the staff who played cards with us during the lonely holidays. I remember we always thought we were the normal ones and the rest of the people outside were the crazy ones. I still think we were right. I was institutionalized and loved living there and i never wanted to leave but at the same time i was an embarresment to my family who wanted me out. I remember walking to my grandmothers home which was only a mile away then i would walk back after getting some food and be back and never caught. I wonder what happened to the black man from chester Pa who wanted to screw me as a child and who was there because he was being released from prison for murder and they wanted to get him to be normal and not want to have sex with males. I never did have sex with him and well i am not interested in men. Oh i remember the big giant black man who worked in building number 4 who would throw people into seclusion. Also the tall lean black man who taught me how to play chess at 12 years old. I never did go to high school but many years later i got a GED and then later went to college and got 2 associate degrees in science.

Yes oh how i miss haverford state mental hospital. Please email me if anyone from haverford state mental hospitals building number # 9 reads this. I was there in 1969 - 1970 - 1971 . Email me at danielleeee@hotmail.com i would love to talk to some of you again :)

I hope that if a patient were beaten to death or died in restraints, any staff who knew about these incidents would report them to the state protective service agency, the hospital licensing agency, the police, the Justice Department (as a violation of civil rights), the local newspapers and television stations, the prosecuting attorney, governor's office, etc.

These boards are sometimes confusing for staff--you come in to work, pretty sure it's Thursday (although you hope that it might turn out to be Friday) and the board says "Wednesday." Now, you ask yourself, *is* it Wednesday...or did someone just forget to update the board?

Someone ran off with the Christmas turkeys! Now what will we serve?

great effect, looks funky :)