1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

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I attended Univ @ Buffalo..passed this place all the time..its wonderful at night...your shots are amazing Mott....
Martymizuno, yup!
Lol damn typos.... I'm gonna blame an excessive amount of beer last night for that one :-/
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rich, you said, "I worked in a footear warehouse."

Em . . . . . . . . . . does this mean you sold spare body parts from a warehouse?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Probably far too big and heavy to be worth moving. I worked in a footear warehouse as a student and above the adminbuilding was the former accounts / payroll department which had been abandoned for about 30 years.

Along with ancient adding machines and refrigerators were a couple of huge Victorian safes just like this one. I can't imaging rhat they would be especially 'safe' by today's standards (especially if someone has taken an oxy-acetylene torch to the locks!) and I doubt the scrap value comes close to covering the cost of dismantling and removing it from the building if there's no pressing need (ie redevelopment).
Motts, thank you so much for that link about UK asylums. I share Chocobo's gratitude. In my experience, and as I've said before, anything that becomes obsolete or surplus to requirements here tends to be torn down long before it has chance to decay and becomes interesting, due to ridiculous land values and Government policy which insists on the re-use of any piece of 'brown-field' land for hundreds of overpriced shoe-box apartments. I had no idea that any of this stuff had survived... my Mom told me childhood stories of poking around a vast abandoned institution near Warrington, but that has long gone and only the water tower remains.

I've become fascinated by the idea of exploring derelict asylums, since ours were once possibly even more ornate, more impressive, and more brutal than those in the US, particularly during the early 20th century. The stories are heartbreaking - of girls committed to these places for the 'crime' of falling pregnant, or suffering from autism, epilepsy or any number of now-managable conditions. It was very easy to end up in the 'looney bin' and never see the light of day again. Even though most of them are down South, far away from my city, I'm encouraged by their mere existence and may even be tempted to pay a visit.. My interest in UE was sparked by a 'mission' (with a friend) to the abandoned BBC TV headquarters in Leeds city centre before that too was reduced to rubble. We had an amazing time snooping around recently vacated newsrooms and TV / radio studios and I hope t enjoy many more such experiences. Thanks a million for this site, and for helping fire my interest and stimulate my imagination...
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I don't understand why they would have left that behind. Whether they took whats in it or not... the safe itself must be worth a lot of money!
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Did you ever take into consideration that not everyone has the ability to sense the paranormal? I to believe that it is there though i have never seen or heard anything... i have had the feeling of a presence though. But i do know of people who claim they have seen and heard. They tell me that from their own experience they can tell if someone else has as well. My boyfriend happens to be one of these people, but to confirm your thoughts Motts... he didn't get anything from Pennhurst.
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doesn't it, though? :)
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i am with Lynne it a snowman
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It kinda looks like some kind of large monster is about to pull itself up over a ledge (with the dark tops of the banisters as its claws).
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Puts me in the mind of a roomful of dead insects.
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That geri-chair looks strange indeed...almost more hyper-real than the rest of the shot, like it was Photoshopped in. The fact that it wasn't makes it all the more eerie.
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Why does it say "Kid" on the fireplace? Just grafitti?
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This pic is beautiful in an eerie sort of way. I would *so* buy a print of it if it were available.