1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

Yup, those were the days! I could remember the times where I would sit there in the darkness, listening to the screaming of patients. Every once and a while, the hallway would fall quiet, but then you would hear the slam of something against a wall or door and you just knew right then that it was another innocent soul leaving the body of a man or woman and a demon entering the body. They had me kept up in that room for a week, but only because I told a man to shut up because he would not stop crying. Things were not taken lightly in that building, belive me.

What kind of camera/flash/filters or whatever do you use? A lot of these are amazing.

THis is an amazing photo. Wonderful setup (found, I assume?) and great work.

looks as though there is a outline of a ghostly girl in gown on this pic !!!!!!!!!!!!!(spooky)

This set actually reminds me more of the 60's soap opera 'Dark Shadows'

Indeed it is...they re-roofed the catholic cathedral in St. Paul last year & it had a shiny copper dome for all of 3-4 months before it started to whether. Now it's already accumulating it's green mantle of verdegris, though it has nothing on THESE roofs! ^_^

It is an old time ventilator.

dont you think that any person that had to spend their lives locked up in these asylums had earned their rites into heaven or at least a better place then to spend enternity living out their nightmares???

I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED AT THE NEXT PIC! THEY ARE CEILING MEDALLIONS!

IS THAT AN AIR VENT OR IS IT A CEILING MEDALLION FOR A CHANDELIER?

Looks like its straight out of the old b/w movie 'The Haunting'

I see... nothing in the archway. Another arch behind it, and a few spots of what looks like stray sunlight or something, but otherwise just darkness.

This would make a nice intro page, wouldn't it? It's one of my favorites.

Along with 3 or 4 hundred others . . .

I had the tiniest dose of chorpromazine (Thorazine) once when I was in the hospital. I signed my self in suffering from a nervous burnout (long story), anyway I asked the nurse if there was anything that could help me sleep. She said the only thing authorized in my chart was Thorazine. "Thorazine! ," I exclaimed, "I'm exhausted, not psychotic!" She explained that Thorazine is used in very low doses for general purposes.
Let me tell you, that tiny dose knocked me right out. The next morning I had sweats. After the morning stretch and a bit of breakfast I went back to sleep. Slept like a rock until the early afternoon.

I second that, Mnementh, the glare on the blue is dazzling!