1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

I think this place must've been pretty old to have had a fireplace as a means to heat a patient area.

Hey, is that a creepy boarded up door down there? Or is it just a creepy wooden door? Whatever it is, it sure is creepy! This whole gallery of this old hospital is creepy! How old was this place, Motts?

Holy schneikies, Motts! That's really creepy with your shadow slinking down the hallway like that!

I tried to kill myself a while ago - I think probably about ten years ago now - and went from the emergency room (where they patched me up) to one of the new "psych wards" right in the hospital. I was still pretty agitated when I was in the emergency room (even though they shot me full of something pretty happy), and they kept asking me if I still wanted to hurt myself, and I kept telling them not to give me the chance because I would. They told me that they wanted to put me upstairs in the psych ward, and that they wanted to put me in seclusion, but I was so out of it that they couldn't get me to give them permission, so they had to wait for my mother to get there (an hour drive) to sign papers and take custody of me (I was in my early twenties at the time) so that they could get her permission to put me in seclusion. It was quite an ordeal, and it wasn't easy for them to put me in there, even as messed up as I was. They put me in there a couple more times during my stay in that psych ward, and each time they asked me if I would go, and if I couldn't or wouldn't answer, they had to get ahold of my mom again so they could get permission from her to put me back in the klink again. They were very careful about how they went about it, and though I'm sure that at different times and different places procedures have differed (thus the difference =P), I think these days things are all pretty much on the up and up. My younger sister is a child psychologist, and for about the last five years or so she worked in a hospital for children with severe mental and behavioral disorders; one of her biggest complaints has always been all the red tape they have to cut through to get kids to stop smacking them around.

As I read, I hear not only the voices of wanting to find some reasoning behind the 'why', but I also hear the voices of the ones who have been there. I have been there, I have seen those walls, (not there exactly) but the colours were of the time, for colour therapy is a new ideology, and was not practiced then for paitent therapy. Even now in a facility that I have worked at, the walls are all blue, and bare. It is really quite sad to think why we use these rooms, for utimatly who does it benifit? NOT the patients.

looks like a BassOmatic

I wouldn't mind go in there and hunt for ghosts all night. Besides this place is THE MOST HAUNTED PLACE in Buffalo. The place maybe a little dark in spooky but rember DARKNESS IS YOUR FRIEND. Don't wory about the ghosts because what can they do touch you, just appearing in front of your eyes, or just make some noise.

Also for the people who live in Buffalo, NY, I'm starting a paranormal team called NFPS. The website will be coming soon and we will investigate any type of paranormal expriences that you have.

Rock On People!

This shot reminds me of "Moby- Natural Blues" video

God that`s a beautiful picture!

This pic is so creepy

Kim, actually, the hospital i've been to about 3 times ( Georgia Regional) was all kinds of blue, and the last time i was committed was less than a year ago.

Whoa. That color would really irritate me. I am so amazed with your work though. It's really amazing.

this is a really scary picture.....ooo that figure behind the wheelchair is seriously freaking me out...great shot motts!

I live in the suburbs around Buffalo and I took some photos of this building...amazing. no other words to describe it. I think they should tape a"Scariest Places on Earth" episode in there..ha, shove a family in there and see what happens. I wanna go in there so bad....but anyways (now i am done rambling) great photos, i love the way it's lit up..spooky.

All I have to say is.....I KNEW IT!

took me about a year or so but yeah lol.
Insanely beautiful : )