1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

Where the hell is this place? I want to do a personal investigation of it myself. Alone, with nobody else except the demons within.

is that for sale?

Great pics! Would love to purchase one of the original straitjackets, if complete,

Currently I am creating a diorama of the floor in a psychiatric hospital and decided to look up some photos. Pictures like this help you understand just how much time has eroded the building. The photo feels very morbid and has helped me capture a feeling that is sparking my imagination. Thanks Heaps "Mr Motts" - Anon

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You can get a Posey jacket on the website if you can provide proof that your a magician or you can always go through a professional registered magic dealer.
Jackets like those are meant for people who are a danger to themselves and others and serve good purpose.
Being an escape artist I studied different designs and models of new and old jackets.
The Posey is usually the hardest to get out of.
My personal record is 45 seconds.

I remember using these back in the late 70's- mid 80's when I worked in Psych. We also watched videos showing how to put them on LOL LOL. It was very difficult placing someone in one of these. They were always severly agitated and aggressive. It generally took 2-3 people to place a patient in a camisole.

wallpaper please :D

Just mesh. No glass transom windows.
All noise shared. Good or bad. Don´t know.
Yeah, Autoguy, that IS tough paint on door-frame indeed lead?

locked; patient locked in room.....
mean of course - really need to check before pressing, hahahaha sorry

Those transom window - is there glass also? Or just Mesh?
If just mesh, patient looked in room could hear everything going on in the hall. No doorknobs, just key-holes. And those squares in the doors - they do not open??? Weird Event.
Northwood so dear.
I found it!

Hey wanderer!
- wonder if you have found this place also?
Google Earth has street view `Click to go´ - and it is quite a handsome building.

Ohhh...oh..oh - dear - where there could be bright "end of hall light" there is a terrible collapsing dark happening.
Two hinges.

Windows remind me of the ones in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest"

I feel like a lot of people aren't understanding the time period in which this hospital was open. Sure things have changed these days and sure I didn't live in those time periods but there's no point trying to justify things from 200 years ago on things that are happening in the today. Remember, that our understanding of mental health and medicine have improved by 1000 since this hospital was open.