1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

This is the most incredibly beautiful photo I've yet to see and is now my wallpaper. I doubt I will find another photo more beautiful than this one. The contrast of bare winter grays and golden sunshine is perfect. I'm so glad it's what greets me every time I turn my computer on. Thanks, Motts!

Good Grief Charlie Brown! Everybody needs to chill out! Everyone knows there was a certain amount of experamenting going on in these places, I dont think it was a bad as you all make it out to be tho

For me, its interesting to see the way these old hospitals were. I have always loved the mystery of them and what really went on in them. I watched a movie called the Snake Pit it is an old black and white movie but I think it told a very true story. Most people in them were ill but some were just homeless. When a baby was born back in those days with any kind of abnormality the Dr's told the familes to put them in an in a hospital because they were ashamed of the "not normal" child

Welcoem New Lynne although I think to avoid confusion you should change your name to Lynne2 maybe? :-)

this is my first post here,and im sure you've heard it before ,but this is a truly beautiful picture.I'm also quite sure that a painter,however gifted,could not illustrate the view of seclusion as you have,motts...and this,in my eyes and opinion,makes you an artist in the truest sense of the word.thankyou.

While historically feasible that these were purchased by the institution for our assumed use of disposing of unclaimed corpses, I can not help but get a nagging feeling of doubt. Creepy building, darkness, COFFINS! The equation just seems too good, in a morbid way, to be true. Any possibility these were brought in after the facility closed as props? I know quite a few hospitals that doubled as haunted house attractions in their abandoned years. Likewise, I know quite a few people who stumbled across too good to be true finds in places such as this only to find out that they were props brought in to film some obscure horror film that only about 10 people, 9 of which where probably family of the director, ever bothered to watch. The strangest incident of this would have to be a hospital somewhere where all this strange medical equipment was discovered by an urbex group. They were thrilled about the "time capsule" nature of the place until it was uncovered that it was all brought in as props to film some strange soft-core lesbian porn/ horror movie. It seems that nothing was too strange for the horror movie industry of the 70's and 80's.

I have spent over an hour looking at the various photos of the different places, and this particular shot really got to me. Don't know why.....

No, the guards here are an armed division of the police department with the power of arrest, not a private security company.

I just dont know what to say.

I need to put my sister in here when she argues with her b/f.

at least its not all written like the byberry hospital

was it guarded just like the byberry hospital

I don't know, unless the rats are particularly vocal, there shouldn't be too much to disturb the peace.

I think it's dust.

The colour Pink gives away the fact that this was where the troubled ones stayed.

The colour Pink is known for its calming effect and is used in most holding cells in American jails.