1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

**Hugs and Kisses** Michelle

As a person who lives with mental illness in the 21st century, I can relate to the patient looking out the hole. It depicts a metaphor for the seclusion and lonliness that is felt when society treats you different. Ignorance provokes fear. Open the door and give me a hug.

OMG, that is sooooo amazing and beautiful.

I still dont understand how they can open the door without handles and it cant be a swing door because then the patient cane get out really easily.

Omg, was someone inside them??

LOOKS LIKE THIER DRIVING THE OTHER S
OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!

I probably would have crapped myself an screamed like a horror film chick upon discovery of this.

Ok, if you mix the CIA in it, I would believe it. They did extensive testing with LSD, and more information is coming out all the time. I guess I was more looking for information that doctors on their own were testing patients, but this was a very good read too. Thanks for linking to it! This will be in my nightmares tonight with the sitz baths...

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Not proof but very interesting reading
http://www.carantics.com/chestnutlodge

I wouldn't really call some of the CIA experiments "treatment"

Merry Christmas

I'm 23, but my step father who is giong to be 50 soon turned me on to this site. I think the themes presented here (loneliness, abandonment, etc) are things that can be shared across any age range. I'm looking forward to the book, but I can't imagine seeing these pictures without the great viewer commentary (even the crappy "OMG a gohst!" commentary). And yes, that typo was on purpose.

If I were a ghost I'd repaint the walls... Ugh, pink!

Why would this site be any more or less haunted than any other site? Any building that has had people pass through it is haunted by their memory, but it takes a good photographer like Motts to show it to us...

sean:
It would be too easy to pick on your spelling and grammar, so instead I'll go after your message. Do you have proof of how these people were treated? I'm not denying that there were some abuses, but not as many as you would like us to believe, and I have yet to see proof that people in any US institution were experimented on "like mice". While new techniques in treatment were certainly tested, it wasn't out of cruelty, and many people benefitted from finding out what worked and what didn't work when treating mentally ill patients. Again, do you have any proof that people were experimented on outside of treatments? Any proof at all?

Then again, it could just be a very well done picture of an empty hallway in an abandoned building... but that isn't as romantic.

To those who are freaked out by the empty casket:
Would you rather be looking at an occupied one? I've seen way too many of both, adn I prefer an empty one over a full one any day...

Max: That's only Bram Stoker's version. None of the other vampire mythos include the restrictions that he did (running water, no reflection, native soil). He only did that because he had written himself into a corner, and needed a way to kill his super creatures off...