1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

these picture is color ful i think that it nice is but it's so real

i think you see the schadow of an ghost

I see her. I also see what appears to be a profile side of a man just above to the the left that seems to look as if it's coming out of the wall.

Wow,I see it clearly...spooky indeed O_o

I don't like hospitals,they give me the creeps...okay,people are born in them too,but it's always death that comes to mind when I visit one...

What's interesting is that in recent studies involving color and emotional stimulation that have been done in prisons, pink has been flagged as one of the colors that creates a far more agressive/violent atmosphere.

Depending on the time period of the hospital and the situation of the patient, most people would spend their lives in an asylum. If the patient was considered "abandoned" the hospital would need to provide for the burial and most burials were done in somewhat secret circumstances. People with disorders - learning and otherwise - were considered subhuman and to be forgotten when their lives were over. For example; tunnels connecting hospital buildings were designed, early on, so that "civilized" people wouldn't exposed to brutish patients. In 1997, in the town next to where I go to school, they found - well unearthed actually - the long forgotten graves (which were only numbers) of the closed down psych hospital across from the towns middle school. The surveyors found the graves in the woods where they were hoping to expand the school's soccer fields. Patients were lost and locked away in life and hidden and forgotten in death.

More great work I would have loved to have been with you on the journey. I need lots more of anything you can find. Thanks alot

so many colors!

Well, I'm a psychologist, but I agree with you. :-) The one on the left looks sort of Egyptian as well, no?

the pealing paint on the left wall looks like cats sitting on shelves and one hanging upside down from the window....lol.
Its really amazing what you can see in pictures like this. (I wonder what a psychologist would think of my description.. lol)

ok, I dont see the girl in the night gown... but, I do see a very vivid face in the blue room - look a little to the left just below the top door frame on the wall, it looks like she lis looking slightly upward and coming through the wall. Anyone else see what I mean?

So . . . how many more people have to say something about purchasing a book to get you started looking at this seriously? ;-)
Let's go!

Beautiful

I too would willingly purchase a book with these pics...