505 Comments for Dever State School

i went there tonight and the tunnels are serious stuff... there is ish happening there thats unexplainable if you see this and you want to go e-mail me at johncf93159@yahoo.com

well, it looks like a tornado hit, I don't see how this could've happened if it was abandoned for awhile... coulda just been windy storm too, but yeah.

soylent green

I worked in that kitchen. The people I worked with were the best. The picture only shows a little of the kitchen. Too bad it had to close down.

mmmm. Interesting shot

ksnow, I have to disagree with you the scariest place on that piece of land was the Hospital up the hill which Motts didn't capture.

We found a human brain in a jar with a picture of a women in the jar!

lanlegend@comcast.net

Yes Devers,been there numerous times alone and with friends,it's definitely haunted no question.I have taken full body apperation pictures heard screams,walking around orbs you name it.

lanlegend@comcast.net

Have they ever converted one of these "SCHOOLS" into condos ?

and would they be haunted .....

Yes this was a very scary place. When I was about 10 (about 1964) the dance school I went to went to the Dever State Hospital and performed for the children. I was very very sad, they were not taken care of at all and at that time the children were consider retarded, but as I look back most of them had Down's Syndrome I can still remember their faces and hands reaching out to us. Very sad.

And the things you did to try to stop this from happening were . . . . . ?

If you did not work to stop the punitive behavior you say you observed, then you were certainly never guilty of treating anyone with love or dignity.

There have always been agencies to which employees were required to report suspected and/or observed abuse and/or neglect. This has been a law for many years, and was certainly the case in the 1980s. You never even have had to give your name if you preferred.

I too would have a bad conscience if I had seen all that you say you saw and yet never stepped forward, even anonymously, to try to help. That is where the forgiveness needs to go first - for your reluctance to try to help - even anonymously - helpless people you say you believe were being hurt.

And if you have information that you could now put forward - with evidence to support your charges - and even though many years have passed - there are people out there who would work to try to see justice done or at least prevent these same staff from working with people who can't defend themselves.

Whining for mercy anonymously as an afterthought for not having tried to intervene doesn't do much to set you right in the world. If I were you I'd be a bit more worried about my own "soul" than that of innocent people - only an uncaring, cold deity would turn away from innocent people who had been harmed by others.

Spiritual ramblings aside, walk the walk if you are going to talk the talk. Anyone can come on here and claim they saw abuse or neglect, but if you saw it, tolerated it, didn't report it, and refused to go to someone who could have done something about it - then you are in the exact same boat as the people you are complaining about.

you have no idea of the way the showers were used.... mostly for punishment....ughhhhh.... I hate that I ever worked there..... I take some comfort in the little love I could sneak to one of these poor forsakens when no one was looking... to treat them with love and dignity was a death sentance

You'd never believe some of the things that occured in those tubs.... worked there ... I wish I could forever forget......

I worked there in the 80's ... the memories I have are awful..... the horrible things that went on in there... went for walks in the evening and the things I heard .... oh.....geez... I went there today.... for the first time to try and make peace.. geez... I will follow up with pics I took.. there is definately something there... God forgive all that took part in the most unimaginable things that those poor people endured..... and may God rest the souls of the poor children buried on those grounds.....