2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

A tapeworm without the hooking and sucking mouthparts but a tapeworm nonetheless.Wow it would be really frightening to encounter a tapeworm of that size!

I agree entirely. My first response when seeing this picture was wondering whether I was looking at it correctly because cupolas are usually up pretty high on taller buildings. I think it's a wonderful touch, as plain vents and pipes wouldn't have been anywhere near as attractive. Whoever the specific architect for this place was, s/he really paid attention to some wonderful details.

your right sam,
i looked at it closer and its paper of some kind, but still and all look like a tape worm to me.

the only problem I have w/ halway shots is that my computer monitor is a plasma, and i have to change position to see everything in the picture clearly, otherwise, i see alot of shadows.

Fire hose? i thought it was TP!

I've heard that one, Orchid Lunar--an old folk tale about a woman who was buried in her wedding dress, and at some point grave robbers dug her up and stole the dress to sell for good money. The dress gets sold to a new bride (not by the crooks themselves, but by a third party who bought it from them), who keels over on her wedding day. She is found to have been died of formaldehyde poisoning; embalming fluid remaining on the dress seeped into her system through her skin. They discover this after her grieving husband has already given away or sold the dress, unable to bear having such a reminder around, of course, so it goes on to kill more brides.

I think it's an unlikely tale at best, but it is entertaining. :)

no , they are creepy because they are left to rot and decay in an abandonded building.

I think it's the cupola that does it. You don't normally expect to see that sort of decorations on buildings this... short. Usually they're at least two floors up, or on a space that's the equivalent of that, at least.

Or maybe that's just me! :)

Am I missing something? This looks like the remains of a standard sort of hospital bed with rails to me. So... They're creepy because people slept in them?

*cheers Lynne*

Lynne, I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to explain stuff like this to us. I've learned so much about institutions from reading your comments--they're always interesting to read and sometimes (as here) make me think about the whole situation in a different light.

Basements really scares me, and this doesn't help

I have to agree with silkster40z. It feels like the rest of the building is underneath, in the ground. Or that it is the top floor of a building that has been removed and put somewhere else.

I've noticed that you can find bowling alleys, or at least one or two lanes, in the strangest places...

No, this was taken inside a "normal" patient room. All the kids in this building might have had major violent tendencies, the seclusion rooms were for the worst of the worst.

It could be for ventilation.