1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

All the peeling paint looks like your skin peeling after getting sunburn.

Nevermore, I see a person too. Windows straight across, 2 set of windows up, window on the right.

Its sad what gets burned by arsons. Another case of arson was "The Dips" rollercoaster at West View Park

Maybe those windows still had glass, that is until the fire. Look at the charring on the wall around the window.

Of coarse Dixmont had alot of windows, it was the first "hospital" where they actually cared about the patients well fare and didn't lock them in a dark hole. They even let the patients go outside for fresh air, and to grow things in the garden, and just enjoy the nice weather.

Have there been any spooky ghost sightings at Dixonstate Hospital?

Spooky looking place are there any ghost reports?

Thanks for sharing the photos. I was up there a few years ago, a couple of times. Your pictures brought back such great memories for me. Thank you.

after working at a nature reserve in north park for 8 years i'm going to say it's something like a barn swallow or cliff swallow..they make nests like that and their droppings are directly below the nest.

As someone who suffers from bipolar disorder( though only recently diagnosed) I can truly empathize with the pain and feelings of the long forgotten patient or patients who left these scratches.
I am truly thankful to be living in an age where those with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities are not hospitialized long term( except in extreme cases) but, through therapy and drugs, are able to live in the community and achieve.


Truly haunting m

of course I hope everyone knows that i meant that the patient that was therevsince 1903 was in a regular room in the 60's and wayyyy before. He was in the underground cells when they were being used long long before the 1960's.
Also the trainees were told never to try to go through the underground tunnels, because they would get lost. The tour was in a mapped out part.

My sister was being trained there in the 60's.She was taken on a tour with other new trainees through the underground tunnels. The patients were (roomed) there at one time. iIthink she had said the violent ones.I'm not sure. Any how there was still a patient in the hospital that was there when the underground cells were used. A lot of patients would be all in one cell, some even chained. they were hosed down with fire hoses either weekly or monthly. It was before the bathrooms were put in down in there. She was told all of this. The man that was in one of the underground cells at one time and was still there in the 60's was committed in 1903. They were all told that too.
I went pass the place a lot in the Summer of 1993,the sign was hanging on it's broken chain on one side old and rusty looking. The first time I put in my mind that I wanted to see the place, but I never got around to. I knew that the place held a lot of history and I too was totally disgusted when I heard of it being sold and that it was to be demolished. When it was demolised I was saddened. It was such a grand old place and should've been preserved for it's historical value.
Well, walmart has gotten their just desserts lol. No one will ever be able to use the land. The people who lived, worked and died there still have the property.

Sounds like my room on a Saturday night! lol
...was that too subtle?

I think that most Kirkbrides tended to be fairly bright; the darkness in most of them would have more to do with the fact that most of them are sealed.

iv benn real interested in abonadon and hunted hospitals for years i want to go to one of thes places id like to know what happend hear