1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

Hey, Amanda - my thoughts exactly! I've spent the morning at that website and a few others about Waverly Hills. Most interesting, huh? I lived about an hour and a half from Louisville in 1999 and 2000, and I never knew that was there or I would have visited. I was working in yet another facility in Indiana at the time that has since shut down and is now a Homeland Security training site.

[insert wry, bemused grin hereabouts]

More than "not supposed to." As well as leading to one's immediate termination from employment it can also be prosecuted as a criminal offense. If someone goes to a seclusion room or a time out room these days there is a concomitant host of paperwork, documentation, and observation that must occur. All you need is to find one instance of the abuse of seclusion or time out and the feds can eat your lunch - permanently. Honestly, and as odd as it sounds for an ex-hippie such as myself to be saying this, in most cases your rights are better protected in a state-run facility than in a private care facility.

Someone shoot me - I actually said that and it's true. What a world, what a world! =8-o

If it was cleaned up it would look like the body tunnel at Waverly Hills TB Sanitarium.

Paul very good point it dose remind you of House on Haunted Hill, thats cool

Looks a little bit too much like a catacomb... but a lovely shot in any case.

Again, this looks like some sort of a government building, and not a mental hospital. I am surprised to see that the paint has not peeled off, beautiful none the less.

Neon black tanks grope the skyline. Devistater violates with dirty fingers. Beautiful work, it reminds me of some secret headquarters in the underbelly of the Soviet Union.

It all almost melts together in the paint peeling abyss of urban decay, yet the colors are so stunning and vivid. Nice work once again.

Yet another excellent photo. Though they are really not supposed to lock people in seclusion just for the heck of it... it never hurts to be skeptical of the government run facilities.

Brooding, shows the facade in a dubious approach. The uncontrolled force of nature is shown excellently by the plants which offer an abstractly beautiful look.

Perfect!! The underlying theme of insanity is shown in this shot so effectively, bringing human presence once again to the place which once contained it. Anyone reminded of the ghostly patients seen in House on Haunted Hill 1999 version insofar as the fast shaking of the head..?

Such impersonality of the toilets - no door to enclose one inside, { well I guess that may be a risk with mental patients ?} the curtains that presumeably have been there since 1984 {!} offer the only sense of comfort and brightness/

Excellent subtle emphasis on direction - either left, right or to the dubious looking terminal beyond the ''EXIT'' sign. Moreover, even though one has the chance to escape the eerily atmospheric place there is a certain hesitency. One example of many of Motts' ability to create evocative images.

okey dokey then....:-)

Thanks, Ron and Lynne, those are they!