1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

Yeah I've never felt the urge to crawl into a morgue freezer just for kicks, but I've been in them for toe tags.

I like the abestos tunnels at Danvers better, but these are pretty cool too.

i just viewed the old postcard and other pics, wow totally awsome, the before and after shots make you think. I believe this is the best Kirkbride of them all.

It's a thingamyjig.

Nature has done a pretty good job of reclaiming it - I doubt there were 30-foot trees peeping above the walls when it was in use!

Or, all the souls who stayed behind, are finally going home....

btw it isn't me, awyper :-)

This is an unusual, but perhaps refreshing sight after all the pictures of vast, communal toilet and shower rooms in other institutions

It's sad were not going to see it again.

I would have checked behind them just to be sure.

Still, it's creepy.

It is kinda freaky that the curtains remain in situ when the place has been almost completely gutted otherwise...

My guess is that they were isolation cells, judging by the narrow glazed panel in each door.

Sorry. Just curious. That'd actually be too weird for me. (shudder)

Ron, my money would be on medical tests. Autopsies. Pathology. It's just a science lab. I doubt people were gagged, strapped down and subjected to freakish painful experiments and torture, if that's what you mean...