4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Holy Sweet Mother of Potatoes - you'll be the scariest one there! =8-o

I'm going out as a 'townspeople' for halloween this year!

You sure the ghosts just aren't people in glowing masks?

Sorry folks, I've been in many places where there are supposed to be tortured spirits, whether infants, children, ordinary schmucks or solders. Only thing I heard was wind, creaking timbers, furry animals or even machinery (in active buildings). But I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's ghostly bodies haunting the dark corners of the room.

You know, thinking about this, I might struggle to say that five times fast.

How about Hillbilly and Hillbillie?

Hmm, I'd always just used the word generically... but you know, I'm liking "hillwilhelmina"

But doesn't "hillbilly" refer only to men? Or could you be a "hillwilhelmina"?

I prefer the tag 'hillbilly' to 'townspeople', thank you.

If I am thusly equipped it's going to come as a huge shock to my husband. =8-o

Sorry, I currently work in an institution with many buildings that have been shut down because the place is so old (our centennial is coming here in a few years), and it doesn't bother me a bit to be there at any hour. Old buildings, new buildings, 3:00 a.m. or noon - a building is just a building. The building I currently have an office in has the morgue in the basement and a number of individuals have died on the building over the years. However, several times a month I work late and there is no one else on the building. I haven't done anything to cause anyone who is dead (or living) to target me in the afterlife or in the here and now.

I am, however, afraid of townspeople. They are weird as hell. All you people who don't work in institutional facilities are weird to me. I have a lot more fear of "normal" people than I do of anyone I have ever worked with in all these years, even the most violent folks. With clients I at least know what I'm getting into. With all the townies, they can go ballistic and you never have a clue. Lots more crime on the streets than where I work, that's for sure. Doesn't take much in the way of guts to work where I do. What takes guts is working on the streets.

I find it even more upsetting to find out that Lynne may have balls!
Is there a support group for this kind of condition? Can chemo cure this???
; )

Lynne, You talk real big now. Go down in the tunnels under Salmon after dark, if you have the balls. Go alone though. On the way you'll wonder if what I say is true and that little bit of doubt, will be enough to scare you. I bet you don't go!

I am so beside myself with fear that I'm having trouble typing this comment.

Oh Mr. "Fist," you big goose! You've just gone and scared us all to pieces with that story - I swear, we are shivering in our boots from fright! We certainly WON'T go down into those tunnels now that you have told us that darned scary story, will we, gang?

I worked in Salmon Bldg in the late 1960's and at the Hospital until it closed. The tunnels under this bldg. are haunted by some of the states most violent ghosts of former patients. Here we had murderers, rapists,child molesters and arsonists. Alot of them were chained in the tunnels, thats right, I said chained. burned with cigarettes and beat up by us the aides. They were expeimented on by doctors and alot of them died in failed experiments. Their ghosts have wandered the tunnels for years. What they want is...revenge. Just a warning to any of you that think its cool to go down there after dark. No one will hear you scream. Do you think that everyone that has ever gone down there has left? Think again. I worked there 30 years and I would never go in the tunnels under Salmon. Their waiting, time doesn't matter to them. All that matters is to make the living suffer. They will do to you what was done to them in life. So Beware down in those tunnels, because, I promise, you are not alone!

i remember the first time i walked in that room

the last room on the right i used to sleep on it