667 Comments for Essex County Isolation Hospital

It looks as if a face can come peering out of the darkness at any moment, creepy. I love it.

Gee, it's great to know other people hate clowns besides me. I don't personally know anyone who does. So, this site has saved me! I am not a lunatic just because I hate clowns!!!!! I'm doin' the Snoopy dance in my head!

The papers look new. Maybe there have been recent clandestine experiments there. The mad scientists have returned! Actually, amazing how totally decayed a lot of the structure is, but the flimsy paper looks great!

Relaxed? Creeps me out how everything is rotting, but the tile is so pristine. Relax in that tub for long, and you find plaster hitting you in the head.

You can almost imagine all kinds of horrible things that could come out of there.

This photo is gonna give me nightmares..i have a phobia of clowns lol.

Stairwell from Hell

I know a few people who hate clowns,
old John Wayne Gacey sure didnt help matters either.

I love clowns especially the dark myserious ones that have the blood shot eyes and the mean evil grin on there face, i also love that movie IT and im a huge fan of pennywise the clown, that clown is weird when i see that photo i picture a clown peeking behind that wall looking at me lmao

I agree with Jill B-- it's some sort of vacuum device.

The electric motor below used a (now-missing) belt to drive the vacuum pump at top. Looks like a valve above the pump, there. The right hand side held some sort of glass jar, as Jill says.

As for its medical use... I really can't imagine...

It looks like it may be an old suction container. It would normally have a gallon glass jar in it that could be removed, emptied and cleaned.

that's cool

I know it's only a picture, but jeezus, it looks as if there's nothing but horror laying deep in that darkness.

see this is what UE needs more of: abstraction. Btw awsome use of selective focus, man!

simply beautiful and serene.. so much solitude