667 Comments for Essex County Isolation Hospital

ugh..hate clowns ...they are super creepy....

Here's another food fact. It is 100% true:


I always associate my cousins' butts with pizza because every time we have a party and ate pizza, 1 of my cousins are almost always butt-naked (no pants, no diaper, and no underwear) downstairs. It happened 4 times already:


1992: I ate pizza and I was butt-naked

2005: my cousin ate pizza, went to restroom, and came down butt-
naked (he's almost 8 now)

August 18, 2010: my other cousin ate pizza, went to restroom, and came down butt-naked (she's almost 3 now)

September 15, 2011: my baby cousin (now 8 months old) was butt-naked downstairs (but he didn't eat any pizza)

HEY EVERYONE GUESS WHAT!!!!! I HAVE MORE PROOF THAT MY FOOD FACTS ARE 100% TRUE BECASUSE FOOD FACT #2 JUST HAPPENED AGAIN LAST NIGHT (September 4, 2011 at about 7-8 PM)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TWICE IN LESS THAN 3
MONTHS!!!!!!

I TOLD YOU THEY WERE 100% TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#2 of my food facts occurred on June 18, 2011 at approximately 8:30 PM. That's proof that they're 100% true.

ok..ive been going to this place a lot and i see the comments about the cancer center being abandoned but every time i go bach there, doors that were locked become opened, things move, and on top of it all, there are possibly working MRI/CAT scan machines in the building that looks newest. youll know what im talking about...the wing of the building with syringes everywhere, and on the 4th floor i used keys i found to unlock the door and i found machines that might work with "worth 3,280$" written on it. my question is who is entering the building and who would leave millions of dollars of machines in there, not to mention plenty of hypodermic needles and countless other things in the building, just sitting there never to be used

The cancer research was shut down around 2009.

The cancer research center has now been abandoned. The entire place is now abandoned. It is haunted as well and so should be proceeded with caution. It should never be knocked down.

*FULLY ABANDONED* *FULLY ABANDONED*!!!!!

Watch out for the drugs and the acid container included all the biohazard / radiation stuff.

@ flushed... Your blog touched me. I believe it was Winston Churchill who once said "those who refuse to learn from the past are destined to repeat it". I can only try to imagine the horrors you and your fellow patients must have endured while confined to this place. I hope & pray that those who visit this page will read your post and take heed of what can happen when health care workers are given absolute power over their charges. I noticed your entries were almost two years apart. What prompted the 2nd post? Just wondering.

I used to be made to sit on that left bench side wall while my watcher sat on the right. She was mean and hateful, refusing to speak to me and yelling at me if I spoke anyway. I was not allowed to walk or move around and when I fidgeted she would yell at me to be still.
This place was populated with evil staffers who ran an underground operation. They had access to all the records and patients as well as the ears of the docs. They had two or more faces depending on whom they were dealing with and what they happened to want at any particular time. They used this usurped power to act out their insecurities by abusing patients, bullying patients, torturing patients and the children from the attached shelter, physically and mentally and by abusing the trust doctors misplaced in them to cause painful and abusive unwarranted treatments and tests to be done on their victims by reporting symptoms falsely (or just making some up) to the doctors.
They also used drugs and medical equipment and procedures to torture and abuse the patients they chose to make victims. These were usually those children abandoned by their families or adults who had no one to look in on them. Always the helpless never anyone who might be able to defend themself. They wielded absolute control over communication and access. This served to create a virtual prison environment for those chosen to be abused.
The place was hell for thousands of people and many thaousands of lives were destroyed here for sport and entertainment.

I used to work in this Essex County Isolation Hospital (a.k.a. "Soho") during the summers of 1970 and 1971. I was a porter in the nursing department. My fellow porters and I would explore this hospital in our spare time. At that time it was being used as a "Geriatrics Hospital".....but in truth it was just a dumping ground for mentally handicapped, patients dying of one disease or another, and multiple sclerosis patients.

To the best of my knowledge this hospital was not used for TB cases. Those were shuffled off to the Essex Mountain Sanatorium on an hill near the Cedar Grove/Verona boarder.

As a 17 yr. old I remember noticing the ward doors on the different floors (in my spare time from portering). The doors to each ward were painted over with many coats of paint, but if you looked at them at the right angle you could see the light bouncing off the words printed underneath.....POLIO......ENCEPHALITIS.......RHEUMATIC FEVER.......SMALL POX........SYPHILIS........ I got a chill down my spine when I saw that! Each ward dealt with a different disease.

Down in the basement level were the old operating rooms. Also, lined up outside them were 4 iron lungs.

I always wondered.......and even do to this day.......what it was like up in the 'tower' -- the highest room in the center section of the admin building. I'd like to see it one day, if possible. It's been knawing at me for quite a few years.

Once, I had to help a couple of nurses transport a body to the morgue building, out back. Now THAT was a scary adventure! In recent years they've torn down that tiny little building and the power plant building.....and they've put up a townhouse complex there. I don't mind telling you that I would not want to live in a townhouse that was built over the ground that that morgue occupied.

There are, as others have noted here, a series of tunnels under the grounds which connect the main hospital building to the other buildings.

Now, part of the main hospital building is given over to a research organization called "The Garden State Cancer Center".....

http://www.gscancer.org

Personally, I think it's being used for US Govt. secret germ warfare experiments. Why else would a cancer research organization feel the need to occupy a building that was originally designed to contain highly-communicable and deadly diseases? Has anyone seen the current state of this building lately? Windows are broken out on almost every floor except where the cancer center is located.

I suspect that what they are working on up there is so deadly and 'sensitive' that they needed a place that no one would care about........but that would be built in such a way s to contain any 'run-away' experiments that went wrong and might tend to contaminate surrounding countryside.

Many a restless spirit wanders those grounds!

Here are more food facts according to me:


1) Toddlers in my household always come downstairs after going to the bathroom butt-naked after eating pizza (it only happened twice, but idk if it's gonna happen again)

2) People in my household always eat Bánh xèo (A type of crepe made out of rice flour with tumeric, shrimps with shells on, slivers of fatty pork, sliced onions, and sometimes button mushrooms, fried in one or two teaspoons of oil, usually coconut oil, which is the most popular oil used in Vietnam.) whenever there's a baby around. (It happened 4x, once when I was a toddler, but I ate it, and once each for my 7,9, and 2 year old cousins)I have a baby cousin, so it MIGHT happen again.

3) I always associate my cousin's pants falling down whenever I see Thit Bo Kho (Beef Stew) because once I was eating it and my cousin was at my house and then her pants fell down in front of my face suddenly. It was SO FUNNY. (It happened last year back when she was still in diapers)


So what do you think of my stories???? Please comment on them! !!!!They are all 100% true.

i thought they cooked fries in those things lol jk

i like the double sinks. i think they call that a "master suite" on HGTV lol

i here ya, tucuxi

i love the first 2 comments lol