605 Comments for Marlboro State Hospital

I lived in one of those rooms for 17 months in1978 when it was discovery house.still wonder how everyone else made it through life

I lived in one of those rooms for 17 months back in 1978, those gouges in the door are from fingernails. There are also fingernail gouges around the concrete window an inch deep. I've seen pure insanity there I could never erase from my mind

I was a patient there. And it was atrocious. It was inhumane. Drugged people so they didn't have to deal with them

I'm confused with all the reference to the number 666, I know the obvious ref in the Bible, but this marker is either 637, 667, or 697. I can't tell the middle number is to botched for my old eyes!! But there's no 665, or 667 with an empty place to show where 666 was?? Is that what everyone is trying to say?? That 666 was intentionally not used?? Clue me in!!!

That's beautiful, Tammy B!! Change your hear (listening) to here (a place) and you've got a hit!! Very sweet!!

I see her!! Light colored top, white skirt, her belt!!!! How very sad!! Thank God things are changing!! I hope d.t. doesn't throw us back 50 years!!! God bless the poor tortured souls resting here!! RIP Sweet Peace!!!

I have a bread box from the late 40's that is made of the same stamped aluminum as this machine. It is also the same faded gold /coppery color. This thing is shorter than a bread box but wider.

I will be awaiting to see a skeleton to the person who was lock in this place

i like that turquios chair in the corner

Yes, both men and women were buried alongside each other in the patient cemetery.

This grave buried both male & female resident?

The door made from metal or wooden? I'm it is heavy

The doors were left open/unlocked and in some cases the latch/bolt removed for the simple reason that all the keys would have disappeared shortly after the buildings became vacant. Lol

If memory serves me correctly, this is either a low security day room (note the absence of security mesh and exposed pipes) or a office area. The unit you see suspended from the ceiling is for heating and cooling.

One more thing...as someone who worked there, I do not personally find any of these images as unsettling as much as the memory's of the human beings screaming, crying and moaning on a daily basis for the years i worked there and....of corse all the wretched odors/smells. Strange how these things stick with you...