605 Comments for Marlboro State Hospital

Some states and hospitals handle things differently.

State run hospitals did the best with what they were given. My great grandfather was an accountant for Kings Park, my grandmother used to tell me about how little the hospital really got. He met my great grandmother there as she was a head nurse and she would often complain about how inadaquate the supplies they had to work with were. So in the end the fact that these people got buried and that their grave was marked with a stone was probably more than they ever had in life. The fact that maybe, just maybe a nurse or fellow patient thought of them or shed a tear for them is more than their own families did...its something.

In the end, if carving a name in a stone means not being able to buy a much needed supply to serve the living...then there would be much more dead and a lot less saved or made more comfortable.

Just the way i see it.

It cant be a ghost, Motts scares them off. I could honestly see him yelling at a ghost for getting in a pic..."Hey your ruining the pic!" LOL!

But at least a good number of them were buried and more than likely had a proper funeral. If no one on the outside cared enough to pick up their body, what they had here was decent. The could have all been cremated. In my opinion, better to have a number and then people like us come around and wonder about them, than to have nothing and be forgotten completely.

R I P Bambi

Yes! Finally, that is beyond incredible. I love the shadow on the wall. Very Alfred Hitchcock!

Yikes, those old wheelchairs creep me out...those and old rocking chairs.

Looks like maple though, it might stand up if you sat on it.

Imagine staring out that grate day in and day out. That would make you insane if you werent already.

The floor tiles are god awful, but the rest isn't all that bad.

If theres someone cleaning the place, they should be fired for the crudy job they did on the Lounge.

Very neat. Maybe they banged on the doors to get the attention of nurses or guards. Or like Guitorman said, there simply is no true explaination for insanity.

Yeah, thats an old HVAC unit. It looks exactly like the one my uncle replaced in his custom shop.

*paint peels fall'n on my head*

This one is brilliant in black and white, i do so love his black and white stuff.

Wow, that kinda looks like my boyfriends handwritting!

Vacuum press to a heart rate machine what a jump.

Wow Lynne, I remember the first time i read that post and saw that pic I laughed my head off! And ever since everything is a soap dispenser. I was hoping the panic button would catch on...i'll have to work on it.

I'm waiting for nurse Ratchet to come walking down the hall with that ring of keys.

Great shot!

Oak, definitely oak. Stained red...it's red an aggressive color maybe they should have stained it a duller sage stain.