1,656 Comments for Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital

OH, I didn't realize this was your house.

definately looks like a soap dispenser possibly for powder soap? I've seen one before like that, u push it up to get the soap out so the soap must be a thin liquid or powder. BTW that's an unbroken light bulb on the floor.

yes finding it in an asylum like this is pretty creepy. Was it for the pedophiles that like to look at little boys?

i have one just like that just a little shorter that I bought at an antique store to put my 18th century clothing for reenactments when I'm not using them. I used to bring the whole thing to put in my tent during overnight encampments

looks like the cat was living up above on the table or at least using the table as a litter box and died suddenly, falling into the drawer causing it to be upside down. That would explain the position of the head if the cat fell in head first. It is obvious the cat was living there for some time. It was probably a feral or maybe the pet of the resident. Most likely a feral that met a natural end and was later contorted when the tendons dried. Another explaination for the open mouth is that the cat had a sudden heart attack and died with it's mouth open a bit and then later the drying process took over. I find it highly unlikely the cat died with the mouth open that wide. Remember rigor doesn't set in right away so the muscles do have a chance to relax a bit before and the body goes limp. I bet this is when the cat fell into the drawer. Ever seen the mummies that look like they are screaming but is just the results of natural mummification?

Is this the very spot where a scene from the film 12 Monkeys was shot? The room looks pretty alike.

suits for burial of residents?

I hate to tell you this but ECT is still in use. Though it might be a little different than it was before. The patients are under sedation or anestesia during the proceedure and are given muscle relaxants. Their brains are then zapped into convulsions. I have a few friends that have had this sort of treatment. While it is used when medications fail, it actually can be effective but can cause memory loss. They don't just get the treatment once it is a series of treatments before it is complete. Might actually be the one treatment that did have some theraputic benefit but was used far too often and inhumanely at first without anestesia or muscle relaxants.

thats so sad. i saw this episode of cold case about a girl in a mental institutaion and the nurse forced them to put on lipstick to be like a "real" lady. its so sad the things they did to those poor people.

holy mother! i don't think that thing had a very pleasant life..

Wonderfuly creepy!
Fantastic locations and photos.

That is so disturbing!
That is truely creepy looking!!

Poor thing. Could it died of rat poison? That might explain all the feces and the fact that the body dried out in the moist basement.

I don't know why, but wheelchairs creep me out... Especially those old ones... they looked like torture devices... *shudders*

Yeah, I looked at this pictured and laughed right away...Something about it is very funny :)