Chunks that big probably were removed post-mortem. Also there doesn't seem to be much of the original formaldihyde in the jars so they can't be that old.

I used to work in a hospital that did day programs with adult s with down syndrome and I agree with the above comment that they are the most friendly and loveably people. They're not unhappy people by any means and most of them were in a group home setting and needed that "institutional setting" to function at their best. Taking them out of their group homes would have been the worst thing for them.

Autoclaves cannot be used to cremate people! Sorry but I had to comment on that because it's SO very not true. They steralize with steam like a bigger, hotter veggie steamer. Not to be too gross but what comes out of your veggie steamer would be what would happen to a person in an autoclave.

I agree! Taking things is against the urban exploration code...take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but footprints. Don't mean to sound too cliche but I think things should be left as they were abandoned for nature to take them back.

Silent Hill was filmed in Brantford, Ontario. I lived there at the time and they were going through a really bad economic recession that resulted in a lot of closed stores in the downtown core and they filmed Silent Hill there without much changes to the downtown. I remember watching the filming for a while; it was pretty good entertainment for a town that nothing much happened in.

They're for sterilization of surgical trays. They looks pretty much the same as the ones I use in the hospitals I've worked in for years. You would wrap a tray of equiptment in special paper with striped tape and put it in the autoclave and when they instruments inside have been fully cleaned the stripes on the tape turns black. It's interesting how they haven't changed much.

Looks like a larger version of a water birth tub!

Often times when a place is owned by the government the cost of getting large kitchen equiptment out is more than they would re-coup by auctioning it off so it's more cost effective to let it rot. We do military base explorations and usually there's lots of kitchen stuff left behind because they didn't want to haul it out.

I admit the temptation to take something is pretty huge when you're actually standing there all alone. We did an exploration of an abandoned Cold War base and some of the fixtures in the buildings were just SO cool. Did not take anything though, stuck to the code.

Cool lighting! Scary looking machine though...looks like you could lose some fingers in there when it was running...