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Mooring Line

James

Mooring line...kind of funny. That hulk isn't going anywhere, ever again.

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks

Intersection

James

Lots of people put their hard work into this space, erecting it, and even more, different people treated the sick here. I wonder how many patients were comforted by this open expanse, the air, and the sunlight. This isn't a sad hospital. This...this is a happy place.

Location: Heilstätten Asklepios  Gallery: Krieg im Paradies

Favorites

James

Someone, years and years ago, poured time, effort, and perhaps even hope for the future into those wall tiles. It makes you think. Where are they now? Would they be happy with the history of this place? What were they thinking as they placed them up? Hope for the future? Dread of the disease? Were they wealthy? Poor? Starving? Dying?

Sobering. Very sobering.

(Pun unintended! XD)

Location: Heilstätten Asklepios  Gallery: Krieg im Paradies

Cathedral

James

A monument to man's eternal forgetfulness. A sad, but revealing, photograph.

Location: Church of the Transfiguration (Buffalo)  Gallery: Golden Light

Grey

James

What the hell are you talking about? It just means grey.

Location: Usine Terres-Rouges  Gallery: Driving Rain

Patient Number 124

James

What's all this about people being reduced to a number? I'm sure there was at the time of burial, an index that the hospital would refer to when a deceased patient's family came and wanted to visit the grave or possibly pay to relocate the remains in a private cemetery. The point is they had some policy that the grave markers where to be nondescript so that trespassers whose business was none of theirs could not nose around looking for a particular grave and mess up the place.

Location: Marquette State Hospital  Gallery: Cold and Empty

Strewn About

James

If you turn up the contrast on your monitor, you can really see the detail on the edge of the stairs.

...makes me wish they would restore it even more :(.

Location: Michigan Central Station  Gallery: To the Top

Welcoming

JAMES

PEOPLE THAT LLIVED AT WILLOWBROOK AND THIS PLACE SHOULD GIVE THE CHANCE TO TO TAKE THERE ANGER OUT AND DO WHAT EVER IT IS THAT THEY WANT TO TO THE PLACE NOT FARE. I WISH I COULD GET 2 HOURS TO THROW ROCKS BURN IT DOWN AND WILLOWBROOK TO AND TAKE MY ANGER OUT ON IT. BUT SENCE I CANT I WILL DO SOMTHING TO MAKE SURE THIS DOESNT HAPPIN AGIN. IF U GO TO YOUTUBE AND TYPE IN BULGARIA ABANDON CHILDREN U WILL THIS KIND OF SHIT HAPPINS TODAY.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Peeling Chair

JAMES

I REMABER WHEN IW AS KID IF U WAS BAD OR U BITE YOURSELF THEY WOULD TIE YOUR HANDS DOWN AND FEET .

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

TV

JAMES

I USE TO LIVE IN WILLOWBROOK FROM 1969 TO 1980 I WAS BORN DEAF BUT MY MOM WAS TOLD I WAS DEAF AND DUMB SO WOULDNT LEARN ANYTHING. I THOUGHT WILLOWBROOK WAS THE ONLY PLACE BUT JUST TODAY I RAN INTO THIS WEBSITE AND I GUESS I WAS WORNG MAKES ME FEEL SAD THAT I COULD HAVE ENDED UP THERE TO BECAUSE I STARTED LATE ON THINGS . PISSES ME OFF BEOCUSE I DIDNT GET TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHEN IT CLOSED DOWN. OR WHEN IW AS MOVED OUT .

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Medical Underpass

james

most peole thing people at willowbrook where retarted not true i was sent there at the age of 3 got out at 13 i went there docter say was retarted but when i got out went to docter he said was heard of hearing. it was not fun at all i didnt go school tell i get out of willowbrook .

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Circumference

James

I spend some time in one of these, I can remember peeing in it and the nurses getting anoyed, they did use the bed pan as well.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

Ancient Equipment

james

looks like a thanatron...

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss

Main Hall

james

the cellin is there still under dropped cellin

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

Narrow Room

james

this place is gettin knocked down in a a few mths, most haunted are doin a live show there end of dis mth. one well of a place, it would take you bout 2 days to walk around the whole place

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

Basement Door

James

Very Engaging Photo!

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

Narrow Room

James

You're all bloody sad. Get MSN. If you're so interested in the place just bloody go there, and sit in this 'broom closet'
From Laura and James

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

Hell

JAMES

I AM GOING TO SEE THAT FOR MY SELF I HERE SCARY THINGS ABOUT THAT PLACE.
I WILL SEE IT FOR MYSELF....

Location: Metropolitan State Hospital  Gallery: Detritus

The High Altar

james

it certainly is a work of a devil

Location: Eden Hall Chapel  Gallery: The First and the Last

Stack

james

it is sick and twisted that people make jokes out of this. take your sexual comments somewhere else. people were tortured at this place and all you do is joke about it? try living there your whole life

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Tub

james

did you see the same drawings of that mask around the school?

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

Landscape

james

I was in there being treated, this was more than an insane asylum

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Complexity

Book Piles

james

maybe the government was doing scientific projects and it got canned

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

Graffiti Room

James

who gives a shit it's just a old broken down building , kids got nothing else to do. i dont see anyone putting any money up to fix it. it will be demolished anyway. doesn't matter who trashes it.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Group 2 and Some Building 93 Exteriors

Entrance

james

i really wonder if i knwo anyone in person on this site, im 19 from pembroke, anyone in my ballpark?

Location: Plymouth County Hospital  Gallery: Feverish