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Respiration

Joseph

This photograph just proves my point of dim-witted government officials approving such an ugly design for a hallway.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

Vacant

Joseph

A lonely post.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Metropolitan State Hospital  Gallery: Clarity

Sinister

Joseph

What were the horrors that once occured behind this door with the grates on the window?

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Metropolitan State Hospital  Gallery: Clarity

Deadon

Joseph

After seeing so many photographs of state mental hospitals, goverment mental hospitals, insane asylum's, psychiatric hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals on the internet I have now come to the conclusion that all governments everywhere in the last 150 to 200 years have a special department that comes with a breed of dull and dim witted men who look like Frankenstein from the 1930's Hollywood film "Frankenstein". And these boring dolts approved the faceless buildings and mindless methods that were employed in the in the housing and caring of the sick and mentally ill without so much as a glance as to what they were doing or why they were doing it. Truely pathetic!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Metropolitan State Hospital  Gallery: Clarity

Stander

Joseph

This device reminds me of the scene in the film "Silence of the Lambs" when they had to move Hannibal Lecture and met the Mother of the kidnapped daughter.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Mesa State Training School  Gallery: Recovery

Antique Robots

Joseph

I have a phobia of dentistry.

Yes; it has been officially recorded in my Military Dental Records.

Looking at this photograph and the previous photograph of this dental office makes me cringe and shudder.

I would run! Fighting and screaming all the way if I had to have my teeth cleaned in here!!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Mesa State Training School  Gallery: Recovery

Hollow

Joseph

This doll's head would be perfect for a horror film!!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Margate State School  Gallery: Antiquities

Watching the Clouds Go By

Joseph

This is the 'Chair of Dread".

The window behind the seated man or woman leads to a hollow, empty darkness.

The window in front of the seated man or woman promises a land of sun-light and gardens.

The curse of the "Chair of Dread" is that once the poor soul sits down that very same person can never leave the "Hallway of Purgatory"

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Margate State School  Gallery: Antiquities

Verdure

Joseph

My very first impressions and thoughts of this room are that it is haunted. The ghost that haunts this room can never escape it's fate.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Margate State School  Gallery: Antiquities

Tub

Joseph

What a sad and absolutely horrid bathtub.

The room is so ugly and lonely.

Signed: An american Soldier in Germany.

Location: Severalls Hospital  Gallery: The Beginning of the End

Staircase

Joseph

There is something not quite right about these stairs. These stairs are very short. It seems as though these stairs were built almost without a reason; almost as if the people who built these stairs had no real idea as to why they were even constructing them in the first place. I think that someone came up with an idea for a short - cut to get some where else but that same short - cut was never really popular with anyone who had to walk up and down these small
stairs. Well that is how I feel about these stairs.

Signed. An American Soldier in Germany.

Location: Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital)  Gallery: St Margaret's Hospital

Hatch

Joseph

For some of you who think that it would be so cool to go exploring.......... well I would be careful if I were you. Take a good look at that photograph. The door is partially submerged under-water. Who knows what creepy little creatures are there just waiting to take a bite out of your leg. Plus what is the flooring like? Are there holes somewhere?

All I am saying is please be careful!!!

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks