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Dorm

Brad

Werd, Larry D, werd. The masonry is immaculate- a product of a time in our country when buildings were built to last 500 years, rather than 20.

Location: Lorton Reformatory  Gallery: Behind the Wall

Edges

Brad

This has to be one of the most depressing areas to ever have to take a @#$%.

No Flush and No Toilet paper by all accounts.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Receiving Desk

Brad

This would be the LAST thing you would see as a free man before being booked into Hell.

I can imagine the host of Tales from the Crypt sitting behind the receiving desk and saying "Heee heee hheeeee...Enjoy your stay!"

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Cell

Brad

When you all think your life sucks and you have gotten a raw deal from life....look at this picture.

Human beings just like you and me were forced to live in these conditions for years.

Be Thankful....

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Top Row

Brad

I would LOVE to set up a Ghost Cam here.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Red Cloth

Brad

This whole image is priceless.

Once an active jail cell that housed angry, violent, vicious criminals for years is now a last refuge for the most desolate and hopeless of our population.

The suffering goes on....only now it is not the criminals who are tormented but those that society has turned their backs on.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Precarious

Brad

Just think of how many men moved through this prison since the 1830s.

The concentrated aura of despair and hopelessness is sure to project paranormal activity.

I saw the TAPS show that investigated this place and they recorded some freaky S$#@

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Dropping By

40 oz.

Brad

I see the locals are having fun...judging by all of the empty beer cans.

It is very very sad to see such a historical building being so neglected and now inhabited by Crack Head and Winos.

I suppose you would have to be drugged or drunk to want to live in a empty prison cell.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Dropping By

Tuberculosis Hospital

brad

it's not haunted, I lived on North street and went into the building 3 times. we didn't hear a peep. we didn't even have a flashlight the first time, we used lighters to see.

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

Clean

Brad

My OWN bathroom isn't that clean!

Location: Ypsilanti State Hospital  Gallery: Occupational Hazards

Biosafety Level 2

Brad

I had a nurse tell me years ago that the ONLY good thing to come out of the AIDS pandemic is that the medical profession finally started treated blood as the biohazard it is (how ironic), rather than wearing it as a red badge of courage. That really made me stop and think.

Location: Massachusetts Mental Health Center  Gallery: Movie Crew

Wedge

Brad

Dude... WALLPAPER!!!!

Location: The Ladd School  Gallery: Brownfields

Riverfield

Brad

Yay! Back in America! I love the Europe pics and all, but I feel like I can relate better to the American pics. Maybe I'm closed-minding.

Location: The Ladd School  Gallery: Brownfields

Main Hall

Brad

Tragic. At least they haven't torn the building down yet, but still... ...shoddy renovations are typically why these great buildings end up being abandoned in the first place. Tragic...

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

Bed of Straw

Brad

I'm 6ft 4in and over 300 lbs and yet, all I can imagine is me screaming like a little girl!!! LOL

Location: Northwood Asylum  Gallery: Silence

Haunted House

Brad

Don't know if anyone else posted this, but Dollywood has a great looking dark ride coming next year. Can't wait, I LOVE dark rides.
http://www.dollywood.com/mmine/default.htm

Location: Rocky Point Amusement Park  Gallery: Chaser

Morgue

Brad

You know, it's not the "dead people" aspect that scares me. I would be scared in this building because of the living whackos that could be there. It's not the dead that will hurt you, it's the living ones I look out for!

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: A Farewell Visit?

Scooter

Brad

Do they come in adult size? Looks fun.

Location: Margate State School  Gallery: Antiquities

X-Ray

brad

And , by the way, barium is less expensive than lead, here in Germany, all walls are covered in barium sulphate(the stuff that a radoiologist gives you to drink when x-raying your stomach

Location: Haverford State Hospital  Gallery: SSDD

X-Ray

brad

only in therapy rooms walls are lined with lead. in x-ray diagnostic the beam is very weak. Belive me, I am a radiologist so I do not say stupid things( sorry for mistakes I made when writing, I am from Germany and I dont speak English wery well)

Location: Haverford State Hospital  Gallery: SSDD

Buried Light

brad

What will happen if u get caught there

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

X-Ray

Brad

I have 4 working x-ray machine assembled by myself and I can assure you that neither one contains radioactive material.Only SOME doors are sheilded with lead foil. X-rays are strictly man-made , no radioactive isotopes needed.

Location: Haverford State Hospital  Gallery: SSDD

X-Ray

Brad

there is no lead sheilding. the walls are painted with barium(absorbes radiation) You don't need lead sheilding for roentgendiagnostic machines

Location: Haverford State Hospital  Gallery: SSDD

X-Ray

Brad

only teletherapy units ( for gamma rays) contain Co-60 X-ray machines do not. X-rays cannot be produced in nature

Location: Haverford State Hospital  Gallery: SSDD

Ugly

Brad

Yeah this place gives off a creepy vibe at night. The tunnels just seem to go on forever. There was a chair in a tunnel with blood all over the tray and a room under the kitchen that had a spread out area of what definetly appeared to be blood. No to hijack motts work but you guys can appreciate a music video I made of our trip within the bowels of this place. http://media.putfile.com/Dever-Asylum

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional