Hell

it does look awful.

It was my "home away from home" for like 23 visits worth. Love the color again. You develop these yourself? Also, what did you shoot this with? Digital or film?

Btw, Met has been leveled as of recently. Saddens me greatly since it was so near to where I live. THought you should know.

went here last night. its still there aug. 1st 2005
any1 have some useful info. about met-state can u email nickpernice@hotmail.com

I love it!

Ok so I'm a sico maby It is kinda creepy!

Frankly, this photo freaks me out!!

Hey my friend and I are going to the children's ward in a few days; they haven't demolished it yet. Frankly, I think they forgot about it! Any advice to make it a smooth visit... please email me at: kerry12782@aol.com.

that looks like the basement i hear that used to be a morgue down there i used to be in unit 101 for girls in 1999

Maybe, this area of the hospital was abandoned first?

Fascinating photos. I worked at Met State for a few years. This photo of teh CTG unit doesn't look a whole lot different than the unit looked while still in use. There are so many "behind the scenes" stories to this creepy place that never got out to the public. Some may be urban legends, some I know to be true. Either way, these photos capture the horror of the place in way that can make one belive that any story about it could actually have happened.

Wow! I love the darkness and deterioration that is in a way surrounding our vision and all of our focus is directed in the distance to the open red door where it seems to be in a better state...calmer...I LOVE this photo!!!

i've been all through met state. Its too bad that most of it is comming down but it was also unsafe, with floors rooting and dead animails i've seen a lot of nasty stuff up their and im sure glad i could go home i feel bad for the ons that could'nt or never did

the morgue was on the back of the property in a small building the was cenent sealed way before met was evened shut down the only 2 ways in where the tunnel and at one time abroken window on the 2nd. floor thats all i can recall from as far back as 1985

I was at the Children's Ward of Met State today...pretty intense. I'm a photographer and am new at the abandoned exploration thing.....any suggestions or advice for exploring? DAN: I am trying to put together a documentary type prject on old hospitals in mass. Trying to tell some the stories that I think should be told....would LOVE to hear some of yours.....if you would email me that would be AMAZING....pheonix1187@verizon.net (e before the o). anyone else who has stories or legends, that would be awesome!!! Thanks!

my wife and i went to the morgue at the back of the property in october 2004 and walked right in the front door. the cadaver draws were intact, the stadium autopsy veiwing area was obvious, cards with patient blood smears were there and many medical journals were spread throughout the place. didn't see evidence of it being sealed. i do believe it was one of the first things to be torn down though, how unfortunate.

4/15/06

went there tonite but only saw the auditorium, church and where the nurses lived.....but still scary tho...

this may sound a little morbid but it looks like there are bodies hanging from the ceiling! i love it!!!

This place should have been purefied by fire many years ago, in the figurativey sense. It's spiritually empty and quite depressing. I sense nothing but nothing. Is this why there are so few comments by Lynne?

Well, geez, son, I made 41 comments on this set of pix already (if I counted correctly)! Ain't that enough? You want blood out of a turnip or what? 8`-( Oh, my aching carpal tunnel syndrome! 8`-(

Okay I totally agree with whoever named it Hell.

yo i been there its pretty crazy and scary but my friends were too scared to go into certain places the security caught us and told us where to go and gave us a flashlight lol so yeah

haha, I was in this hallway earlier today.

That's the door with the arow that says "hell", right?

wow i hope everythings still there when i go (im going to mass this summer to do some paranormal investiagtions and this is one of my stops)

It looks like a scene straight out of the Silent Hill games. This whole series of shots does, but this looks like it was ripped straight out of the game. As eerie as this shot is on its own, the fact that it reminds me of scenes from those games makes it all the more so. Excellent job.

It's freaky. It gives me the impression the walls are coming to meet you. And they aren't very welcoming. If you stare at it hard enough it looks like blood though.

I Love it, in a creepy way

I really don't think I'd like to be around here when it gets dark.

looks pretty creepy... with the caged doors you would think there was gonna be a gorilla or something that is gonna come popping out at you like
Ah...Rawwwr!!! lol... I dont know... And the red door kinda just like sets the scene to make it even spookier

Errie, errie, errie!!!!

this is silent hill...

Yes it looks very creppy. silent hill all the way......

believe it or not, the light near the red door seems welcoming to me. I like, wanna run to the light and get the hell out of the rotting area and out of the unknown, you know?

IM going to rent Silent Hill.

Met State Still stands, went their last weekend for some research, didnt find much, its pretty much gutted out but most of the buildings still stand and are in tact...

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Just... stunningly beautiful and evocative. Thanks for sharing all this. Reminds me a bit of the fourth floor of the Queen's Hotel in Portsmouth, UK. Hotel is still operating, but fourth floor (used to be live-in housekeeping quarters) has been condemned.

I live across the street within a 100 yards of it, Its almost all blown up, and theyve started to fram what look like condos. I used to ride my dirtbike down there, now the woods are all flattened by a bulldozer

ive been in med state and yeah it is hell

yeah anyone else actually been there? scary as hell. its fun though. iv been

yeah,i was a patient there when i was11 yrs old.me and a friend escaped in the snow.there was a kid who used to bang his head on the wall all the time.we slept in one big dorm.they put me in seclusion for running away.i was there because they said i was a stubborn child.some kids got shock therapy. that was around 1954.billy

Worked there in '58 in kitchen as a 15 yr old kid. My mother had worked in Admin bldg earlier, and I learned to type in the record room hanging out there as an 10 yr old kid. Later worked the wards (mostly in New Building ) in high school and college) and basically grew up, learning both from patients and other attendants. Lot of sad things, discussions with many patients, but there was a lot more enjoyment too. I learned a lot about life from both patients and hanging around grounds with attendants and occasionally with student nurses. Taught me a lot about people..from both patients and workers and I'll miss not being able to see the old grounds. I learned to drive in the back roads when I was 15 and learned a lot in later years at the Cottage Crest, a nearby restaurant anyone familiar with Met will know.

I visited my uncle there back in the 1950's when I was 12 or so. As we approached the building I saw a man walking in continual circles and wondered what in the world was that about..... My uncle was hidden away there from the rest of the family - my mother never told me where we were going, only that we were going to see my "uncle". We brought him a fruit and candy basket. We sat down with him and he made almost no eye contact; just kept eating what was in the basket, as if he thought someone else might get it if he didn't eat it all. I remember thinking I'd never seen anyone eat 3 rolls of Lifesavers in a row....I was able to get a copy of his medical records and thankfully it looks like nothing horrid was done to him. In retrospect, the man was probably autistic or learning disabled, and for that he spent a lifetime in an insane asylum. He was cast out into a nursing home when Met State closed.

can u still get in some of the buildings?? or all they all gone. can you just walk in or do you need some kind of permission???? would really like to know

Hell complete with red door!

im with jonathan, it looks like silent hill, when things stop being all foggy and creepy and become dark and horrific. i think its called 'dark silent hill' it happens and ur like, awww, sunova... b/c the bad guys are tuffer and ur low on ammo as it is

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

I was a patient there in the late 70- early 80's the children unit was a hell hole, with many lost soles. I think they should bring all of the child abuses who called thenselves staff and blow them all up with the childrens unit

Someone has to defend the place, I was in the Children's Unit in 68/69, and had a wonderful time there! (Much better than my home life!) The counselors, and teachers were most caring, compassionate, and helpful to me. Obviously this changed after I
left. I just wrote my memoirs of my time there
for my family archives, and had nothing but
good things to say! It was a profound education, and helped make me who I am today, forty years later. I am saddened by what
has happened to the staff, and facilities, but I have my pleasent memories! (And no, I wasn't psychotic, nor ever on medication, so
we can't blame that for my "happy memories"!

That's interesting Jessie... First good thing I heard about the place.

I went with my buddies this morning 4/19/08. We were able to get into the second floor window, the whole place is vandalized and there's a lot of bat shit every where. It's creepy but yet at the same time, it's vandalized to such an extent you can't focus.

It's quite interesting to notice some of the drawings on the wall, and it's surprisingly terrifying exploring the rooms.

I worked there, too, which I'm sporadically documenting:
http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=21

silent hill meets the easter bunny?

Freddie Kruger lives there!!

For some patients, like Jessie, life in the hospital was better than life at home. I've worked with patients whose old records stated that the only way their family could "manage" them was to keep them locked in a room or in a shed in the backyard. One person was even tied to a tree.

Micheal: I read all of your Metro State blogs and they are by far the coolest and funniest shit I have read in a long time.....I laughed my ass off! The way u tell the stories makes u truly understand and also appreciate the photos submitted on Opacity. Thanks a lot dude :)

it was the most creepyiest place ive ever been i went in and it felt like i was being watched nothing seemed right!

It Reminds Me Of Silent Hill, I Love It!

i was a patient in this hospital in the 50s. i kept escaping with others. when they got us they would put us in seclusion.

This photo really creeps me out

I like it! I wouldn't call it hell! I'd call it heaven with mesh and paint chips!

creepy, i wish i had gotten a chance to check the place out.

went to the gaebler building where they held they kids at , i guess its said they buried they kids on campus or something , felt lk we were all being followed, it was the most scariest shit i had ever seen in my life.

Why does the remind me of Silent Hill?

Any idea who owns it now? I'd like to buy the place and fix it up and live in it.

- jeff

live near in the cemetery you can feel the pain of the suffered patients. Every tombstone has numbers not names to label the people.

i heard they are destroying it down in september and they are gonna see if they did burry the bones in the ground and see if the place is haunted by the end of september

Me & my friends are going and we are going to explore. My mom said the morgue isn't there anymore. But i still will look. Everyone in my school goes there ..its sort of like an adventure. They still have met state through this path as you are going up the the apartments. They are planning to tear them down cus kids are ruining the place and the city doesnt want them to get hurt.

It is a shame how they left this place.

See my message @ Previous Image. I was there 45 years ago. I got some eyewitness stories for ya. For REAL!