Tin Ceilings

Do you get payed for this?! It's a journey, like life. Everything seems clear then gets dark, youre afraid to keep going but something sticks out from the darkness and curiosity over powers you fear and draws you to it.

i dont want to know any specifics, but how the hell did you pull this off? i was able to walk the grounds for a grand total of 20 minutes before i got caught...i bow to you(and i'm incredibly jealous, danvers is AMAZING)

Motts ! if the celing in this pic is made of the tin or lead used in the era of construction, you should ask the demo people the box it up and give it to you, then you could build the house you talked about in the buffalo state hosp.

how do you get to go into these buildings mr motts do you have to get permission or do you have to sneak in

Do they ever sell any items right before they tear down these great buildings?

i would llike toknow how your get inside i only was allowed
to walk the grounds and security was not fun! p.s. i love your pictures

Seriously, one of the most frightening things to me is long corridors... eerie.

Are those orbs I see at the end of the corridor?? I just found out my nephews went there unknown to me.I freaked..Because I was left out I didn't know they were so slick. BUT was even more surprized when the photos on their cellphone showed many orbs in one of the pictures ,But even more so shocked when shown one that appeared with a face of something dark peeking around a corner. it was a very clear picture and yes the eyes were red.I would not have believed this if I had not seen it myself yesterday.IT was not the face of a sweet angel I can tell ya..I can only testify of what I saw in the photo but I think places of tragedy are a magnet for dark entities.Proceed with caution! Hopefully I can convince my nephew to let me post this photo for others to see.

LOL, this reminds me of that movie "The Shining" come play with us, forever and ever and ever, if that was how it goes or something close to it, because it looks like two little girls are standing and the end of the corridor.

Looks like a giant jack-o-lantern looming out of the gloom at the end of the corridor!

Is that a mirror at the end of the corridor? And HOW many times have you been to that place

Hello Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us Danny. Forever, and ever, and ever.

Wow, how did I miss this one before? I love how it looks like there are two people sitting at the end of the corridor...two very pale people. That's some freaky shit if they put a mirror at the end of that corridor.

It's really freaky if your the only one walking by it not knowing what it is and out of the corner of your eye you see something move only it's your reflection. ( I don't know if it's a mirror or not but it looks like it could be one)

Eh, oh well. It gives it a cool effect anyway.

Man I love these hallway shots.

I was in a similar hallway in the hospital earlier in the night, but there were overturned desks and filing cabinets strewn about...on the ground are many interesting documents which have information from the time about Electroconvulsive Therapy stating that it would cause the patient and his thoughts to return to normal. There were also accident reports about injured patients. The injury reports included things such as patients injuring their hands after punching through windows. I even found one stating one patient had pushed another down the stairs. The Danvers State Asylum is extremely interesting, but extremely dangerous. I also travelled the underground tunnels where there is certainly a large amount of asbestos around all of the pipes and on the ground. There is also a unbelievably large amount of mold convering whole walls within these tunnels. Then there is the collapsed flooring on many floors. So I reccomend visitng, but also being very cautious as the many warnings on the walls will tell you.

nicely done

omg how nice

Motts, I think you could make a good money if you publish a book that includes your pics and a detailed narration about your trips.

Good pic. Perhaps the ward highway to hell.

I agree with Gustav, I'd buy your book. Also I love the ceiling there... The hall feels like it would never end, and would you want it too. Especially if you didn't know what you would find at the end.

Through the good offices of a friend of a friend. I recieved a brick from the Kirkbride Building. It's a memento I will treasure.Between my father, an aunt, myself, and my wife, we have worked at Danvers State for over a hundred total years. If I included me ex mother in law and father in law the toal jumps up to nearly 175 years of service at Danvers Stae Hospital. For many nostalgic reasons I am saddened to see the tearing down of a place where family members have served for many years. I hope the new developers show some respect for the place and preserve as much of the place as it is safe to preserve.

I've personally been to many of the places pictured in the gallerys. By the way Mr. Mott you did an outstanding job with this gallery. You treated the place right. Going on the developers will have the devils own time getiing rid of the tons of asbestgos contained in the property. It's everywhere

I think there are two people standing in the other end of the corridor, two little girls in matching dresses. Or maybe that's just me.

Thanks Duchess, I just had to do a double take after you said that... and then a tripple take. Creepy Creepy Creepy!

I bet those ceiling tiles looked great when they were brand new. It's weird, it almost seems like the floor and ceiling have switched places.

Y'know except for the paint being chipped the place doesn't look a whole lot different than when it was open..

Can,t you Imagine living in a place like
this your whole life I can,t

These wards remind me of Prison Cells

Come and play with us Danny!
Forever and ever and ever.

I really hate to say this, but the book I just finished on Danver's said that some of the really older patients actually walked around in their area naked; which I thought was very shocking. People got committed many years ago for things today we wouldn't bat aneye for; like hitting too much, arguing, or just getting in minor trouble. Some were as young as 6 and they lived their whole lives there. Since it was the only home they ever knew, alot never even wanted to leave.

wow this picture is soooo scary...it looks as if there are people coming towards to at the end of the hallway....AHHHH!<3

the realy scary people roamed this place after it closed.

Let me clue you in, scary people walked that hallway while it was open.

Amd Big ED knows for sure! Bwaaa! Happy Halloween!

however the y were controlled ed

THAS THE SCARIEST HALLWAY THAT I EVER SEEN....

this is the creepiest hallway but are group have experienced a hallway like that and one of our members got knocked down by something weird

i would blame u guys for saying that they are creepy but it is the experiance you get. if i had to do it though i would refuse because i believe in letting the past stay in the past

looks like two kids standing at the end of the hallway. yikes!!

its very dismal, like it'll go on forever and you'll never get anywhere. very enchantingly depressing.

These photographs are truly awesome. Love the pics of the windows and doors. I have photographed many historic cemeteries. Would love to get inside a place like this. Kudos to you.

I really hope avalon knows what there doing. Taring down shuch an artistic masterpeice. What a shame.

scary

Danvers during the day time, with the windows unboarded, the shades up and curtains back was not all that grim a place to be. That particular hallway at night with only the nightlights on was a spooky place to be. I never had any paranormal experiences there, but others did. Motts photo is one that lends it the haunted look. It wasn't that bad. We kept the lights on in most of the floors without patients on them due to the fact there was quite a bit of movement by staff during the night.. Mott's photos lend the place a dignity that it never really aspired to in the last 50 years. By the time I worked there the glory days of DSH were long past. They were long past when my father started working there in 1948

It looks like someone is sitting at the end of the hall

this pic. looks juist like one out of a scary movie.

Ammm man, that ceiling's sensational...

I can think of few places, that I have visited, that have such an erie feeling about them. I have been to abandoned grand hotels, that are as expansive, and dark, though at Danvers the history is palpable.

I love the perspective of this shot! When I start at the bottom of the photo and scroll upward, I feel like I'm walking down the hall (or conversely, backing away from something if I start at the top and scroll down).

There is deffinately two people at the end of the hallway. Wow kind of like siamese twins :) so creepy and awesome!