Autopsy Room

why would you stack stiffs that high? the thought of moving a body just to have it flop on the ground is appaling ... yet i suppose it could be hilarious

In a hospital designed to house a total of 15,000, they may have needed to save space in the morgue and the 4X4 would help save space.

How would you get the bodies in the top ones?

No bodies went in the top row it only held the refridgeration stuff and blew downwards over the bodies below, so I've read but I saw sliding tables up there so I honestly dont know maybe they had some ladder system I can't say for sure.

Thanks, Tom :)

DANS ESCAPE HATCH FROM THE COLD CRUEL WORLD

Don't go yet, Dan, you're the man. Stay awhile, the world ain't that cruel, and with global warming it should not be as cold.

Like i said b4 im going really soon...i wonder how the security is..and how far it is from the LIRR....

The top rows would hold the "lightweights". Any average guy with a step-ladder could load frail bodies or children up there. All the big-uns would go low.

How did you get in there, when i went, it was locked and i was considering climbing the window or going through the pipe janitor room...

i live like right around the corner from pilgrim state not exactly, but ts like 5 minutes from my house maybe shorter l0l...2 mins? well yeah i've actually considered iin going up there witmy friends....i find things like dis curious i just dont want to go n get arrested for going .....is it that serious

hmm...

I worked at CK Post Addiction Treatment Center which is housed in one of the "smaller" buildings on the campus. The patients would go for healthwalks and sometimes they would be taken to the mourge or other buildings by alumni guides who knew the grounds very well. Security is lax but it is a possibility to get aressted for tresspassing.There is also a tunnel system built for easy navigation during the winter months. This was another route to the morgue for the patients on the walk. There was also an LIRR station just for Pilgiim. It is still there decaying. Working there especially at nights in seculed areas you could hear strange noises and feel a "presence". It was rather spooky. However , I became used to it and would "talk " to the "presence" which often quieted the noises.

why would rehab patients visit the morgue as recreational walk? were they supervised or free to travel around the grounds?

The town where I grew up in, Brentwood, was on the perimeter of the grounds. This was during the late 50's/early 60's. When I entered SUNY @ Farmingdale which taught mortuary science, I found out the patients who wilted away and died with no family to claim them were used by the mortuary department for "how-to embalm" training. My physics class was above the mortuary labs and only once did I venture down to see an embalming class in action. My fear of death and insanity had gone full circle from my days as an innocent child . . . I live with Pilgim to the west of me and CI to the east. The images haunt me to this day and I am now 54 years of age. I will never forget the horror I grew up with . . .

It is not that unusual for people with no family members to end up having their bodies used after death for teaching purposes, such as you have described. There is no shame in this and no disrespect to the deceased person. I for one am grateful that there are people who do this so that science (including the practice of embalming) can progress and people can have the ability to learn how to work on real bodies, not just models. Actually, there are a lot of people WITH families who donate their bodies after death for similar teaching purposes, including being used at the "Body Farm" in Tennessee. People who are afraid of mental illness and/or death generally seem to have a hard time with this concept, for some reason. Again, there is no shame, dishonor, disrespect, or horror involved unless you make the association personally.

the rooms where humans hold dead humans ... it doesn't look bad at all, it is the end point where a patient finally rests in peace

Hey Lynne, I saw a show on the Discovery channel about a house being renovated and under the basement floor they found (24?) infant skeletal (sp?) remains, some w/ out the skull. After research of the land, they found it use to house a poor house and being sent there was basically a death sentence in its own. Anyway, they found out that some of the bodies were stolen by medical students because in the 1700's the students were responsible to find their own cadaver (sp?) to study. (the present day research team found the cut marks on the neck bones to be done with surgical precision) So I am all for donation of cadavers to science, at least we don't have to worry about uncle leo being snatched from his grave by med students.

Interesting! Do you remember the specific title or name of the show or when it was on? I'd be interested in seeing that. :-)

Yeah.

Its called Skeleton Stories on Discovery Health
The episode is titled "Buried Secrets" and it airs again on July 13, 2007 @ 10 pm and 1 am.
It was REALLY intresting! So SET YOUR DVR!!!

Probably the top shelves were used for body parts

I want to see that Discovery show! WAAAAh! I was busy when it aired.

what building is that in? 23?

Ive been In this room before i almost died as soon i enter i felt a sudden burst of cold air.i pissed my pants and i saw a ghost and ran.u should never go to this room for more than 5 minutes u will regret It!

I'm guessing that they used a type of gurnery with a hydraulic system in order to get bodies in/out of the top cubbies....at least, that's what makes sense to me.

All the conmments re: the autopsy room are silly. I worked in the lab and for the pathologist that performed the autopsies. It was done with professional courtesy to the deceased person like any other autopsy in any hospital. When the hospital was functional it was a good place to work and the staff was very professional.

I must agree that it is to the outsider, who may have a distorted picture of how these facilities functioned, that everything becomes like a horror story. Some lack respect. I am an Autopsy technician, and think it it best to leave these places
alone because of respect as much as potential hazard. The same reason we are very particular about who we let into the morgue area while we are working. I have invited some, but had to throw others out. Above all, be
careful. And save a prayer for the mourners...

It amazes me how one photograph can bring forth such emotion -

i went inide building 35 yesterday and i heard something fall and thena baby cry after that and i just ran crying haha.

i ve been in this room, sat on the draws, layed on them took tons of pics and nothing.

this place is def. spooky but i ve never had anything paranormal happen to me or anyone else i went there with. in my opinion if i was a patient and treated so badly , i sure wouldnt want to remain there after i died. i could see residual haunting going on though.

Maybe you dont have a choice as to whether you stay here after death or not. Both types of haunting are sure to occur here, both residual and intelligent. Why would it not?