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Sorry your camera broke, really great pictures though! keep up the great work. Fantastic Web site too by the way.
silk

I seen ghost even though I was high I knew it was ghost

Hey Motts, how did you use a screw driver to fix your camera?! Whenever I have a screwdriver, and all I know what to do is bang things with it until i consider um fixed.

graet pics i will be making a run this week thank you

Is it true that they took this guys eye out and put a camera in ther to see if he could see? My friend went there and got records from patients in there. He even said that they tried to mate the people with animals. I've been really interested in this place since he told me, too bad they are wrecking it.

Oh, definitely! Without a doubt! Probably the most credible story I have seen yet about this place! That is absolutely true and you can take that one to the bank!

Well, maybe the eye bank . . . . .

=8-o

As far as people mating with animals, well, we do happen to have an expert on that who writes in to this very site, if he's not too shy to tell us about it. :-)

I'm going to be serious for a brief minute here... I do remember reading an article a while back that a blind person elected to undergo surgery (note, that means he did it by choice) to have his eyes (that didn't work anyway) replaced with cameras, to see if he would be able to see or not... I don't imagine they ended up going through with it though, or it would have been bigger news... But that wasn't here, if I remember correctly it was in Switzerland.

Lynnie hun, I don't think fedzie-poo wants to play with us anymore... He's the only one I know of who likes to mate with animals... :D

Working from memory here. There was an experimental surgery performed where a chip was inserted somewhere along the path of the optic nerve. The patient in question had been blind for several decades. The doctors had determined that the back end of the optic nerve was functional but that the point somewhere between where light enters the cornea and then gets tranlated into a signal that the brain understands was not functioning. The chip provided rudimentary translation of these light signals for the brain.

The patient was able to identify letters of the alphabet when they were 6-8 inches tall on a monitor. Color perception was nil and the patients perception was sharpest when it was bright white letters on a black screen. Truly remarkable given that the patient had been 100% blind.

As it was experimental surgery the chips were eventually removed. I do not know what has transpired since in this area. I was thinking that the surgery took place in Scotland rather than Switzerland but again, I'm working from memory here.

Here are some articles on eye implants. The 2nd article is a reprint from the Wall Street Journal.

http://mednews.stanfor...r/shorttake_let.html

http://www.atvcapital.com/news.php?id=96

And here is an article on a device, as Dr. Sketch said, that was developed in Switzerland.

http://www.swissinfo.o...=511&sid=4415302

My memory regarding the surgery taking place in Scotland must have been inaccurate.

The placement of the "open" windows in this picture looks like even the current contents of this building would like to escape. Great photo!

These pictures are amazing. You really captured the sadness and destruction. We used to go in byberry at night all the time when I was younger. we walked through the tunnels in pitch darkness. If your flashlight went out you were screwed!

It was an amazing place. We were more interested in our findings rather than destroying things. We somehow came across a file room and there was a HUGE pile of patient files that we took home and read through. It was very interesting.

Anyway, love the photos. They are good memories to have considering the whole place is gone because they are building condos :) Who would want to live there with all those bad vibes?? NOT ME!

mm y should we belive this

i agree with good times. i had my flashlight die at PCH in MA, and it wouldn't be that bad except for the one way in and out was deep in the basement. and there was tons of debris and sh*t hanging from the ceiling to hit ur head on. now i always bring backups