Basement Room

Very strange indeed.

This dead-end basement hallway thing really creeps me out. Much more so than your usual spooky-scary basement pictures.

I think it's some combination of lighting, and wondering why anyone would ever sit in those benches towards the end. So uninviting. *shudder*

I couldn't agree more with Thad. It's just so...strange. I mean, if it was a locker room or a waiting room...it would sort of make sense. Sort of.

Well, after all these comments I am sort of embarrassed to admit this, but in several sections of the campus I work on we are set up just like this in the bathroom/shower areas. To tell you the truth, however, I think you have to look at this like a "normal" health club locker room or the locker room when you were in junior high or high school. They have plenty of benches so you can sit when you are changing into and out of your gym clothes. You would swap out of your gym clothes before you showered and into a robe or something, then go into the shower, then come back out and switch into your street clothes if you were leaving or your jammies if you lived there. Make sense?

Oh - oops! I think I misunderstood. Are you saying there WASN'T a shower room near here? If there wasn't, then this may be an unofficial dayhall area for "overflow" clients. That is, many dayhalls during the "hideously overcrowded" years were exactly like this except some didn't have the "luxury" of benches. If they had a huge overflow of folks then they would have had to come up with places for them to be when they were awake, so perhaps they took a downstairs area, added benches for "comfort", and then started using what would normally be a hall or basement area as a dayhall. Of course, that would totally suck, but back in the "hideously overcrowded" days things were pretty dang crappy for everyone involved.

if there is a staff to patient ratio involved, I guess the more the merrier :-)

Lynne,
That definitely makes sense. I still feel a great deal of unease looking at the photo! :) I think if there were even a single window there, I'd feel differently about it...

I'm not one of those people that's typically scared of basements, either. *shrug*

really takes the feel of being in in an abandoned asylum,mind blowing!brings to mind fairview state hospital for criminally insane as told in "cold storage".thanks mr.motts

whats the motion bottom left kinda white moving thingy ?

It's Motts' orb - he didn't get out of the way of the camera fast enough, and we have done caught a glimpse of his immortal soul! =8-o

Perrfect for a sleep-over ; )

Yeah Lynne, what you explained about the benches makes perfect sense. It was awfully weird at first. Once again, Lynne to the rescue folks!

I don't want this to sound racists but it could have been at that time where the African Americans had to go for emergencies .u never know right ..it was all so different back then...

Makes me feel as if I'm in a Air Raid shelter.

Duck & cover anyone??

Think I can just make out a large soap dispensor hanging from the ceiling ?

it all looks like outside the doctors office in the school i went to as a kid. Usually there was only a nurse but when you turned 7 and 10, i think it was, the doc, checked up on all in that year. It took him a day and one could have to sit and wait quite a while.

weird. how the hell did u get into there it has so much secrity!

Why is the wall bricked up?

OK HERE IS WHAT I SEE...ON THE END OF THE RIGHT BENCH, IS THAT A URINAL PAN OR A BUNT CAKE PAN?
UNDERNEATH OF THE LEFT BENCH I SEE WHAT LOOKS LIKE A WHIP/LASSO??/ HMM..WHAT THE HECK TOOK PLACE HERE EH? AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE FRONT LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER ON THE WALL IT LOOKS LIKE AN ORA....

Lynne, I love it when you put everything into a practical perspective but don't leave out the imagination that might otherwise just deflates the excitement and the creative photss that this site creates.

Good point.

People, please note that there are lots of bodies bricked up in the walls here. The dead giveaway is the orb in the bottom left of the picture trying to catch our attention, crying out for release from its hellish prison on earth. Also, please notice the blood stains all over the walls, ceilings, and floor. That is where people tried to get out to avoid being guinea pigs for the mad scientists, but they couldn't get away and just bloodied themselves in the attempt. Later on this site or perhaps on another you'll find all the crematoriums attached to the facilities where the doctors, nurses and other staff burned the signs of their torturous experiments and their wretched state-sponsored abuse, beatings, and neglect while they laughed and turned the flames higher and the water temps lower. http://www.opacity.us/image1929.htm
Well, first they adjusted the weight reduction machine to jiggle the peoples' fat so they could be embarrassed about their weight before they died. http://www.opacity.us/image2761.htm

OK, how's that? :-)

Thats some awesome coloring.

Reminds me of house on haunted hill
*shudder

Aha! Lynne cracks and comes clean! ;o)

It looks like the nice sanitary glazed block was installed at a later date. Makes it so much easier for the mad scientists to hose the blood and guts off the walls. Harder to get splatters of brains and bloody chunks of hair off the rough painted red brick.

Gotta love that autoguy! ;-)

no wonder they were crazy,look at this place.although be great to explore now.the older the creapier the better to explore!

Okay - they didn't come here and then developed mental illnesses, or become "crazy" as you generically put it, generally it was the other way around. That's a lot like saying someone goes to the hospital to get sick rather that the result of being sick. Also when this facility was in use it looked nothing like this. For instance the paint was intact; there wasn't dust inches deep in areas and the windows were not covered with plywood. You must remember Motts focuses on photography involving forgotten and abandoned relics of the past.

I love CAS. ;-)

In Westboro Mass far in the woods is the crematory, we stumbled upon it by accident one day walking in the woods. Its for real because the ovens are still there under ground

From all the research I've done I can't find that there was ever a crematorium associated with this hospital. There is and was a crematorium in the town and there were incinerators on ground for burning garbage, just like at any other large facility or hospital, whether or not they were devoted to people with psychiatric issues.

mumma i wanna go home...

Maybe all this was TOP SECRET???

Most places had the local funeral homes handle the deaths. They would definitely have a place to burn their trash

Hmmm...looks inviting.

Lordy Lynne you do have the answers to some of the most complex thoughts and questions that has been displayed on our great leaders website. I sometimes think that I can give a small dissertation on on what may be behind the obvious and you always confirm that I'm never shitting anyone. Let the imagination fly with the outragegeous and Lynne come forth with the truth. Your the best Lynne.

Lynne, that was the best comment ever! :) You're awesome.

It's Johnny Mac's fault - he pushes me on to get ever more outrageous. ;-)

Lynne,
The crematory is way in the woods why would they travek that far to burn garbage?

Have you ever lived somewhere that they don't have refrigeration or a fairly rapid garbage removal system or no plastic bags to seal up all the good juices? You don't exactly want to leave rotting material outside the back door, if you catch my malodorous drift. Also, if you have ever had the pleasure of being in the neighborhood when they burn garbage, it isn't the pleasantest or sexiest of aromas, so you purposely want it to be a ways away from where people live. That's just being practical - nothing arcane or secretive about it.

So I have just stumbled upon this website and am amazed! By far the best Worc. State website I've found. I'm from the area and am familiar with several "stories" of the hospital. One of which says that there were all kinds of underground tunnels that led to other incerators (perhaps at a near by hospital) and even across to the lake. Not sure how much truth there is to this, but you guys seem to like this stuff too!

This reminds me of the movie "Session 9" which was filmed in Danvers. There's one particular scene that just pops out in my mind.

Some jokes can be made about the views of the basement rooms. What is not a joke is that until the fire of 1991 which destroyed the accompanying building to the tower, the concrete floors had to be mopped and disinfected every day because of the still-present smell of urine and feces, despite the fact that patients had not been kept in the rooms (cells?) for 50 years.

This shot just freaks me right out!

When I worked there in the 1959-1986 eras this did not look so bad. We handled the deaths, did autopsies in the "dungeons" as we call the basement of the old building, and even had a maternity section and surgery over in the "new bldg." The dungeons were definitely spooky and you had to have a master giant skeleton type key to get around down there...........ahh, memories.

I could just imagine a person in this shot ... look up at us from the bench at the VERY back. Hair matted, clothes torn, sanity gone. Oh how dramatic of me.
*mental slap*

Do tell more PLEASE!

Looks just like the old part of the hospital that I work in

It almost seems like a waiting room for the infermery. Its creepy thogh.u can just imagine the energy there.

Is that a crib in the back?

in 1956 this was part of the shower room.where patients with open ward privigles undressed .on the left was the ent.to shower room where closed ward patients dressed. I worked there I was in charge .rhere .the barber shop was on the 2nd fl in 1956

dis stuff aint scary

weird.
i want to go there but then again, i dont want to.
(:

I don't know if I would want to spend much time down there

i worked there, it was well lighted

that picture is so cool I wanted to use it for my slide show

I am a little angry at you for not being nice lol

amber type me back

this place gives me the hibby jibbys

how creepy

Motts, how, pray tell, did you get in?!!? My mother & I have been trying to find as decent way in, but we can't! :-

It seemed so sad of a place...

It looks like a bedroom for three.

wonder if they used the benches as a storm cellar.

Ah, yes, very strange indeed. And a might creepy as well.

It reminds me very much of my junior high's locker room in the 1970s, in the basement of a WPA-built gymnasium from the 1930s. The only thing this lacks is the ground-level windows where the boys would try to sneak peeks at the girls (we just thought that was normal behavior for 13-year-old boys back then. I suppose today some would want to charge them with sexual harassment or even label them sex offenders).

that's like crazy. sooo crazy

Dead end tiled tunnel lined with benches?
May have been a bomb shelter later in the 50s-60s, earlier it may have been a pantry?

i saw those walls before like forty years ago when my mother was there.

Im 23 and while they were taring the old place down me and a couple of my friends snuck past the security to get in its almost like ppl just up and left the place chairs still upright and beds with sheets well we were drinking and decided to investigate we were going twards the clock tower when we her a scream and then like walking like someone was following us up the stairs my friend started freaking out we ran back down the steps and kicked a board out the first floor window and never looked back it fucked me up for a long time

Woooow, ive never seen the inside of the place ..

Devin, energy still lingers ins some of thses places...sometimes positive, sometimes, well...That said, back in '66 Wifred gave a great wiffle cut when I was there. Very nice barber!

scary