The Chair Again

eww, looks like one too many patients sat in it.

If that patient was Hannibal Lector, you mean, dearie. That is one badly abused chair. :-(

Motts, you need to do an entire coffee table book on "lonely chair" shots. I love the gothic looking door and windows in the shadows. If it wasn't for the trash on the floor, the chair would be the only color in the shot. It's awesome as it stands though!

Looks more like Freddy Krueger's chair :D

And Twug, I'm with you on the 'lonely chair' book. It's the lighting that makes these shots.

Hey, I may be wrong, but is that not the chair that we all agreed had a face to it before?

I kinda see a one eyed guy with a crooked mouth and nose.

haha its the chair! i love this photo!

I wrote a poem about DSH, called "Home on the Hill".

On this quiet hill upon which I sit
Great misery I suffer, I must admit
For this hospital which I now grieve
Upon this solumn autumn's eve

This palace, this castle, where many had died
Was shaped in the theories of Thomas Kirkbride
It housed a variety, homeless to insane
He thought up a system, and made it humane

With time, the large costs costs had exceeded the bills*
Today the Kirkbride stands tall still
I have, however, not yet had my fill
Of the home, my home, on Hathorne Hill.

Pretty damn good, Neutrino!

Thanx. I live in a town not far from Danvers, so I've been there (not the hospital!) many times.

It resembles a more relaxed version of the 'Tranquilizer Chair'

thats the chair from session 9. i live in danvers i just went up there on 1/14/05 its scary

I finally just watched Session 9 that movie is well done. Mind trip.

Yay!!! Another lonely chair this one doesn't look to sad. Yay!!!

NICE POEM! SAYS ALOT! AND YEAH THAT IS ONE LONELY CHAIR. BUT I DON'T SEE THE FACE, I MUST BE BLIND.

HEY RON. I SEE IT TOO

Yeah, I see it. The rips are the eyelashes and the holes are the eyes, with more rips providing a pointy head.

Beautiful poem, Neutrino. I was expecting something with horrible, uninspired rhyming and bad attempts at being "gothic" or something, but this seems to fit perfectly.

This photo is a little less surreal than the last photo of the same chair, but I still maintain that it's creepy as hell.

If motts does his book the poem should go into it. as long as Neutrino approves.

That chair looks almost exactly like the geri-chairs that we use today at the Nursing Home I work at. Except there is more padding at the top where the patients lay their heads. Was there a lever in the back where you could recline it?

it is a geri-chair .... I do not recall them reclining back. We used them for the elderly patients to keep them from assaulting the staff / patients or hurting themselves.

I wonder f its for sale...

I wonder f its for sale..


Why?

that was a great poem!

i feel very sad and uneasy when i look at these picsso sorry for the people that were patients there. jesus help us.

is the hospial being torn down yet,i live in dublin and would love to visit

Just wanted to mention that this really reminds me of the session 9 scene that shows the wheelchair.. This whole shot is pretty scary.

yet again another a-maz-ing chair pic...<3

damn. that looks tottally like hannabel lecter's chair. like how many strait jacket dudes had elctro shock in that thing?

Given that the arms are made of metal and that it is a wheeled geri-chair, prolly none.

That is definitely Hannibel Lector's chair, where he drank his chianti and ate his fava beans. What else could it be!!

No no no, Janice. This is Albert DeSalvo's chair where he sat and watched himself on tv.

wicked creepy, ive been up ther before

I worked at a place that used to be a tuberculoses ( can't spell) hosp. and I had to check the roof for anyone -and there was this little room by itself with no windows that had a chair like that bolted down facing the wall-it was creepy!! The pic just reminded me

the crumpled wreck

I worked here in the 70's and recently tried to return to the site. No luck. I have just completed an interview for my high school senior. The subject was "a significant experience in my life". I will never forget every patient, their names, their stories... I had a huge ring of 15 castle keys and opened that turquoise door and others like it numerous times. We called the solarium the day room and I was trying to describe the chair with wheels. There were many of them and they often had a lapboard that went with them. I am fascinated with your pictures. In describing my DSH work experience I encouraged my son to google DSH. I had hoped for a postcard and was instead rewarded with your photos. It is now 2:45am and thirty years since i worked there and here I am mesmerized. Thanks

Wow, you actually WORKED there?? For some reason, I'm always drawn to the Danver's site. Maybe because of Session 9, I don't know. So tell me, does anyone know if ANYTHING is left standing there anymore?? Or is everything gone by now?

I can answer it for you, I was just up there the other day. The only thing still standing, is the shell of the Administration Building. The inside is gutted. Every other building, sadly, is now an up to date condo. So sad.

I work at a nursing home and we have several residents who have to sit in those chairs when they're not in bed...mainly if they have trouble swallowing. Sitting in a reclined chair like this allows their yummy pureed food and thickened liquids to slide down their throat easily.

Great lonely chair shot, very Session 9!

i think that was in session 9...the movie kilmed in this hospitsl 3 years ago or so

i have sat in that chair

what did they do in the chair

Sit.

Primarily

Well you know aparitions have been sighted in this spot because they were badly injured. The primarily used the chair to shock people out of they're misary

No.They didn't...
You can't shock with a chair, even if had wheels on it.

yha you can they have them in prisons.
Plus aparitions have been sighted here because they were torchered until they died..... I am studying this in school

Which school do you attend? I would be interested in your classes covering this material. Thanks in advance.

Govenor Dummer Acadamy

By the way we finished our lessons today just an FYI 4 U

Did you skip class the day they taught you how to spell the name of Governor Dummer Academy?

Funny that you still call it that since the name has been officially changed to "The Governor's Academy" since July 1, 2006.

is that the chair from session 9 where they say do it gordy?

I bet you that chair did not take that much abuse when it was in use. I think that people's minds run wild about what actually happened in these Psychiatric Hospitals ... I am sure that there were some scary moments at times but if it was as bad as we would like to imagine I am sure that there would of been more precautions made and more equipment. I bet you that chair took most abuse with the UEs who were disrespectful to the place. However, I could be wrong and I would not be offended if someone told me.

Yha I knew that its called govenor's Acadamy but there's one in Leomester but I go to the one in Byfield

i want to sit in that chair.

No u don't all of the people probibly sat in the chair and never sanatized it

Yeah! Because decades old people germs is what you have to worry about, not the deadly mold, asbestos dust, and rat feces!

Ugh... duh.

That chair looks comfy

hah i made a fake book cover out of this picture...its called the lonely chair

I am mesmerized by DSH, and I've seen Session 9 and read Project 17 numerous times. Every time i think that it's not there anymore, I get so depressed. This is a great picture, it was one of the ones I used when I did a project on DSH for school.

DO IT GORDON

do you think the shock chair was a regular place for the patients

If you would like to read more history "The Spirit of Antoinette" by Mansur is a great read

Michael Ramseur is the author.

i saw that chair but it as in long hallway just sitting in the middle it was pitch black. shinned the light down there and that was the only thing in the hallways directly in the middle it was scary lol

Imagine if this place had not been allowed to rot, what a tragic waste. Actually it seems a fitting metaphor for this fucking greed~addled USA.