Basement Doors

Oh, I like this one!

I wouldn't go in there with an Uzi, a Rottweiler, or even you, Motts. It's just too damn creepy for me. It gives me the willies sitting here at my desk chair in my warm, brightly-lit living room.

My first thought upon seeing this is, "Okay--what got out? And where is it now?"

awesome pic

COME ON TWUG, DIM THE LIGHTS A LITTLE, SHARE THE WILLIES.

Marty, you can have all my willlies. I don't like them!

I LOVE willies...In fact I need more in my life...

Sorry, ragdoll, I gave them all to Marty.

I have my own willies with this shot. It's a really good one, and yeah it looks like something just finished escaping.

Oh, I'm willing to go down there, but not without my steel toe boots. Don't know what I'm gonna have to kick outa my way. LOL

The demons have escaped!! So it must be safe to go in!

i must say im in total agreement. would never have the nerve to enter that doorway.

creepy....

can i have some willies pleez?!

robbie, I think Marty currently has all the willies.

I remember doors much like thease. Whenever we would go there my mother would hold my hand. I remember one time finding my brother sitting on the floor behind doors like thease that let to a tunel area of the hospital. It was dark, and I can remember being very afraid, but my mother would tell me everything was ok. I didn't beleave her then, and I'm sure I wouldn't now.

this pix is so thrilling. Makes one wonder about what can be down in the cold, dark, and dank basement. Isn't the basement where many mental and medical facilities used to house the morgue?

ohh I like this shot. Great pic!

very creepy pic, nicely done! and to side with the rest of u, i wouldn't go down there to save my life!

I must say I am very impressed with the quality of your work Motts. Well done. This place has been an obsession for me for a few years now and it is great to see it in such detail. I live in Australia so there is no chance of me ever seeing it. Thank you for the insight.

Is it just me, or does the slanting of the one door really creep anyone else out more than anything else in the picture? I don't know what it is...the whole "crooked" imagery I guess just gives me the willies (to use everyone's vernacular). Well, the darkness beyond the doors is creepy too, but the crooked door kind of highlights it and makes it all the more scary.

Looks so sinnister...

I dont find it creepy, i'd go in!

I'd go in there, with maybe the whole fracking army and night vision, and thermal, and flares, and about anything else... like an M1A1 Abrams

What did actually happen? did the patients brake down the door? like in the movie HOUSE ON HUANTED HILL, when the patients decided to go on a killing spree

It is pitch black in there! I wouldn't go in there with a search light! Can you just imagine who and WHAT wlaked these halls? Past and Present?!

these doors are such a interesting shape, would love to keep it for my door collection I have!!!

I wish i could have seen the stuff you have motts.. only place ive been is in an abandoned shipping station...

omg that creeps me out thinking about session 9 and stuff

This one gives me goose bumps

Ya i know, i was kidding, sorry if that offenced anybody, and sorry motts, i was just looking at it and it poped into my minds eye...

so any excat date on when the hospital was built? and how long is it, in terms of like feet or inches or somthing, cuase the pics made it seem like the hosiptal was pretty dam big....???

The hospt was built in 1878 under the supervision of prominent boston architect. Danvers was offically known as lunatc hospt. The hospt was the setting for the 2001 horror film "Session 9" directed by Brad Anderson. Demolition started in Jan of this year to build 497 apartments and condominiums on the 77 acre site

And almost all of it is torn down, except for the very front of the building. When I pass over into the great beyond, I am going up there to haunt the place -- you know, like in the movie "The Haunting"

you guys are chickens i will go down there for a nickle and a cupcake

It's gone most of it kids E,F,D,C buildings remain as of today. Grove Hall is being torn down slowly

Amazing shot...You can almost see or hear the bustling busyness of nurses and doctors and caretackers hustling about through those doors. I wonder if it was actually pleasant or not...You can't always believe the stories.....

Give me a surefire light and a .45 auto, and I'll go through there no problem. I'd go without the .45, even. I'd be more worried about a rat or a raccoon in there than I would anything else - that's what the .45 would be for.

Those are some really nice doors. I would LOVE to have them somewhere on my property - even if they were just on a detached garage or something. I'll bet they have a nice heft to them when you swing them.

I have to ask you, how do you get to go into these buildings? Alot may tease or joke about the images, but to really be there and explore; wow< what an adventure!!

these doors are talking can u hear them? the whole place speaks help me

is that ,the place is saying help me, or are you......

omg i totally just got the chills looking at this picture... i would NOT go in there even if ...well i just wouldnt go in there...<3

this door looks very unforgiving...i want to go inside...its gorgeous tho

this pic is really creepy. I think i would probley pee in my pantes i don't know about anyone else though.

if you think the basement is spooky, you should see the tunnels. Worked at Met.State before it closed down (furcalo Bldg.)

I WONT EVEN GO IN A BASEMENT OF A REGULAR HOUSE! ITS PRETTY RUN DOWN FOR ONLY BEING CLOSED DOWN FOR LIKE 12 YEARS CRAZY RIGHT.

is it just me or does this look exactly like the gates of hell!!!!!
i would not enter those doors with a frigin army

FREAKY

There's no place like home......

IT...WONT...DIE!!

wow. I am a huge fan of danvers, even going so far as to check out the mimick of danvers state hosp. on Second life. Keep it up!

And yes (this is sade) I so would go in there even though the creeps would take over. Anyone want to go with me in there to eat some lunch? (laughs wickedly)

creepy... but I'd go down there!

not exactly the most inviting

Ok... I'm just waiting for something to pop out of there....

that picture is a look into the morbid past of america the free

yes lets have lunch in there and feel history while we grub

Hi Motts - I have just discovered your sites and I find them beautiful and fascinating. As far as this pic goes, I am not normally superstitious or afraid of the dark but nothing could get me to enter that place.

Lol, the experiment got out.. again

I just discoverd this site . I just cant stop looking now it does seem you can feel such sadness in theese pictures.

Hey Motts, how did you get to photograph DSH without any problems with security?

Just one more question Motts....

What inspired you to choose such a name as "Opacity" for your website?

Because Motts is the coolest EVER. (That's just my guess.)

The darkness in the picture is what brings it together, It gives it a sense of mystery.

When I lived at centerpoint we had those doors in the basement. They lead to the tunnels between the buildings

I think fluffy the three headed dog from Harry Potter was in their at one point....

My Grandmother was a patient back in 1933 after she gave birth to my dad out of wedlock and the father was a married man.. Her family had put her in there after the embarassment...She passed away 15 years later and they released he body to her siblins. I dont know much of her and when they buried her, they didnt put my dad's name on the newspaper clipping. My great aunts and uncles were ashamed of her and my dad. My family came from wealth but we never seen a dime of it. Which..dont bother me one bit because I was my dads daughter...he is up in heaven now with my grandmother. (FYI...my dad was a patient there as well back in 1960s) I wish that i could find records of the patients names...

Ooooooo...this is right up my alley, I would LOVE to go in and check this one out!!!!!

WHO WANTS TO INVESTIGATE BEYOND THOSE DOORS W/ME?!!!

"Abandon all hope ye who enter here "
Thats what popped into my head as soon as I saw the pic! But I would still explore it. There are tunnels from the basements of old buildings in my hometown that I explored back when I was 13 they led all over under the town and one even down to the riverand came out under one of the bridges that crossed the river. it was seriously creepy down there!