The Evil One

what about the one on the right----with the bleeding eyes? Disturbing.....

Sinister.

interesting mural, the added graffiti does make it look menacing

Very Seventies, judging by the clothes and hair. I wonder if these were real people - staff or patients perhaps - or just a figment of someone's imagination? Sad to see it defaced in a place which is otherwise very clean.

Yes , Rich it seems nothing is sacred in these places. I agree about the 70's look.

I wonder why only 2 were grafittied and why those 2. How do you spell grafittied anyway?

Ron, graffitied, I think. Person on right looks like Little Orphan Annie, with the painted out eyes.

It looks like they spraypainted nipples on the one with the bleeding eyes.

The original painting is 70's-ish. The added 'horns' was a stroke of genius. This is the type of graffiti that I approve of.

I live close to dix, it is haunted, you know. My friend lives about a block away from the property. Stranges things have happened there. No one wants wal-mart there, either. Leave well enough alone...

i live not to far from dixmont and it is sad to see the demo. crew there, everyday as i go to work i drive by on route 65 and wander what it would be like now if someone had bought it and restored it for patients again.

Casey,Your telling me, Iv witnessed some strange things while in Dixmont during the past 2 weeks.

I have a photo with a ghostly image on it. But I think one of the strangest things that have happened to me was last Wednesday. I was on the 3rd floor in the middle of the main entrance and took a step through the door way and my right foot started to go through the floor, yes I was going to go through the floor, but something pushed up on my foot hard enough to push me back hard enough that I had to take a step back so I did not fall over.
When I first entered this building I witnessed with my own eyes doors open and slam shut. These were doors where the rooms had no windows.
I have talked to other fire fighters that once had to rescue some kids from the 3rd floor because all the doors closed and the kids could not get out or off the 3rd floor.
This was back in the late 90's like 98-99.

I thought I did discovered 'ghosts' in my woods one day a couple months back. I posted the photo on my Blog, and was told, that I had a dirty lens.

Indeed I did!!! The camera had fallen inside my digging hole earlier that day. LOL

Ha! I had the same embarassing thing happen. I took some pix of my dogs and one of them came out with an eerie glow each pic I took of her. Then someone suggested I had left greasy fingerprints on the lens and that she was on that side each pic I took. Wiped it off and the pix turned normal. :-( Oh well, I still have the pix and they still look pretty cool. 8`-)

I can assure you it was not a dirty lens, because all the other pictures I took on the same day were OK.

Truckie, I wasn't implying that you did or didn't find something on your camera. I was just noting that once when I thought my camera was taking "spooky" pix it turned out to be something else. I've quoted Don Marquis' cockroach, archy, before, but here goes again:

"you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either"

My friends actually did the spraypainting, as well as a few of the red pentagrams. They did it to scare a local radio station, B93.7 when they went there. They made them leave because they would spraypaint pentagrams in rooms they just left so when they came back they got scared crapless.

I remember walking down that hall last weekend alone and that painting freeking me out just a little bit!!! If you want more curent pics email me at zjs148@yahoo.com

I guess this wonderful painting will be coming down with the rest of the building soon. Thankfully we have this photo to remember it by.

Everybody sees George and Annie and the 'horny guy', but has anybody ever noticed 'Mr. Potato Head? He's the first guy on the left.

There's a guy in there that looks like my father too. (LOL)

Is that Kevin Spacey at the extreme left?
He's in everything.

He put the "Usual" into "The Usual Suspects."
Discuss.

PS I love the film, apart from Pete Postlethwaite's Indian accent... if that's what it is.

I havent been to Dixmont for awhile but this is one of the things i can not forget seeing.........

Is that George Castanza in the middle?

Wayne-o, i think you're right.

I fancy the woman with the bleeding eyes and the man with the devil horns.They're interesting characters...

And now they're just so much rubble. 'tis a shame, eh?

i love the bleeding eyes

Is that George Costanza in the middle?

I agree, though he apparently had a little more hair in the 70's.

bishey hair styles it is the boom
it is cool

haha nice i enjoy good graffiti like that its perfect for the people who explore those kind of places it puts thoughts in your head

WOW thats great graffiti at least its not scratchy lettering like most of em that will make u think about bad things in a place like that

Lawdy miss clawdy, how disturbing is that?

do you think that was done by a patient or by some graffiti artist muppet?

for those who don't know, this is a LIFE-SIZE mural. Notice the conduit by the one with the bleeding eyes.

anyone notice that someone also gave bleeding eyes some bleeding nips?

possibly long-term patient caricatures? or just a mural of healthy people?

reminds me of a kindergarten art project... self portraits or drawings that you do of yourself and your family for parents' night.

It's Alot spookier in person (at night) , BELEIVE ME!!

Second from the left reminds me of "Velma" from Scooby Doo! -except she has added a dark jacket to her look. ;)

Possibly they are portraits of the staff -(doctors, etc. - ?)

yeah that place was really spooky the many days i was there. when i went to the morge i was sitting around, all of a sudden all the doors slammed shut. youd hear voices and doors would randomy slam

Anyone notice the different images in the peeling paint above the picture?

Every time I run into this painting, I freak out. I usually delve in Dixmont at night, with a muffled light, and these guys, if they aren't life sized, are damn close...
It always seems to happen after I hear the door banging, a freaky enough experience in itself..

coool

I love it!

This looks like six (6) males and five (5) females on this mural. These people look they were members of the staff of this hospital. The time frame or decade of these people does look like the 1970's. To be more specific the time frame looks like from 1971 - 1975.

The male who is the 5th one from the left side wearing the light blue sweater and black pants with the beard looks light he was a marijuana user. He also looks like he probably thought that he was God's gift to women. He might have been a disco dancer.

The blond female on the far right wearing the blue sweater and dark blue pants probably has her eyes torn out with the blood streaming down her face for a reason. She probably was a creep when she worked at the hospital.

The male who is second from the right wearing the pink sweater and blue pants looks like he used to be one of those "down - with - the - establishment" type of hippies from the 1960's who decided that he should finally get a job. In the 1960's hippies had a saying (well the hippies had alot of saying's but anyway) this particular saying was "just live". This means that a hippie will sponge off of someone else (eating someone else's food and living in someone else's house) instead of doing any actual work and being a productive citizen.

Read up on Ira Einhorn: he was a "king" when it came to sponging and leaching off of other people just like the little "scum - bucket" that he was.

The male who is the fourth from the right wearing the black jacket and black pants.........
What is up with the red horns? Was that grafitti or was he really a little monster? hymmm......I wonder.

The man on the extreme left wearing the red shirt and blue pants who is starting to go bald looks like he is someone's side - kick. This "potato - head" also looks like he could be a sinister and devious when he wants to be.

The older man being the third from the left wearing the white shirt and red tie with the brown pants looks like he would look the other way if he happened to witness any unjustice that would happen to a patient. He probably had a weak personality.

The male in the middle wearing the blue and green checkered shirt and light brown pants with the squareish glasses does sort of look like an older George Costanza from the Seinfeld television show. I wonder if he had the same type of personality as the television character?

The female who is second from the left wearing the dark brown jacket, green pants and light brown turtle neck sweater. She looks like she was a no - nonsense, hard working type of woman. She probably did not think too much of a few of her co - workers though and it probably did make her working life hard at times.

The female who is the third from the right wearing the red sweater and white pants looks like she is the newest member of the staff. She more than likely had alot of new ideas and probably got shot down alot when she wanted to implement a new change.

As far as the other two females are concerned; I am not sure what to say about these two except that the female who is the sixth from the left wearing the red sweater and brown pants looks like she was a quiet person.

This mural looks like it was painted by a semi - professional.

What was the point of this mural anyway?
Self importance? Who knows?.......

This mural looks a little creepy.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

its a shame that they tore this place down. i would have loved to gone here, it looks amazing. And for a walmart this universe doesnt need another walmart. walmart is the antichrist...and not the cool one. T_T

just is out of place!!!!

satan and his minions? in the eyes of someone that was disturbed but no part of this institution

so random with our without the spray paint

looks like someone got a little bored.........................................or is trying to tell someone something!!!!!!

which one is it?

The guy with the beard looks exactly like my father did in the 70's...

the lady with the bleeding eyes and the nippage. i wonder who she was..

some of these people look alot alike people I've seen year in real life.

what would have made it actually creepy would be if they omitted the devil horns and made everyone's eyes bleed. or everyone EXCEPT keyser soze over there on the far left., lol.

It's so interesting to see all of these, considering I grew up about 3 minutes away from the place. I pass the sight now on my way to work everyday, sad that it's not longer there. :(

Freaky!

i love your mom jen

she was awsome

Is that George Constanza in the middle?

the blonde chick with bleeding eyeballs is suggestive, you know.

theres more to the stories told. And im going to find the untold secrets and screams left in those walls at Dixmont Hospital...

they are the huevo family {tio huevo, primo huevo,sobrina huevo, tia huevo,aguelo huevo ,aguela huevo, me, papa huevo y mama huevo....

I've been to the hospital before with my grandfather... I actually know the owner of the property... Ralph Stroyne.... Nice guy... It's a shame that FUCKING WALMART had to FUCKING tear down history!!!!!

ive seen it first hand many times before the tore it down and my current bf grandmother was a patient there. there is absolutely no feeling like the feeling you get when you enter the grounds its incredible

Hey Motts,nice capture.I wonder why they picked the guy in the middle to put horns on ? Same with the bleeding eyes women? The photos you take of murals are so excellent, they are really creepy,they freeze time periods and generate good comments.Four full days of my holidays i,ve been staring at your site.I could have gone away but i've been awe struck by your work and don't want to miss anything.Keep it up your a national treasure. DG...

Geez if you aren't over the edge when you get there this painting should do the trick!

by the way..... creepy picture.

Creepy!

the one in the blue plad shirt was acually a patient i worked for verland and the client i had , had pictures of being there standing when it was painted

I'm going to say '80s on this one. Yes there are '70s elements such as the fake 'fro on the blond fellow and the turtle-neck on the woman on the right. The reason I'm calling '80s on this is because of the lapels on the shirts that have them and the width of the tie. The lapels are smaller and the tie is narrower -- as they were in the '80s rather than the wide style of the '70s. Also all the pants are solid-color, no plads or stripes as would have been seen on at least one member in the '70s.

I recently bought a book about Dixmont that was loaded with photos before the place closed, after it closed, during it's decay right up until the time some family bought it. This mural is included in the book and it's explained that these were people that worked there, and the sixth woman from the left "originally had a bird on her head because one of the residents thought it would look good." This is a quote from the book. Bird on her head or bloody eyes, either way this whole mural is a bit disturbing.

perhaps some regret? it looks almost like scooby doo got an extension, it looks like this was here when the hospital was still functioning, the patients tell a story no one will ever really understand or have ready answer to, maybe the3y saw something evil or knows the man with thew horns from experience, or the woman with the red eyes has some regret for some known action only to the past, or the patients knew her all too well, as i have said before the mystery of the mural is something that only the past can explain, but with the building gone as i have come to understand, it makes it all the simpler just to ponder what once was, maybe the answer will come to us someday....