Morgue

Darn, the autopsy table would be a cool shot. Have you ever gone inside one of them?

As was said on an earlier thread, IMHO it's immensely disrespectful to lie down in a morgue freezer for the hell of it. Tantamount to arsing around in coffins, taking pictures to prove how 'brave' you are (rolls eyes)...

Sorry. Just curious. That'd actually be too weird for me. (shudder)

I don't think i've seen a set of morgue freezers with a manufacturer name or logo on the front. Motts, have you? Just a weird observation of mine. Not that there would be a need to display a logo, I find the absence unusual nonetheless.

Very weird seeing that, as my girlfriend lives in Malden, and frequently passes through nearby Everett...

I have a pic of me laying in the bottome left freezer if u care to see email me at zjs148@yahoo.com

It seems that the medical building is now gone..

I was over that way today and stopped by to check on the medical building. Yes, they did just start to rip it down. Not a lot of damage to it yet but it wont take long on Monday for them to have it down all the way.

Truckie, how much has been ripped down?

If you are standing in front of the building a very small portion on the left. More or less they just ripped open the doors that were on the side and some ceiling. They ripped out the front doors, jams and all. And on the very right they ripped off the front facade, but the floors are still there. You can still access it easily, but do use extrema caution and good judgment.

DIXMONT UP DATE. IF YOU GO OVER THERE GET PERMISSION. IF NOT YOU WILL BE ARRESTED.
I just got done talking to the superintendent of the job, and the police
They are beefing up patrols on the property due to the fact that they have had equipment vandlesed/sabotashed. Just today someone stole a 50 ton dump truck and drove it through a building on the hill, causing a lot of damage to the truck.

Did they drive that truck trogh the old masion truckie????

No from what I was told it was one of the old farm buildings way up on the hill.

Truckie: That must have been you and your accomplice that my friends and I encountered Sunday afternoon in the cafeteria building! The police almost towed my car! Did they charge you with anything for being there? The officer told me that I might be charged with defiant trespassing, but he was recommending to his chief that no charges be pressed.

It was us that you run in to.We came around the building and seen the cops and went down the hill past the power plant.I guess everyone was up with you guys and no one was down below,just 2 empty cop cars.

No, that was not me in the cafeteria. I was questioned by the police around 5:00pm. They wanted to know who I was and the whole 9 yards. After I explained to them, I was the guy who halls out of there all week and the superintendent showed up all was fine. They also wanted to know if any body else was up there, and who they are. I told them there was no one else up there, I knew there were some people left up there but I was not going to rat them out. All is well.
But now they are arresting people.

STAY OFF THE PROPERT IF YOU ARE WISE!!!!! THERE ARRESTING NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!!!!!!!

the should allow people to enter the property at their own risk. they are tearing down a poece of history

Thaey would, but people are being idiots and vandalising property!!! Ass holes!!! there screwing us all!!!

The Freezers are now a thing of the past!!!They are gone now!!

paexplorers: the site superintendant saw you as you guys went around the bend and told the cops. We kept the cops busy for a while talking to them about the history of the place, but after Mr. Asshat superintendant spotted you guys, they left us a few minutes later to go find you. It seems you were able to get away without being caught by Superintendant Asshat.

Now I think I understand how everything went down that day. I still want to know who alerted the superintendant that there were people on the site. I think we were there for about an hour and a half before he showed up.

I was there that day with a good friend of mine, her brother, and her mom. A few days after our trip to Dixmont, her mom had a massive stroke and is still in the hospital. She is paralyzed on one side of her body, cannot talk or eat, and can barely move. Her doctors have found a clot in her brain and aren't very optomistic that she will recover much. She is a wonderful person that I've known since I was a teenager, so if anyone reading this is a praying person, there are many of us who would very much appreciate a prayer for her recovery. She knew about Dixmont years ago and was the one who told us about it and how it was about to be torn down.

Hey, Busted~

I'm really sorry to hear about your friends mom. I just wanted to let you know that I will be sending up prayers for her.

I thank you very much on behalf of her friends and family. I am informed that her condition has not changed much since she was taken to the hospital, but I know that stroke recovery can be a very long process. She's a very strong willed person, so I'm hoping that she will regain at least somewhat of a normal life.

BustedTrespasser
Sorry to hear about your friends mom.Just wanted you to know i was not irritated talking to you,just cautious.Glad you guys didn't get in any trouble.

Thank you for your concern. And no harm done. With all that was going on at the site that weekend, I can understand why people would be cautious. But we thank you for sharing the info that you did, it was helpful for our little quest that weekend.

Just a brief update on my friend's mom. She's been moved from the ICU in a Pittsburgh hospital to a rehabilitative nursing home in the suburbs. She's been stabilized for about 2 weeks now and is showing some signs of improvement. Her family has been very involved in her rehabilitation so far and we are all hoping for continued improvement. She can clearly understand when people communicate with her and she recognizes everyone, but with her being paralyzed over most of her body, she can do little communication back with us. Please continue to to pray for her, it is working! She's already doing a bit better than her doctors thought.

BT, we will hope for a Christmas miracle for your friend's mom!

i'll be praying. and i know there will be a miricle, and i am sure she will recover faster than thought. also u know what this picture makes me want. I would love to be in there at night and take some pics. It would be really interesting

does anyone have floor plans or know how to contact the super?

Hey George I may have what your looking for
Contact me at zjs148@yahoo.com
Thanks
zach

It's so sad to see these buildings are gone now. But there is some good news with my friend's mom. She is continuing to make some progress and her feeding tube should be removed any day now, if it hasn't been already because she can eat on her own now. She seems to have no cognitive damage to her brain from the tests that the doctors have done, just seems that it is mostly motor skills that were damaged by the stroke. She's able to say "yeah" in response to questions, but not much else yet. She has been laughing with friends and family when they visit her and is completely aware of everything around her. I hope to go with my friend to visit her sometime over the next few days.

I also can't forget to thank those who have prayed for my friend's mom. You may not even know it, but you've helped in some way to make life better for someone you don't know and probably have never met. Your kindness will certainly be rewarded in some way, so if some unexpected positive event happens to you sometime in the near future, know that it is more than just good fortune; you're being blessed. When you acknowledge your blessings, they continue! I hope you are greatly blessed for your kindness and thanks to all of you once again. :)

It's good that she is doing much better. I applaud her for her bravery, and my prayers will continue for her family and friends, BT!

Construction of the Hutcheson building was originally started about 100 yards west from where it is today. It's named after the past superintendent. After the foundation was completed and the steel work had a good start the whole building slid down the hill as an old abandoned sewer had been blocked by the new foundation. Much to my fathers dismay, the building site was paved over and the construction was started anew very near to our house. It was an early lesson to me about NIMBY. I can still hear the screams that came through my bedroom window on hot summer nights.
The Hutcheson building was where shock therapy and lobotomies were done. Those practices never sat well with me as I was growing up and I distanced myself even more from the subterfuge behind those walls. I never really trusted or befriended any patients although I knew plenty of them. There was always that uncertainty.
When the Hutcheson building was being built I made a lot of pin money buying pop at the canteen and selling it to the construction people at about 100% profit. Richard Goubeaud sold them groundhogs he shot on the hill. He got 50 cents for them. He and his mother made and bottled root beer all summer to sell on the job site to buy her dentures.
There was a big black man who was his best customer. He worked alone and cleaned up around the nearly completed building site at night and my sister and I used to listen to his jokes and funny stories. He was the first black adult I ever knew and he fascinated Nancy and I many nights in the summer of 51. I remember following him to the streetcar loop in Emsworth one time and ratting on him as a joke for bringing a dead groundhog on the trolley. The conductor thought that was funny as heck when our friend then offered to pay an extra fare for that shopping bag that held his dinner.
But a practical joke got out of hand when his construction boss asked him to clean up around the new, but not yet commissioned morgue in the basement. He had fixed up a mannequin with a big bandage on its head doused with mercurochrome. Then he put it on a stainless steel draw out tray in the morgue refrigerator. Our friend dropped dead when he pulled out the tray. I never learned his name.
Bob Cammarata, son of Dr. J.A. Cammarata and resident of the Gate House that burned down 11/23/05

Thank you so much for your comments, Bob. I love hearing stories like these from those who were somehow involved or connected to the hospital history. I think I have seen your comments before on another Dixmont site somewhere. Keep em' coming.

By the way...the only building still in current usage which was a part of the Dixmont property is the Cammarata Building http://www.dixmontstat....com/Cammaratta.html which now houses a Glen Montessouri School and ironically, the Verland Institute which provides services for the mentally retarded. This building is on the very edge of the property, right next to the site of the old gatehouse which burned down recently. It is just a boring old 50's style plain brick structure.

Bob and weasel. I worked at the Verland Foundation off Mt. Nebo for a couple of years. Is the Cammaratta building going to stay, or is Wal Mart going to have it bulldozed, too?

I think it is going to stay. It is hard to explain this, but that particular building is not right where the Kirk and the others were. It is at the end of the road before the hosp entrance was. Hmm.. how can I explain it? Like, picture a cul-de-sac before a driveway, and the position of the Cammarata Bldg. is at the end of the road, off to the right but BEFORE the driveway which leads to the construction site. So, technically, it is not even being involved in the whole thing. I guess it COULD change, but the last time I drove up there, that is how it was. There are residential houses on that road leading up to the driveway as well, so you can imagine how pissed these people are about how close the wal-mart will be. I know a family who live a few blocks away from the site.

Thanks, weasel.

it look like someone dead away in the kitch

these hospitals always had morgues that could handle autopsies.
i think they were trying to hide the reasons for people dying!!!!!

yes!!! because the best way to hide the reasons for people dying is to have a morgue where you can perform autopsies and establish the cause of death!!!!!!

durrr.

i think i saw this on the show, The Most Scariest Places on Earth... a guy who went in there with three other girls got on one of those metal bed things and the three girls pushed him in and shut the door...he was freaking out he said everytime he breathed it was cold and he couldnt get that feeling out of him and he just wanted to leave. I think its so cool :) i would love to visit one of these hospitals or schools!

Nikki, I was just going to write about that... I saw that episode! Hey, that was sooooo creepy. That's why almost all of my other comments have to do with dixmont b'ing haunted.

I spent hours walking all through Dixmont with my friends and saw some really wild things in the pics we took. The tunnels were the eeriest feeling part of the property to me.

thats 1 darn scary pic. me and meg are 10 u no

ill i wouldnt go in their its scary looking ill............

I am sorry...but in all reality for a second not only would you have to be sick as to keep the autopsy tables but something has really got to be wrong with you..i mean now lets face facts here..there was a dead body on that man!!! EEEeeewww!

Its very different with English made! American builds each drawers level with each doors. English builds each drawers level just in one door