Asylum Shade

I don't know if it because this IS night photography, but this is one gloomy looking place. It's rather harsh architecture to my eye, even with the turret-like "extensions?".

I'M SURE MOTTS WILL AGREE, PHOTOS CAN NOT CAPTURE HOW AWESOME THIS PLACE IS. IN MY OPINION, NSH IS THE MECCA OF ALL ABANDONED HOSPITALS.

ALSO, IF YOU WALK UP TO THIS PLACE FROM A CERTAIN AREA, IT GREATLY ENHANCES THE ALLURE.

Darkness...closing in...

The building says 'goodnight'.

Worked almost fourteen years nights. Observed it all. The best, the worst, the downright ugly and the ultimate of compassion. These sad old buildings have seen it all. They will always bring back the tortured spirits of days gone by, but they also will bring back the compassion and understanding that so many brought to this sad enviorment. It's not a kick, it's a sacred burial spot that deserves respect and reverence. I experienced only one ghostly experience in the fourteen years that I worked and I opened myself up to the whole complex when I worked nights. I visited the main building one night after it had closed , because my curiousity got the best of me. I unlock the door on my old ward and got about half way down the hall and voices from all sides , a chorus told me in no uncertain terms to leave. I did an immediate about face and left. The message was delivered and I took it serious. The only ghostly experience that I ever encounterd and noone knew the physical layout of that old complex than I did. Don't let the phony's gone one about that nurmerious encounter with the other side in this old space, they really know not, I do.

The contrast of light and shadow is impressive, It catches the main theme of old main and it's children.

This is a particularly forboding shot. Especially the way in which the bars on the windows show up so well, despite the shadows that loom over the building.

My Uncle spent fifteen plus years there until sometime before it closed. I visited him once with my parents when I was ten. The only thing I remember was the overwhelming smell of urine, and loud yelling/howling inside the building. You feel the "lunatics" still. It truly was an awful place. It still is.

I love this web site its soooooo amazing and it helps you see how the people suffered when they were in there

This building is so beautiful. I think I could sit and look at it all night. So many lives and so many souls passed through it. Thanks Motts for giving us all a chance to see this worderful work of art. If not for you, I would never have known it existed.

wow that place is huge. i can imagine getting lost in there.

If only I had the balls to go in there after all the stories I have heard from this place. I do know that when you drive by it, you get "that feeling". All the stuff I heard was just too damn scary to actually go in there. Though as I'm older now, I would visit if I didn't move to the west coast.

I don't know if it's mentioned anywhere on here, but houses in the area, were inhabited by doctors that worked there. Most, if not all of those houses had tunnels connected from the basements to the hospitals cellar. Spirits inhabit those halls as well as some of the houses. Alot of messed up things went on here, that were lost in records or just kept "on the downlow". Of course, this is just what I hear from my grandparents, my mother, aunts, and now former school teachers and people who live right around that area.

My ex boyfriends mom was in there and it felt like tales from the darkside it was a really strange place.

Wow, this place is pretty big! I looked at this picture and felt cold...maybe the shadows or something. Weird.

I had a great grandfather who lived and died in one of the wards here. We still don't know what he did to get in there, but my uncle said that when his mother went to visit him and took him, he (uncle) would hear screaming, moaning, and gibberish as he waited at the nurse's station. Scary.

@Frazmataz-That's really sad about your great grandfather-mental illness is a very sad and scary condition.

Lovin' the look of this place--too bad it's gone!