Bath Time Fun

Now THATS scary....

Burt and a.. Female Ernie?

"Burt, you're shouting again Burt!" - Family Guy

I agree, that is very scary looking. I would of had nightmares as a kid looking at those.

I agree, i would have nightmares.

kind of ruins all my good sesame street memories......

LOL at all the comments--you people are both accurate and hilarious! But those pictures are badly drawn.

whats up with ernie and those little ribbons in his hair...?? odd..... sesame street was always so fun as a kid but somehow they made them into nightmares..........

Bert and Ernie always freaked me out, lol

rubber duckie your the one.....come on everyone sing along you know the words!

Dear god! That is soooo wrong! I dont think i'll ever look at burt & ernie the same way again.

wow.

this makes me regret ever watching Sesame Street.
):

Lol Bert & Ernie!!

Ernie looks like a girl.... >D

Wow....

And I thought bigbird was weird....

Now that's just f--king creepy

Creepy. O_x

Were they really attempting to add comfort with those pictures? Strange that they would attempt it here and yet they'd keep the children locked up in those tiny little rooms.

its like a puzzle to me. the arrows, it really is quite creepy when you think about it. good job though. its beautiful

Hikaru-chan: Adults, unfortunately, can obviously be hypocrites at times. It sucks. I just thought I'd put in my understanding.

Brooklyn, I thnk the arrows mya be unrelated, I could be totally wrong, but maybe were randomly trown over the paintings by maintanance/demolishion/restoration type crews as a careless means of 'direction finding', pointing the ways to exits or something - just a thought. I don't think the arrows have anything to do with the timeframe of when the pictures were made, personally.

why is ernie a girl

crazy to think that they tried to give these poor kids confort when the whole thing was a nightmare

you,re right Tony C that probably scared the patients instead of delighting them.

Creepy. Nice photo though

its just like i remember it

i have always loved ernie but these paintings are disturbing, when you think about the kind of children who would have seen these and the nightmares which may have resulted!

Oh man, this would give children nightmares just to look at those murals.

Bert and Ernie, servants of Satan. The arrows are UE map marks. Ernie looks heavily medicated, and the guys with the coat and a hypo are standing at the ready just waiting for Bert to make a move.

AND i am totally acclamated at the furnaled power plant ..I am an extra freddie child I even have a boiler room in my story if only i could write about it all myself..hmm
http://www.myspace.com/gaeblergirl

Burt and Ernie gone deranged.........

these are 2 pictures taken from 2 different areas, so I'm not certain where they could be, Ernie I think was on B-Ward.

Although they look creepy now, I can see how these paintings would provide some form of comfort and possibly even a feeling of normallcy for the children. You have to figure someone actually took the time to paint them by hand. You will find paintings with inaccuracies like this in daycares and school throughout the country. Frankly, I have no explanation for Ernie's pigtails. (^^;

When looking at these paintings, think back to the first image of the room with the jungle painting on the wall and cieling. When you clean up the place in your mind and imagine what it could have been like with the children in it, it does make some sense.

cool and am a kid

I dont think these are too bad. The proportions are kinda wrong , and Female Ernie how cute LOL

I'm not going to have nightmares as a kid...

I'm 18 and I'm going to have nightmares tonight...

*shiver*

@Brooklyn
I think the arrows must be a possible demo code. I've been in a few sites and seen similar stuff like arrorws, numbers, etc. And I finally just asked....they did say that those are demo codes.

Rubber Ducky you're the one -squeak squeak- You Make Bathtime So Much fun.....
Wow that was comepletly random. I remember Ernie singing that.

Wow, it looks like Ernie has finally come out of the closet!!!

Maybe they made Ernie a girl to represent both genders, even if the shots are from seperate areas. I thought this was funny...

Ernie has pigtails!

Ernietta ?

"Alright kids, Ernie is going to hold your head underwater and I am going to count to one hundred. Ready, set, go!"
SPLASH!
Sounds of struggle then silence.
"Mr. Ducky you didn't see anything."
Great shot as always.

Bert and Erine were gay - -

If I were a patient in this hospital, I would develop mental disorders just looking at these paintings!

Jim Henson is rolling in his grave right now..

what if one of the kids painted that? and they could be reading this or sumthing! or they could be like dead.... i dont think u would like it if some1 was making fun of ur paintings

so wrong ... ive never though bert and ernie to be scary/creepy ... until now.

if i had found this when i was there i would have pissed my pants. the elephant/tiger etc in the cafe were scary enough...

Anyone know which wards these paintings were on?? I think Ernie was on the ward I was on. I don't remember Bert, but Ernie is VERY familiar. I can't remember the ward I was on ( I think either 2 or 3 east)???

I looked through some old letters I had. I was on 3 east. Just in case anyone cares.

Chris, is there some confusion?? The wards were A, B, C, and D.

no- i double checked the letters i recievrd while there- definately 3 east. maybe they called them something different when u were there. not sure what to say???

that could be very possible as I left there in 1988

yeah. i'm sorry you were there too hun. i swear that i still am haunted by memories of this place.... but yet i am infatuated at the same time.

I wouldn't say I'm haunted by my memories, but they do pop up in my mind at times. And I find these photos so .. I don't know ... they make me think and remember and relive somehow. Not in a bad way, but in a reflective way. As in, look at where I am now after being locked in there.

I know. I have come a long way too... I just can't believe that my past includes this place. I wish I could move on, but I can't. I want to know more. I want to know WHY I was there.

Look at Burts arms...

Dear sweet Jesus....

that is just too scary and mind fucking. something about thse murals makes my skin turn inside out.

Chris,
When was you there?
What is 3 east??
Wards A, B, D and E was the only names that was used.
It was painted on the doors and I think on the wall as well.
Even when they needed help, they wouls shout "All available help on D as in David, all available help on D as in David". And then you had an army of eager bodies rushing at you to restrain you and strip you naked and place you in seclusion.
If they changed the names, that makes us old timers. LOL

Ernie: Rubber duckie, you're the one! You make bathtime lots of fun! Rubber duckie, I'm awfully fond of you!!!!
Bert: Ernie, stop singing!!!!

creepy on so many levels....

Near the end the wards were changed to 3 east ect. I think the younger kids were on ward B, third floor right. Then that became my 3 east. I used to be on ward A ,second floor left. With the beautiful shawna wood and audrie lombard. I was always afraid of her boyfriend john woodier down the hall. I'm looking for some of my old friends from there. Brooks Bailey, Sean Brooks, christie Washington, the blond short girl on 3 EAST we called smurfette "from the smurfs", Tyrone who always had to have the O 66 on the bingo cards. Scott Landry, the spitting Sean Hayze. And to all you people wondering! This place was very sad even though I made it out alright, I know many of kids just broke down and so mentally messed up by the time they left, I just want to reach out to them and say that we missed the childhood of our life and I hope they hae made it past that. I like to look at these pictures to remember all my friends that stuck through with me. We needed eachother and it helped. I have a nice family and my own business, and I do great but miss some feelings of "I don't even know what to call it" you just block out most feelings of love, compassion,
belonging,ect. My name is Dennis Bunting and I would love to talk to some of my old friends, or people who want to know more about gaebler. My cell # is 617-733-85977. The voice mail is my company precision heat removal. Leave me a message especially if your one of my old friends.

boiler i was there in 88 i left in june.my name is shane i was john's roomate.

Me! Is it the john from ward A shawnas boyfriend. Do you know anyone from my message.

Were you at the end of the ward near the back door

are you referring to john lucciano?

Was there
I think it was john woodier he was on ward A in the last room on the left after the bend, "next to the exhaust fan in the window, across from the back door that lead down to the fenced in area and the classrooms near the wood shop." The first room on the left "after the seclusion rooms and across from the rec room" was audrie and Shawna's room. There was a colored picture in the doorway that said " shawna+john". That's the john I'm talking about. He was a big muscular kid that people were afraid of. When he told me I could go out with shawna I told him I didn't want to because I thought he was trying to find out if I liked his girlfriend, but then I saw the picture off the doorway later. That's the john. If its not woodier what is it.

Boiler 1220,

I would not be sure what John it was as I was not even on A, I was on D, but I did know there was a tall kid with dark hair named John Lucciano. He was friends with this kid Pedro.

Was there
That might be him I don't remember but shauna would know

john lucciano was roommates with scott godfry.pedro was roommates with shane,and the rooms were up front not in the back by the office thats was the girls rooms in 84-88 when i left

I was there from 82-85 as well as 88-91 and shortly after 88 boys were down the end of ward A

http://www.hall-18.com/forums/index.php

here's a site you might want to check out about info on finding your roommates and friends...the owner of the site was In Traverse City State Hospital...he is also searching for former friends.

me - did you ever keep in touch with any of them?

Hey, I am personally starting a new group in yahoo for former patients to openly discuss their time at Gaebler. Please feel free to come by and visit.


Group name: GCC2010
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GCC2010
Group email: GCC2010@yahoogroups.com

Okie222
I tried to use the sight but it said I was not authorized

hey "me" what have you been up to? this is shauna the one u would remember. i think boiler is thinking of a different shauna. i flirted with scott & even hung out with him after i escaped. they never did catch me after the 2nd time. i dont have a membership to classmates anymore . v said she emailed u with mine & her emails. just to let u know its me. do u remember when i punched lucky luciano in the face in the tv room for trying to get a feel in? that kids nose bleed forever.(lol) he loved judas priest. & scott was a preppy. & yes i remember just what u look like i can still picture u like it was yesterday. i pray u have done good for yourself and youre happy. much love always (smo)

what the hell did ever happen to scott?

last time i saw scott he had stolen a car wrecked it and was looking at jail time. but its been 20yrs. god to say it make me feel ancient. we hung out on the outside but he got into some trouble and i was getting into my own trouble lost touch. he use to live in ispwich, ma.

A couple of things here:
1 - first, what the hell were the point of these paintings? Comfort? Security, a sense of family?
2- If you are to make institutional murals, why would the characters be bathing? Weird
3- Why do they look so twisted?

i was a patient at the age of 9yrs for one month...it was a horrible experience. the year was 1970 and i couldn't understand why i was in such a place with kids who where profoundly mentally ill. i would give anything to have access to my records from gaebler...

To Larry,
You can get your records, I was there from 82-84 and I got my records, the problems is that they black out al l the staff's names who said what about you to whom and things like that, but, for the most part you can figure out for yourself. All you have to do is write to DSS and get them, you need to send a coy of your license or picture ID, a copy of your birth certificate to prove it's you and tell them the years your were at Gaebler and they by law have to send you a copy of your complete and total history there, I did it when I turned 21 or 22years old and I got them all, then aIso got all my records from DSS and everything with them and then I went to St.Germaine Lawrence School in Arlington,mass for a couple of years and I got all those recoeds too. If you have any problems, let me know, I will helpo you....

To Larry,
jJust to add one more thing, you need tto get the letter notorized as well when sending the requet for your records....I hope I was able to help you out in this matter....

pookie,

Is there a specific DSS you would write to or just the general boston headquarters address?

From ward to ward (in order of floor, in repect to facing the building): 2nd: A (Right Side) [Adolescent 16-18], D (Left Side)[Adolescent 15 - 17]; 3rd: E (Left Side) pre-adolescent to adolescent 13 - 16, B (Right Side) [Childrens unit 5 - 12]) These are the age groups that seem to fit while attending the 'fine' institution of Gaebler [pppssshhh, right].
I believe these pictures are located in the basement next to the Ocupational Therapy Room. I do not remember them anywhere else, but it has been 27 years.

I thought these were near the bend of ward A at the boys shower. I remember john stealing a drill from the shop and drilling from the boys bathroom by the urinal to the girls shower. Lol

Was There,
Hello, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. NO you canbasically contact any DSS office, but, it would be best if you contact the one that you were dealing with at the time of your stay there, also just to let you know, if u attened public scools at all after you left there then they will have a copy of your records from Gaebler as well. SInce the place has been closed, you will probably have a hard time getting them, but, it's the law and they have to give them to you, and if they say that you were never a patient there then that means they burned all the records or something, cause I tried getting them directly from Gaebler and they said they had no such patient by my name and Gaeble was till open when I tried to get them. soi I went through DSS, all I got those was papers stating I was there,nothing from Gaebler itself, I think they broke the law as we know they did a million times, but, I think they destroyed everyone's records which is against the law, I am trying to see another way of getting them. I actually just went to Gaebler today, cause I do live in Waltham and I went inside and OMG!! it's so scary, I toook pictures, I will try and put them on here if I can figure out how to do it....

Pookie;
I was there back in the 1980's on ward E then again on ward A. They have records for gaebler (not dss records) at the main number to massachusetts mental health. Its in boston downtown you have to put in a written request and state why you want the records (put for new shrinks records) then they will send you a letter letting you know if your approved to get them and how much they are going to charge you. Sorry I don't have the exact address or phone #. I got mine about 5 yrs ago + I haven't been in mass since 1999. But I think they should have a website too. Mdmh(massachusetts dept. Mental health is who has the records.

Does anyone know shawna w. From ward A 1988

I swear the artists that painted the murals in this place are retarded.

This is on ward A at the bend by the boys shower

Why is that there is it there to cheer the people up ..... it also rude to do that to my point of view

That is 2 different pictures on ward A one is at the boys shower and the other is at the girls bathroom since the shower was in the bathroom. I got pics of both. If anyone wants more pics send me a message. Boiler1220@yahoo.com or dennisremoval@aol.com or text 617-733-8597

Hello everyone! I was there as well back in 1989 the only few things i remember was going to school on the very top floor and the staff restrained me while on those steep steps. also remember i could see boston skyline from the windows on a clear night. there was this kid nick with blond hair i remember he would always get out of his restringht jacket and run. I remember the backet ball room with one hoop along with a stage for behind it. I remember the screems of some girl. i also will never for get one of the dr there the head of all staff etc came and talked to me and said you don't belong here i see nothing wrong with you i told him i was put here cause my foster mother just wanted the money and not me had me put here and other brothers were put else where. 6 months later i was released but i will never forget how those staff memberd were so abuse us. That place was haunted i will never for get the evil in that place that took place of evil Spirits controling even the staff that work there to better us instead mocked us abuse us and put us into small locked rooms and while i was in one of those locked rooms i'll never for get the spirit that tormented me and the rotten egg smell ice cold evertime it appered with a weight of 1000lb couldn't screem for help i try screeming but couldn't i'm 33 now and live in long island ny i preach the word of God and as God gave his word i Give you mine everything i'm telling you is truth about that place i believe God always watched over me and got me outa there where there is darkness let there be light where there is evil let there be good and God is always good. My foster mother wanted too me in one of those places for life i went to a few befor ending up there hmm funy all those other places turn me down and when ended up here the dr said you don't belong here. anyways soon after the place close down along with the rest of em Amen. my email address is joemcmillan93@hotmail.com

Mr Jody
You were there when I was. What ward were you on? Do you remember me from ward a?

Dennis I'm sorry but i only can remember one name and that name is nick. Nick an i seem to always be tossed into tiny locked rooms him in one an i in another my memorrie of everything is photo i see nick laughing and running down the long hall he got out of the jacket again i think he was dubble jointed but he got a kick out of it and remember the staff running after him and sitting ontop of him and all nick did was laugh ah hahahaha the staff again would put the jacket on again and pick him up toss him in the locked room but this time door lock but nick got out of jacket and ponded on the door until staff would come shoot him up with thorzeen. I remember a girl screeming for hours an hours down the hall. the weard thing is i don't remember plying out side on the swings the only thing i remember of being out side is we had to eran outside and there was one night abunch of us went down the st with staff to a stree carnavil and i got a visit from my foster mom and we went up the street to a family restruant after eating they took me back. I remember being able to walk down a main st with a staff member it got busy lots of shops streets got wider I think all this was going on closer to me being release cause i don't recall being out much while there for the year and 4 months being there.

Looks like most of you been back to that place however i never returned after i walked out that door back in 90 or 91. from my research i came across some youtube videos of the place and after seeing everything left behind such as our files i sould of just came back there to get my records.
After all you been through there and being set free what is it that makes everyone go back in there after it being closed just a hang out or what? well for the people that have been there locked up when it was open and then closed has anyone grabed paper work old files my name is jody mcmillan.

Jody
I've been there a lot. The first few times there the basement was flooded and I couldn't get to the record room. Then when I could get to the record room the records were gone. As for going there after it closed, a lot of us have mixed feelings about it. I liked going there just to remember my past. I had a lot of friends there and I was there for 5 tears total. I also like to see that its closed and know that know one else has to go through what we did.

Thank God no one hasto ever go through what we did and sad to say years befor our stay the people who indoored pain and suffring with shock treament an so on then all shut down in 92 everyone is not nuts anymore the ones who were nuts were the people who put us in those place as if we were some kind of research of some kind the staff and dr's who would make us take all kinds of drugs to make us better made us zombies i was on so much throazeen and lith E M made me unable to learn from any teacher my mind coundn't grasp anything in as if they were talking my mind would be else where in thought not hearing whats being said everything i know today i've learned on my own i thought myself how to read spell and yes my spelling still not so good as you can see lol. I've took care of myself after being released my foster mother was pissed that the places were shutting down so she put me again in hospitals that woiuld only keep me for 30 days such places were marlbro hospital umass hospital worchester and she tried to place me in a place somewhere in lancaster for life a reform school i don't remember the name but i remember the place was huge and all white but the place turned me down didn't feel i was to be locked up. when i turned 15 i took care of myself lived with friends then off to ny been all over the us los angeles seattle tampa fl and always ended up back in ny. I feel like i never was a kid from the stuff i went through but i'm such a strong person from those hard times. with all those meds i was on messed up my heart i had to have a pace maker put in at the age of 17 and been through 6 of em since will be having my 7/th pacermaker put in next year. My father lives in fl my mother still lives in ma sisters RI and brothers ma an ny but i've always been by myself and the things i had to face such as pacemaker 8 hours it took em to place it in. i've only realy been close to one brother and thats my brother dan everyone else was taking away from the department of so so stealers DSS when we were 2 years of age everyone split up to other homes not hearing from them up until 1 year ago everyone is grown up but out of all this God has took care of me out of all the heartless people who did me wrong God has made me careing givging loveing in spite of all the trubbles where nobody else wanted me God took care of me. Today i just feel like there is a black whole where the hospital once stood is now gone i can understand why us kids now adults go back there now that is gone we carrie the memorries as we move on but when i see kids yelling or not treating there momy or dad so nice swearing at them brings the memories of it all back however when i see those kids i would want them to go thrugh what we did even no child sould ever be in a place as we were and today the state and system see it that way you can't even yell at a child nor hit and the school as well amen

Well after faceing all those hard time while there then having to raise myself by takeing care of myself as no child sould from those hard time seemed to never end after being out of there but again God took care of me i'm still breathing as long as there is breath there is life. here is what i look like today you can go to my myspace page maybe my pictures will ring a bell to someone and dennies i think i was on the first floor down the hall on the right hand side a room that had maybe 10 kids to a room maybe less. http://www.myspace.com/withinthewind

Mr.Jody Mcmillian,
Hello there, I was a patient there from 82-84 and I was on Ward D, the staff members at the time were, Jack,Melody,Joanna, Harvey, Willie,Suzanne, Elaine and I can't remember the other ones, but, I so remember Tom Heathwood, he thought he was the cats ass, cause he was the head of the place and he really made us kids out to be monster, he would give the staff, and dr's orders on what to give us for meds and how to treat us, he was a scumbag, and I so wish I could find him and treat him the way we were treated. We were not monsters, we were children, and the reason some of us had problems was because our parents were screwed up, but, it's so much easier for our parents to just blame us then themselves and give us away cause it was to hard for them to deal with us. I am so sorry that you have had such a horrible life, I can't imagine starting at the age of 17yrs old and needing a pacemaker, that is horrible and now you have to have your 8th one put in, that is terrible, but, I am glad that you are still alive. I am so so so sorry that you had to raise yourself, that is terrible, what the hell is wrong with your parents? sorry to say that, but, you were just a child. My mother is actually the one who called the dept of mental health on me, and signed me away to the state from the age of 11yrs old-16yrs old when she got custody of me back and I came home to live , I was only home for just about 3yrs before I moved out a month after I turned 18yrs old and I never moved back home and now I am 41yrs old, have a wonderful husband and 2 children, 2 daugghters, one ijust turned 17yrs old & the other one is 6yrs old, I have had a tough life but, I promised myself that I would be the best person I could be and not let people cut me down and tell me the kind of person they think I am. For the longest time I hated my mother for putting me in Gaebler, but, I am older now and life is to short for hate, I am now extremely close with my mother and we see each other all the time, she actually lives a couple streets over from me. It took a long time for me to forgive my mother, I got my records and confronted her with them and she had no choice but, to tell me thet truth. As, for the building being gone, it's a shame, they should have put it to good use, like a childrens center, like a day center for troubled kids and have us patients be the staff because we would have known exactly how to handle them and treat them, medicince makes things worse, I do not believe that it helps at all. I wish you the best with your pacemaker going in for the 8th time, and hope that you are doing well and that your life is so much better. Allwe can do is prove to society that we are not as bad as we were made out to be, we are human, and humans make mistakes, some worse than others, but, that doesn't mean that us kids needed to be locked up, drugged, secluded, tied to a bed naked, ;locked int he shower alone, locked int he bathroom, and locked in the building, we shouldn't have had to earn priveledges to go outside, even then, you were still in a locked fench area, unless you were lucky to go get outside priveledges to go on the nature trail walks to Rocky Meadow, which by the way is still there, my husband and I go there every week,, and we go to the chrildren's cemetery. I have tons of pictures of Gaebler, inside and out and vieos, if you want to see them request me on facebook Michelle Woods-Godfroy. I hope you have a good day...

@ Mr. Jody.... i was there when you were. the "screams of some girl" were no doubt me. lol. i was a screamer. thats what i was known for. well that was untill the slap LOL

Lol good to know your the one i'm glad that everyone is out of there and all those places are closed down! if they were up and running who knows if we would all be there still today. with all those mest up drugs we were takeing they had control of us it was as if we were in another world and after being on those meds still today my sleep is mest up up all night sleep alday or sometime i would be up for days cause that throzeen made us sleep thank the lord we out of there

@ Mr Jody McMillan, lol,,, yeah i was a a big mouth. I also wonder if you remember me. Were you ever at somerville hospital?

No i was never in somerville hospital however my foster mother and others tried to put me in a place in lancaster Ma the hospital was huge i don't remember the name of it though but they tried to put me in there for life i believe it probly closed down as most of them in 92. The only thing i remember of it was meeting with the dr an staff they didn't believe i was to be placed in there so my foster mother tried gaebler and was placed in.
There was a movie that placed a girl in the hospital when i saw the hospital and they said lancaster brought back the flash back as it was yesterday however there is another movie where there was a girl place in but that hospital is in Stockbridge, Massachusetts called Austen Riggs Center the place is all white like the one in lancaster the name of the movie is called Intensity whice at the end of movie the girl was placed in austen riggs. I can't stand not knowing the name of the one in lancaster.

hi, new to the site, thanks.

Thomas Heathwood can be easily found, just Google him.... He lived/lives in Chestnut Hill....

Waillellemori
Welcome were you ever at gaebler?

Sesame street has been warped for me....

unbelievable the messages i've read looking at these pics.i'm unbelievably sorry for those that experienced that life. but happy to hear you all have moved on to have lives and families.knowing how to treat n properly raise a family. i live very close to met state and my whole life heard stories about that place. first time i went there i was 12 with my older brothers and there friends. this was before the buildings were borded up, the shit we seen was disgusting nevermind the feeling of someone thee n the shadows when in the underground hallways n the left behind wheelchairs and there was evan viles of what looked liked blood in test tubes from chemistry class, last time i was there was 5 years ago to show ny girlfriend n her friends plus another buddy who experierenced the same shit years earlier. when we got there and got passed the gaurds sneeking through the woods we tried getting in to the building next to the creepy concrete playground , but all windows n doors were boarded up saying no tresspassing do to ezbeztose, we tryed to prybar open the plywood covering the windows n doors but obviously we made to much noise n security wich am pretty sure was stateies we moved n the only building close to try was the addmisions building. windows borded up but front door unlocked. we went in offcourse we were drinking but we hadnt for a good two hours before we got to the med state grounds. etherway we went in. The place was trashed n grapphitti everywhere saying the devil is here n you will die if you go down the stairs,when i move i take my furniture, this building had everything left n thrown everywhere. went down stairs n the smell of mildew was awfull, besides that didnt really have any creepy feelings except for the girls freaking out. then the staties were doing thier rounds saw our flash lights n chased us . me n my girlfriend got sepperated from our friends, i told her to go for the trees n back to the main road to the car . as we ran behind the addmissions building ,i somehowe ran straight off a 30 ft dropp n landed rolling without breaking anything, my girlfriend said it looked like i floated down in slow motion to the patio that was there. we got to the cars n laughed off the staties chaseing us. me makeing the dropp was said but brushed off as bullshit, but ive had dreams of the that spot n how i told my girlfriend to go to the woods and n my dreams its daylight n its a common area for staff but concrete not grass.

I worked at Gaebler from 1980-1992 in a non-direct care capacity. You seem to forget you were in a mental hospital that housed the worst kids in the state. We even had murderers there.
They had to think safety all the time. What were they supposed to do when you kids went off. They always warned you before they put you in seclusion. It was your decision to act the way you did.

I talked to staff all the time about you kids and they cared
about you.
Of course, there were some bad ones but they got rooted out and fired.
I was there when they planned activiities for you and saw how much they cared.

I worked there
What ward did u work on? Do I remember me Dennis Bunting from ward A and 3-east? Please get whole of me and let Mr know who you are. I've only talked to one other staff from Gaebler. Atleast send me a E-mail and let me know. I will keep it to myself if you like, but I would love to hear from you and who you are.
dennisremoval@aol.com

I worked there,
I don't know who you are, but, you have as hell of a nerve saying we were the worst kids in the state and that diud we forget we were in a mental hospital, and that is why we there. Don't tell me you had to think saftey all the time, that is bullshit, a lot of the staff purposely set kids off cause it was a high to them to throw them down on the cold cement floor pull our arms behind our backs and cause us pain that was totally uncalled for and then throw us in a 2x2 seclusion room and lock the door and leave us in there for hours on end and let us piss all over ourselves. I am sure you were an abuser and you are lying about your position there. And they did not always warn us that they would put us in seclusion, they knew exactly what buttons of ours to push to set us off, you really are a horrible and mean person for saying this kind of stuff, I am sure if one your children were there you wouldn't be saying this stuff, I pray you don't have any children cause I feel really bad for them cause you probably abuse them. We weren't mental, we were kids with problems, but, I guess since you are the adult then you had the right to judge us and til this day you are still judging us. It wasn't our decision to act the way we did, we got set up and you know it. You talked to the staff about us all the time and they cared about us, bullshit, there were only a couple who did, you must be related to William Gaebler, or Thomas Heathwood who ran the place, or maybe you are Thomas Heathwood who lives in Newton,Ma. You drugged us, raped some of us, beat the shit out of some us, and got away with it, so don't you dare stand there and act like we were the problem, no we weren't, yes we did some bad things but, we didn't deserve the treatment we got, thorazine cocktails, shots of god knows what, rip our clothes off if we said we wanted to die or kill ourselves and leather restraint us to the metal bed in the seclusion room on a green rubber mat, and not even cover us up. I don't know how you live with yourself, we got drugged so we would be calm all the time, we got in trouble for every little thing we did, we were fucking kids and did the normal things kids our age did and didn't deserve the shit sandwich that you and the other staff members gave us. No one was in there for murder, so you are lying on that, I know that for a fact, I have been investigating the treatment that we as kids got, why kids were in there and if there were any kids that murdered anyone, they went to a juvinielle detention hall or lock up, not Gaebler, so shut your mouth up cause you are just talking shit. You are a poor excuse for a human being.

Yes, Dennis I remember you. My memories of you are being with Mr.
Berube a lot. You were a good kid. We got along well.
Read my comments under Auditoreum.
Let's see how good your memory is. I'll give you a clue as to who I am.
"boiler room"

I was never able to find these murals, I wish they hadn't demolished Gaebler.

Alyssa
These were on ward A by the boys and girls showers, second floor left, by the bend