Goodbye

The colors in this pic are great.

is this place hunted for real because i live in this town and people say its haunted?

So you believe everything that you hear? Haunted or not .. great shots

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see

I don't believe everything I hear but I do however believe this place has a very good chance of being haunted.

I wasn't contesting that this place wasn't haunted, just a saying my Pa used to tell me and he also add "never to write anything down that you didn't wish others to know."

I remember when I was a kid living in Rochester NY I use to frequent a cemetary w/some friends to this day we still talk about the time I pointed out a gentalman standing at a grave and when we got there no one was there but I heard my name being called.

I was told that if you write a msg to a entity/ghost they will respond...

how would the entity/ghost know it was for him / her?

some people dont believe in ghosts but i do because i live in a haunted house and every night i got to sleep i can hear people screaming and playing cards and the only people that live in my house are me and my husband. sometimes we'll even hear like big booms like something is mad. we believe we have a evil spirit in our house.

Evil spirit or a spirit that is not at ease? I have a house that was left to my siblings and myself that was build in the late 1700's and is haunted .. we have allowed the spirits to stay there they are actually entertaining ..if you allow them to know you are there then they will stop the pranks and live there with you quite nicely .. if you have kids they will see them more then you will.

The gouse I have is right outside of Salem Mass

Thanks for documenting this old-sad place. It was never a happy place to be and I doubt that when these high-priced condos (or whatever) are finished on this land it still won't be a happy place. It's unfortunate that we are so willing to demolish the old and beautiful to put up something ugly!

last summer (summer 04) I took a trip to MA to see old main before it was destroyed...I photographed the outside throughly but unfortunitly could not get inside. There were construction people all over one side of the hospital tearing it down. But what an amazing place, its horrible to think that its no longer standing.

dont beleive in ghosts? i lost my wallet tonight after i had put it down on my couch. i looked for about 10 minutes trying to find it, pullling out couch cushions and such. i couldnt find it. then my girlfriend sits down on the couch and i turn to talk to her and the god damn wallet is laying next to her where it definatley wasnt before. i swear. i got lots of other stories about my house with shit like that, like doors locking themselves and coming home to all the faucets in the house turned on full blast and all the chairs up on the dining room table!

Any way the clour of the grass is great

People without bodies (ghosts) are everywhere even here, just show them respect. They are just like you and me (emotions and all) with out a body.

Goodbye Old Friend.

The manicure of the grounds,the shine and cleanliness of the halls are now gone, and everyone judges a building that has stood vacant for 25+ years, against the harshness and ravishes of nature, as a creepy, haunted snake pit. I liken the pictures of this building to the pictorial history of Titanic, those in her glory and magnificence and presently of her in her watery grave.

The building was once a magnificent structure but its Time has come to an end. It is time to remove this once magnificent structure from the landscape.

But God bless all the Care Givers who passed through the halls of this building and who worked and sacrificed, under impossible conditions, to provide a clean safe haven for mentally ill patients and other unfortunates who found themselves locked away in this overcrowded Institution. But don't judge their procedures and treatments too harshly for someday, someone may refer to our "modern" procedures as "Barbaric"!

The Hospital, Buildings, Staff and Patients were an experiment in the treament of Mental Illness that in some ways succeeded admirably and in others failed so miserably!

I have walked through these halls,buildings and tunnels a thousand times, and have seen the beauty of the structures of the past as well as the diplorable conditions of the present. I have witnessed the suffering of an overcrowded patient population and the hopes, tears and anguish of an undermanned staff. But as I took my last walk through "Old Main", my eyes saw the building as it once was and I saw and heard the Staff and Patients from a bygone era, all in their places, frozen in time.

Dilly Dally can write my Eulogy!

Mine too! Bravo - excellent perspective and one I share. :-)

Nice Dilly Dally, Very nice.

I'm from the area. My sister and brother-in-law just moved into a house right down the road from the Noho hospital site. I've never been in there, but I know people who have. The outer facades are sad and creepy enough for me!
It'll all be razed quite soon. The property values in Northampton are waaaay too high at this point.
I'm surprised Danvers is still standing. Property values out there are even higher. But...it takes time to raze these kinds of buildings nowadays. You know, Asbestos, environmental regs, and whatnot.

Nice trip around the grounds, brings backs many wonderful memories and a few horrific also. A peice of the past that is about to come to an end, thankyou my talented friend.

Destroying a place like this is an authentic crime. What a sad thing.

Yeah, it truly is a shame that places like this are constantly being demolished. Some people just have no respect. I'm glad you got to explore it again before it get's demolished, Motts.

I'm glad you mentioned me! I am here responding your messages. You can find me in that picture waving, I'm standing next to the second window from the left. I'm glad you and your friends visited me, and I'd like you to come to my humble recidence again.
Love,
Hipolytha.

They just had some big meeting the other night about the hospital campus. I didn't go, so I don't know what it was all about. I assume it is local concerns over the imminent demolition.
If you cross Route 66 and walk down the little trail past the buildings that are still in use there are tons more abandoned buildings that belonged to the hospital. Not that anybody should trespass or anthing...

Does anyone think their are ghosts in there?

I drive by those buildings every day. The cops sit out front every day. Nothing changes. I keep hearing of imminent demolition, but it never comes. As with Byberry and other places, I think there are three major holdups:
Asbestos, asbestos, and asbestos. The mesiothelioma ambulance chasers wait with baited breath!

THIS IS AMAZING....IT'S LIKE LOOKING AT A STILL SHOT OF A MOVIE(LIKE THE RING). TOO BAD IT WILL BE GONE!

I don't want it to go either, i try to visit as much as i can before it gets torn down. As far as i know however, it is still standing.

What a nice place! I hear from many people that they hear voices coming from the building. I want to take a visit some day and see it in person.

ill never see this building,thanks to Mr. Motts and everybody thats been here, I did get to experience though your eyes. THANKS

Está exitante x3 ~

Why do they always turn these beautiful places into houses or apartments?

unfortunatly , or fortunatly depending on how you look at it ma . real estate is very pricey.

if developers restored this beutifull building a 1 bedroom 1 bath could easily fetch 400. 000. maybe 300.000

I would never ever want to live in a building that was a hospital or jail, or a psychiatric residence. I would never feel at peace.

is this really haunted? Cause dang I can really tell this place is really creepy and I think that the blood bath pictire is pretty gross is that really blood and stuff comin out of the tray? Cause that is really crazy yet i think that ii is really awesome so keep postin cause these picture are really awesome in a creepy and scary way!

Bob, go back to that picture and READ what it was, think about it, how could REAL blood be there from all those years ago???

I have not been to the site since 2004. Is it completely gone now? Can anyone post an update on the status of the campus?

The kirkbride is completely demolished.

and the memorial complex is also demolished as of october 2008

is it true hospital hill and the place is hunted??i dought it i would love to see th place

I loved these pics that I saw. Just beautiful.

scary or what bruv

Motts can u put this Wallpaper PLease. I love this last shot. Thanks Motts.

Dilly dally - very nicely said . Love these old places wish the walls could talk