What the hell is scarier than a bunch of insane dead people harassing you from the afterlife, haunted insane asylums, and the horrifying thoughts of what people were put through locked up in these places, some of whom were really f-ed up in the first place, you know, really. Smart.
House on Haunted Hill, no thank you. Clean shorts are my thing. Who the fuck let me watch that?
Onward...
Known as Americas most feared & haunted asylum - The castle on the hill, the palace on the hill, the haunted castle.
(And about a 15-20 minute drive from me. Holy scary shitballs! because I'm such a proper lady. You can see this damn thing up on it's damn haunted hill from one of our malls. Uneasiness on a dreary day, I've experienced that.)
I remember going up the highway one night with a few friends in my car, wanting to get a closer look, as much as we could without leaving the car, and turning around on the highway from the feelings we got just being in the area, that we were seconds away from having those spires off in the distance within our view. We all nearly needed Pampers.
It was 1878 & the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, in an isolated rural area of Massachusetts, was erected under the means of housing more of the mentally ill than any facility in Massachusetts, possibly in the entire north east, maybe even in the U.S at that time, and to be the first in such a secluded & serene setting, believing this would greatly aid in the treatment of mental illness.
Said to be the birthplace of the pre-frontal lobotomy, the main building (shown here) was referred to as the Kirkbride building, containing towers on each side connecting it to each of its wings, in which the outermost were reserved for the most extreme patients.
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| Massiveness, you look so much tinier from this height & view. |
"The buildings were connected by a confusing labyrinth of underground tunnels as many of the institutions for the developmentally delayed & mentally ill at the time were designed with tunnel systems to be self sufficient in the winter."
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| Because putting crazy & unstable people in a tunnel is always a great idea. |
(I won't post anymore interior photos simply because I cannot handle them, but if you do feel like shitting your pants, have a ball at http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/home.html but know they leave out the disturbing details & facts here. Perhaps it's run by an evil villain who wants us all to get fucking haunted.)
"The original plan was designed to house 500 patients, with 100 more possible to accommodate in the attic. However, by the late 1930s and 1940s, over 2,000 patients were being housed, and overcrowding was severe. People were even held in the basements of the Kirkbride."
Reports were made that various, and inhumane shock therapies, lobotomies, hydrotherapy, drugs, and straight jackets were being used to keep the crowded hospital under control.
The few & far between houses of the other local residents were unnerved by the sounds of tortured & screaming patients.
If you were the product of either medical experiments gone awry, or simply outstayed your time on this earth while residing at the asylum, you ended up here...
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| A number in the system failed. |
"In 1992, when the hospital closed, the National Guard helped by sending 80 ambulances to move the last of the patients to other facilities. Since then, the hospital has been a draw for other people, including dozens who have been arrested for trespassing on the abandoned hill."
In pop culture
- The hospital was the setting for the 2001 horror film Session 9, where an asbestos clean-up crew comes to the hospital, and they find a series of nine tapes, which have recorded a patient with multiple personalities, all of them innocent, except for one.
- The asylum was also featured in the 1958 film Home Before Dark.
- In the game Painkiller, one of the levels, called Asylum, is based on the central administration section. While the outside is a faithful reproduction, the inside is not.
- The abandoned asylum was explored on the paranormal investigation–urban exploration series SCARED! in 2004 and again shortly before its demolition in 2006.
- The Danvers State Hospital is largely believed to have served as inspiration for the infamous Arkham sanatorium from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep".
It had stood alone & decaying, boarded up, still peering over the city of Danvers, until a mysterious fire occurred in 2007.
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| I am liking this fire. Burn that haunted, creepy bitch to the ground!! *Popcorn & elf dancing* |
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I had heard about the following demolition & I was pretty excited for that place to be gone & done, laid to permanent rest with its history, esp. with all the terrifying stories of the local homes nearby.
Like the echoes they left behind was etched into a rock at the entrance of the cemetery for some Boos & shits & giggles.
So, with the crazier of those historical preservation zealots, they did next with the remains what any logical, haunted, BS historical city would do....
Luxury apartment seekers, welcome home! You wanna jump all over this shit while it's hot...
You know, before the paranormal shit hits the fan.
LUXURY living (Like bringing The Shining back to life)
And look at the gorgeous, settling view from the pool.
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| I'd be running right over to Maggie's for that BBQ. Armed to the teeth, holy water & onions in hand. (Don't know why I said onions. Vampires hate garlic, so I figured maybe ghosts hate onions. I wonder what zombies hate. Gotta know these things & be prepared). |
But you know what..... It all kind of comes together in the end.
These people are fucking insane, and they're living in an insane asylum. Possibly America's most haunted.
So it fits. It works for them doesn't it.
It's not so disturbing anymore knowing sections still stand, because they're totally gonna haunt these fuckers before they ever bother with me or you, am I wrong?
So, I know you're supposed to be shaking in your boots right now, with chills up your spine, maybe scared to walk to the bathroom, and my comical side kind of flew in & maybe f-ed that up for you.
But it turned comical for me that the people who reside there today are still completely effing insane.
So, this is my early Happy Halloween post to you. Don't eat too much candy, throw up too much liquor or molest too many bimbos walking around in slutty costumes waiting to be molested by lil dudes who are out to wreak havoc & molest bimbos in slutty costumes.
(I love slutty costumes. I'm just bitter from being attacked in one by an entire group of boys, being young & dumb, walking the streets like that on Halloween. Learned that lesson. Uh, who let me out like that & at that age as a French Maid with a trick or treat bag?)
More tales of crazy people.
Keep the kiddos safe, and away from insane asylums, and possibly creepy apartment complexes. No haunted & possessed chocolate in my house thank you.
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I'll be......on mushrooms dancing with yarn in the woods in the moonlight?
My nickname is Tinkerbell. So, this was my attempt at finding a Halloween image with her in it. Nothing to do with the post at all, I know. |