About 20 years ago I had a service call to fix some equipment at Willard Correctional Facility and thought that the State Hospital was part of it. No staff was around and as I looked around for someone, I got a very creepy feeling especially when I passed by an old shower room that sounded like water was dripping. I nearly ran out of the building and was greatly relieved when I finally saw some (real) people. I'll never forget it and you can't convince me that the place is not haunted!
Thanks for including Kenmore Mental Hospital In NSW Australia where I reside. Australia has a habit of knocking down the old buildings hence losing its History. I really appreciate all the trouble you have gone to - your research is meticulous. 💗☮️🐨🇦🇺
Yes, but I'm sorry. It beats the h*ll out of letting them run loose to hurt others. I do wish, however, that we could develop some humane way of treating the mentally ill without endangering the general populace. Letting them fall through the cracks and wind up homeless is inhumane to them and puts the rest of us in danger.
Psychiatric hospitals are needed, all closing does is put mentally ill people on the street unable to live the same as others. Yes they were mistreated and that's what should have been dealt with.
@@no834 Absolutely. Many of them wind up homeless.and in prison. It's inhumane to them to let those so mentally ill that they can't function roam free and a danger to the rest of us. I'm 64 years old. The standard used to be if they were a danger to themselves or others they were committed. Now it's all so open-minded that their brains have fallen out. It went from being too easy to commit to the degree that husbands got rid of wives they no longer wanted by committing them to sanity - it took a hearing when it became that standard I just mentioned - to the current insanity. What is definitely needed is better oversight of the hospital as well as adequate funding so they aren't stretched too thin to see that they aren't mistreated and a return to if they are a danger to themselves or others with a hearing to commit them against their will.
Crazy.. I’ve known many people who have been through the Willard program as an alternative to prison. Unfortunately, I struggled with substance abuse for many years which resulted in me being in and out of countless institutions and jails, which is why I’ve known so many people that have gone to Willard. Didn’t know it had such a history. Sad, sad stuff. I’ve been in and out of many psychiatric hospitals throughout the years as well, unfortunately, due to my struggles with major depression mixed with substance abuse issues, and while psychiatric treatment methods/conditions have obviously improved over the years, many of the hospitals and facilities that cater to the mentally ill operate under horrible conditions. Many of the nurses and aids are jaded and obviously only work in the field for the check, which sucks. Thankfully there are many who do it because they’re passionate about helping others who are in pain. There are many empaths who were like angels to me and comforted me during my darkest moments when I wanted so badly to just end my life. I am grateful to be able to say that it’s been like 6 years since I stopped using and although I still suffer with extremely severe depression that is damn near paralyzing some days, I am thankful I’m not using, in jail, in rehab, detox, shelters, psych wards, or living on the streets like I did for nearly half of my life. Without the option to go into the hospital for psychiatric/drug treatment when I became utterly hopeless, suicidal, and exhausted numerous times, I don’t think I’d be alive today. However, MANY of those institutions are totally run down and need a complete overhaul. Some staff members at some locations are extremely cruel, neglectful, and mean to patients. Many of those patients can’t even string together a coherent sentence and have no control over their behavior, yet they are treated as if they do, and are penalized and yelled at for acting out. The food is absolute trash and different from what the rest of the “normal” parts of the hospital receives.. I just wish that the facilities like that would be improved upon. The mentally ill deserve the same level of treatment that any other patient of the hospital gets. There were many awesome hospitals though and I’m grateful for it. My eldest brother spent nearly 3 years in pilgrim state psychiatric hospital, which is a hell hole. He took his own life a few years after he was released. I believe that being locked in there for so many years took a huge toll on him .. that place is for the SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL. He would wake up to his roommate smearing their own feces on the walls, writing with their own sh!t. My brother was completely normal, very intelligent, extremely generous, and highly capable.. his only issue was major depressive disorder and anxiety .. and drug addiction. He didn’t belong in such a severe place. They place the criminally insane there. I miss him so much and wish he got the real help he needed. He didn’t need to be locked in such a miserable place… they just threw him in there and forgot about him, all because he wanted to kill him self. 💔 I’m sorry for getting overly personal. This video just made me think a lot, especially when you were showing the patients belongings and showed the man who was the gravedigger and begged them to release him. So sad that all of those people were locked up in those places, for things that have absolutely nothing to do with mental illness. If there truly is such thing as ghosts, I’m sure that these places would be prime locations for restless souls to be trapped. Anyway, thanks for the video man. You rule!
D, Blessings To You, I'm a Kindred Spirit Even Though My Lifes persecutions werent as serious! Even Though Severity of What ever is an Individual opinion word dealing With Individual intolerances. People with Mental Problems &/or Mystery Illnesses That drs some times even laugh At, ponder MCS/Multiple Chemical sensitivities as a Trigger, I Have it Wickedly bad But learned a lot. Each Person/Sufferer has similar triggers/Reactions But Each Has Horrendously Different Ones so Absolute testings diagnosises Are Not reliable!!! Researching & learning is & MCS Can lead to Chemical addictions and Many Terrible Reactions! sadly mainly but NOT always Its Chronic & progressive & Leads to Addictions & OD-ing Suicides while the medical profession and people around you laugh and tell you its just imagination or stress or what ever. Its real & True & World-Wide Sufferers Finally banding together. drs Think its Mental Illness & Send U 2 Shrinks who prescribe medication = Chemicals = Allergy/Intolerance reactions making MCS Worse & making Sufferers Choosing self Death to get out of the pain. Research & learn about bcz as i said Its different with each person. Some times some of the simplest things in daily life causes the most horrendously painfull reactions...
Holy crap! Can you imagine what it might be like trying to detox at a haunted former asylum? Rob, you have outdone yourself this time. I've heard of none of these places and so you just sucked me in from the beginning. Excellent episode; thank you SO much!
I grew up near Pilgrim State Hospital in NY. When we moved to a town that bordered the grounds in 72, the patients often walked away and were simply driven back to the hospital by our neighbors. Most were older people and just wanted a cigarette. By the time I graduated HS in 1981 patients were being transitioned to group homes, and buildings were being repurposed. The local Community College used several buildings. Sneaking into the abandoned Edgewater Building was part of our teenage initiation. My Grandfather was one of the Ironworkers that built several of the main buildings, prior to WWII. The Long Island expressway didn’t exist, so my Grandad’s crew would ride together in a pickup from Brooklyn to the Hospital daily to work. 30 plus miles. He said you would start to hear the patients screaming when you were half a mile away.
I’m a fellow long islander.. I’m a little further out East., but my sister went to stony Brook university, and she worked for transitional services back in the early 80s thru her pre-Med program. My parents hated it, Bc it was a kinda spooky place to be! It’s still a creepy bunch of buildings.., and I was wondering if pilgrim would be on this list! I’ve heard about the people screaming from inside those buildings.. even after they stopped using them for psychiatric purposes!
Great job! Just as great of a channel as criminally listed IMO. hopefully this channel grows faster than ever. Thank you for all you do in your videos. Respect from Massachusetts
Right. Masturbating in prison is illegal and you can be charged along with you will be put into solitary confinement for it. Which then what do you think that person would do by themselves in a tiny room.
@@ferguson8143 I knew people weren't supposed to be having sex, but I didn't know about the masterbation... I guess you would have to get CAUGHT for anyone to be able to enforce that rule.😂 Pretty crazy!
Why are you and your channels so wonderfully Badass? Besides that obvious point, the first story broke my heart regarding the part about Mr. Lawrence, the gravedigger. How very sad. We think our lives are so hard. 😞
Excellent video!! Nothing worse than abandoned facilities for the mentally unstable. Though, Willard State hospital should have been deemed unacceptable due to burying people without their name and the dignity.
You have to consider the times. Horrible as it was as the video clearly explained, it was more humane than what they were taken from. Maybe someday mankind will figure out how to truly deal with those who are too mentally ill to function. It keeps improving so there is hope.
Drat! Saw the title and was hoping you'd get the one my sister lived in for years. They claim they didn't take children but she was committed at 13 after assaulting our mother. It too is closed and abandoned now but I don't know if it's haunted or not. This definitely makes up for last weeks. Very interesting stories even just in terms of their history whether or not they're really haunted. I'm not putting much stock in that TV show. They've money to make but other sightings and people fleeing. Very interesting.
Did you not ever try to save her? If so how come? Issues of your own? A family can help more than they think, at least someone who wants and asks for help and works at self-help.
@@Medietos What a lot of f*cking assumptions you made there, bubba. Of course we did. Doesn't mean we were able to. But thanks for the judgment. Super helpful of you, didn't depress me at all.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer That's a rude and hurtful reply to my casual Q and reflection. Nothing in your comment showed you had tried to help her, and no, there is no "Of course", because a lot of ppl don't and my family certainly haven't . Not for decades. It is you doing the judging, please read again and think before you accuse innocent ppl. There was no cry for help and I wasn't intending to help, but to orientate myself in dire need. I cam't help everybody for nothing all my "life", and you can't expect that. Sorry if my neutral comment activated negative feelings. Maybe I am too deadly sleep-deprived, stolen home and money , massive mistreatments and that was what I wrote. An other time maybe read 2-3 times before you assassin someon'es character online. Not exactly uplifting either. And you don't swear at people.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer: No accusation here, but yours, out of fantasy/ false assumption about me, wild interpretation. You have to look and see what is actually in someone's text! And be decent, it is you who treated me badly. Your comment is calmly merry. I take a lot of look at myself, thanks. I didn't treat you badly, I didn't know you and can't treat you...I just thought I might get some idea of why familie's don't take an interest and help/save, which many don't and mine haven't. There are reasons for it, and i am practising getting myself out of exactly presumptions about others I know, victimhood/ -role. It is difficult being alone not knowing how to survive or why they keep harming me. If you re-read your original comment and mine, I am interested in what fairness you might have to say to me after that. I am sorry about your sister and your pain.
I grew up in middle Georgia, and it was common for people to speak of someone being "in Milledgeville". That was where the state mental hospital was, and it had been there since the 1820s. It was truly the kind of place that people went into and were sometimes never seen or heard from again. It was closed in the 70s, and empty buildings are still there, a magnet for ghost hunters. After the War Between the States, many women that had endured the horrors of Sherman's Army and the March to the Sea had to be committed because their minds were permanently broken from that targeted attack. Of course there was no such thing as effective therapy in those days so most just languished. The South has their own brand of crazy, and the hospital in Milledgeville definitely contributed to it in Georgia anyway. I could tell lots and lots of stories of relatives and acquaintances that were associated with it, but it's way more than you would want to read.
My grandma died in a state hospital 12 days after she got there the death certificate says pneumonia was the cause. I wish to know what actually happened in those 12 days probably never know
I went to Poveglia in 2017 to do a fine art photo shoot. I didn't find it particularly horrifying, it just had a very sad atmosphere. It's very overgrown and difficult to pick your way through even in winter.
My Grandmother worked at Newark State School in Newark NY. It was renamed in the late 70's as Newark Devlopmental center. It is very haughted and to this day frightenes me today just to drive by!
Out of all the abandoned buildings mental asylums would definitely be the most creepy especially when you know what happened in them when they were in operation.
Honestly the lobotomy terrifies me to my core. Then mix in how loose they were with handing out the "treatment" and patients wouldn't have the option for consent. The case of the Kennedy daughter is one that really breaks my heart because she was such a amazing woman and her father was the one who shunned her to a asylum and ordered a lobotomy on her and he didn't tell his family/her family what where was going on with Rosemary. I think she's an amazing person and I don't understand how someone/your parent could do that and she was fully functioning she just was in touch with her feelings and showed signs of depression or something I need to check but regardless it didn't require, that, she lost the ability to ever speak afterwards, she couldn't move it took life long therapy to regain any movement. Scariest thing is, rosemary wasn't told, she thought she was going in for a routine tooth procedure but came out of it nearly a vegetable... My heat just aces for her and others liker that also was forced into conversion and electroshock therapy, isolation. To name a few things
Yeah that story makes me sick too. I don't think the lobotomy was ever a treatment but used as a way of dealing with an ends to a means. It was always someone else's choice for that person to get it, to keep the quiet to some just so disgusting. Humans can be monsters.
Part of me wants to say the reason these Asylums are haunted and why the ghosts seem to be so malevolent is that no one was ever held accountable for the crimes carried out by the staff and the patient's families and friends turned on them and abandoned them for the pettiest of reasons caring more about preserving family names and public images
In Ontario, Canada, there is the Wellington county poorhouse. It is now a museum. However I've been to a music recital there, and the lights kept flicking in and off and there was scratching on the walls. I read a pamphlet from the local chamber of commerce, and spoke with locals and they all confirmed it's one of the most haunted places in Canada. At one point they found an unmarked cemetery in the woods behind it. It's probably one of the most haunted places I've ever been.
My house was built in 1955 and it is still inhabited by the former resident. She passed in 2018. I find lights turned when I arrive home, things are moved around. The house is always locked. She lived more than half of her 98 years in this house, from 1963 to 2016 when her daughters put her in a nursing home
The owners have a responsibility to maintain these buildings. One day, something catastrophic will happen and people will lose their lives as the choose to squat in these old buildings.
PLEASE do one on Byberry mental hospital Philly PA. They have way cool tunnels and the campus is huge. Old and creepy and what a history. Philadelphia USA
Back in the day my home state (Illinois, specifically Chicago and Cook county as well as the collar counties) had quite a few Insane Asylums. More of an "Interesting, I suppose you can say" history than the state I currently reside in (New Mexico). I would be up to perhaps one day venturing out to do some brief and respectful urban exploring of what was once an Insane Asylum.
Pennhurst hospital in Pottstown PA I believe it is within that area that was another place that was just like this one I believe they closed it in 1986 finally. There are some RU-vidrs that go there to explore they have to get permission though from the caretakers but I've seen some videos.
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