A Virtual Tour of an Abandoned St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital 

A Virtual Tour of an Abandoned St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital
Over the years Freaktography and RiddimRyder have explored this old abandoned psychiatric hospital dozens and dozens of times, we even put up hammocks in the forensics unit and spent the night in 2017.
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On my very first urban exploration of the Abandoned St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital in 2014 we just got lucky, we found an open door and the access to the tunnels was unlocked, so I would explore a few buildings until we ran into Stan, the maintenance guy who sporadically comes by to check on things.
Following this initial visit that was cut short and knowing now what Stan the Maintenance Man told me, RiddimRyder and I returned to St Thomas, Ontario not long after and we managed to make our way inside and explore as much as we possibly could with the few hours that we had. We would explore the tunnel system, the forensics unit, the morgue and autopsy room, many of the various wings and pavilions, all with much success.
Fast forward two weeks and RiddimRyder and I are on site and ready for a full day of exploring, we make our way to one of our pre-set entry points….it’s locked.
We walk the perimeter looking for any open doors or windows and come up with nothing, they’re onto us and they’ve sealed off the entire facility.
By the end of 2014, we had managed to explore almost all of the abandoned asylums buildings.
So now it’s 2015 and I have been by a few times to find no access to the facility, not one to break windows or force my way in, I leave and hope for another day that Stan the Maintenance Man will have forgotten to lock that door!
The 4 pavilions at the back of the property were fenced off, closed many years before the closure of the rest of the facility and had been blocked off from the inside, fenced off from the outside all doors were locked or windows well boarded up. But from the outside, looking in the windows you just knew that these buildings were good, they had been sealed off with no heat, no power, no temperature control for many many years…..they have to open up at some point!
Later in 2015 Finz519, RiddimRyder and I discovered that a lower window in a door had been at some point kicked in on one of the back pavilions that were sealed off so we now had the opportunity to explore these two buildings, and just our luck we could also get into the main facility that day.
The damage and decay inside was amazing, the other side of the facility was still in such great shape with no decay or damage, so to see this side, which looks JUST like the other side, only with decay was a very cool experience. It was like stepping into a time warp and made for some excellent abandoned videos for the Freaktography RU-vid Channel.
The maintenance team here are on the ball and they are pretty quick to close up any holes, broken windows, open doors etc, so access is always for a very short period of time, so the access to these two buildings had been closed when we went by, so we would have to wait for another chance.
I would not visit at all in 2016 but in 2017 I would stop by once for a solo explore just for the hell of it and then again in December 2017 for an overnight of exploring with Freaktography, RiddimRyder and Carlo Paolozza
I wanted to see the whole place, in the summer of 2018 I drove through and found that finally, someone had kicked in another window and maintenance had not yet spotted it! I finally had my chance to explore the last two buildings of this old psychiatric hospital.
It was just as incredible as I imagined it would be, the decay, the destruction, the damage! To make things even more interesting, in the one pavilion is where they held the staff daycare centre so the walls were covered with chalk drawings, tiny palm prints and more. At the time, I was certain that I was in the children’s ward but some former staff members advised me after the fact that this was the staff child care centre.
It still makes for some incredibly creepy and interesting photo opportunities!
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