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Images and Offerings from the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane. This video consists of various photos through the years--interior and exterior pictures of the Asylum. It was actually much larger than any single photo could show. Each photo is just a small section of a hospital complex that weaved in and out. 5:47 shows an aerial view of the entire complex. At 6:18 is mostly interior shots without music. It didn't have graffiti or bad vandalism-which actually made it scarier. 7:47 spiral room. It seemed like a very old working hospital.
Once state-of-the-art mental healthcare facilities, Dr. Kirkbride buildings have long been relics of an obsolete therapeutic mental health treatment/ method known as 'Moral Treatment.' In the latter half of the 19th century, these massive structures were conceived as ideal sanctuaries for the mentally ill and as an active participant in their recovery. Careful attention was given to every detail of their design to promote a healthy environment and convey a sense of respectable decorum. Placed in secluded areas within expansive grounds, many of these insane asylums seemed almost palace-like from the outside.
The 'Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane,' opened its doors on August 1, 1878. The building, located in Pontiac, Michigan, resembled a typical Thomas Kirkbride model of Asylum (1860's) and was designed by Elijah E. Myers. In 1911, the hospital changed its name to 'Pontiac State Hospital' and was then renamed the 'Clinton Valley Center' in 1973. On March 20, 1981, the hospital was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Due to a decreasing number of patients (and 1980's cuts to aid for federally-funded community mental health programs), the facility was closed in 1997 by the State of Michigan and demolished in the year 2000. Statistically, the homeless population jumped 40-60% in the region around the hospitals after the closures.
A subdivision now stands on the site of the old mental hospital. This video consists of various photos through the years--interiors and exterior photos. The did the video primarily for archival purposes.
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@jennifererdelyi5082 9 лет назад

WHY? I refused to understand why we demolish rather than restore.. you just can't replace this sort of historical masterpiece. Look at the amazing restoration they did to the Traverse City Asylum - they repurposed it, rather than destroy. It's sad, thank you for preserving history and sharing it.

@jpvoodoo5522 7 лет назад

Yes I see your point. But to some who stayed there it would be like re-purposing Auschwitz. My grandmother died there. Ironically, her name was Eloise. That was another infamous hospital. I was in special education. Some of my friends went to the children's unit, Fairlawn. Architecture, not as nice.

@adventurefishing3190 7 лет назад

JP Voodoo fairlawn was built in the 70s and had no affiliation to clinton valley center

@jpvoodoo5522 7 лет назад

Stillrob V, There is no question that the buildings were built at separate times. One was clearly modern. My understanding was that the same people ran both places. There is an account I have read that Fairlwn used space at CVC as one of their cottages. I learned about Fairlawn when I was in a Special education class in elementary school in the 1980s. Some of my friends in the class both were sent there and came back from there. They had awful stories. My grandmother was also in CVC after getting kicked out of a nursing home. This was when I was very young. I never had to go there myself. The kids I knew who did go had very severe behavioral problems. Things like violence and attempted suicide. Their memories were not pleasant.

@adventurefishing3190 7 лет назад

JP Voodoo they have no affiliation

@jpvoodoo5522 7 лет назад

Stillrob V, Ok I believe you. But it's still not tragic those places are gone.

@Pro-Deo 11 лет назад

We used to drive around the grounds after it was abandoned but still standing. A couple of times we heard screams coming from one of the buildings in the back. Creeped us right out!

@GaryBearful 11 лет назад

Pontiac will always be my hometown, though it's a shell of it's former self. This was a beautiful composition. I remember driving by CVC as a child going to school. It was always a fascinating and terrifying place. It's a tragedy that it wasn't preserved - but perhaps only for it's architectural value. Being a former mental patient, I can only imagine the suffering and sadness that occurred there. Thank you for this video.

@adventurefishing3190 7 лет назад

20 years later and it still hurts to know i will never be able to go there ever again.

@ILIKEMODELTRAINS 10 лет назад

I used to drive by this place all of the time and even went inside to see a family friend, it was such a shame they they tore it down, it would have made a great homeless center !!!

@northvilletunnels 8 лет назад

Northern Michigan Asylum still exists and has been restored. Worth the drive its a public building with shops anyone can go in.

@debbydodahdidleem 12 лет назад

The size of the Asylums in the states is awesome. This side of the pond its the age. Some of them as far back as 1700s. Some times i get vibes off buildings. Almost like disjointed memories. Strange but true. Thanks for posting

@igottalongone 11 лет назад

Wonderful compilation, Thank you. I have some postcards, some written from patients, some blank. I grew up across the street on the Waterford side, Boston street. Dawn Doughnuts (another sad loss) was on my corner. They ripped down Clinton Valley and put up cookie cutter housing. Here's a little fyi. There were over 30,000 graves at the CVC. During the demo the 100 year old graves were just dirt at that point and could not be moved. So those houses are built on the graves of Mental Patients

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

igottalongone do you know where on the property the cemetery was? I know about the Oakland County cemetery on the far end of it that is off the records now. Anyways I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@cathystoehr7850 11 лет назад

I so remember this from driving (my dad) by it going to my gran's or going to the mall.. i was pretty young at the time.. then I started driving and would go by it.. I always loved the driving by it

@terranova22 8 лет назад

Hauntingly beautiful music goes well with the haunted and sad memories for those who experienced that place. I lived nearby, but it never occurred to me to visit after it was abandoned. Kinda wish i did now. Thanks for posting this.

@vgoth100 9 лет назад

This is very bittersweet to me. My grandparents on my dad's side lived in Indian Village, not much of a stone's throw from the asylum. My grandmother on my mom's side worked at it when it was known as Clinton Valley, my life lessons were 'don't do drugs' as my grandma saw a lot of acid casualties there. This structure was so beautiful and loomed large over Pontiac....in a good way. Too bad they couldn't find a way to save it. Many people got together to try and save it, forming commiittees and all, but it all failed. The local govmt at that time was just spent and had no funds, and other funds outside the city couldnt make up for it.

@rdubay01 4 месяца назад

Lies I did acid and shrooms, was also a meth and crack addict and I have a son and a beautiful life. These places were sick and meant for abusing people

@ghastlyhaynes 9 лет назад

I wish we would have. We spent the day digging through the rubble. Could not believe the personal effects that were still there.

@rosaleenfletcher529 11 лет назад

Beautiful video, lovely music. Glad you took all the time to make it so well put together. Thank you!

@john4knecht 11 лет назад

very nice video by the way. It's very nice to see the old place getting a bit of it's beauty shown like it deserves. As a kid who honestly owes his life to that place I thank you.

@susanrocheleau846 11 лет назад

Wow, worked there for 21 years. The slide show is bitter sweet, It brings back good memories and some very bad memories. I had to laugh about the comment on the grave sites on the grounds. Since day one I said you couldn't give me one of those houses to live. Don't know for a fact , but I wouldn't doubt that they were buried there !! Does anyone remember Polterguist ???

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

susan rocheleau Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@rdubay01 4 месяца назад

You witnessed sick shit I bet

@TheCapmarine 10 лет назад

I was hired to do a gig there in the 70's. When we walked in the door and it locked behind us it wigged us out pretty bad. We took a chance and opened the show with Frank Zappa's "What is the ugliest part of your body". The patents loved it.

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Michael Scott Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@unoitall 2 года назад

The good old daze, I remember, back in the late 1960's, mother taking us to visit dad at the "Pontiac State Hospital." I don't remember if this was before or after I seen him pull her arm up behind her back until it snapped. I do know this happened after his first wife shot herself after filling for a divorce from him. I do take comfort in realizing that this world is an insane asylum.

@madinventor13 11 лет назад

I had a family member in there in the 70s-80s. I went there to visit with my mom, took a birthday cake inside. They let us serve cake and ice cream inside the ward.

@1950mistyblue 9 лет назад

I worked there and let me tell you it was the saddest place I have ever seen..It will forever be in my brain

@deanahernandez3780 7 лет назад

Misty hi I heard they shot a movie there in early 1990 what was the name of the movie?

@linsayArchaeology 7 лет назад

YES..."Hellmaster" THE movie! Check out this vid at minute markers 7:49 for the "spiral hall" and some other rooms used 6:20, 6:37, 6:49, 6:54, 7:05, 7:16, 7:23 (tons of exteriors too)....

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Misty also I want to ask, I have been researching this place since moving literally on the old property in a home that is really active paranormally speaking, anyways now I found out about the counties secret blemish being that of the Oakland County Cemetery that is unlisted and of the books and apparently claims that no one had been buried there since the late 70s, which is on the far end of the property that has its own road that leads to just that cemetery as it dead ends into the train tracks and I was reading that’s where most the CVC ppl that passed on campus were buried here. Also I found documentation showing that to this day they use the cemetery as a place to bury body parts from Jane and John does it those that are fatally wounded and missing most their corpse. It literally listed the date it was entered and buried and if that are lucky to have a name for the victim they will list it as “So and So’s” right arm and left leg. It’s gruesome. Now I also heard they buried some at Oak Hill as well. I am just try to get a workers perspective.

@rawbacon 2 года назад

I'm familiar with the place, not as a patient but a visitor and also I knew someone that worked there. The person I visited is long gone and the guy that worked there is likely dead but haven't been able to confirm that and if he is still alive I imagine he'd be an old man of somewhere around 80.

@stephenpreuss9181 3 года назад

The buildings were old and unused, dangerous to say the least. But, some investment, the place could have been a house for a rich couple. I like what they did with the neighborhood though. Modernization of the hospital industry was a big fist step for Michigan. Most of the patients of that hospital received worthless treatment, kangaroo court, and a lifetime of abuse. Most of the students never had the chance to get a diploma due to lack of knowledge of their graduation requirements. It turns out that mental issues don't necessarily mean lack of intellect. Some of those students went on to tech college to study engineering, network, and computer science, and were on the Dean's list. I'm proud of those people!

@nivraruth2457 5 лет назад

Thank you for posting. I worked in the cafeteria and then the small store in the 70s. I never went in any of the wards.

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

It was crazy in the wards

@stephenpreuss9181 3 года назад

Do you know Raphael Hasan? He was a chef for that place for a small time. His name was listed on the menu.

@nivraruth2457 3 года назад

@@stephenpreuss9181 I don’t remember any Chef there. I worked in what was called a cafeteria where employees would buy meals. I worked for Dick Cadwell in the late 70s.

@RadiantGlow86 8 лет назад

My father worked there when I was little. We used to bring him his lunch every day. I was terrified of the buildings and would start to cry at the site of it. I didn't even really know what it was at the time.

@steveb1546 7 лет назад

Victoria hey could u help me find a blueprint of the tunnels

@roymccowans1530 6 лет назад

Could you find who built it by looking into Pontiac Historic Records? From there you might track down the blueprints?

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

@korriwood Год назад

I lived there… so glad it’s so far in my past. Was awesome to see this even so.

@linsayArchaeology 11 лет назад

You could hear noises in the distance. It was a HUGE complex with a massive tunnel system. It was an old building and old buildings make noise. I never thought much of it. My boyfriend would get freaked out easily though...I found that funny. He always said he could see things move in the dark. I always assumed noises came from the functioning parts of the hospital (small sections still used until the end). I think he saw things because he was smoking weed.

@robertwhitehead3022 Год назад

Smoking chronic

@linsayArchaeology 12 лет назад

I change the music every week or so...sorry you didn't like. It was a really cool hospital/Asylum. My then boyfriend (now my husband) and our friends used to hangout in the abandoned parts of the hospital after high school and roam the tunnels.

@elenaphipps8255 6 лет назад

My grandfather died here. He served as a Captain in the American Cival war on the Union side. He was 54. He followed Sherman to the sea. He must has PTSD. I’m glad his wife and a reverend was by his side when he passed.

@rafmonkey96 5 лет назад

I lived here in a tent for a month. A unique experience I will never forget, rest assured.

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Tyler Whitney private msg me. I having been working on a documentary about CVC from its inception to its horrors and on to through today and I live across the street from the property which now stands a huge subdivision on the front half of the property and the back half up till this year has a ton of random old broken pieces of the structures remnants along with furniture that looks to fit the time line of 70s-80s just thrown and even set up around the back half of the property. Well it was recently bought under sketchy and shady circumstances by a Middle Eastern “Business Man” for what took forever to dig out it seems like the front is that half is claimed to be a future complex/subdivision for refugees from those seeking asylum from their home country back in the Middle East. There’s more to it but the whole thing is stranger then fiction, referring to CVC and it’s a bizarre life it held there from start to finish. That’s not even really getting into the Fairlawn Center that was a psych asylum for children. Anyways I would like to interview you for the documentary and get your first hand account of what you endured when stayin there for that month. Paranormal, real life shit or whatever. I would like to have you in the film. Also if anyone knows anyone else with first hand accounts from when they were a patient or staff member or doctor or whatever and have first hand accounts of the horrors that went on there please private msg me l, I would love to interview you. Even if it was your parents or relatives whom you heard their first hand account forms and you remember their eerie stories. You can also msg me on my Facebook at @hysterically.paranormal

@stephenpreuss9181 3 года назад

When? Are you okay now?

@rafmonkey96 3 года назад

@@stephenpreuss9181 this was in the fall of 2016. I'm doing very well now and living in a cabin up north. It was a very crazy time tho, I saw a lot of things that still give me nightmares, but it's not as bad anymore.

@rafmonkey96 3 года назад

@@hystericallyparanormal sorry I never saw your comment until now. I'd be happy to be in your film. The place was a ruin when I lived there in the tent. But there were so many paranormal things going on there I had to cry myself to sleep out of fear. Almost fell into these random ass manholes on multiple occasions and it felt like something was pulling me down. I'll only go there in the daytime now.

@linsayArchaeology 11 лет назад

The complex was demolished in 2000. It was full of beautiful Gothic architecture. The last slide in the video show the wrecking ball demolishing one of the buildings. If you live near Bloomfield Hills or Pontiac: You could see the complex from Telegraph road in Pontiac. It was across from the old Pontiac Mall. You would find many of the previous patients sleeping in the cars of the mall after the complex closed--they had no where else to go.

@steveobee3488 3 года назад

And to add the did roam the mall too I met one of pts he said he was a former neurosurgeon I used to go to the mall all the time I when I lived in Waterford

@paulyabe Год назад

now the Pontiac Mall is no more

@giftoflifewc Год назад

My great great grandmother died here in 1906. The death certificate says she died of gangrene. Probably she was placed her because of the dementia which mostly likely was treated as a form of insanity. But then developed a sore on her left foot that got infected. She probably wasn't there too long if the asylum opened in 1906. It must have been very sad for the family.

@Howoldareweanywayyipes Год назад

six miles south of Ypsilanti, Michigan is the ''State Hospital''... that you can check yourself into... but can never leave again... it is a scary place I worked installing conduit throughout the basement and up into each floor at the stairwell placements... had to leave for Lansing before its completion... hammerdrills galore... two inch hardshell... any electricians in the house? you know what i'm talking about.

@Lopez6.2 7 лет назад

I've heard rumors that there is a hatch where you can go down to the basement of this place even though its been tore down

@adventurefishing3190 7 лет назад

Jose Francisco Lopez where?

@SwinginJohnson74 5 лет назад

There was an elaborate tunneling system and a secondary tunnel system for plumbing/heating etc. I have heard that there was a drainage system that had hatches that were accessible from many places above ground as well as from inside the basement tunnels. The CVC address was 140 Elizabeth Lake Rd in Pontiac and satellite views show it as undeveloped so a metal detector could possibly detect an entry point of some sort.

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

I’m filming a documentary and would love to interview you and see if you can maybe help us find them.

@robertwhitehead3022 Год назад

Hell master I just found it that's something else I was in that place too in the past wow I didn't know they put their place in the movies

@cinthia02153 11 лет назад

I love this video, and no its not still standing i pass buy it alot! They built homes on the ground

@claytonsmith1063 6 лет назад

considering the horrors of this place... BURN IT!!!... scorch the Earth underneath... there should not ever be anything so terrible.

@roymccowans1530 6 лет назад

Were you there, Clayton Smith??? I was. Horrific inside.

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Roy McCowans Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@anawesomedude123 11 лет назад

That's one beautifully designed building

@rdubay01 4 месяца назад

Exactly Pure hell

@StevenMcFlyJunior 3 года назад

Crazy I now just live maybe a mile or so away from where it once stood ...

@linsayArchaeology 11 лет назад

Oh, the song is "Where Do I Begin" from the Movie 'Love Story.' but this is an old version sung by Sarah Vaughan in 1973.

@droogclan5623 9 лет назад

been there evil lurks there forever and ever

@roymccowans1530 6 лет назад

I was there for six weeks during mid 60s.

@lindathrall5133 5 лет назад

I was there too 75 innocent souls were lost forever 19 staff workers plus 2 psychiatrists got busted for the most heinous crimes against people who couldn't speak for themselves. To this day I pause to remember the 75 innocent souls and I hate psychiatrists to this day I wish they were all dead so we don't have a need for them

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Linda Thrall and the other commentator. Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@lindathrall5133 5 лет назад

@@hystericallyparanormal YOU GOT IT I'LL SHARE MY STORY WITH YOU AS YOU WISH

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Linda Thrall msg me on Facebook, look up in the search, @hysterically.paranormal, or for my personal page look up Branden C. McCormick. Let’s try and break the ice and see when we can have maybe like a pre-interview meeting to kinda get acquainted and go over a synopsis of what you are going to want to discuss in the interview for the documentary that we will shoot. This way we can work out a trust between us and ya. Sorry for rambling.

@ALMERICA. Год назад

Sad. Never got to see it standing

@motionpictureinstitute 11 лет назад

I produced a low budget horror film entitled "Hellmaster" that we shot at this location then known as Clinton Valley Center (CVC) formerly known as the Pontiac State Mental Hospital. Older parts of the facility were built in 1876 and there were numerous steam tunnels underneath. We shot pretty much the entire film there in November of 1989. Check out the trailer you'll see the spiral hallway we painted with Actor John Saxon down at the far end. You can find the trailer on youtube.

@ghastlyhaynes 6 лет назад

Motion Picture Institute MPI John Saxon signed my copy.

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

How’s it going? I am currently filming a documentary on CVC and I’m making sure to hear out everyone I possibly can for the films and hopefully find more ppl whom have held roles at the campus over the years who can help us through interviews and giving us the first hand accounts and even pictures or artifacts they may have still to show for the film. Now when I read all this about the film production held there and with me also being a filmmaker it lit my eyes up like Xmas. I would absolutely appreciate and love and do whatever I have to, to try and convince all y’all whom played a role in that production there on site to come in for an interview and let us pick your brain about it and I think things like this and also other awesome unique first hand accounts like this band I tracked down whom also performed for the patients once upon a time, private msg me if you can help! Thank you.

@thxdts 6 месяцев назад

I was one of the production assistants and really enjoyed the experience. I'm glad I took several pictures of the production!

@TINMAN9611 11 лет назад

I WAS IN Clinton Valley Center FROM 1988 TO 1990 I WAS THERE WHEN YOU MADE THAT MOVIE THAT PLACE GAVE ME NIGHTMARES FOR YEARS I ACTUALLY SEEN TWO GHOST THERE IN THE Ground floor tunnel south wing ON TWO DIFFERENT OCCASIONS

@deanahernandez3780 7 лет назад

TINMAN9611 what was the name of the movie?

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

@bindardundat454 4 года назад

Ok That’s one freaky scary looking building

@williamjhunter5714 Год назад

During my parents divorce dispute, my mother had my father picked up by police at our home and put in CVC, (where she had been volunteering for a long time) for a forced mental health evaluation. They found nothing and he came right home. She also did that to her mother, same thing, went right home; and also did that to me...found nothing, went right home. Volunteering to build a network of contacts, not help anyone. (Inhertance motivation $)

@salcole7554 8 лет назад

sadly enough...some of the patients that were buried behind CVC were patients of botched lobotomies..in order to avoid lawsuits...the patients families were informed that they "escaped custody " and that they simply could not send out staff members to look for them as every staff member was urgently needed on the premises...

@MESSYSKY 6 лет назад

I believe what you have said is true and never be proven true.....God Bless

@roymccowans1530 6 лет назад

I believe what you are saying. They performed a lot of procedures that weren't documented .

@matthewroberts3442 5 лет назад

That doesn't surprise me its a creepy place a friend of mine drowned there on the 3rd floor at cvc meadow view pontiac mi in 1981 he had epileptic seizures and was left in bathtub unattended had a seizure and drowned

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

sal cole Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@debbydodahdidleem 12 лет назад

Fabulous images. Music ruined it unfortunatley. Sorry

@gailgibbs2532 3 года назад

I turned off the music

@AndReaL121 11 лет назад

i never wanted to see clinton valley torn down.. how pathetic.. it was a castle of a building.. i would have loved to see it turned into shops or a tourist attraction ... and for this time of year it would have made the most awesome haunted house!!

@pbjones9972 3 года назад

I was locked up in Fairlawn/clinton valley center in 1975 to 1977 till I ran away , It was use as a kid jail most of us was not mental or crazy or what ever label ? it was just a jail. I seen kids drug & beat & killed by staff. I was drug & beaten so many times. the best part is I made some good friends in my ward or floor . I heard my first Ramones songs inside a crazy hospital HaHaHa (Punk Rock was starting to make its way to the Pontiac area, In fact I think a of us got into bands later in life ? I'm never going to forget you all... met my first girl friend there. but I had to ran away after the staff killed my friend Sid Star. If you where lock up then let me know ? I'm hoping regroup as I'm rebuilding my life and past. Also I'm in need of a lawyer . Thank for all who posted about this bad place.

@TheDebkaye 9 лет назад

this place always gave me the creeps.......beautiful from outside.but always had the feeling inside bad vibes.

@linsayArchaeology 9 лет назад

My little brother would never go near it. He thought it was "Scary as Hell." It did have a very Gothic style. My boyfriend and I went in all the time though. The inside was less scary than the outside.

@adventurefishing3190 7 лет назад

4:14 i stood in the same room

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

Why?

@adventurefishing3190 3 года назад

@@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 no reason really, just happen to find it?

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

@@adventurefishing3190 right on brother right on

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances. Anyone with any stories or items from the campus and it’s history please contact us. Any kind of stories or sworn accounts from ppl or extended family whom have seen or been through stuff there please contact me. I have been busting tail on this and it’s research into what the state and the player who are and have been involved in this both Before and after the demolition. What has gone down since the demo is not ethical and will blow your mind what kinda drama and corruption tou have incubating in the backyards of whom live here.

@3cwoodworking.charlie759 4 года назад

Have you found the underground tunnels yet

@linsayArchaeology 11 лет назад

Most patients were buried at Oak Hill Cemetery with numbered grave stones.

@linsayArchaeology 11 лет назад

They tore it down in 2000. The last image of the video shows them tearing it down. A neighborhood is built over it. They just sealed/collapsed most of the tunnels.

@lindathrall5133 4 года назад

THE YEAR 2000 I WAS LIVING IN PORT HURON I WAS WATCHING FOX2 NEWS WHEN I SAW THE DEMOLITION WAS FEATURED I SAT AND CRIED FOR THE 75 INNOCENT SOULS THAT WERE LOST BY MURDER. THERE WERE TWO PSYCHIATRISTS WHO MASTERMINDED THE MURDERS THEY GOT EXECUTED THEMSELVES I HOPE THEY'RE BURNING IN HADES TO THIS DAY I HATE ALL PSYCHIATRISTS THE BEST WAY TO LIKE THEM IS IF THEY ARE ON DEATH ROW WITH NO ACCESS TO A PRESCRIPTION PAD

@nivraruth2457 4 года назад

If you use Google Earth and search for 140 Elizabeth Lake Road’ Pontiac, Mi. You will see what remains of it. The new subdivision was built next to it.

@Ric278 4 года назад

@@nivraruth2457 Ive googled it before but didnt know the exact address. That is really cool, yes you can even see the old drive way.

@adamlynch4216 7 лет назад

what's the name of the song and artist in the video

@linsayArchaeology 7 лет назад

"Love Story (Where Do I Begin?)" by Sarah Vaughan

@rememrald30 11 лет назад

now they can make it into something for the growing AMERICAN HOMELESS problem

@john4knecht 11 лет назад

When I was kid in the early 90's (Specificly August 92 to August 93) I was at the Fairlawn Center (Which was the childrens Facility which was a modern addition to CVC) One of the workers in my ward would take us over to the CVC (Or the "Meddow Views" as we called them) and we'd go down into the tunnels below and visit the store and spend the money our parents gave us on candy and soda

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

John Knecht Hello I am filming a documentary on the site starting from its inception to today and I would love to sit down with you and interview you for the film on CVC and hear about the first hand accounts you vividly remember. I won’t feed you any loaded questions that would take you off guard. It would just be us hearing you out and well hopefully maybe try to bring you some peace to all the bad things that may have imprinted on you. Private message me if your interested. We can even protect your identity by not showing your face and changing your voice if your concerned about backlash from old acquaintances.

@nivraruth2457 5 лет назад

I worked in that store in the 70s.

@korriwood 3 года назад

I lived there too. What a bunch of good and not so good memories

@margieosborn6331 2 года назад

I was there too, and that place was where parents used to dump their kids at . I was in fairlawn center late 89’- 91 . I saw many horrible things taken place in there. I was in meadowveiw three unit . The doctors were complete idiots, kids were getting sexually abused by staff .then kids were getting doped up too .

@rdubay01 4 месяца назад

120 years definitely haunted grounds

@coltongoff456 4 года назад

I live near where this place was. The subdivision that is on the property is haunted by former victims in my beliefs. I refuse to buy a house on that property because it’s haunted. (My opinion)

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

Yes at night time you can still hear the victims screaming and crying

@MaryKingdj 4 года назад

My uncle was a patient there for most of his life. .... 42 years. :(

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

Ahh sorry to hear that Mary

@linsayArchaeology 11 лет назад

LOL...YES..."Hellmaster" THE movie! Check out this vid at minute markers 7:49 for the "spiral hall" and some other rooms used 6:20, 6:37, 6:49, 6:54, 7:05, 7:16, 7:23 (tons of exteriors too).... Watch the old movie trailer on youtube to match them up. It was a great place for a horror film.

@candiadkins4093 10 лет назад

My mother was there on and off in the 70's....When I was about 5 when we went to visit one day (my grandmother and I). I was in the bathroom and two patients tried to grab my legs from underneath the stall doors...one on either side.....all the while, screaming like banshees! I still freak out if I have to use a public restroom.....always take the handicapped stall! Why my grandmother ever took me in there is beyond me. It was definately NOT a place for a child. The grounds were pretty though. Sometimes we'd bring lunch and have a picnic...although my Mom never really enjoyed it.....it was hard to enjoy anything as drugged up on Stelazine and Thorazine as she was. I have to admit, I cringed when I saw the blue walls.....

@TheDebkaye 9 лет назад

hi candi that's time in the 70s my dad was there..........my mom never took us there.but from outside looks like a beautiful place from another country.only got to see my dad on some weekends when he could come home.lot of hurt for a childhood forsure.

@candiadkins4093 9 лет назад

Deb, Kind of a "horror movie" beautiful, huh? I'm sorry your Dad was there, but so thankful that you were never inside. Definitely no place for a child. Happy Holidays to you and yours. ....Candi

@TheDebkaye 9 лет назад

Candi Adkins thanks...happy new year.

@candiadkins4093 9 лет назад

Right back atcha!

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

@insanedoofcat3892 3 года назад

They weren’t insane They just needed help But no one helped them

@TheDebkaye 9 лет назад

This fucking sucks......cause my dad was a patient breaks my heart.

@lindathrall5133 5 лет назад

I did two one half years there 75 innocent souls got taken out I don't miss it

@thevillageattraversecityco5169 3 года назад

Not me But still very cool!

@newbeginningsholisticcente8739 11 лет назад

Does anyone know who I would get a hold of to hold a Paranormal Investigation in their?

@shelbyallen9984 9 лет назад

Is any of the building still standing at all?

@TheDebkaye 9 лет назад

nope tore it down

@linsayArchaeology 9 лет назад

They built a neighborhood over the complex around 2005.

@brerrabbit4265 5 лет назад

CVC was still open in 2002. I was there in 2002. Or I'm just crazy and thought it was 2002 lol.

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

Both

@MrMichaelmajor5133 11 лет назад

There is one like this still standing in Jersey

@adventurefishing3190 7 лет назад

MrMichaelmajor5133 still standing?

@racheldianeames3729 6 лет назад

what year was that former asylum demolished?

@adventurefishing3190 3 года назад

2000

@charlesaniel6281 4 года назад

I was there with my father larry chester aniel chester richard aniel

@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 3 года назад

Hopefully your doing better now sir

@ghastlyhaynes 9 лет назад

Love that building. Anybody have any pieces of it I would love to buy them.

@linsayArchaeology 9 лет назад

After demolition, it was just a pile of bricks--I never took any.

@stillrob420 9 лет назад

+Mike Haynes i have the blue prints and also signs and boxes of old medical records!

@ghastlyhaynes 9 лет назад

+stillrob420 I am in Waterford. Please contact me.

@ghastlyhaynes 9 лет назад

+stillrob420 it's been a week let's make this happen.

@ghastlyhaynes 8 лет назад

+stillrob420 cash in hand. Do you really have these items or are you just joking?

@Pro-Deo 11 лет назад

Did you ever encounter paranormal things there? If yes, WHAT?

@hystericallyparanormal 5 лет назад

dm jeni I have. Look at the videos of the dog man or shadow entity encounters and howls heard while on the asylums property. I have them on my channel.