guys we get it mobile , just like the comment that says mobile and thats it, not everyone has to repeat it and flood the comment section with braindead replies.
I still believe that Andre deserved more than eighteen years. Man was responsible for the deaths of several _infants_ , and countless injuries to other patients that could have been prevented.
Completely agree. As well as the admin of that hospital who let him walk right onto the job. I think Barely Sociable said the guy just walked up and told someone he had a high IQ, was a doctor, and they let him start working immediately. Wtf?
@@mr.canaille3793 the part that actually sold it for most, I think, is the fact that he had studied medical books for years and already worked under other pediatricians who could vouch for him. He did also care for 4,500 other children who all survived which I think is standard numbers for the area
I live in SA, government here makes many decisions that are NOT in the public's interests and do not make much sense. One thing is for sure though, if politicians cannot benefit personally from a project they are not interested in it. Human rights are being violated every day and yet no one in the west seems to care as much as they did in the 80s.
As a South African, I want to thank you for covering this mystery. Our government is an absolute mess. They lie at the drop of a hat. Plus money that is _supposed_ to be allocated to projects like this often gets siphoned off by the parties involved to the point where the funds run dry. Very, _very_ quickly. Not to say that the previous regime was any better, mind you. Our country deserves so much better. Also, I noticed you used the theme from _Candyman_ for a section of the video. As a big fan of that film, it felt good to hear it in this context. Bittersweet. Excellent investigation, guys. Much respect.
I definitely enjoy paranormal stuff because it’s fun, but stories about stuff like governments forcing abandon to a huge public place and nobody knows what really happened really gets under my skin. The huge unknown piece with so many people involved is just super weird
How do you know the ghost stuff at kempton hospital is BS? You been to kempton hospital? I understand there is a lot of fake paranormal stuff on YT but they did abandon the hospital seemingly in a hurry. I don't buy the fact a _single_ negligent doctor would be a cause for closing a modern well equipped hospital? Doesn't make sense.
For everyone’s benefit: “lumbar punch” is referring to a procedure known as a lumbar puncture. This procedure is performed to draw spinal fluid for testing - but most doctors avoid it if they can. This is because it’s one of the most painful such procedures which a doctor can subject a patient to. It involves the use of an extremely long needle, which is pushed between your vertebrae and into the spinal cord to draw fluid out of it. I’m no doctor, and I might be butchering how this works... but I do know how painful it is. It can also be incredibly dangerous, especially on young or old patients. I mean, hell - it's poking your spine cord with a great big needle. Of course it's painful, of course it's liable to do some damage if the doctor messes up. This dude preformed this on babies. Multiple times. For no reason. He’s a fucking sadist.
They actually do them a lot in hospitals. The reason they don’t do them more is infection risk not pain. They aren’t comfortable by any means but infection risk is usually usually the reason they’re not done
Jane Doe Thanks for the correction. I noted the pain primarily because I have a friend who needs them performed fairly often... and believe me, he isn’t a fan, lmao
I had one, by a trainee - felt weird but wasn’t painful. And I’m a wuss. I don’t think typically they should be painful. For someone with no training at all, to do it on a baby? That’s so awful :( how they could bring themselves to do it :(
As a baby around 2 weeks old, a terrible doctor was convinced I had meningitis (false) and did one on me. Except he put the needle in wrong, and needed to do it multiple times. According to my mom the entire ward could hear me screaming and she demanded he stop regardless of if I had meningitis or not. Said I became a very anxious about physical touch after that. I can’t remember it obviously but I don’t want to think of how scared the babies under his care were being put through something so painful!
the part that actually sold it for most, I think, is the fact that he had studied medical books for years and already worked under other pediatricians who could vouch for him. He did also care for 4,500 other children who all survived which I think is standard numbers for the area
Yeah, if the goal was to save money, why leave all those equipment and files? It's like they had to evacuate the place quickly. You saw the exact same thing happen in Chernobyl, but there was actually a good reason.
I reside in Kempton Park, and have been living here for 52 years. I worked at this hospital as a volunteer for a few weeks during the winter of 1987 (while I was still at school). {Southern hemisphere= winter from Jun - Aug.} There is no way this hospital can ever be used again due to the damage to the infrastructure. If it is demolished the site might be of use. But with the whole country in a state of disrepair, I don't see that ever happening. The hospital is surrounded by a small but very densely overgrown "garden"... You can hardly see the buildings from the roads running around it. The town developed due to the airport (currently known as O.R. Thambo International Airport; once upon a time the biggest airport in Southern Africa) being built. The whole story around this hospital (and the whole country ) can be summed up in 1 word: CORRUPTION
what sets your channel apart from the rest lies in the very fact that you didn't go into the "paranormal" activity concerning the hospital and went to it's mysterious roots, which made the video a lot more interesting compared to the usual paranormal bait that we're fed. anyways, thanks for yet another amazing upload!
Yeah I agree. He could take the easy way out and just say "hey check out this spooky stuff, isnt it spooky?" But that's not good enough for him, which is very refreshing
@@MrSponge56 mhm, you're right but again, not with this specific case. there are instances when paranormal hints are entertaining but this inclined more towards the mysterious aspect of it all
There’s a hospital here in New Orleans, Charity Hospital, that was abandoned after hurricane Katrina even though the hospital wasn’t damaged enough to warrant the closure. Only the basement flooded and citizens gathered to clean it, and it was medical ready within weeks - only for it to be shuttered permanently. And the reason was Louisiana officials and LSU money-grubbing monsters conspired to close it and block its reopening. Charity hospital was a public hospital that was essential for African Americans in the city because it was the only really good public hospital. it was a large and extremely successful hospital, state of the art. It was operated by LSU, who in investigations were determined to have intentionally sabotaged the hospital, to make the damage worse than it was in order to get insurance and FEMA compensation. Then they took the opportunity to close it and build a new hospital in the city with citizens tax money so that they could build a private hospital and make a lot more money for them. Things like this aren’t abandoned for creepy spooky reasons. They’re abandoned for money, and often corruption.
I thought the new hospital was still doing free treatment. I agree though, the older building was fine, sure, bits needed modernisation, but it worked at keeping people alive.
@NihilisticEntropy it's not racist. They're merely saying that the government system in South Africa is corrupt and often neglectful of the needs of their citizens. There are many stories and articles that support this as well
@NihilisticEntropy just because theyre talking about a black country doesnt mean theyre racist. Corruption and neglect happen in countries with all skin colours.
Hey Barely Sociable, I was born in Kempton Park Hospital in 1991 and to this day still stay in Kempton Park. Something to concider: the department of health changed after 1994 as Apartheid ended. So there were 2 different governments involved here which makes this situation even more mysterious. Great video btw.
Yeah, I thought it coincided, so googled it and ANC to control in 1994. My guess is this is government incompetence/corruption. All governments are guilty of it. After listening to the whole thing I see he addressed that.
I’ve had so many “therapeutic” lumbar punctures over the past 6 or 7 years that I lost count of the exact number. Lumbar punch is honestly a far more accurate name.
Hannah H sure the us government lies but you don’t see dumb crazy shit like this happening... anyone who thinks there is no corruption is just wrong, every country has it it’s just the extent.
@@mmaybee4379 No No we do see crazy dumb shit happening in the USA. It's called let rioters (media loves calling them protesters) destroy shit and not charge them with any crime what so ever.
Someone somewhere wanted to channel the money being spent on that hospital into their pockets, so why care about what happens to the hospital? It's just pure corruption, plain and simple.
The initial construction was likely just a cash grab . Funneling public government tax payer budgets into construction companies owned by relatives, "associates" or companies that split the huge construction budgets with the crooked politicians. The entire city of Miami was built on huge construction projects that were only built to launder drug money.
As a South African, I thank you for this deep-dive! I've always wondered about this Hospital as well, the strangest part about it is the way they left it - as if to get out immediately. South Africa went through A LOT of changes during the time of it's shut down, it's not impossible to imagine this as some sort of unfortunate "collateral damage" accumulated during massive government & healthcare restructuring.
It’s actually quite a simple African story… unexplained deaths to patients that were there for non life threatening issues… happened quite a few times in a very short period… the staff began to think the place was cursed or had ghosts or something along those lines in their beliefs so they abandoned it immediately and just left everything… essentially they thought it was filled with bad spirits and ran…
Aaaahhh! So this video makes me want to cry and scream and just be emotional! Okay okay, lemme calm down for a second... I'm from South Africa, raised in Kempton Park... I wasn't born in Kempton hospital seeing as it closed in 1996 and I was only born in 1998, but still! Growing up there everyone had their own "ghost stories" to tell about the hospital and why it closed and what not, at one point when I was around about in 4th or 5th grade a few of my friends and myself decided to go there at night to just... I dno, creep ourselves out... as young children all too often like to do, anyway! We didnt make it incredibly far before bailing because of reasons I'll get into in a bit, but I first wanna explain just how eerie everything is inside... we went at a time before it was mass looted, there was still a fair amount of stuff scattered about and it looked as though one day everyone was working without a hitch and someone just came in and told everyone to just drop what they were doing and leave... nothing seemed to be packed away, nothing was handled with care really to place anything back where it should be, not that I'd really know where hospital items should be but I'm sure you get the picture... it's like everything just was dropped and everyone left... I gotta say, when you say "it was quarantined" I think people would get the wrong idea from it, it wasnt quarantined to keep a virus in or something of that nature, it was actually just seeing an influx of squatters housing there, homeless people taking refuge in the abandoned hospital... anyway, back to the creepy shit The fans were still on inside some of the rooms which is so terrifying because the electricity bill shouldn't have been paid from 1996 onward, and there were parts of the lower floor that had a prominent buzzing sound, kind of like a chest freezer if you've ever had one. One of the operating rooms had a dried pool of blood on an operating table, with parts of the table broken off... this wasnt enough to make me and my friends flee, but as we were making our way up the floors, down one of the hallways a bed was pushed rather violently out of one of the rooms and myself and my friends booked it after that... I dont think it was anything paranormal though, I believe it was a homeless person giving us a good scare and boy did it work! Never went back there ever again, security only got more strict and increased over time I'm living in the UK now though, so I suppose it's none of my concern anymore anyway... oh well, either way, thanks for humouring me if you've read this whole comment
I'd also like to add a theory as to why it closed down... my theory is simple really, purely I think it's down to nobody being qualified in the government to handle it... let me explain Up until 1996, South Africa was going through what is known as Apartheid, now I might be getting the dates kinda wrong because if I remember correctly 1996 is just when Madiba became president and Apartheid ended before that technically but still. This may seem racist, however I assure you I am not racist, it's just the facts of the time... The government in place in SA before this was predominately white, and black people were discriminated against heavily, my theory is basically that from moving from the predominately white government to a new black lead government, positions had to be filled in the government around the medicinal sector that nobody was truly qualified for, because when apartheid was a thing, the difference between a white child's education was greater than that of a black childs, based purely off the way the racist government beforehand was like... so basically it was the incompetence of the people who had to take up those jobs after the white government ensured they would always be incompetent. Think about it, really, you're a black person in a moment where a racist government is voted out of power, new job opportunities become available to you, ones that you never thought possible because of the white led government... so you apply for any job possible, and you get chosen because they just need people at this point... but you arent really qualified for what they need... but the salary looks good so you take it anyway... there may be a good few holes in this theory but I think it holds up to most scrutiny
Wow your theory makes sense and is plausible. The white staff figured they didnt need to continue working there or providing care to black communities. It's the same way Sasol was apparently sold for R1 with all its equipment sometime after Apartheid ended just so that the company wouldn't have to provide electricity to black communities. If I'm corrected it was once a state owned enterprise
@@iamwhiplash4692 I think you are right in your theory. It's sad to see someone feel scared of being called a racist just by describing historic events though. That should never be the case. The past was different than our time and we have to acknowledge that.
@@iamwhiplash4692 There are many holes in your theory like why only this hospital got the "quarantine" treatment? And why there was absolutely nothing to make use of the hospital? It worth millions of dollars back then.
Mysterious? This is South African government run institution. What would have been spooky is if this hospital was successful and well run with very little corruption. Corruption, waste, and mismanagement is the norm and all of this went just as expected. That doesn't make it any less sad, however..
Love this video. I’m originally from South Africa and we left for, amongst other reasons, the lack of stability there. The government are awful, the police are corrupt and the emergency services are a joke. Everything can be bought and it’s an awful system. Would love to talk to you about it at some point.
South Africa seems like a very mysterious place, many of my favorite musicians and actors happen to be from there, but I don't know anything about it. I would love a video like this.
Ik man, I was there recently and it's an anarcho capatalist's wet dream. Tbh though if I was living there I would be wearing body armor and carrying a gun at almost all times. It may be a beautiful country but i dont fucking trust it.
zeranzeran, it really boils down the corrupt government pocketing all the money. But there are a few gems that come form here. Elon musk and Trevor Noah are the first two that come to mind.
Aesthetic Retardation ,depends where you are. Gouteng is the worst in terms safety but cape town is alot better. But living here you always need to be aware of your surroundings, druggies pickpockets and thieves galore
Didn’t you hear that they left organs and other biohazard materials on site? Of course they would need to quarantine as much of that facility as possible.
It almost seems like there was a radioactive leak or something, I know that sounds abserd, but the evacuation, the stoping of locals trying to test it out, the fact they didn't go to get the items left in it
Guateng Department of Health: Shit we broke, lets close that expensive ass hospital. Let's keep it on the low, dont need our people to know how much we're stealing from them Barely Sociable:
My dad lives in Kempton Park and I have lived in Johannesburg my entire life. The streets are falling apart and South Africa as a whole is collapsing. Our government has been corrupt for decades and there is no way to undo all of the things the government has done wrong. People are dying. People are starving. The government doesn't care about us. I broke my finger and went to a PRIVATE hospital (because the government ones were full) and they tried to push the bone fragments together by hand and when that didn't work they taped my finger to a lollipop stick and told us to seek surgery in the city. I cannot imagine what government funded hospitals would do. The Kempton Park Hospital is more than likely just one of the many government funded things they chose was less important than their own paycheck. I 100% believe corruption shut that hospital down and that people in the hospital were laundering the governments money and not using it to help the public. Most government run schools don't have tables or chairs or toilets. They have long drops. An ungodly number of kids die yearly from falling in and drowning. South Africa is a corrupt place and everyone is suffering because of it.
@@jeremiahguy32 a long drop is basically a toilet that is a pit dug into the ground. sometimes the children slip while trying to squat over the pit and fall in. because of how deep they are, young children cant crawl out or reach out and neither can most adults.
I feel like you've maybe missed an important bit of historical context here. This was all going on with the backdrop of the end of Apartheid in 1994 and a drastic change in government. That might have played in at least somewhat.
That does make sense. In school they showed us a movie where they tortured and drugged black people in hospitals for protest. Also theres a lot of mystery behind the HIV medication (aka south african quallude) and its narcotic affects. It seems possible tjey could have neem experimenting on africans. The doctor who wasnt a doctor sounded like he had a german name. So while i could br completely wrong, they could have been trying to hide the crimes of the government. Hence the quarenteening of the area and the documents left behind. They could have covered up whatever they needed to and not worry about the rest. Just a though
@@nickolastyndall6978 The name of the dr sounds more Dutch (huizen = houses in Dutch, as opposed to the German Häuser). South Africa was colonized by the Dutch, so Dutch surnames are very common there.
@@nickolastyndall6978 Esterhuizen is a very common surname here, it's also pronounced wrong here, it's meant to sound like this - - - > ester-HAY-zin not ester-HOW-zin
@@nickolastyndall6978 My ex remembers the political shift very well. His black family friend was slaughtered by other blacks for not voting for a certain political party. It was a ferocious attack based on a voting decision. Seems like a lot of things went down hill rapidly around that time and was m8smanaged.
It’s a common thing that if a new hospital opens, the oldest closes. It’s happened with many different hospitals. Equipment and files are just left there.
I was born in Kempton Park hospital in 1988. Andre Estherhuisen was the "doctor" who delivered my cousin in 1986, Fortunately he survived. I have been there afew times, all it took to bribe the guards to let us in was 2 x 2lt coca colas and 2 packets of lays potato chips. The amount of furniture and equipment left in ruins is quite shocking. Defribulators, drips, beds, massive hardwood desks and 100s of chairs. I pass often and absolutely nothing has changed in years. Great documentary!!
I live 10 minutes away from this hospital and I can see it when I walk outside my house. The government makes healthcare workers go inside to fetch equipment because the equipment is still new. My mom still tells me stories on how scary it is to go inside this place
They found out *all* their doctors were just dudes who walked in off the street with a handwritten note saying, "I am a doctor," and threw the whole hospital out
@@johannesnel8875 Zuma didn't even finish his matric and Uncle Cyril has been known to do quirky things like encourage law enforcement to open fire on peaceful strikers :) what a lovely country we live in
@@johannesnel8875 in India, even that goes out the window. We got all sorts of criminals running the country, no matter how many ever times they've been to jail.
This reminds me of the Goiânia accident. A guarded and abandoned medical facility full of medical equipment left behind. Someone got in to find some salvage to sell, ended up stealing and breaking open some radioactive material from some equipment. They also spread it around everywhere, like 4 people died, houses had to be burned down, and they stopped them just in time before throwing it in a river. Maybe some radioactive equipment had been mishandled in the hospital, it was found to be bad. Maybe the hospital management pays the inspectors off with embezzled money. As they continue inspecting, assessing the extent of the exposure, they have to start quietly evacuating floors at a time. When it turns out that the exposure is too great, and/or the danger of radiation contamination is to high/expensive to fix, they get the hell out of there. Maybe to cut their losses, maybe to prevent radiation exposure to the whole city, maybe to keep it a secret. But that might explain why it was done so quickly and why so much was left behind in the hospital, as it could be contaminated.
Also, hospital equipment does not magically become dangerously radioactive and lurch around the halls of a hospital undetected. The radioactive source has to be removed from wildly co.plex machinery that is specifically engineered to discourage/prevent the accidental removal of the source. You need someone with a death wish and an angle grinder to start hacking away at a massively complex machine in order to even begin to worry about that happening. It's highly doubtful any radioactivity concerns could be the source of the abandonment. Maybe the guards are there to ensure people don't break in and accidentally remove a source, but that shit ain't just gonna wind up causing a mass evacuation some day.
Interviewer: Okay we gonna run a background check on you so you can work in the call center. After you will be working with really sensitive info. Me: OK, seems reasonable. This dude: "Im a Dr" Hospital Staff: "oKAy yOuRe hIrEd"
I am a resident of Kempton Park, have lived here for 28 years. My mother worked at the hospital for a number of years. You have pretty much covered most of the information available regarding the shutting down of the hospital. It still dominates the skyline in this town of ours. I hope that one day they can make proper use of what is left. Thanks for the video.
Ligit as soon as I found out this place in south Africa (I live here) I was like oh yeah this makes complete sense and doesn't phase me, the government has their "secrets"
I heard another channel report on this story and they added an important detail that was omitted. Due to this occurring in South Africa when they were struggling to deal with transitioning from apartheid, there was a lot of racial inequality and corruption as a result. The hospital was originally built to serve the overcrowded hospital system, but administrators found that the people using the facility weren't deemed "profitable" enough even though it is a state sponsored hospital and was used near capacity. There was also a power struggle going on with hospital administrators who are suspected of corruption, which caused the closure of the hospital in order to redirect public funding back to another one of the other hospitals in the area as they said the new hospital was not needed at that point. Basically a bunch of racially-fueled bureaucratic abuse and government corruption which the South African government has never publicly acknowledged and apologized but instead ignores and hopes will be forgotten.
8:52 “Was designed to last a hundred years” Lol I’m watching this video on my phone because the government can’t even give us electricity for one full year. Let alone building something that could last 100 years.
I truly can't say enough how much I love your videos. They're so well made, and incredibly compelling. You really know how to draw someone into a mystery, and as a mystery lover, I really appreciate that! Please never stop being you & making awesome content! ♡
In the 90' we were transitioning from the apartheid government into the New South-Africa. The health department was taken over by people who were completely inexperienced and inept, not to mention greedy. That hospital closed down due to fund mismanagement and corruption. Funds that were supposed to go to the hospital for its yearly operation, got "lost". They shut it down immediately to avoid peopel sniffing around and asking questions.
what were the Kempton Park demographics at this time? The new Government may have held some resentment for the population, which may have contributed motivation towards the corruption. I have tried to look up some statistics, but haven't found much for 1996. Currently Kempton Park is about 45% white from what I can tell...
@@silaskuemmerle2505 Initially, yes, but by now it's been more than a full generation which is how long it takes a nation to recover fully from tragedy, but SA is just getting worse and worse.
This sounds crass and I’m not making light of it as such but my wife sent me a link last night to a video of the insane explosion in Beirut that she found on reddit. Just below the video the advert built into the page just happened to be for funeral services.
how fucking stupid can morons like you get this dropout just googled random shit and regurgitates it to you with a few lines of random bullshit and you lap it up like the brainless dog you are
@@bobsagget823 You need to work on that redundant sentencing you got there. You must've been a Highschool Dropout with that English. Perhaps he did just look it up with a simple search but he pieces it together while making it relatively more interesting you troglodyte.
All this is just what living in a second world country feels like. Bribes, weird af legal system, weird af statements, everyone's doing their own thing, at the cost of the citizens themselves
Well I mean it's kinda like anarchism. The citizens and the government are almost at the same level. If a gang can work with the government you basically have citizen control over the country with different groups ruling in different areas all while the federal government is busy trying to maintain itself and the delicate balance between gangs, companies, and citizens.
You mean Third World country. The Second World world died out when the USSR imploded. We all know the politically incorrect reasons why African countries south of the Sahara all started to suffer from the same sorts of problems (e.g. extreme levels of political/institutional corruption, gross economic mismanagement, outbreaks of extreme social violence, and so on).
Gjr Hatz the only reason white farmers are getting murdered is because they own a lot of land in SA. They’re powerful. I don’t agree with the killings but don’t make it seem as if it’s for no reason. It’s also not just white farmers, it’s farmers in general.
The story about that "doctor" reminds me of what happened to my dad. In the 80's he had a pituitary tumor and the right way to remove them was to go through the roof of the mouth to reach that gland just under the brain. Well, the guy that got hired at an Idaho hospital because of a fluke ( he lied on his paperwork and the woman that was supposed to check was going on maternity leave that day so she rushed through it) only had 3 years of medical school and he went through the side of my dad's head instead, damaging his brain and even blinding him on that side. Dad actually lived a few years after that, but he now had the mentality of a 4 year old and was obviously extremely disabled. This guy did this to multiple people in Idaho and some other states, before taking off to New Zealand where we didn't have extradition at the time. The hospital wasn't found at fault either because "medicine is an imperfect practice" (their defense that actually worked) and it's still open to this day. I'll never go to that hospital, no matter how many years ago that was.
Yikes, so sorry to hear that! 😢 I’m surprised that defense actually worked as you hear of so many cases for so much less resulting in HUGE settlements! They do the procedure a bit differently today as I’ve been researching it with potentially needing one. They now go through the nose, take out a small piece of bone, do their thing through a scope, and seal it back up on the way out. There are docs that specialize in this procedure to the point it’s just another day at the office for them. Now, I don’t know for sure if this is what will “fix” me, but it’s a possibility as my pituitary is just not producing most of the hormones including ACTH which was at one point undetectable in me! They thankfully ruled out tumor, but it looks like the pituitary can be “flattened” also resulting in surgery being the best way to resolve it. Honestly, as exhausting as this is, I’ll do just about anything to feel even remotely ‘normal’ again! My only ‘rule’ is that I want an additional opinion or two, and am grateful that I have the time to get those! Be well.
You or ReinBot should cover Baron Von Brunk's Lost Subway Commercial mystery. It's kind of a short Reddit tale, so maybe you can do a compilation of Reddit mysteries and include that guy's. I'm intrigued.
Whenever you say, "This is Barely Sociable, have a good night," theres just something so serene and calming about it, even after all the content you cover in your videos
My entire adolescence was spent in an abandoned psychiatric facility on long island (NY)...Ok well I've already doxxed myself enough, it was in central Islip if you wanna look it up. It was a huge facility, idk a square mile? More? When it was built it was so isolated it needed its own power plant, staff housing and of course the multi story hospital and ancillary buildings for groundskeeping whatever else. And it's own fire house. Me, my brothers cousins and friends spent countless hours exploring these buildings...except the hospital, it was like an unspoken thing it was like off limits. The one time a group managed to break in (it was well locked and boarded up, unlike the power station where we spend most of out delinquency) not one of them would talk about it. I guess it's worth mentioning everything was frozen in time, like every bulding was abandoned in a rush. The power plant still had lockers full of work/lab coats, work stations with blue prints....I could go on but I'm trying to condense 15 years of my childhood into a RU-vid comment. One more thing...there was a weird and very large (and quite beautiful) semicircle building (now being renovated into apartment of all things) my cousin managed to break in..he told me he saw like a full blown vision of the past with nurses attending patients anf people screaming....he's NOT smart enough to have made that up, he's never been superstitious....it was pretty chilling coming from him.
@@gethaunted agreed. I just wish he (and other youtubers) would add captions or open community captioning to the videos. The interviews are really hard to understand when you're hard of hearing and have auditory processing disorder. But I love how he presents the cases and the research he does. He's right up there with Atrocity Guide for me.
@@doubtful_seer It's interesting that you mention that actually, because I'm in the Discord for Patreon donors and there is a user who's taken it upon themselves to go through and do captioning for each of the videos. So it's definitely something that he's aware of, it's just beyond his capacity to do individually since the whole channel is just him and it's really time-consuming
Trying to apply logic to the actions of the South African government, or its departments, is a little bit of a fool's errand. There's also an abandoned hospital in my home town in Kwa-Zulu Natal. In fact there's abandoned public infrastructure all over the place. But great video! That hospital is a well known spot in the local Urbex community, but I didn't know the back story about its closure.
@Jethro Bronner The Western Cape would be an economic leviathan if it wasn’t for us sending a large portion of our revenue up to Gauteng and getting next to nothing back in return.
I’ve read somewhere (I’ll try and link the source) that our nuclear power station sends a significant amount of electricity to the rest of South Africa as well. When it should be reserved for the Western Cape. But of course until I link the source take what I say with a grain of salt.
Oh no, it's perfectly logical. When I heard the premise, my mind instantly went to "Someone's cousin got to build the hospital, perhaps with a few extensions later on for a much lower price of material than what was listed" or something along those lines, and it wasn't too far off. Usually, the layers of bureaucracy surrounding this type of scheme look spoopy at a first sight, but when you see it enough times it gets old fast.
Having no knowledge in the medical field, Lumber Punches sounds like the name for the thing wrestlers do when they jump and slam their elbow down on an opponent's chest.
Dude, you hit the nail on the head there. Its corruption. Corruption is rather quickly tearing my beautiful country apart- now even more. Thank you for the fantastic video. Really enjoyed it as a local South African.
The amazing thing about barely sociable is the fact almost all of his videos are new fresh uncovered topics. I find that within the youtube horror and mystery community, most of the topics are just recovered by different people. But almost all of his videos and topics I’ve never even heard of before. This is guy and the work he does I hope he never gives up
That edit at 2:13... dude yes. Also I think you’re right on the money that this is most likely a tragic case of government corruption and reallocation of funds meant for public use
Former South African here, now living in Scotland. I used to go to the skate park in Kempton Park when I was a kid. I asked my father about this. He said back in the day when Johannesburg was mainly just a mining town, many miners fell ill from mine diseases like anthrax. Kempton at that time was a desolate, far out area in the middle of nowhere where they used to berry the bodies, you can put the rest together.
Honestly this sounds like a mix between the government stealing money and a conspiracy involving the fake doctor and dying patients. Doesn't sound too far off really but we don't know for sure. Also I love that you used Dead Island Music that game is pretty good!
[4:40] "Lumber punches?" That doesn't sound like any medical term I've ever heard before. Is it safe to assume these people meant "lumbar punctures," as in, the spinal injections? Or was this doctor such a raving lunatic that he was actually beating on these children with wooden (lumber) clubs? As crude as that sounds, I suppose it would account for all of the sudden brain damage... Regardless, something fishy definitely went down at this hospital. Thanks for sharing this with us, BS. Top-tier presentation, as usual... and I love the fact that you cover topic that aren't covered by the other hundreds of channels that attempt to cover similar content. Very much appreciated, good sir.
When studying for my masters degree in qs and commercial management I was taught that it's not unusual for purpose-built sites that are underused to lie abandoned because their maintenance & upkeep is too expensive to be justified. However because it can take decades to pay for its construction (depending on how it was funded) the building cannot be sold, and being as specialised as a hospital is, it would be difficult and expensive to repurpose. In the uk, we have several cases like this (never-used fire stations come to mind).
4:44 "Lumber Punches" Lmfao. Isn't that the first thing you're supposed to do in minecraft? You'd think the doctor would want to do lumbar punctures instead.
Great vid. I'm into urbex and, without sounding like an arsehole, have researched and written about many hospital closures, healthcare policies, changing demands etc etc. Essentially,I just know somebody very clever and very big cheese whose knowledge I steal. Then I take the credit, natch. So here's a very rough precis that might answer some questions:- Firstly, hospital closures everywhere often leave behind equipment and, sadly, notes - psych hospitals are the worst for this. Our demands on hospitals change as healthcare changes, and it's ferociously expensive to keep these massive general hospitals running (especially in countries where corruption is rampant and huge bureaucracies like large hospitals are sitting ducks.) They are money sinkholes, and governments are constantly trying to reduce the costs. Secondly, actively closing a hospital is hugely expensive. Plenty of modern machinery needs to be built into the fabric, and it's almost as expensive to retrieve something like an MRI as it is to put one in. Additionally, building codes change, so common building materials at time of construction may be verboten in later years, meaning any demolishing requires expensive specialists. The state this place was left indicates a type of "passive" closure, where everything just gets disused and, eventually, left behind. The doors are closed and then it just sits there, because removing it is a huge expense on strained budgets with far greater priorities. Hence huge asylums littered all over the UK, US and other countries. It's too bloody expensive to remove them safely because they could have any number of environmental/health nasties in them. Individual equipment is left for many reasons too, but overall a hospital is seen as a complete entity and nobody is concerned with single items even if they add up to serious $¥€£ collectively. Community demands change, too. Vaccination, community care, hospice and many other options have taken over certain branches of healthcare, leaving entire hospitals (eg: the TB sanitaria) or wards no longer needed. Once the balance between used/unused swings too far, the wards are not repurposed and just become a dead expense. Unfortunately, the resultant pulling of funds takes out the utilised wards too, leaving just what we have here - a hospital, a community need, and a lot of beaurocratic wastage. This is only the briefest synopsis that will probably be of no interest and never seen anyway. But there is usually no single cause for a hospital closure and this looks to be the result of a common combo of factors found all over the world. But they are still a liability, so the KEEP OUT notices go up and minimal security guards against potential liabilities if a looter, dosser or urbexer falls down a lift-shaft. And, of course, stories full the vacuum and everyone prefers the stories to boring reality. Eventually, the stories become the story and the legend is complete.
@Roaming Adhocrat Why thank you, kind sir ;-) The stories that build up around abandoned places are a tiny, largely untapped facet of the whole that fascinates me. The mythos becomes so entrenched that people want to hold on to it; god forbid you tell a photographer that his beautiful, atmospheric photos of a Victorian orphanage with all the baggage that entails, aren't actually an orphanage and that in reality it was a happy place, and that reality will be fought tooth and nail. The photos are still beautiful, the building is still wonderful but we want to hold on to the story too. And I'm just as susceptible, that "feel" is very strong in all of us. Hospitals and asylums are almost Legend 101 but the reality is rarely anything exciting. But in the whole, it's a fascinating slice of social history, no legends needed.
well said, i've looked into some local closed down/abandoned hospitals, and basically when they get sold the care for the building becomes a game of hot potato and whatever gets left behind just ends up in an endless loop of "not my problem"... i would guess it's the same with most abandoned facilities as you can usually find old articles that mention/explain why they closed down and it's rarely something "strange"... people's homes being left with personal belongings though, i think that's a different story. i have a friend who loves urbex and posts a lot of photos and i've seen some stuff you probably wouldn't just leave if you were moving out (maybe only if you like suddenly passed away and had no one to clean it out?)... you seem like you know about this stuff so if you feel like it i'd like to know what you think :)
@Lila You're bang on about the hot potato aspect, especially as entire departments can get liquidated when governments change of just to save money, and then the powers-that-be realise they haven't lost an expense at all because that department actually did something vital and half the staff get hired back at consultancy rates. Anything unused or at the tipping point out on the edges then becomes someone else's problem and starts the rounds. It is breathtaking just how much money we lose for short-term thinking. As for personally, it's the stuff that gets left behind that fascinates me too. Especially in houses - I know that's urbex at the lowest level but it's something I find every bit as interesting as the big places. We place so much value in things, and that choice is so personal, but it's also so fleeting. The houses where everything is left and there are no answers are places for which we have to write the story ourselves. But that will always leave lingering questions and for me, those questions tend to focus on the really small stuff. It mattered to someone once and I'll never know the story of why it's here. Personal places or even personal things in a giant factory which knocked out millions of identical somethings yet here's this tiny piece of individuality, are the most poignant. I could bang on about this stuff forever, but the other thing I love about urbex is that there are no experts. It doesn't matter what some very learned person thinks (not that I'd know!) or what history has decided is important enough for us to look at. We get to decide ourselves, and we may be the last eyes that really look.
@@randomhumanoidblob4506 thank you for the very interesting reply, yeah it's the same for me with the details, small but personal items left behind, they're the things that inspire me to try and figure out the story around them
