Urban Exploring Abandoned Insane Asylum
October was an exciting month all around, it was a month filled with spooky fun new friends and new adventures. One of those adventures was the largest exploration I have done so far. After the original planned was scrapped due to heavy security and impending demo of the site, my new friends over at The Need for Exploration acquired some info regarding an abandoned asylum in an un-disclosed location that we had to check it out. The property was quite large as a lot of the mental hospitals were at the time, they often became subject to over crowding and new laws that came with modern times which forced most of them to shut down. This particular property was opened in the early 1900’s, they housed 402 “residents” at opening but expanded and grew over the years several buildings were constructed on the property to try to keep up. By 1969 there were 1,609 residents, 875 full time staff with the campus reaching 1000 acres and total of 85 buildings. A lawsuit that called the quality of care residents received there by would eventually result in the closing of the school in 1993. Some of the buildings have been demolished or converted but a large part of the campus remains today mostly as it was left in 1993. The walls are peeling and covered in graffiti in some places others look like someone just moved out in a hurry and forgot all their paper work behind. Through all the broken glass and mold though you can see clearly what a strange and deplorable living space this was for the people who resided there in its peek. One first hand account from a resident who was left there by her family (who showed no signs of mental illness and tested above min IQ requirements) stated that she was beaten and subject to cruelty and “ did not get along to well with the other kids here” she wrote several times requesting to be released and was ignored for 42 years after which she was finally granted her release and given $235,000 in “compensation” by a judge after proving she was never in fact mentally disabled, though after 42 years trapped in such a place I don’t believe any amount of money is justice won. This location has a dark past from sterilization and experiments on the handicap and mentally ill that were common practice during the 1920s, the over crowding that followed in the years after the great depression and the neglect and abuse of so many innocent souls over all the years it was open, it stands as a reminder of how cruel humans can be to confine another in such a miserable place.
Go check out my friends channel The Need For Exploration on youtube for videos of their other awesome adventures with footage from this asylum explore coming soon!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK2-QV2AtW3jqrwBDW4givg
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