Glenn Dale Hospital adventure (Lots of words, but lots of pictures too)

DeathsHand · 08-19-2004, 06:17 AM

I had never heard of this place before, but it's up in Maryland and some friends of ours were going up there so we tagged along....

It's basically an old abandoned hospital (set up as a TB Hospital in the early 1900's, turned into a normal hospital, then shut down in the 80s due to asbestos) community deal strewn amongst fields and woods, made up of 23 buildings... Along with some underground tunnels...

I realize it wasn't the best idea of ours to go in there (not only is it filled with asbestos, but it's condemned and owned by the US Government, with no tresspassing signs all over the place)... But it was fuggin awesome... When it shut down they basically left everything there... Of course since then the place has been looted and vandalized to hell, and all the grafitti and litter (except the old newspapers and books) really took away from the mood...

Some girls wanted to go there as a thrill frightfest (after nightfall... 5 flashlights and a lantern among 8 of us... of course it's creepy, and there are tales of ghosts and multiple reports of strange occurences), but I ended up just coming away fascinated by the place...

First we entered the warehouse first, followed by the laundry house, then a doctor's house (some of us wanted to leave after every person in our group got a burning feeling in their nose and throat after going up to the second floor), and finally the children's hospital (the biggest building we entered, and second biggest on the lot next to the adult hospital)... It was basically walking around a big field/wooded area, spotting a shadow of a building, and then looking for a way inside (with most of the entrances boarded up)...

The Children's Hospital was the best... 4 floors and a basement... Old school books scattered on the floor, a flooded elevator shaft, numerous balconies, and some loooong ass hallways...

We'll probably all develop cancer in about 10 years...

Anyways, I don't have any of the pictures my friends took, but I found these around the net...

That's the children's hispital building... We didn't realize how big it was and entered from the far east side...

So whaddya think? Purty neat? Anybody else here ever explored creepy abandoned buildings?

DimHalo · 08-19-2004, 10:00 AM

Just a couple of months ago I went to a building that used to be a community hospital. The upper floors are still being used as an afterschool program. But when you go down into the basement (or the crypt as it is lovingly referred to) you can see all the old cells where they held the people that were not psychologically stable. They used to chain them to the ceiling and there were a couple of rooms with sinks in them where the held people that needed to be separated.

Swan · 08-19-2004, 10:40 AM

What do you mean by separated? Separated from what?

DimHalo · 08-19-2004, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by deejzguy

What do you mean by separated? Separated from what?

Separated from the other patients because they would do physical harm

Typhoid · 08-19-2004, 02:39 PM

Well, I live about 15 or 20 minutes from a semi-abandoned mental hospital. It used to be in full use, now its just like.....20% or something, and they use the otyher parts for movies.

Ok, true, i guess its not abandoned then.

Damn you Riverview.

The Germanator · 08-19-2004, 03:11 PM

There is something like this in Philadelphia which they actually use for a haunted house. I can't remember whether it's a prison or a hospital, but either way it's supposed to be very very scary.

Yugi Starwind · 08-20-2004, 01:57 PM

wow. cool. well, there's an anbandoned school somewhere near me that some of the nutty kids go to to fool around. it's nicknamed "the asylum" for some reason..mainly because that's what it looked like. all sorts of paranormal things happened there. like..in this one classsroom, if you try to put all the desks baack upright(they were all spilled in every direction because there was a fire in the school) and you get the desks upright, they'll all clatter down back to the way they originally were. so, like, 5 seconds later. BOOM! they all fall back to the way they were. another part is in the basement,, if you go down there, bricks will pretty much fly at you from the back wall. there's lots of strange stuff there from what i've heard. I haven't checked it out...yet..

Canyarion · 08-20-2004, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Yugi Starwind

bricks will pretty much fly at you from the back wall.

Cool. Zelda.

Swan · 08-20-2004, 02:22 PM

You should go there and make a video.

Yugi Starwind · 08-20-2004, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by deejzguy

You should go there and make a video.

the only people that go there are either:
A: stupid
B:crazy
C:curious
I'm kinda C, but if I can get a friend of mine to come with me as a witness, i'll go.

Dylflon · 08-20-2004, 03:51 PM

Bring a video camera. And a group. A 5-7 person group should be good.