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Fort Strong
A friend of mine managed to arrange permission to visit Long Island Hospital and Fort Strong on Long Island in Boston. Pulling up to the gate house and being let through was a strange feeling. We brought coffee and doughnuts for the guards both days we were here to generate some good will!
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Fort Wayne
A good friend of mine worked at Fort Wayne, so naturally we wanted to swing by to visit the historic fort when we were out in Detroit.
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Worcester State Hospital
Unfortunately my risk tolerance wasn’t quite high enough to see as much of Worcester as I wanted, but I did manage to get a few shots inside during the demolition, including of the famed camera obscura which was created by a hole in one of the boards over the windows. This was also the site…
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Glenwood Generating Station
Glenwood Power Station in Yonkers, NY was a fairly well known abandonment that any explorer worth their salt had visited. I went by myself and had a good time climbing around. On my way out I encountered a few official types and had to pretend to be waiting for a train to avoid any unwanted…
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Gaebler Children’s Center – Trips 1 – 3
Built near the Metropolitan State Hospital campus, the Gaebler School was created specifically to address the needs of children with mental illnesses. As with many institutions of it’s type, the stories of former patients who resided within these walls are not always pretty. It is chilling to walk the halls of this building, passing seclusion…
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Belchertown State School
I have explored many mental health institutions in my travels, but Belchertown is one of a very few which truly gave me the creeps. It is the only place I can claim to have ever encountered anything which seemed even remotely supernatural (though it is a stretch to even say what I encountered here was…
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