Danvers State Hospital - Visiting The Patient Cemetery & Exploring The Hospital 4K
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2022
- Join us as we head to Salem, MA to explore the old Danvers State Hospital and the patient cemetery in Danvers, Massachusetts. It is now a renovated apartment building but the cemetery...is still there.
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"Nobody's Child" is the title of the book Marie Balter co-wrote about her life. She earned degrees from Salem State College and Harvard. She eventually ended up working at the Danvers State Hospital and founded the Balter Institute. Basically she dedicated her life to helping others with mental illnesses. A remarkable woman.
That's what my mom called me 😆
@@kennethmatthew9638 ?
@@appleman957dontcare5 I could be wrong but I think "Nobody's Child" was a nickname their mom gave them.
Sounds like an amazing person….i can relate…i have a daughter with cerebal palsy and i can only imagine what it would have been like for her if she were born 100 years ago!!
I just watched that movie and that's what has sent me down the rabbit hole. I just saw a documentary on here that she was featured in and they really painted Danvers as a horrific place. One guy spent his life in there simply because he couldn't speak English and people thought he was crazy and they would never get him a translator so he was literally held hostage.
Its really refreshing to see not only an abandoned building get such a new lease of life, but for them to also be so responsible in telling the history of the location.
I agree I love how Grimmlife actually explains the history of the places. We get to live vicariously through the videos because I'm 99.9999999999999% sure I'll never be able to visit the places they show us!
A lot of these buildings exist today. Unused and disrespected. Glad they saved it or at least some of it. Those Kirkbrides don’t exist mush anymore
There are so many old beautiful buildings out there abandoned. Especially in the New England area. I wish more people (civilians) would invest in saving them. We can't depend on the government/State to turn everything into low income housing. Besides it's never a good idea for the government/State to buy everything up anyway, we're not communists.
@@baylorsailor The main problem is that grabbling corporations backhand money to the gubbenment, then swallow it up and shit it out as some ugly, tacky, cheap modern housing and charge the earth for people to live in shabby drywall anal colonies. It should have been registered as a cultural monument.
Danvers is also the original Salem Village where the Witch hysteria began. It changed it's name to Danvers in 1752.
This is true but most people don't know this. I met someone who lives in Danvers Massachusetts who told me about this. I
live in Massachusetts and never knew about this.
@@robindick2802 Yes it's definitely true. Only the trials themselves were held in Salem. All the actual goings-on took place in Danvers which was where Tituba and most of the young girls lived. Danvers was then called Salem Village.
@@robindick2802 that’s surprising! I definitely thought this was common knowledge
@@josebro352 Actually the trials, the jails and the executions were held in Salem Town ( modern Salem, Proctor's Edge is where the hangings took place ). Also, people from Salem Town suffered from witchcraft hysteria, and the judges were all from Salem Town. The pattern of accusations is quite interesting cause it all starts in Salem Village, and spreads over to Salem Town and other places nearby ( Andover for example ). Salem Village is where everything started, Salem Town is where everything unfolded and where people started dying both for the executions and the rough time in the Salem prisons. Still today in a modern building in downtown Salem, you can find the plaque that marks the exact spots where the prisoners were kept, and commemorates the victims of those tremendous times who died in Jail or suffered from atrocious consequences ( see Dorothy Good ).
Oh wow. I’m from MA and had no idea about this. That’s so cool.
I actually worked there in the mid 1970”s. Everyone had a huge key ring. Everything under lock and key. Patients were tied to beds. A lot of people who worked there actually
lived there. There were a lot more buildings. They grew their own food in the day. It was something in its day.
I would love to hear some of your thoughts on the institution at that time
Session 9 was spooky as hell! Very underrated movie
That was seriously the best movie!!!
I second that 👍
"Hello....Gordon" ☻
Fantastic movie.
I had a coworker that when he was a kid his school would go there and sing Christmas carols for the residents. He said it wasn't even remotely scary it felt like visiting a nursing home.
I remember how it looked abandoned and it was extremely creepy looking.
PS - visit Marblehead Cemetery!
The "scary" motif is down to movies and how they frame them to the public in them.
I think a dandelion brings us all back to our childhood, even if it's just for the amount of time it takes to blow the dandelion fluff into the wind.
Yes, we’ll said. Nostalgia is so powerful.
@@Scooby_Dum it really is! 🤘
You both took me through memories as you walked the hallways! I had a friend of mine who rented an apartment here and whenever I'd come to visit her, we would walk around and explore the property. Thank you!
You two are so kind and thoughtful to every place you visit. I want to say thank you for that. 🕊🕊
It's been a rainy month, as it usually does in October. This is the best time to come. The overcast chilly days with the beautiful colorful scenery... This is my favorite time of year! I hope you guys enjoy Massachusetts!
By the way, Danvers, Mass was once called Salem Village. In 1692, Salem was divided into two towns. Salem Town is present day Salem. Salem Village is present day Danvers. Lots of Puritan history in both Danvers and Salem. Not many know this.
Session 9 is one of the most underrated gems of the horror scene. Great asylum/ghostie romp. I love this film, plus, it has some of the earliest appearances of Peter Mullan, Paul Guilfoyle, and pre-CSI and sunglasses David Caruso. Thanks for linking this location to that film for me! Keep up the great content!
I definitely agree with you
100%. It’s one of the more atmospheric films I’ve ever seen.
Couldn't agree with you more. Such an underrated film. I own it on DVD and probably watched it with over 20+ people through the years and every one of them liked it. Very eerie movie.
It really is!!!
“I live in the weak and the wounded, Doc.”
What a beautiful place. Love how the town cares for the history and stories. There are so many industrial, factory, hospitals, etc especially up here in New England. Sad because most weren't cared for once emptied.
Yes, looked like dandelion to me. They're ready to spead out the seeds for next year. LOL
I live about a half hour away from here and have always been fascinated with this hospital and the history and stories. I wish I had taken a tour of the hospital back when it was abandoned and they were given tours for a brief time. The story of Marie Balter is amazing....such a smart wonderful woman! She is laid to rest in a cemetery in Beverly, MA...just a town over from Danvers.
I really appreciate how the patients’ names are all memorialized. In so many old asylums, there are just numbers, if anything at all.
If y’all ever find yourselves in Dayton, Ohio, I strongly recommend Woodland Cemetery. There you’ll find graves of such luminaries as the Wright Brothers, Charles Kettering, Erma Bombeck, and even a Gypsy Queen. There’s also a famous grave of a little boy who drowned in a canal, along with the dog that tried to save him. People still leave toys at the grave to this day.
I myself have two friends buried there. It’s a beautiful place.
Thanks for another great video!
I absolutely love you guys. I’m from Watertown ma and I used to go to the danvers state hospital when it was abandoned but I always respected the buildings and I still to this day I visit the hospital and the cemetery
Hey guys, I love everything that you guys have done. I’ve watched every single video of you guys yell like a spitting image of me and someways I would say I appreciate all your work. Keep doing what you’re doing. It’s people like you that influenced me to keep going and I tried jamming you on the telegram thing it wasn’t working. I have an Instagram, that’s kind of complicated. I’ll try to remember. I think it’s truewalkingdeadfan but I am a Halloween fanatic. I love Salem Massachusetts. It’s like my second home I am trying to get a place down there with my fiancé, so I don’t know what the gift is. I appreciate it you don’t have to but coming from you guys it’s a honor.
Hi Grimms! You guys were fabulous at the meet and greet. Thank you so much for coming!
Session 9 was incredible but sadly many dont get it , very psychological.
Almost got arrested when I tried to get into the place back in the 90's. The original building was absolutely incredible!
the outside and inside look amazing to me the did a real good job on the inside would never knew it was an asylum!
@@RandyReviews1990 It looks really nice now. It doesn't have the same creepy vibe as when it was all there and dilapidated though.
@@ilockudown I wouldn’t mind checking the place out it’s one fancy apartment building now lol we’re you trying to get in there to steal something?
@@RandyReviews1990 No. I just wanted to check the place out.
@@ilockudown how did you get caught did security see you?
bravo to that building company remembering its history and not covering. Everything is done so respectfully and beautiful.
Renting an apartment in a abandoned hospital.Thats a perfect plot for a horror movie. The building is beautiful but creepy too!
I live 15 minutes away you can see the main building from the highway it’s on the biggest hill around and really sticks out. I’ve heard all kinds of stories about that place when it was still open. Interestingly there are some state run psych places in the area at the bottom of the hill that are not very nice
I noticed when Baby Ghoul said there was a lot of love and care here the sun lit up her face. I think they were saying hello again. Thank you for coming and remembering us. 🥹 Nicely done.
Jessica
So surreal to see this place renovated and modernized. Session 9 is one of the most effectively frightening movies that was able to use a real abandoned location to it's fullest potential in any modern horror movie I can think of.
Such a beautiful property!! As with most asylums from the original period of this one, I imagine some not-so-nice things took place there. I agree with Jessica - it's too bad the entire original building couldn't be saved, wings and all. May all the souls who perished there rest in peace... 🌹 Thank you for another awesome history lesson, Michael and Jessica! 🥰
Very good video. I like that they used the property intelligently instead of leaving it abandoned and falling down like so many other old asylums. It's very nice looking inside and out. Nice cemetery too. I'll have to look into those umbrellas; thanks for telling us about them and thanks for another cool video!
Another good one guys. I kept thinking what would get you committed in the 1800s? So many treatable things? Depression, sadness? God bless them all. 💝
even in 20th century, people like E Hemingway and Zelda Fitzgerald, were treated for things we'd consider minor today, like bipolar, but shock treatment and insulin therapy popular back then turned them into hopeless cases ruined for life. Not to mention all the lobotomy cases...
The best part about properties like this is staying the night and walking down the endless pitch-black hallways hearing all those bumps, crashes and shrieks. As for the hospital beds with restraints, we'll leave such things to our imaginations. 😉🙃
This reminds me of the High Royds mental hospital near where I grew up in Menston in the UK. That's also residential flats these days, but I remember visiting there when I was a kid because the Scout group I joined used to make use of their gyms for fitness training. We used
Lovely to meet you guys in Salem on Friday! Now we appreciate your videos that much more knowing what lovely people you two are! Our magnet has pride of place :)
I felt the happiness in this place. It was one of the good hospitals. So nice they saved and renovated some of it. I don't think the cemetary gets lots of visitors. I think they enjoyed your visit. :)
It is amazing that they renovated it and created a new history.
AHHH!!! I KNEW IT!!! AS SOON AS I SAW THE TITLE SAYING DANVERS HOSPITAL...I WAS LIKE, IS THAT WHERE THEY FILMED SESSION 9??!!! I was going to Salem State College, in Salem MA when that movie came out and we rented it and watched it. Loved the soundtrack too!!! ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗
So sad for those mentally ill, but better than today just letting them wonder around. It's a beautiful place now. They have done a great job. Would love to live there and honor those before. Thanks for sharing! Happy Halloween!
I really love the movie Session 9! Awesome to hear you guys mention it in this video. It's also cool to see it's still standing. I thought they were going to tear it all down.
My daughter sometimes watches with me she was doing something else today while I was watching but she heard your voice and said straight away is that cool dude and baby goul 😆 then heard you say baby goul and said I knew it 😆
Happy Halloween ! The hospital back in the 80's when abandoned was friggin off the wall scary looking at night. The place is 10min from my house & especially when the moon is full over the state hospital...INSANE!! Awesome episode !!🤟🏼💀🤟🏼
That was a lovely video about the state hospital. I'm happy they turned it into a functional building instead of leaving it to rot or tare it down. It's so beautiful ❤️. Safe travels until your next adventure we see soon🎃🏚️🧟
I wish they would do the same in CT. You can still the old hospital high on a hill. And the new one is behind it. It’s state owned.
@@Lori_in_CT My sister works at a high school in CT that’s the “new one” and the “old one”, which is from the 1800s is sitting vacant and haunted.
@@Marlaina I realize that. The one you see from Route 9 is the old one. The newer one and Whiting Forensic Institute is behind on the same campus. My friend’s daughter was making a film for school of the old buildings. It was dusk. Some lights were on, windows were smashed and knowing how psychiatric patients were treated in the old days, I have no doubt it is haunted. My MSW was tasked with getting patients out of the old building and into other placements. She still had the key. I really didn’t want to see it. One of the gallows humor statements about the hospital is if you think someone is acting silly or crazy you say, “Do you want to end up in Middletown?” That’s how it’s referred to. And Whiting Forensic Institute I wouldn’t go anywhere near. Think Hannibal Lechter. That’s who is in there.
Very neat video. I love the vibe of hospital cemeteries being in the woods. Kinda creepy but also surreal and beautiful in a way.
I used to party in that building in the 80’s.
I love how you respect the places and people everywhere that you visit. It just makes love you more.
Welcome back to New England!! You guys are ALWAYS welcomed here.
Lovely upload very English looking like over here,those trees at the end the thick wide ones are old at least 200 years old….I love autumn.
Another great video! Love how very respectful y’all always are. Also, Session 9 was an awesome film! I’m gonna have to rewatch it now. Thanks for sharing and…Happy Halloween!! 🧡🖤
Hey guys and welcome back to New England and yes it does rain a bit more around this time. Thanks for the tour of the old Danvers Hospital. If walls could talk !!
Everytime I hear the Grimm Life opening song I get really excited as I know it's gonna be an awesome time, full of interesting content shown by two wonderful hosts Jessica and Michael
great video- jessica and michael!!! so wonderful to see this building being made use of again!!! in the province where i live there is a spectacular old huge hospital which was previously for the mentally ill which they are now tearing down amid protests, it is so sad that they put all the money into a new facility and tear down one of the few beautiful buildings around here!
I remember when they gutted the hospital out and redid all of the interiors they did. Such a fantastic job. I almost couldn't tell that pretty much all that was left was the facade. Bravo to the architects and interior designers
So much history in this place! I love all the pictures, reminds me of the Winchester House🔥✨
As with much of New England, the Old Architecture there is AMAZING. I Absolutely LOVE the Architecture of those buildings. It is Awesome that the Developers Respected and Preserved those Amazing Exteriors. Even the modern interiors blends nicely. I also Love the way you two are Respectful to these old sites. LOVE your style of presenting your content. THANK YOU, I Love what you do and the way you do it. :)
Such a beautiful building. There’s an asylum in Kansas City that is now a hotel and a winery. Such a cool place
This is certainly a change of pace to when y'all are visiting haunted attractions and such. It's refreshing to see that life can be brought essentially back "from the Dead" so to speak. Happy Halloween 🦇
It’s nice to see it renovated 😮looks amazing!!
Marie Balter was a close friend of my family and she was always at the table for holidays and pasta dinners on Sundays. I remember watching the t.v. movie "Nobody's Child" when I was little and my parents explaining what she had gone through. I still have the book she inscribed
My sister had cerebral palsy in the 60s. She was taken to Paul dever state school until it closed. Me and my sister visited it when it was all boarded up and walked through it it was creepy my sister was abused in there so there’s some bad vibes in there thanks for covering this
Session 9 was terrifying ("I live in the weak and the wounded...")
Yes!
@@gelaigurl I’ll never get that line out of my head as long as I live!
I used to sneak in there when I was younger before it was converted to apartments. Great history there.
Loved learning the history of this place, appreciate you guys! much love
I'm a new subscriber from the UK.. bloody absolutely love what you 2 do.i binge watch . The way you line up the shots it's great. I'm mesmerised. Your attention to every detail is top banana. You & your wife are by far the best . Flipping brill . Dawn from. The uk
One of your best videos. Very educational and respectful to the patient's ❤️
Spent many a day in various Mental institutions visiting my brother & sister. Most folks in there were harmless # mental illness sucks#❤
Blowing the dandelion, reminds me of Morticia pruning the flowers.
11:07 could she be any sweeter?! Melted my heart when she said that 💜
The fields are rented by Richardson Dairy, who make wonderful ice cream!
To add to the spookyness after they tore down the old buildings and started to build the apartments one of the wings burnt down.
Our local mental hospital did the same thing with their original bindings. It’s the former Western State Hospital in Staunton Virginia. The grounds are beautiful and the apartments are quite pricey.
Beautiful architecture , gothic style? What a great idea to renovate and share. Great to see. Thank you.
Hello Patra how are you doing today?
One of my favourite psychological horror films is session 9 set in this very hospital. Awesome place.
Jessica and you were quite correct. What she had in her hand were the remnants of what were two golden dandelions that had gone to seed. In the state they were in when Jessica was holding them, they are known as dandelion clocks. They weren't quite ready to fly, that's why she was struggling to get them to. They are known as dandelion clocks in the UK, because with each blow it takes to free the seeds, you count 1 hour, so one hour = one o'clock in the afternoon, and so on. All the hours are daylight hours as, quite naturally, flowers don't bloom at night.
In France, dandelions are called pis-en-lits (peas-on-lee) which translates as wet-the-beds. I believe that the French also call it "Lion's Mane" as the greenery directly under the golden flower resembles a lion's mane.
But I'm just an amateur gardener!
Hope that helps you both!
Y’all stay busy as hell…..I respect your work ethics….love y’all!
Her wish for the eternal rest for the cemetary tennants was very sweet
This is awesome! I Love the movie Session 9. I was able to visit this place back in 2015, but was not able to walk inside. It is just beautiful. ❤
I've always been interested in Old buildings built in the 1800s and how they're being used for homes now. Especially asylums or hospitals. The buildings themselves are breathtaking. They don't do buildings like this anymore. Thank you for sharing this with us and for taking us on this journey and for letting us also pay our respects to the people who had died in the hospital
Hey Guys, That's a very cool video, in Australia I know there's a few very old asylums turned into an apartment buildings, but this one you showed us is truly amazing, truly truly amazing. Thank you so very much and I'm looking forward to seeing you again in the next Video, I hope that it's another awesome Haunted House Tour, I absolutely love those. 😊 😊 Have a great day today and Happy Halloween. 🦇 🎃 👻 🕸️ 🕷️
Session 9 is a very creepy movie. Great footage!
Wish I knew you guys were coming out this way. Literally right around the corner.
Great video
That is so awesome. Too see a building that might have held a lot of pain and sadness, now be so beautiful. Wonderful Story.
hey guys, remember me, I was the last guy in line at the meet and greet on friday. I was gonna tell ya about the old asylum but forgot. I made a big model of the admin building a few years ago. and I know a lot about the old gal. it was great meeting u both. great vid, keep em coming. and as always....happy Halloween
Thanks for this! in the mid to late 90's and early 2000's I did a lot of work down the hill from The Danvers Hospital, and at the time the buildings were all still intact, and we would often go up after dark and explore especially the cemetery. No matter how brave you are, that place at night was major league scary
Thank you both for another great video. Always loved watching your videos, you both take the time and give us alot of details wherever you visit and the respect you have for the property and others.
A absolute treat! Oh sure appreciate your efforts and quality content thanks this was a blast watching my friend's the Grims! Mike & Jessica! Love & peace lol only you 2 get the love not luv as per my usual! Best content on RUclips that's a fact appreciate you immensely Cheers from Sean&family!🙂💛✌🏼🤝🏼
I grew up down the street! So awesome to see you visited here. My mom told me stories of seeing patients getting out and roaming in field and on highway, and my bf's Aunt and I think grandfather used to work there when they were open. We have visited the cemetery at night, very creepy!
Just got back from Salem and stayed in Danvers, but had no idea this place existed. We were so focused on Salem. Only more of a reason to go back!
I love the intro so much! These videos make me feel nostalgic
The people that live here now must be in happy heaven with the "heavenly ghosts".💀💀👻👻
My ex girlfriends mother used to work there and told me all kind of horror stories. I've got friends that live there now and at night you can feel you are not alone. Always see shadow people in the hallways.
Another great informative video from you two, and wow, what a beautiful place. When you were both walking the hallways, I was half expecting you to turn a corner and little Danny Torrance from The Shining was peddling his tricycle towards you trying to get away from the Grady twin girls down at the other end of the hallway. 😱😄
I live in Massachusetts and there is a state hospital in Taunton Massachusetts that you might find interesting. It dates back to 1854. It was originally known as the state lunatic hospital at Taunton. Lots of history. Check it out. Would love to see a video from you guys. Peace ☮️
Living right next to Danvers, MA this was a pleasant surprise! Welcome to good ole Essex county! You should gi see some of the salem sights next!
Definitely try to get to Buffalo State Asylum as well! 😀 (Richardson Olmsted Campus) They tried to make a high class hotel out of it, but unfortunately it went out of business. Now a big developer in Buffalo bought it and we are waiting on it's next steps...
The opening scene from Home Before Dark is shot at Danver State Hospital !
at the end of the video.. Baby ghoul's hair was looking amazingggg with the foliage
Thanks for taking us on your trips, always enjoy it; and learn something new.
I loved your vlog and how the place was developed into residences. You'd love the State Hospital in Binghamton NY..it was still vacant when I saw it in 2016 but has that gothic architecture and just a haunting creepy building and grounds.
The area near I live in the UK had a whole bunch of Asylums in it which have been converted into Apartments, interesting to see the same thing happening over in the US
Thanks for the tour so nice to see the remaining building seeing new life nicely done especially the cemetery I could almost feel the vibes .
Yes lol those are the yellow dandelions, when they go to seed. 😉 love y'all
I wanted to add, I love the fact you respect the dead and don't just walk willy-nilly through a cemetery ❤️ I taught my kids the same, although they loved playing hide and seek in old ones with big tombstones 😉 they made a club with their friends, called cemetery kids😂 but they grew up with a mom that loved cemeteries and photographing old ones.
I was also taught how to walk when at a cemetery and be respectful. But as a kid they were so fun to play hide and seek!
Hello Monica how are you doing today?
The trees were thirsty. Love it B goul!❤
It's nice to see this building repurposed and saved from the wrecking ball. They did such a beautiful job bringing it back to life! 😊
That is such an awesome place!! Absolutely love the history and architecture! Glad that they have used the building for appts rather that letting it go to ruins.. 🎃👍🐈⬛☠️🙏🏽
This reminds me of Preston school for boys. Super cool old prison for kids. They give tours daily.