"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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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 ).
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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!
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
The DHS grew quite infamous because it was home to the practice of the pre-frontal lobotomy in 1948. Much of what occurred in those "shuttered rooms" most likely revolved around electroshock therapy. There certainly is a very dark history surrounding this building. On a lighter note, I remember my dad driving us through the parking lot when I was a child shortly after the first bunch of residents had moved in (c. 2008). There was a resident who was leaving the premises in their car and I, idiotic to the invention of tinted windows, was tricked by my old man into believing that the car itself was haunted and was being driven by the ghost of a former patient. I remember going to school the next day and telling everyone the story haha!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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
The Danvers Historical Society has a wealth of information. The original hospital was treating people and releasing them back into society beautifully then the State started dumping people here and overwhelmed the working system they had and turned it into a disaster. They were not prepared for the overload. The cemetery may seem small for all the residents but, people forget these people still had families and were buried in their family plots. Thank you for visiting, we like it here on the hill.
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! 🥰
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.
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!
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...
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🎃🏚️🧟
@@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.
Session 9 is one of my favorite psychological thrillers. I had no idea this was the hospital used in the movie 🙂 "Hello Gordon" still is one of my favorite scenes at very the beginning of the movie.
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. :)
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 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.
The rain sound on your umbrella, especially when it really started to come down, was such a gift to this video. That absolutely came from the souls buried there. Youre just saying "why does it always rain when..." its not a deterrent, its a sign to you that theyre here.
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. 😉🙃
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!
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!!! ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗
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
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 !!
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!
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!
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 !!🤟🏼💀🤟🏼
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 🦇
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.
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. :)
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.
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
I remember when it was abandoned. I used to have to do security sweeps in the middle of the night and it was pretty creepy. Gurneys still in the hallways, wheelchairs left around. It was as if they just stopped what they were doing and left. It’s also on a hill so you can see it for miles. It has a great haunted look. And no I’m not a security guard
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!🙂💛✌🏼🤝🏼
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!! 🧡🖤
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.
Hi guys, we have an old mental hospital near where i live and they have turned the morgue slab into a breakfast bar, in a kitchen. all the room are now flats and studio apartments, Devon Uk. Keep up the good work..
The little portable mic really makes a difference, guys. Before I used to struggle to hear Jessica & people you interviewed etc some times . Great job as always 😊👻
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
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
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
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
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 😆
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 ☮️
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. 😱😄
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.
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.. 🎃👍🐈⬛☠️🙏🏽
As someone who works at one of the other State Hospital's in Massachusetts, this was very interesting to see! On the property of the one that I work at, there is also an old patient cemetery with a lot of unmarked graves. There's also a bunch of abandoned buildings that were once used back in the day but they have yet to demolish them. I have always wanted to explore but don't want to risk getting arrested over it haha. Thank you for sharing a part of Massachusetts history.
"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 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.”
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.
You two are so kind and thoughtful to every place you visit. I want to say thank you for that. 🕊🕊
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.
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
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!
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!
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
The DHS grew quite infamous because it was home to the practice of the pre-frontal lobotomy in 1948. Much of what occurred in those "shuttered rooms" most likely revolved around electroshock therapy. There certainly is a very dark history surrounding this building. On a lighter note, I remember my dad driving us through the parking lot when I was a child shortly after the first bunch of residents had moved in (c. 2008). There was a resident who was leaving the premises in their car and I, idiotic to the invention of tinted windows, was tricked by my old man into believing that the car itself was haunted and was being driven by the ghost of a former patient. I remember going to school the next day and telling everyone the story haha!
Hi Grimms! You guys were fabulous at the meet and greet. Thank you so much for coming!
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
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!
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.
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!
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
Session 9 was incredible but sadly many dont get it , very psychological.
bravo to that building company remembering its history and not covering. Everything is done so respectfully and beautiful.
One of my favourite psychological horror films is session 9 set in this very hospital. Awesome place.
The Danvers Historical Society has a wealth of information.
The original hospital was treating people and releasing them back into society beautifully then the State started dumping people here and overwhelmed the working system they had and turned it into a disaster. They were not prepared for the overload. The cemetery may seem small for all the residents but, people forget these people still had families and were buried in their family plots. Thank you for visiting, we like it here on the hill.
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! 🥰
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.
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...
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.
It is amazing that they renovated it and created a new history.
11:07 could she be any sweeter?! Melted my heart when she said that 💜
Session 9 is one of my favorite psychological thrillers. I had no idea this was the hospital used in the movie 🙂 "Hello Gordon" still is one of my favorite scenes at very the beginning of the movie.
Her wish for the eternal rest for the cemetary tennants was very sweet
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. :)
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 :)
It’s nice to see it renovated 😮looks amazing!!
I love how you respect the places and people everywhere that you visit. It just makes love you more.
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.
The rain sound on your umbrella, especially when it really started to come down, was such a gift to this video. That absolutely came from the souls buried there. Youre just saying "why does it always rain when..." its not a deterrent, its a sign to you that theyre here.
Renting an apartment in a abandoned hospital.Thats a perfect plot for a horror movie. The building is beautiful but creepy too!
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. 😉🙃
So much history in this place! I love all the pictures, reminds me of the Winchester House🔥✨
Very neat video. I love the vibe of hospital cemeteries being in the woods. Kinda creepy but also surreal and beautiful in a way.
Welcome back to New England!! You guys are ALWAYS welcomed here.
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!
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!!! ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗
Wish I knew you guys were coming out this way. Literally right around the corner.
Great video
Loved learning the history of this place, appreciate you guys! much love
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
One of your best videos. Very educational and respectful to the patient's ❤️
Beautiful architecture , gothic style? What a great idea to renovate and share. Great to see. Thank you.
Hello Patra how are you doing today?
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 !!
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!
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.
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!
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 !!🤟🏼💀🤟🏼
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! 😊
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. ❤
Session 9 is my all time favorit horror movie its really an amazing movie 🤗
I used to party in that building in the 80’s.
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 🦇
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 .
Such a beautiful building. There’s an asylum in Kansas City that is now a hotel and a winery. Such a cool place
Session 9 is excellent 👌
I love the intro so much! These videos make me feel nostalgic
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.
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. :)
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.
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
I remember when it was abandoned. I used to have to do security sweeps in the middle of the night and it was pretty creepy. Gurneys still in the hallways, wheelchairs left around. It was as if they just stopped what they were doing and left. It’s also on a hill so you can see it for miles. It has a great haunted look. And no I’m not a security guard
Y’all stay busy as hell…..I respect your work ethics….love y’all!
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.
Spent many a day in various Mental institutions visiting my brother & sister. Most folks in there were harmless # mental illness sucks#❤
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!🙂💛✌🏼🤝🏼
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!! 🧡🖤
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.
Hi guys, we have an old mental hospital near where i live and they have turned the morgue slab into a breakfast bar, in a kitchen. all the room are now flats and studio apartments, Devon Uk. Keep up the good work..
You did a respectful video and that's why you both are loved 🙏❤️
Thank you both for another great video! Excellent camera work and quality as always!
The little portable mic really makes a difference, guys. Before I used to struggle to hear Jessica & people you interviewed etc some times . Great job as always 😊👻
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
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
Scary place to go to or live there have a great day always
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
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
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 😆
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 ☮️
Another fascinating video. Great work again. Best wishes to you both from England.
Thanks for taking us on your trips, always enjoy it; and learn something new.
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. 😱😄
This reminds me of Preston school for boys. Super cool old prison for kids. They give tours daily.
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?
You need to visit waverly hills sanitarium in Louisville Kentucky.
I used to sneak in there when I was younger before it was converted to apartments. Great history there.
Another great video. I love when you go to New England being born and raised in Connecticut. It brings back so many memories.
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!
Love the video! Truth be told it now gives me more Overlook Hotel vibes!
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.. 🎃👍🐈⬛☠️🙏🏽
As someone who works at one of the other State Hospital's in Massachusetts, this was very interesting to see! On the property of the one that I work at, there is also an old patient cemetery with a lot of unmarked graves. There's also a bunch of abandoned buildings that were once used back in the day but they have yet to demolish them. I have always wanted to explore but don't want to risk getting arrested over it haha. Thank you for sharing a part of Massachusetts history.
Wrentham?
Its taunton
When I was trying to find the cemetery I slipped right down the hill and found my way to the cemetery.