Hidden History of the Bull Street Asylum
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2020
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The Bull Street Asylum has a long history spanning centuries. Today it is a rotting building that also served as a landmark for Columbia, South Carolina.
If you enjoyed the video and want to know more about the asylum, check out “The South Carolina state hospital: stories from bull street” by William Buchheit.
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My paternal grandfather was dumped in one of these horrid places in Kentucky when he was three! He was born with a cleft lip and palate, when his father died in a mine accident his mother dumped him so she could get remarried! I hop she rots. Back in 1908 they lived far apart from family and her parents had no idea that little Theodore was missing. When they learned what she had done they went and retrieved him from that god awful place, he was nearly starved to death and so frightened of everyone and everything. His grandfather adopted him and raised him as their own. He lived well into his late 80’s.
Sorry to hear about your grandfather’s rough start in childhood. Thank goodness he was saved by family.❤️
Pleased your grandfather was rescued his family, did he ever have out do with his mother again, it takes a bad mother to do that to her child
Oh my.... Makes my heart bleed. The world's is full of horrors when we all hav the ability to b kind
I am so glad to hear your grandfather was eventually saved from the horrible abuse he suffered as a young child. It makes me sick to know there are heartless people in this world who think nothing of hurting the sensitive and less fortunate in this cruel world , for their own selfish gain!!
Was it the Waverly Hills Sanitarium?
I've only seen one other institution in my life, when I was in my teens. Either could have been my story. I was born in 1954, with a severe lazy eye, a club foot, and very tiny, 5 lbs. The doctors tried to convince my mom to put me in an institution. Told her I would be blind, would never walk, and would probably be retarded. She said, f*** you and took me home. The Lions Club donated eye surgery when I was three. My mom fixed my foot, thinking as I grew, it would. Wrapped my toes in cotton, adjusting it, directing them in the way they should go. My baby toe on the right foot remained laying over the next, the rest were straight. My first pair of baby shoes carries the imprint of a four toed foot. Our God is an Awesome God. He gave me an Awesome mom. I'm 68 on March 31. Still walking. Here's looking at ya.
Has nothing to do with God, you just had a good mom. Not everyone is so lucky.
@@Cbd_7ohm It has everything to do with God. Might it be you that has nothing to do with God ? ?
@@TheBladepolisher You have no evidence of your made up god. Innocent people die every day of different causes. Again, has nothing to to with a god.
@@Cbd_7ohm dude, i’m an atheist, but shut up. let people heal and find joy in whatever they want.
Cheers to you. I hope you kick pessimists with that special foot at every opportunity!
The welcoming message of “eat shit” on the building really set the tone
😂
Asylums were so notorious for abuse and the lobotomy procedure on so many patients just to control them. It’s so sad to know this was so common in the 60’s. Look at the Joe Kennedy daughter situation. Just awful. Botched lobotomies are in the hundreds, maybe thousands. All we can do is pray for those innocent lives taken and pray it never happens again. Thank you for sharing this video. Certainly opens many eyes.
I don't know that it's any worse than circumcision, or drugging kids with stimulants, really. Sometimes it even worked for the better. Basically we suck at curing anything in the mind to this day. I have severe depression and have accepted science is in the Dark Ages with the brain. Anything in the brain, we suck at curing. We can fix the heart, other parts, but not the brain.
They need to tear it down after documenting, it's sad for any that had to be there, poor souls never had a chance. Once you get in there was no way out. When did they close the doors and what happen to the rest of the people?
@@helenjablonski2047 well how do you feel about all the people in jail who should be getting help in an asylum with better regulations? Or the ones on the street, schizophrenics, etc.? The fact is, we still don't know how to treat mental illness or senility and those who think throwing meds at it works are wrong. I've known too many who got zero help even WITH money to afford it.
SOME OF THIS SICK CRAP STILL IS GOING ON TODAY. DONT BE FOOLED BY WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THIS IS ONLY BACK THEN
Hard to believe even the Kennedys fell for that crap.
They aren't hiding "dirty past". They are hiding their wicked crimes.
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Exactly!!
I was there in the 90s. The staff made more crimes than all the patience combine
Would be nice to hear what you are saying
Exactely
there is NO WAY I would live in an apartment in this place, no matter how nice it had been fixed up. The place needs to be torn down. To much pain and suffering was inflicted there.
The Jefferson Loft Apartments in Houston were built in I think an old hospital which had been built over a Confederate cemetery without any type of religious or spiritual blessing. Not good.
@@guymorris1963 That’s terrible
Too* much.
@Mr. Beach Walker
Totally agree. This place would have so much negative 'energy' (or 'vibes') I can't see anyone living there comfortably. Raze the building, and do a spiritual cleansing of the site before even thinking about starting any new construction there. Those souls are not resting peacefully.
Imagine having part of your luxury apartment being the former crematory.
This is why public photography is so important. You never know when somethings gonna be gone so always good to have a photo even better a video of it.
Being from South Carolina and growing up with the mental asylum still in operation, this video makes me cry and saddened by the loss of life and minds in this place. Thank you for showing the world just how inhumane these places really were in history!
Have you read the book?
It was always so creepy. I remember it being in operation as a child.
I’m glad it burned. The whole thing should be razed.
@JaniceNivens-Huston what's the book?
@@lisalarouge6309it's history just because of bad things doesn't mean it should burn
My Mother was required to work there during her time as a nursing student. She became a registered nurse in 1958. She would tell me that about pushing her dresser against the door every night so the patients couldn't come in and kill her. She also spoke of the horrible things about electric shock therapy and having to lay across a patient's legs while it was happening. She hated that place because of the "treatments" they bestowed upon the patients.
Luckily mental health has progressed by leaps and bounds!
@@ccaruso8293 no it hasn’t
@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 It has. Of course, there is a HUGE amount of changes and advances still to be done, but we cannot compare awareness and treatments of Mental Health today with what happened at that time.
@@plantadelbosque im not so sure 🙄
I knew one mental hospital in Sydney that was doing electric shock treatments
Wow, if you weren’t insane when you went in there, the lead paint would’ve Changed that.
And abuse, and poor diet, and hearing people scream daily and being avoided by your family and the one link to the outside world, and isolation and inability to fulfil any goals you had and...
If the pellagra didn't get you first.
Yes, I was thinking about the lead paint - peeling all over the place! Not to mention asbestos.
Just don't eat the paint....
@@juriaan13 you can get sick from it even getting on you or if you eat or rub your eyes. The dust from the paint would be everywhere.
As a former patient of the South Carolina State Hospital your video brought back some memories. I wish you would have went around back and showed the school or the library that was located under the front porch. I was in the Wilson building and the Dix building I even did some time in the Cooper building but I went to school at the Babcock building. I wish I could say my life got better once I got out but no such luck. Thank you for sharing this.
i can't imagine what it was like for you 😢, in a place like this. I was wondering if you would allow me to us your story in a book I am writing called asylum and prison secrets I can leave your name as anonymous.
Me when I lie
I hope life is better now
❤
I took care of individuals from Pennhurst and they were some of the most memorable people I’ve ever met. Once they trusted me they would allow me to get a little closer to them to help but it took time after what they’d been put through. I have a special place in my heart for them all. They are now living in group homes cared for by good people that truly care about them.
Bless you for being kind ❤
@@ShanonleeeLeonard they really taught me a lot about judging people and can’t imagine what they go through. I miss them dearly.
I'm so glad you showed them kindness. I discovered I had an unknown great uncle that died at Pennhurst, it's just so sad. I tried to find out what happened to him but there's very little evidence he existed.
@@Rye_Toast it’s so sad how they were treated and a lot of the patients didn’t belong there in the first place. I wish you luck in finding out what happened to your uncle ❤️
Its even scarier watching this as a person with autism and ADHD, knowing if i was born at this time i would probably have been put into one of these asylums aswell...
Same here, it's unbelievable.. :/
Dang doctors that didn't know nothing back then and some still don't. I'm sure there were some cold hearted nurses too back in those days. That's so sad. One of my grandson's has autism and I couldn't imagine that baby being put somewhere like this. Just the thought of it breaks my heart. 😥😪
My son also has Autism and ADHD even when he was born in 1989 they talked To me about putting him in an institution. I didn't think twice about keeping him with me.
I feel I got ocd and anorexia but yeah if people are shiet now and don't care bout the mentally ill imagine what they ever were back then
same here, as a lesbian and someone with adhd
My grandmother had 3 shock treatments here just for depression from birthing a stillborn. Sadly the treatments erased almost all her long term memories. Grandma passed away at 83yrs old four years ago.
I’m so sorry she had to endure that. Beyond terrible ..May she Rest In Peace ❤️
@@kmp8985 Thank you so much.
@@barnes29510 I am so sorry for your Grandma💝🥺💐
There is absolutely nothing worse then losing your baby. Obviously the most traumatic experience ever.
Some idiot on another thread here is promoting ECT, and I know a woman who had it, and it erased her traumatic memories, and all of her good ones also, and warned me Never to consider it.
Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk on YT, and his books helped me tremendously.
It's tough when ya get cut off in a trauma evaluation, and ya still have 30 years worth more to explain. I have CPTSD off the charts , and healing myself because the mental health professionals don't know Jack S*** unless they are Neurologists💝
They are Actual Doctors not witch Drs.
Blessings to You and Your's, and may your Grandma have found
peace and comfort 💐💝
Much love and Respect to you, your family and especially your dear Grandmother ❤️
Same!! My grandma had shock therapy treatments here as well.
I was a student nurse there in the late 1970s. The wood floors and doors with their brass knobs were gorgeous. Also, the bathrooms had beautiful old fixtures and tile. It hurts my heart to see this beautiful old building vandalized and let to rot. I worked as a nurse in the old Byrnes Hospital on the campus in the 1990s in their operating room. The area had been used as the labor and delivery unit back in the day. I found the old delivery room record books stored in the back of a cabinet in the recovery room area. In the 1920s and 1930s, babies born there were admitted to the hospital and stayed there for the rest of their lives in many cases. I guess no one wanted to adopt a child born to a patient in the lunatic asylum.
You tell me then... There is a God? 😔
Not that no one in society would adopt them... more like the kind of people running those asylums weren't allowing those genetics back out into the world to breed.
@@FuHackers-wx9lq No one can tell you that... that's up to you to decide for yourself. That's your journey
I am writing a book called asylum and prison secrets and I was wondering if I would us your comment for my book I can leave your name out and leave it anonymous if you wish. I find your story every interesting and would love to share it.
@@FuHackers-wx9lq using the existence of human evil as evidence that there is no Creator doesn't work, intellectually. We know God is real in the same way that we know a painter is real when we see a painting. We know a builder is real when we look at a building. Painting, painter. Building, builder. Creation, Creator.
I’m from South Carolina, and in the 60’s Bull Street as we called it was still taking in patients. A patient would check into it but never check out. Residents say that the grounds are haunted and we have heard screams at night. We use to lock our car doors when driving by Bull Street.
My mom worked here as a nurse. She left nursing because of this place. She worked with the elderly patients.
Does she have any particular stories or incidents that led to her leaving?
I'm sorry if that's rude or intrusive of me to ask, I'm just very interested in the history of asylums and mental health "treatment." I suffer from mental illness myself and find such accounts fascinating and telling.
I'm glad she had enough heart to leave. I know I wouldn't been able to stand it. You would think the law would have known better too, but look what the Kennedy's did to their own daughter. All because she had dyslexia. She wasn't able to read fast enough and they called her retarded. The Kennedy's were some messed up people. I watched some stories about that family not long ago and it made me so mad the way they pushed their children while they were growing up. Their mama was awful in my opinion. Old snooty hag.
Your Mother was probably an Angel to these patients.
That is interesting. How long has it been closed?
Places like this hold enormous negative energy.
Trauma leaves a mark.
Yeah he gotta get to meditation right after
Yes it does!
Oh yeah. I wouldn’t go anywhere near a place like that. Run into enough of that being around people.
I agree. You feel that energy?
@@jellyfishi_ what’s wrong with you?!
This is quite literally revolting how could anyone be treated so poorly my heart goes out to anyone who had to deal with this abuse and neglect
Вы не можете представить, как обращались в СССР в 30е года с,, врагами народа,, и с их, посаженными в лагеря детьми разных возрастов😪😱😱😱
The energy of this place is pure hopelessness & despair mixed with a sickeningly evil vibe. Terrible, terrible things happened there and you can just feel it by looking. I can only imagine how you guys felt walking around in it. It feels like a place where life, dignity, humanity, & compassion just didn't exist.
You said it!!! As I’m watching I have this weird feeling, & I also keep thinking how I would never be able to walk in there to make a video
I get horrible vibes from this. I want to read the book though
I’m energy sensitive and the air looks dense and heavy.
its so refreshing to find someone with a nice voice,& not being stupid or making stuff up.. thank you & i have subscribed
Thank you roz! We are going to keep it real with our subscribers and provide tours that are immersive and non intrusive. Relaxing, yet emotionally stimulating. We hope you’ll enjoy the next video.
Same here! And the background music perfect! The word written in spray paint: "desperation" - said it all...
I have only just stumbled onto this by accident. I totally agree with you. I have subscribed too as I want to see more.
Are you talking about Josh lmao
You need to watch the channel Hollywood Graveyards Author Dark is Awesome 👍👍
I cant even imagine the pitiful patient that they locked in the "cell" and then totally forgot about them a week later. Smh. Terrible
Im sorry but I dont buy that story. The patient was giving them a hard time and i myself think the employees 'agreed' to forget about her.
Is that really true though 🤔.
It’s so sad to lose such a piece of our country’s history. We cannot forget our history but instead must study it so that we are not condemned to repeat things like those that took place here. Thank you for sharing this.
Removing those files and things doesn't mean they destroyed them. They may have people going through those files looking for the same things you are. Never underestimate the real motivation behind people.
Never underestimate the power of a decision to destroy history and make it unrecognisable
He also said the wanted to turn the building into apartments, like.. of course they are gonna take everything out, if they are gonna do extensive renovations
@@sarads7877 That's what I thought. If renovating it, what use do they have with all that stuff. Of course they're going to get rid of it. For all we know, any files there might have been turned over to the state to put in their archives.
It’s genuinely quite shocking how recent these events are. Talking about the 50s of 40s does seem a long time, but considering how long we’ve lived on this earth, it is VERY recent. It is incredibly shocking to think these things were taking place not even 100 years ago. It’s so recent.
It’s still happening today. Modern mental wards are HORRIBLE places. They don’t treat you like a human.
The staff mocks you, picks on you, withholds food and sanitary items if you’re being ‘too disruptive’. You’re given medication without consent and you’re forced to take it, because if you demand to know what drugs they’re trying to feed you and what the drugs do they give you extra sedatives to ‘calm you down’
They only let you outside in (usually) tiny little concrete boxes that can barely fit 10 people once a day.
The hospitals in poor areas are especially brutal.
Of course it’s gotten a lot better from what they once were- you aren’t administered lobotomies anymore, but they’re still terrible places and the suffering mental wards inflicts onto people is still very real today and we shouldn’t think of it as a thing of the past.
@@hvmaru9273 Where is that at? I work in a psych ward in a hospital and it’s nothing like that. There’s a structure, therapy sessions, group therapy, workout areas, meds are given by prescription and by consent, there are activities and patients go outside to play basketball, walk or whatever. Even so, there is a long way to go with mental illness in this country.
@@thischosenlife7626 you work in a psych ward in a HOSPITAL, of course it’s going to have structure. I’m talking about psychiatric institutes in bad neighborhoods that are underfunded with garbage staff. It’s people like you that make people like me feel uncomfortable coming forward with our experiences. Just because you’ve been privileged enough to have had good experiences in the single place you WORK at doesn’t mean everyone else has had the same experiences. It’s also very different being a nurse than it is being a patient.
@@thischosenlife7626 I’m sure the nurses that worked in these institutes though they were doing a favor for the patients by scraping off parts of their brains and keeping them confined. They’d probably say something similar to you, like “Our institute is very helpful, we have surgeries and treatments that make the patients very docile! It helps them integrate back into society!” While the experience is completely different for the patient.
@@hvmaru9273 Well first of all, I’m not a nurse, I volunteer. Secondly, don’t assume people are privileged. I don’t know what county you are in but I’ve never heard of such circumstances of any type of a modern mental facility ever in the US even in the poor areas. Concrete boxes that fit ten people to go outside? Why? That wouldn’t even make any sense. Just seems a little mid-evil and pretty dramatic to me. And “people like me” or anyone shouldn’t make you uncomfortable just because I question the validity of your comment.
It’s pretty terrifying that as a woman with schizophrenia, I might’ve been put in a place like this. I’m grateful to be living in better times. Those poor people❤️
I have a neurological chronic illness and I would of had a lobotomy preformed had I been born during this time. I'm grateful too that times have changed
Sadly Republicans are treating, still misunderstood LGBTQ etc people exactly the way epileptic and schizophrenic persons were treated then.
I was thinking the same thing. Horrible
This is a wonderful place for our drug addicted, mentally ill and drug abusers. But they want their mexican dope so they cant have nice thihngs
You are mentally ill.
I'm glad there were two of you on this exploration. It would add a whole new level of horror to be critically injured in such a place and not be found until it was too late, like some of the former inmates. Places like these should have their histories told in detail. I've subscribed.
Thank you for preserving what you could of the past. People seem to think destroying pieces of the past will make for a better future, but in reality by erasing the past we are destined to relive it because people forget what is gone.
Hello Lisa, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
I'm bipolar and I admit I've been through some bad times, after watching this I actually feel grateful that even though the medication I take has pretty horrible side effects nothing could be as bad as being admitted to a place like this. Those poor people suffered so much 😭 xx
I read your story and I just want to say hi and I hope your doing well.
STEPH P I am BIPOLAR myself as was my mother, great-aunt and great-great-grandfather. My AUNT GLADYS shot herself dead and WILLIAM "BILLY " BOW, my great-great-grandpa was put in 1 of these asylums. I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THE POOR MAN WENT THROUGH THERE. HUMAN beings were treated inhumane back then. I have been in the hospital many times in the past about suicide attempts and other issues. My mother was in an out of the hospital as I was growing up many many times. It was NOT A GOOD childhood for my 3 brothers or myself. But we managed ok. NONE of us are criminals, mean or without RESPECT for others. MOM did the best she could raising us (even our DADDY, her ex-husband said she was a good mother) ,& he was right.
Don't ever give up on yourself. Prayers and I hope you are doing well.
@Stevie Woo Only a handful could be even remotely considered "very dangerous", and, only occasionally at that.
VICTORIAN MELODY I am SOOOOOO HAPPY to see your comments & wishes for me. YOU ARE SO THOUGHTFUL to say that! I struggle daily with this disease, but as the bible says "we will have no more pain, problems or bad things to cope with when JESUS comes back ". HE WILL WIPE IT ALL AWAY. I have my faith, my family and my friends, like you HONEY. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. Your friend ALWAYS RHONDA GRIDER
My grandmother spent time in this place over the course of her life due to schizophrenia-paranoia. She had a nervous breakdown when she went was 8 months pregnant with my mother so my mother was born in this horrible place.
Lisa Wells wow. What a story Lisa. Thank you so much for sharing. We may contact you in the future for an in depth account as we are trying to form stories from this location as a future project.
@@ObscureOdysseys I would love to talk about the stories I heard over the years from my family. My mother passed away in 2018 and my grandmother in 2005 so this would be a great way to honor and remember them both.
I would love to watch that video.... Yes please!
. Im sorry your grandmother had to go through hell . and your mother..i hope your mother wasn't there long
@@joannamarie8686 She was there for 6 weeks before her father took her home. My grandma was there for another 6 months before they finally let her go home. Needless to say may mama and her mama never bonded properly. It wasn’t until they were much older they became close. It was a sad situation to say the least.
The not checking on residents in their rooms happens alot, still now, in mental health residential buildings. Was just in one (for work) and was told it happened there - they didn't know until there was a smell, it had been 2 weeks and they were meant to be checked daily. Some of them don't do wellness checks at all.. but the staff do care - there are just too few who want to do that job.
oh.... my God. 2 weeks? i understand understaffing but that is crazy..... thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing this, we have bad history with asylums back here in England, I feel so sorry for those lost souls who just needed a little help but had to go to such bleak places and endure the terrible conditions and horrible treatment of that time. Good work guys. Xx
Thank you 🇬🇧
Our ancestor went to the Royal Earlswood Asylum in Redhill in the 1880's. His parents were married and were 1st cousins. I believe William Winfield Goodwin may of had Downs syndrome. You had to pay to go here, to be helped, given training to have a trade. In his sisters diary as she talks about her brother, but writes about visiting Redhill for a week going to see 'Idiots in the park!' Person's then were known as Inbeciles and Idiots.
Could you Imagine living in one of the flats done up in the old Bedlam lunatic asylum?
You couldn’t pay me to live there!
My father suffered from depression and what is now called PTSD. Our oldest sister, who was given charge of him, decided to let them use electro shock therapy on him. Everyone in the family told her not to go through with it. She didn't listen.
They used the so called therapy on him twice. I will never forget seeing him after. He was not my father anymore.
He would stare into the distance. He couldn't respond to questions we asked him. Answers he should have known by heart.
He had a hard time recognizing his children and grandchildren. He didn't want to get out of bed or even eat.
The doctors claimed that it would just take time for him to readjust. He never did. We ended up having to put him in a home.
It didn't take long for him to give up.
To this day my sister says she did the right thing. No one in the family speaks to her any longer.
My heart goes out to you and your father who remains close to you forever.
❤
My grandmother had electro shock therapy when she was in the hospital,just because she nearly died and was clearly going to live they did it anyway.she went home worked ,lived normal life til she was alone and saw ,talked to things,demons,people that weren’t there,we would talk to her and she would snap out of it.it made me sad to see my gramma like that,I loved her so much anyway
@@emilyanselm8998 lo
So sorry. There seems to be a great divide amongst Drs. nurses, therapist etc. regarding such drastic therapies. Some are: oh yes lets do this ! They will be cured ! And others, absolutely not ! they will never be the same ! The treatment should be abolished, outlawed !
Instead of mental patients dying in a hospital they’re now dying on the streets
So true.
Most would rather die on their own than be locked up and pushed/forced to it
At least we aren`t having mothers with PPD and depressed wives being locked away by their husbands anymore.
And most are by cops
@@marcusalejandro8044 nice way of twisting the story to make cops look bad. Cops don't care if they shoot a mentally impaired or perfectly "healthy" attacker. Cops care about surviving and if you try to pull a "yea but cops shoot way too often" you should really look up how many police encounters ACTUALLY involve violence.
It's hard to reconcile how absolutely gorgeous the building is with the crimes against humanity that ocured there
There must be some patients that really never left that horrible place, because that's all they really knew. I truly hope that they've been released, and are resting peacefully in their eternal slumbers.
Some of the records would have shown that even people with disabilities, blindness, sickness, anyone that did not go along with societies norm etc. we're also placed in these horrible places.
Finding God, yes. Absolutely Terrible
It’s interesting you said that. I am from South Carolina, and I am blind. Our state’s commission for the blind is literally right across the street from there.
I was born in the 60’s in Canada. This is part of the reason why we never saw any disabled of any type.
Would LOVE to read some of those records and talk to anyone who managed to survive that nightmare.
Today we find them living in filthy sidewalk tent cities.
My great grandmother died receiving shock treatments there in 1954. I also recall visiting my cousin, with my Aunt up to around 1978.
I doubt that the miserable souls who came but never left are not upset it was consumed in flames.
JamesNXS Lewis thanks for sharing your story James. I find it incredible that so many people are commenting with stories of relatives experiencing life as patients here. May she Rest In Peace.
I am not upset, though I was never a patient here. My grandfather died at this hospital in 1946. He had lived at this horrible place for many years. His illness - Epilepsy. As bad as this place was, I was even more shocked to find out how they disrespected these people even in death. There is a cemetery where a bridge crosses over the Broad River (close to the old water canals, I think off Broad River Rd.) where the ones who died here were buried. Unmarked graves, multiple bodies in graves, thrown away and buried like trash. If there are any records of who is buried there, I don't know of them. If the families did not claim the bodies or could not afford to bury them this was their fate. I heard the area is greatly overgrown with briars, brush and snakes - hidden from sight at the back of a housing development. Even today South Carolina's answer to mental health is abhorrent. What did the state do with the proceeds from selling this property? Millions and millions of dollars so a developer could build fancy expensive homes in a gated downtown neighborhood. They put the money in the general fund. Far as I know no mental health hospital has been built to replace this one. This building was a place of torture and experimentation. In my opinion, it should have burned to the ground decades ago.
I love the footage you took inside the tower. What a crime that it was lost to arson. When I see all that timber framework inside structures like that, my utmost respect goes out to the carpenters and architects who made that happen.
I feel that. Makes me sad we don’t build like this anymore. It took such skill and these buildings last! Unlike the flimsy wooden structures we have today.
This is be far the best abandoned building urbex video I've seen because of the historic detail. Your research is remarkable. The details of personal accounts are fascinating. Regarding the items and papers that have disappeared over the years, I suspect they were taken by other explorers. That happens in nearly all such buildings. It's a shame. I wish people could explore, take photos, and leave everything intact for others to see. Great video!
Sometimes accidental fires destroy historic buildings that get in developers way.
I think "accidental" needs quotes around it. It was the first thing I thought too.
@@lieselemay I think we all understood though.😊
"Accidental fires"? My butt.
@@guineapiglady2841 Your comment is exactly why quotations need to be put around accidental fires. They change the meaning of the words to mean the fires weren't accidental. It's called implied or insinuated meaning.
@@jenniferwilcox9759 I think they burn it down on purpose.
Back then they were forgotten, it was a stigma to have "crazies" in your family. You lied and told the neighbors that they ran away or died.
They're forgotten today as well. You can find them living in cardboard boxes and tents in drab areas of a city
There are no crazies today, just the occasional cray cray.
It depends. If you’re rich, the crazy one is eccentric. You put them up in a nice house or penthouse with a full time staff of caretakers. If you’re poor, you don’t talk about them, because they are probably living in a tent on the sidewalk, shooting drugs through their veins.
I've driven by this place a million times and I swear I get chills every time! I lived at beach not far away and went to Columbia for various reasons thru the years and to stop and just look up at place had such overwhelming sense of dread. So glad it's no longer in operation.
I’ve lived with the symptoms (different diagnoses) of trauma since I was five years old. If I had of been born in a different time I would have been left in one of the spaces. So sad that many could have repaired with the right treatments, kindness and care. Breaks my heart. Treated like animals - horrifying existence.😩😔
There was a reporter who went uncover in one of these facilities. Her story is both fascinating and terrifying.... Gay people were put in these places by their loved ones, thinking treatment would "cure" them. Also, many men would claim their wives were ill to have them placed in these facilities for reasons as minor as talking back. They didn't need proof or evidence, they'd bring them here completely in control of when or if they would be able to go home. Some husbands left their wives and never returned, so they could marry another woman. It's incredibly upsetting to think of the patients that were not mentally ill by any means and the treatment they received, and yet worse to think of those who were ill and received such horrific abuse. Physical and sexual abuse, from nurses, janitors, doctors etc. This was hell on Earth.
I bet the paranormal activity is through the roof .
My grandmother had shock treatments that were authorized by my grandfather a long time ago. My grandparents were married more than 30 years. My grandfather cheated a lot on my grandmother and she wasn't raised to divorce.....she cried a lot and talked back to my grandfather who was a purple heart war veteran, who was responsible for killing a commmander with a samari sword during a war. She later suffered from short term memory loss and dementia, which resulted in altizmiers disease. She has been gone for 13 years now. But I don't forget the things we talked about....I wonder if she came to this facility to have the shock treatments that she didn't deserve....she herself told me that after the procedure everything seems blank for a long time. She stay with her sisters for like a year in the north before she was aloud to come home to her husband and children....I love my grandmother, we were close and she told everything to me......I just felt her pain of loyalty and her pain of trust in love and morality....
If men still could do that, many would do it.
Nelly Bly, ten days in a madhouse. Very captivating read.
@@tinaday5232My mother was forcibly committed in the late Fifties by a doctor with whom she argued. Apparently this guy did that to lots of women.
The architecture is beautiful but the grounds are haunting
What’s so special about the architecture?
It is amazing and beautiful. I love old buildings.
@@orellagillette2484 Me too!
@@joanbaczek2575 www.digitalussouth.org/bullstreet/story/
Read the article linked above, if you care to learn how changing practices and treatment of the patients at the asylum influenced the different styles of architecture used at this particular asylum as well as others
Thank you for sharing that article
I really appreciate you uploading this video and having the balls to explore this place. You have walked the same grounds a dear friend of the family who I called “granny maxine” walked back in either the 60s or 70s. She interned there while she was earning her nursing degree from USC I think. She talked about people screaming until their voices were blown out and still trying to scream even after that just holding their mouth open and making no sound. She also talked of patients rubbing their crap all over the walls and throwing it at her and her colleague. I’m sure she had more stories from her short time there but she passed in 2013 when I was still a young teenager. This did well to fill those horrific gaps she conserved from me LOL. Thank you again
You put this video together really good it’s more like a documentary & your narrated it very nicely. You did a bang up job. The background music fit perfectly to all this sadness. Very well done.
If they turned or do turn this into apartments. Can you imagine all the crazy shit that's gonna go down
I was thinking the same thing
@@malynmendez613 that would make a good horror movie.
@@cheyenneblack817 i think they made one sort of like it. I think its called session 9. But its with the people renovating the old mental hospital
@@malynmendez613 I'll have to check that out.
@@malynmendez613 nothing we use to leave 5 points and go party in here in the weekends only thing scary in here are the homeless and broken floors
My great grandfather on my mothers side died there in 1928. His name was James Casby Stacy. My moms sister had schizophrenia and was sent there in the 60’s. Some how she found a way to escape.
Dana Dretzel thanks for sharing that story. It’s truly a strange feeling to hear how many people have a connection to this place. If you’d like to share deeper into your story, email us.
@@ObscureOdysseys Hi I really liked the video put can u tell me how to spell the guys name in the begging
@@arii4254 donald “pee wee” gaskins was his name
So your aunt then
@@rawdawgg_ yes she was my Aunt. I guess I could have said maternal aunt but wasn’t thinking that way when I posted the comment. She died from cancer a long time ago.
I grew up in Sumter. Our parents would tell us that if we didn't stop misbehaving they were going to take us to Bull Street. As kids we used to tell each other you were so crazy you needed to go to Bull Street. This was in the nineties.
Very sensitively done and respectful to those poor people who lived and died in this atrocious place. Very informative and chilling at the same time. I suffer with depression and am thankful that these places are closed or gone now.
I worked in a mental health hospital for 8 years. It’s really hard to watch people suffer so horribly and the effects of medication. I was lucky to see them treated with respect, nothing compared to these places 🙁
Thank you.
I have anxiety and claustrophobia and I've been arrested before. Even though I was only in jail for less than a day, my worst fear while in the jail cell was that something weird would happen like an emergency or something and all the staff would leave the building and not let me out before they did and I'd be stuck in that cell until I starved to death and died. That lady forgotten in the cell for a week really lived out my worst fear.
Yeah that was horrible. I can only imagine what that poor woman went through. The mental struggle, goin back & forth, trying to figure out if they really did forget her or if they were just punishing her. So sad 😞
This wasn’t a fear but it is now!
They will never forget you are in Jail. The state is tied to you in so many ways, money wise. That will never- happen.
Oh,they do leave you. During Katrina,so many drowned in their cells.
Same here 💯 i was on the 13th floor in jail and worried if there was a fire or anything wr would be left in there to starve
Did my nursing psych training at the Tn. State Mental Hospital in 1972ish. Huge beautiful facility that housed 1400 patients from new,acute traumas to long term schizophrenic patients. Never saw a lobotomy but witnessed shock therapy. They had a lovely farm which was worked by the patients. The food was great. Now,it is only a small piece of what it was. Only 400 patients now that so many have been turned out onto the streets and represent a large part of the homeless. There is a museum that has a few artif@cts. And there are still albino squirrels playing in big ole oak trees
Fantastic video, so informative. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it with us all. Will definitely be watching more of your videos.
You wouldn't want to visit this place at night. RIP to the many poor souls who died in such a dismal place.
Thank you for the tour guys. xx
Ghost?😂
Grow up.
@@mikechecka292
"Grow up"? Why? That building has been known to be haunted in the past. I would love to hear from people living in the renovated Babcock Building, today. Any time turning it into apartments came up for discussion, the first thing others and myself thought of, was what an adventure living in those apartments might be.
Only if these old Walls could talk, I could only imagine what horror it brought to these poor souls who got put in here!
No shit...man deep shit bro...
Mental health was still an experimebtal Science up until the mid 60s, so Lobotomies, Electroshock Therapy and Hydrotherapy weren't outlawed as inhumane until then. Many of my patients had undergone these horrible so called cures only to be rendered idiots for the rest of their lives. Thank God there have been greater advancements in Mental Health Care today, NOW, the Insurance companies just need to catch up!
Those walls can indeed talk, and they just said "you inhaled a pound of lead paint dust and asbestos"
Mateo please leave the comedian stuff to the professionals!
& hojo I would lay off the disco biscuits for a while!
This building carries so much... once a beautiful, mighty building used for horrid things. Seeing a place decay like this is haunting. Chills me to my core, and puts me in awe. Thank you for sharing this
I was born in 1963 and suffer from chronic depression and anxiety disorder. Watching videos of these kinds of hell on earth make me wonder if I had been born in 1863, might I have been put in one of them? I can’t begin to imagine the torture, fear and overwhelming helplessness those souls were forced to endure. I pray they have all found the peace they were denied in life.
I can’t believe RUclips have only just recommended ur channel to me. I love the fact that u explore while giving us the history on the building. Brilliant
Same
It pisses me off that they're just going to put up apartments like nothing happened there. There should at least be a memorial built in memory of the people that died unimaginably horrible deaths.
This place should be torn down.
Gilded cages for the 10 thousand maniacs?? Or dwellings for the lunatics your looking for??
Better jails???? South Carolina wow,
It's sad how you so need aproval of
Others or elts you could be sent there.
Yes!!!
I get that. I thought the same thing. Kinda disrespectful for the people who died within these walls. “I died of malnutrition right over there where you put your Ethan Allen couch.”
While we are at it, let’s change the name of the street! Bull street… insane…
I live in Columbia and I got chills at the Notre Dame comparison for some reason. I'm disabled, so I was never able to explore it myself but my brother did and said he felt a heaviness while being there. I'm also in the human services field and very aware of the atrocities committed against the mentally ill, there and otherwise. Watching it burn that day was such a weird, eery feeling.
Hi my name is Bonnie and I am almost 79 years young and I live in Salt Lake City like city I found it so interesting I found it very sad I imagine there's a lot of spirits that are chat with the nobles but history is history and we all learned from it I found this really interesting thank you for sharing this Bonnie💜
When I was growing up, people used Bull Street as a threat. As in, "if you don't straighten up, you're gonna end up on Bull Street." I'm from Georgetown, SC, and heard that many times.
Did their threats help you behavr?? Lol
Either that or Marshall Pickens!... Upstate SC.😲
What you say is so true. And in back woods hickish towns, it’s even more true. Instead of trying to help the sick and handicapped, their first thought was, “If the patient can’t stop or control their problem, of course as a doctor, I recommend he/she be locked way. There is also the, possibility of, say, a lockdown with only bread and water. If that doesn’t “cure” them, our second go to resort is a lobotomy. Who’s going to miss them anyway? And who wants to be responsible for them? I’m sure we’ll be doing the family a favor. Why were they admitted if their family didn’t trust what resources we have and trust us to make the right decision? Besides I know their uncle Joe Blow and the other patients, sister Sadie - fine people - they all know this is the right thing. These people are misfits and will never be functional. Now let’s go have that apple pie and coffee. And didn’t you say there was ice cream?”
HEH - HEH - HEH!
Every time I hear stories like this I get so keyed up! And I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE REFER TO THIS PLACE AS A INSANE ASYLUM , CRAZY HOUSE OR LUNATIC HOSPITAL ! I just want to slap them silly ! IN ACTUALITY THEIR REFERRING TO THOSE POOR SOULS WHO HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING PLACE WHERE THEY THOUGHT THEIR FAMILY WAS GOING TO BE WELL CARED FOR.😡😡😡☹️😣😖😖😫😔😩😩😩😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I came to the comments to say this! I never knew the extinct of how bad this place truly was! I just used to hear the older folks say that same thing and I thought it was just an alternative hospital or something but now I see how horrible it was. Yikes.
@@eunicestone838 nah ... Lol 🤣
That ground is stained forever. Last place I’d developed for housing
there isn't much land in this country that doesn't have some horror in its past
@@greg7656
Or any other Country, for that matter!
Some ground needs to be sown with salt.
Definitely a lot of residual energy...
You don’t say .
Very well done my friend, keep this up...you will go far. Your writing, editing and narration are spot on.
This place MUST be haunted AF
The scene of the bustling and alive downtown from a place of such horror and death is the ultimate contrast.
I've been hospitalized 9 times and to stare out the window and watch the world move along without you is one of the most somber memories I have of being institutionalized.
My great grandfather had his wife committed around 1960. I was about 5 years old when I visited her. Rows of beds as far as you could see with everyone tied to their beds. It was a living hell for those committed. I believe my great grandfather just wanted to get rid of his wife so he could play the field, including his daughter in law. This place was horrible.
Your great grandfather sounds charming. Not!
I am glad husband's can't commit their wife's just to get rid of them anymore.
Dear Jesus. 😢
@@marisadamiano2088 Half the population of women would be gone Lmao. Feminism has made good men gone MAD . 😮.
@@larajones175 your comment have no relation with the topic that were discussing. You just wanted a reason to hate on women, what a weakling
A couple friends and I explored this place several times during my freshman year at USC. They still had patient files laying around at that time. It’s a truly incredible piece of history
I'm only halfway thru this video but wanted to say thank you, for one... It's refreshing to see someone take such care and be respectful of these sites. The spirits who still dwell there are deserved that. Secondly, have you ever seen any of ObsolteOdity videos? You have a similar calming voice and wonder if you couldn't also do videos, not just like his- your own style. I look forward to watching the remainder of this and may edit if I have further comment. 👍
Edit: it's very sad to see the amount of graffiti and I feel that's so disrespectful to the spirits still attached to that place. Some people astound me with their attitudes and lack of empathy or respect for others. This bldg, although housing many atrocities is still amazingly well built for as old as it is.
2nd edit: oh boy... You made me cry. The ending is tragic. Yet maybe, hopefully released a lot of kept spirits to move on to a better place and be at peace 🙏💞
Honey, those weren't "lobotomy chairs", they were more than likely chairs used for shock therapy. It's a TERRIBLE therapy just one step down from a lobotomy. My aunt had them in 1970. She had to learn to walk, talk, dress herself, etc. all over again. It's really terrible. They still do them!
So sad
Frontal lobotomies were done because the frontal lobe of the brain deals with emotion. They know better now. Lobotomies are not done any more. Medication has taken it's place.
@@lucyterrier7905 Yes, my aunt now takes medication. Those shock treatments were brutal also. Just terrible.
I’ve had it done and actually I had 4 sessions. Was meant to have six. I had post pardom sychosis... after having my son.. my hormones didn’t go back to normal. I am fine. Its horrible. But I’m alive and happy with 2 young adult boys.
My grandmother had shock therapy back in the late 1940’s. My mother told me stories of it. They lived in Pennsylvania but the stories haunt me today. Such a horrible way to treat the mentally ill.
This is fascinating and almost hard to believe how cruel mankind can be to others. Places that were hell on Earth.
The streets they live in today are far better?
These places still exist. Look at the world around you, look closer. You’ll find them, they’re hidden in plain sight.
@Therese A. Judith Izzo-Davis that's not true. God is always there. If He chose to save every human from bad things, people would take Him for granted and treat Him like a Genie from a bottle. Our God is to be respected regardless of who He helps to get out of a situation and who He chooses to not intervene for. He is an awesome God with a plan for each of us.
@@joycebrackbill-henderly8311 thank you for this I've been struggling with faith recently 🙏
This reminds me so much of this asylum I've explored in Michigan, it's torn down now but looked really similar to this one. My friends and I went there quite a few times, we found old records and everything. So sad to think about all the awful things that went down in this places.
Thank you for this man’s wonderful voice and delivery.
I've had it pretty rough with mental health and I'm terrified of being hospitalized bc of stories like this and it's why it took me so long to admit there was something wrong. These places and the horrors that took place there are just part of the reasons why people with mental illnesses are so scared to reach out for help
Optimistic outlook assumes that our mental healthcare system has improved leaps and bounds but the truth is these hospitals are still a source of abuse to the most vulnerable of our citizens. I spent two weeks in a stress unit (post partum depression) and was double dosed sleeping meds every night of my stay. When I pointed this out to the charge nuerse I was threatened with not being allowed phone privileges, social time, and having a call in to the psychiatrist (which meant a longer stay, implying I would be forced to stay at the hospital against my own will) if I didn`t "shut up already".
On the third night we had severe weather and were supposed to hunker down in an inner hallway. I was so heavily medicated that other patients had to drag me down the hallway by my feet to get me there. I can`t accuse anyone in particular of deliberately overdosing me, but the fact that a patient cannot even ask questions about their medications is very troubling. What might have happened if I were a long term patient? What horrors are happening right now to people in far worse situations than mine?
@@loveshoves1825 I'm sorry you went through that and it's awful but that experience would've been a hundred times worse if this were to happen back then. Don't get me wrong it's still awful but compared to straight up lobotomy, it's an improvement. I do agree that mental health care still has a long way to go I've also been with some really shitty doctors and they never listen when you have questions I 100% agree and sympathize with you I hope you're doing better now
@@theresistance0012 Why did you think I was attempting to compare my experience to a lobotomy? It was just an example of how the mental health field is still usury and abusive. As I noted, mine was mild in comparison to many others and thats the worrisome part.
@@loveshoves1825 I hear you and I am so sorry for what happened to you. I hope all is well with you now! Take care!
I'm right there now
The movie “Bill” comes to mind about the normal person admitted to an asylum and began to imitate their behaviors. He was pulled out and had to be rehabilitated. Mickey Rooney played Bill. It was a poignant movie.
Interesting,! I will try to see that.
Having learned the history of this place while living right next door when I was in school really gives a different feeling when thinking of all the changes to downtown done in its fairly recent past
video is very melancholic and haunting but thank you so much for filming this historic site before it was taken away forever
My Aunt was there in 1950's thru 1960's. I remember visiting her when I was very young in the courtyard. She finally was discharged and spent the rest of her life in an apartment in Columbia. She was a very quiet lady. That place scared me as a child. People would just stare at you. Very sad.
I visited this asylum with my psychology class when I was in high school. They didn’t allow us access to but a few areas but the sight of the poor people shaking the bars and screaming out their windows was frightening and so sad! We were just teens and seeing the suffering of these adults was hard to forget. Evidently some didn’t.
I did too Susan. It was called a field day trip with our class in high school. I had this one really pretty young woman run up to me, lay her hands on my arm and in tears begged me to help her, call her attorney, her mother. She said her husband put her there, She said "I'm not crazy, PLEASE help me, told me her name and a phone number before they dragged her away. I was only 15, and that left an impression on me to this day I can see her pretty face ,her eyes full of tears. I went home and cried like a baby. Never been able to forget her. I pray she is at peace NOW. 😢 HORRIBLE PLACE and so huge. Wire and chains and big padlocks everywhere. NO smiling faces at all....cages. Awful.
@@lindacaylor3289 was there anything you could do to help her? Did you try?
@@czarnakawa7958 I told everyone I could at the time. I was only 15. I told all the authorities I was around. I , myself couldn't do anything. I certainly would have had I been able to. I just prayed for her.
@@lindacaylor3289 for sure you couldn't do a thing yourself. I suppose people were quite indifferent to those things back then. And, her husband would be the closest relative deciding about her fate. Sick times.
@@czarnakawa7958 yes and I certainly couldn't go visit him. I couldn't call her attorney, my grandmother raised me and she would have whipped MY butt. My dad told me to mind my business it wasn't a child's place but I could never get her out of my mind. I just pray God sent her a rescue angel.
That was an amazing video the history alone makes it so sad … thank you for sharing ❤
WATCHING THIS I CAN ONLY TRY TO IMAGINE HOW MUCH SUFFERING HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE IN THAT PLACE.MAY THEY ALL REST IN PEACE.🌹
This is the best urban exploration film I've ever seen. I love how you combine your exploration with a detailed explanation of the history of the location. That picture of the little girl broke my heart into a million pieces, though.. especially when it's known she was one of many.
JS thanks so much for your support. I hope you like our future videos 🙏
Yeah, but was that from this place?
My father worked there years ago from 87-2007 we used to go visit all the time. He played Santa clause for the patients. He loved working with them. Some of the cases he had was a young man who swore he was a Vampire and would only drink blood. Even his own. There was also a patient who thought he was cursed so they brought in a medicine man who did who do and voodoo. The man had taken the curse away and the patient was fine after that. There were dark sides like women giving sex away for cigarettes in the men’s room. I hardly recognize it in your video. In the back was where the children were held. Most often escaping to the rooftop so they could smoke at night. My father was a nurse there when Susan Smith was committed after killing her children. I never could say the head of bull streets name but he has land out in Elgin S.C on Veterans row. He used to let us fish in his pond in the woods. It saddens me to know how many patients were turned out when they closed it. My dad did a lot of intakes there. Often we would go to the small store on the complex and grab a soda. My dad used to say he wish there was more he could do. When he could he made different flavored pancakes for them. Or would talk to them to see how they were. A lot of the patients like my dad because he treated them like normal people.
Your dad gets a big round of applause from me! He sounds like such a wonderful, compassionate man. The world needs more people like him.
Mental illness is a demonic curse. I had many tittles put upon me and heavily medicated for 22 years of my life. When I learned about these spiritual demons and attacks that I suffered I cried out to the Lord and he delivered me. In that man's case they used darkness to combat darkness but in my case I seeked the light and truth of Christ to save me. Ive been born again and set free for 6 years now. Mental illness is a spiritual battle. One can be saved and delivered by Christ. I was made to feel hopeless about my condition but found hope in Christ. I hope this message blesses anyone that comes across it. There is hope and Salvation in Jesus Christ. God bless.
Did he work with kids or adults? Males or females? I was there from March '89-April or May of '92. From the time I was 17 till a bout 5 or 6 months till my 21st b-day as a matter of fact.
I lived in Columbia for 7 years and I have been in the building many times to explore or take photos. It’s very creepy but also so beautiful. There is a building tucked away in the back that still had electric chairs, stretchers, and other questionable instruments. I was told it was the building for women only and the most dangerous of them. It’s currently being demolished turned into condos unfortunately.
And as of 2018, there were still files in the back building, I was reading them and it was very weird.
I’ve explored this place many times while in college. Crazy that this place is now luxury apartments after it was burnt down
My mum used to work at an asylum and she told me some horror stories from back in the '70s and i mean HORROR stories. So anything older than that doesnt suprise me.
Like...what? It's so annoying when people post this and never say and tel what they are saying!
It’s absolutely gut wrenching reading the comments under this video and hearing so many peoples stories related to this evil place. So many people were affected by this.
I lived in Columbia from 2003 till 2017 and I really love this video guys. I have metal detected on the Bull Street property and found some interesting things. I have been on Demolition crews that tore down many of the buildings that developers wanted removed. I pulled a dump trailer and it was interesting to demo that property.
Thank you for sharing! This location is on my bucket list.
This was very well done. I appreciate your respectful treatment of the site and the moments of ambient sound with nothing else (talking, etc.) to distract from the tour.
Shannon X of course. Nothing but respect for the events that would have transpired at our every step. The goal of the channel is simple. real, non intrusive, and no gimmicks. We aren’t interested in perpetuating the usual RUclipsr BS. It’s time to raise the bar. Less talking, more feeling.
@@ObscureOdysseys You have tastefully accomplished that.
Who was that poor little girl ,it broke my heart just looking at her.
What poor little girl what time in the video?
@@Jupit_hare I think she means the thumbnail pic. Right @Ms Magpie ?
Maybe try a google reverse image search, im.curious too
@@Jupit_hare She shows up at 7:22 mark in the video
@@veannegilchrist9925 oh ok yes
That tower was a lot bigger than I had realized. Whatever gets built next in this place, it would be cool if they added a similar tower. Then the landmark won’t completely disappear.
My mother worked there in the late 50s through early 60s as a social worker. I may have missed it in the video but there are buildings on the property with odd walls....these were built to keep the moonlight from shining in and cause "lunacy". It's always been a running joke in Columbia to "send someone to Bull Street" (crazy). Thanks for a great
That is the Robert Mills Building on the right, as you drive into the old SCSH grounds via the main entrance at Bull and Elmwood. Babcock Bldg is straight ahead and Mills is on the right. It was renovated in the early 1990's and used by DHEC for years. I think they may have vacated it by now. I too, heard the stories about the strategic placement of windows to avoid moonlight falling on patients as they slept.
It is very humbling to see someone who is interested in doing the work and researching lost or forgotten knowledge of the people and places that have shaped the way we live today.
I was so angry and the loss of this building that I forgot to thank you for preserving in on film for the future.
I always wanted to explore old abandoned buildings but I'm too scared of falling through the floor
I worked at the mental health office across the street on Colonial Dr...at the time one building was still in use from the asylum. It was so dark and cold in there and THATS when I found out about the history of this place 😢