Danvers State Mental Hospital Inside & Out
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2010
- This is a follow up to my Danvers State Hospital Retelling video. Included: A closer look at the construction, identifying the buildings, the cost, overcrowding, more on the patients, Danvers State's connection to Batman, hydrotherapy, life in general in an insane asylum. Did you know Danvers State had it's own newspaper called Hill Topics? Check out the video to find out more.
*Here's some cool stuff that didn't make the video: -In the early 1900's some patients were placed in tents on the grounds of the hospital in the summertime and during periods of warm weather for treatment & recreation, and to alleviate overcrowding. Tuberculosis patients were also placed outside in tents to protect other patients from infection.
-Danvers State didn't have a dining room until 1897. The first meal accommodated 522 patients and 64 employees. The dining room was on the second floor behind the central building. 120 by 80 feet it had air and light on three sides. Dinner was an hour long and breakfast and lunch were a half hour. No food was placed on the table until all patients were seated.
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When I worked there in '74 & '75 a friend who was also a Security Guard gave me a Master Key that got me into the old record rooms in the basement.
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We could read old files from the late 1880's still kept in files and boxes. I bet those were plowed under when the place was demolished.
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Many a lunch break was spent learning about the people there over 100 years ago, now would be 130 years ago, wow!
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I'll never forget Danvers State Hospital.
I'm looking for any info on a relative who lived there est. 1940 to 1974.
Lived in Danvers all my life, untill 2000. My sister worked there for several years. This place was scary, and a lot of very, very bad things happened there in the early years. Thankfully, mental health care has taken great leaps forward. Lots of graves in the woods, all numbered. I came across a large pile of grave markers, all pulled up and in a pile. Unmarked graves are every where up there. Most of it has been torn down, and now its Condos!! Most of the folks there have no idead what realy happened there. Like i said before......realy bad things happened there in the past
I grew up in Danvers and still live here. In 1974 there were NO jobs and I heard Danvers State was hiring. I just started Jr. College so went up there and applied for kitchen help. They hired me because I am so tall 6' 5" and I could reach well. Plus I had the strength to push the food trucks to the male and female wards thru the basement tunnels. We delivered all the meals to the patients.
Then was an opening in the Housekeeping dept so I applied and started in the janitorial dept, much easier.
I had and Uncle who took his son, my cousin and I to visit his relative who was a patient at the Danvers Hospital. Why a grown adult would bring a 9 and 10 year old to such a place still confuses me! The drive was fun, from Malden, past the Chateau De'Ville, Russo's Candy Store and the Hilltop Steakhouse. All bets were off once we walked from the car into the building. I don't recall exactly which building or door we used, because the moment I walked into the place the smell and sight of the patients, haunts my dreams. There was one man in particular, who my cousin laughed at and I screamed in horror. My cousin got a smack upside the head and I was told to shut the hell up! This man had finally got hold of one of the many cats which roamed the wards, corridors and open areas. He picked up the solid black cat, at first, he was loving and tender to the cat. Then, without any warning, he began to swing the cat in the air by the cats tail, so hard the tail came off the cat and the cat flew through the air, only to be caught by another patient. We finally got to the ward to the patient we came to see. An open ward, with row upon row of metal beds, no privacy, only the stench of unwashed bodies and urine. I don't know if the person we saw was a man or a woman, because all the fat of the persons body was gone, only leaving a living skeleton in the bed. My Uncle handed over a package of Uneeda biscuits, the patient ate them ravenously, as if that was the first meal that patient had eaten for days. Once eaten, the body smiled up at my cousin and I and the hand reached up to touch my hair. I was well trained by Catholic Nuns to stand still, even when scared out of my mind. I stood there in my uniform, trembling as this skeleton smiled and stroked my hair. This pleased my Uncle very much. He said he had not seen a smile in decades. Thus, my trips became a recurring event, always Uneeda biscuits, a smile and I was always rewarded with a trip to Russo's candy store for whatever I wanted. The trips stopped as suddenly as they began. After two years, I guessed the patent died, and my Uncle never allowed Uneeda biscuits to be purchased or brought into his home. This is my sad story of the Danvers Hospital. To this day, I don't know who that person was. I always felt sorry for the cats.
+Jobelle Collie That's the most unconvincing troll story I've ever read. However, I'll give you the props that you spelled all the words correctly.
That is so sad. The poor cat. Breaks my heart. I'm surprised the administrators or whoever let cats roam around the grounds considering.
smellin like a big bag of bullshit there ya schizo
Fucking BS story, you sucks as a troll buddy
Abandoned mental hospitals. Witch's houses. Lovecraft locales.The whole north shore of Massachusetts is such a creepy place. It's often overlooked because of the popularity of Cape Cod.
Salem Massachusetts is a particularly weird place. Home to a Satanic temple and real practicing witches. I hate the fact I live near this creepy city.
The building itself was a work of art !!! What went on inside might be considered insane.
I visited people in county jails. And saw people at MCI Bridgewater and MCI Concord. After visting someone "on the hill", I can say this place was frightening. While walking down a dimly lit corridor, a naked old lady ran to the cell bars and tried grab me. I took of running deeper in the belly of the beast. DSH was a real, living horror show.
I love this video. Very informative! I became obsessed with this place because of the movie Session 9 and was very sad to hear about it being torn down. Thank you for making this.
Thank you for creating this video~I love it! I was never able to see the grounds as they stood before demolition, though I wanted too. I have felt a certain draw to this hospital for years and during my third trip to MA in August, I went to Kirkbridge Drive. Your video put a lot into light for me and really helped me to almost jump back in time away from the condos and apartments. I spent some time in the cemetery, once I found it, picking up some trash and clearing grass off headstones.
I have seen Session 9, and by the sheer size of this place it would of took them a year with 4 or 5 people to do the job, this place is huge. Great video Doc Col
Outstanding research!!!
Thanks, I look forward to your new stuff.
Quite the construction. Amazing design and work.
Thank you for the video nice to see en the background information was interesting. please do more video's like this
Great video, thanks!
I wish this video got more views. You really put a lot of effort into it.
awesome building ;) thanks Session 9
Thanks, Doc, I'll check it out.
Thanks for your feedback and recognizing how much work went into this. It does take a long time to build up views on youtube. All I can do is make the videos and hope people watch them. This took me well over 30 hours to make and even more time in research and writing. The comments I get make it all worth it.
Very cool video thank you for posting. This place is near to where I live though I had never known the history which is fascinating and sad.
that is good information, and I think that was actually a very good , mind- messing movie. thank you and will check out your other videos also !
WOW! And I thought I knew a lot about Danvers! Outstanding research, my friend. You must be very intelligent. :D
man thats one cool and scary looking place wish i could have been around to see it in action back then, people still go up there cuz its supposedly haunted but you can get in big trouble for being up there so i just settle for seeing it from the highway
Excellent video.
I just moved away form 2 years in this shithole that I loved so much before Avalon destroyed it. Thankfully, the nightmare of living in this mess has not tarnished my love for what it once was. NOTHING is original,it was all rebuilt in the style but all new construction. So much for being on the National Historic Landmarks…just a title that means nothing. :( Thanks for posting this, it was so beautiful at one time. We have lost a significant structure for economic greed. Never again will we see this type of construction.
Great video Doc! I have always loved old buildings and this is one of the best. What was the music you used for your background. It had a great vibe for the video.
Did my psych rotation for nursing school here. Started bringing pts there in '73 while working on the ambulance.
I don't know what to say except, Wow! Thank you, Doctor, for this informative video. The text, the photos chosen, and the background music all combined for an excellent production.
Incidentally, I believe Lovecraft actually mentioned Danvers in one of his stories. I can't recall now which one, but I remember something about, "They got him locked up at Danvers," or words to that effect.
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@allthatbleeds123 Everytime I say I am done with Danvers State Hospital I end up making another video. So you never know. I'm pretty tapped on the subject right know. It will require some research. I did visit Medfield State but dont know what I'm going to do with the footage yet. I'm always posting so subscribe and check in!
my dad use to live near the Shriber center in Waltham and I would sled down the hills there and swing on their play ground. At night both my parents would hear the sirens when they escaped and both of them use to work there, my dad would see just torsos with heads but no legs no arms and other chilling tales....
You could drive right up to the building at night and see severely compromised people rocking back and forth in the windows staring out into space or screaming at monsters that existed only in their minds. It was absolutely horrific to see as a child. I still get the chills thinking about what I saw there.
Colonel, nice video. These take a lot of work to put together. By the way some of your pictures I took for Tyler LaVite but you can use them.
I have many relics of DS Hospital if you want to see them. I worked there in 1974 & '75 and had a pass-key so I could get into any ward I wanted. I even had the key to the tunnels and sub-tunnels that existed under the hill.
Too bad they tore down the Medical "Bonner" Building that would have made great apartments. I live at Avalon Danvers now by the way.
DSH has always fascinated me, got a oppturnity with me and my sister to do some "exploring " all the other buildings were gone at the time, but the main building was still there and we got to go inside,...not much to see , its been all up dated and looks like a fancy office complex, we did look around the grounds, and did find some of those grave markers, but never did find where they put a name to all those numbers! I have since collected a lot of memorabilia from DSH, I have a brick, and a whole bunch of employee check stubs, a piece of the roof, and both movies as well as all the books written relevant to DSH!
+buttplug396 Such a catastrophic loss. An amazing building and such good construction. They could have easily tidied it up and made it into a museum or a social venue of some sort. But no. Some piece of garbage corporation, stuffed money into the councils mouth and they let it fall apart, so they could make a dollah.
buttplug396 Thats awsome I've been there a a few times like u I got all books about danver old postcards checks keys wish I had a brick tho I love the history of danvers maybe I should have been locked up there
Both movies?? You mean there's another one besides Session 9?
@MrDalaighX Thanks. I found a lot of useful information in the Annual reports of the trustees of the Danvers State Hospital and Danvers state hospital laboratory papers, 1910.
One day, back in the 1960's, I went for a ride up there with my Mom's friend, so he could get his paycheck. We lived in Woodvale and I was re-cooping from leukemia. When we drove up to the building, there was a guy hanging out the window. Boy was that scary! He was shouting out something! So sad, they ruined it. Money is power and power leads to greed.
I first became interested when i broke into Foxboro State. Saw some unreal stuff but the subject of these places interested me more and more and i returned several times, often on acid and with a couple friends. I swear on all holy that when we left 1s time , it felt like we were being pulled back, then we heard dozens of voices. I know it sounds dumb, but i aint gotta prove nothin. Messed on of my friends up for a long time. Keep exploring
Danvers State Hospital was used in two movies, Session 9 and Home Before Dark. I never heard of the movie you asked about, but a quick google search told me it was filmed at Bridgewater State Hospital also in Massachusetts.
@burmiester1 Thank You. It was a labor of love really. I tried to find out as much about DSH that wasn't available online as I could, making this one of the most thorough videos you can find.
I am currently livind here, the building was bought and completely renovated by Avolon Properties in 1997.
Carlene Malo Don't you mean 2007?
@pompom11 That's awesome thanks for all your comments on my videos. I appreciate the good feedback. Any DSH stuff you have I'd love to check out. What kind of work did you do at the hospital?
That will work for my Novel :3 Thanks!
This was the asylum alluded to by Lovecraft; he also mentions the Fowler House, Liberty Street, Danvers, a strictly Revolutionary War/War of 1812 Captain's house he visited; he got to try on Fowler's military hat.
www.hplovecraft.com/creation/sites/mass.aspx
From 1971 to around 1974, I worked at Danvers State Hospital, as an attendant, on the graveyard shift; the morgue was creepy at night (I worked in every unit) but in reality it was the shock therapy during the day that was still going on that was horrible/the creepiest... Lobotomies had ended by then...psychotropic medications were being introduced and they changed everything.
wow I've always wanted t go see the hospital but never got there....
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Maybe it's just me but I thought the background music was horrific! I had to turn the sound all the way down to watch it!
your vids are great hope you dont mind but the vids on danvers are on my playlist so that persons can find them easier im trying to get attention put on these old asylums to try to turn a negative into a positive thank you
Eastern State Hospital's forensics ward still uses heavy restraints and straight jackets, but I think it's because the patients are so violent and insane they have no other choice. I've worked in medical for years, not mental, I feel that Eastern State Hospital in WashingtonState in the cornices ward needs to be investigated due to lack of care of the patients as I've witnessed. The workers sit on the computers and the patients are allowed to threaten people coming through the ward but nothing is done about it. Washington State doesn't seem to care, claiming that the patients are mental. Something needs to be done. I refuse to assist in emergency medical in that ward, as do other medics I know.
I think that people who are used up, burnt out, hated, feared, and some who have lost all touch with reality are truly lost souls only because the way people treated them now I am not saying all people are lost souls just the ones who are mostly damaged! They just put them in the hospitals lock them up and throw away the key and then the doctors, nurses, treat you like an object because your just a thing to them and the horrors of the Insane Asylums were brutal to patients and they used Restraints, and Straight Jackets, and its because the patients are insane or violent and they are angry and frusterated with the way society treated them! People who are in these hospitals are so damaged that they can't function anymore in the normal world and they tried but something made them come to a hospital! So Don't Judge people with Mental Illness and people's brains are different and they are not freaks they are human beings! I think the stigma of Mental Illness should be talked about some people have it worse than others! I sort of think to myself WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS PERSON TO GO INSANE! Nobody asked them that instead they made fun of them and laughed at them and punished them and made the situation worse! I think the real monsters are the people who made them this way! Its always the crazy people who are normal people and the normal people who are crazy ones! They are always a threat!
Exactly !!! I saw Session 9, being an Asbestos worker for 25+ years. There is no way 4 or 5 guys could do a job like that. A year would be minimum especially with Massachusetts D.E.P. and D.O.S. agencies checking up on you.
The designs of these former hospitals was amazing and worked well until over crowding and patient mistreatment started happening. In the beginning, most of these hospitals were completely self contained. Now everything is outsourced and we've lost most of these hospitals completely. Hate the fact Danvers was turned into apartments but then again its better than being completely torn down I guess.
The architecture is amazing! I can't believe how big this place is. A shame it had to be torn down. It would be to much $$$$$$$$$$$$ to keep it up.
dude this place looks like arkham asylum from batman
+arez the wolf this is where the inspiration for arkham came from dude, look it up
+Ironjayden Taylor I know, they should remake this and use it for the arkham asylum in the new Batman solo movie
+arez the wolf its cool because im almost positive that fallout 4s parsons state insane asylum is based on danvers to! but yea itd be cool but idek when the next early batman movie would be made next which would include arkham before it was shutdown
So strange why they felt if you were diagnosed with TB you had to go.
My Dad had TB.
@fullretreat The first song is Renholdër by A Perfect Circle. I'm worried youtube will make me change the audio because of copyright. It's happened before. Hopefully not on this one.
That's a beautiful place🤔
these old hospital may be medically outdated but why can't they be used for the homeless and low income .run it the same way with the people working and running it.making a nice life and home.
"A Perfect Circle-Renholdër"
One day, back in the 1960's, I went for a ride up there with my Mom's friend, so he could get his paycheck. By the way. He told me that a patient went at him with a wired clothes hanger. We lived in Woodvale and I was re-cooping from leukemia. When we drove up to the building, there was a guy hanging out the window. Boy was that scary! He was shouting out something! So sad, they ruined it. Money is power and power leads to greed.
The work was easy and more money. That's when I had the run of the hill, could get in any ward or any tunnel with the master key a security guard gave me. I saw many things if you want to spend real time with me I have stories. Do you live near Danvers?
A ghost hunter came across boxes of old canceled pay checks from 1974 and found MINE. It's perfect mint, as if I cashed it yesterday. He gave me others too, if you want one
Unfortunately I did not come watch Session 9 being filmed wish I did. Bob
I heard that all the condos there burned down in a big fire recently. Anyone local know if that's true?
I didnt know it had been torn down - I thought it got turned into condominiums...
Peter, It was still torn down to make the condo's.
Hmm, I guess a lot of it would have had to be - was quite nasty in there in parts, with the asbestos and the toxic paint etc.
Peter Kenvin
During the renovation, there was a fire in the middle of the night. It gutted the interior and the roof, the outside walls were intact.
They never did find out how the fire started.
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love november hotel... what's the name of the first song?
I believe this hospital was the inspiration for arkham asylum
"Now that criminally insane individuals have been transferred from institutions
and placed in Gov't job positions, (such as TSA agents & state bureaucrats),
the need for such asylums has decreased."
Iam just wondering what song is playing and if Danvers State Hospital is haunted.
You should watch the entire video. It's mentioned that this is likely a rumor and that it was first performed at a different hospital and likely perfected there as well. It's mentioned around the 11 minute mark. And yes there was a cemetery on the grounds. I made a really interesting video about that place. Please visit my channel and check it out. Thanks!
Look beautiful Danvers State Mental Hospital, but why people left danvers stop being workers or scary inside died at the end 1890?
this music kicks ass .what is it?
I live in the condos there :)
This hospital was based on Batman Arkham Asylm
All the buildings have been torn down back in like 08, or around there but the main administration building, just the front peak of bricks remain as part of the new condos
if u wanna see more if this place it's in a film called Session 9 it's kinda cheesy buy man this place is impressive
Isn't this place a dochey country club now? All that stands is the main building? I never got to go here but I really wanted to view it in its abandoned state. The architecture alone still puts me in a spell, like its other name would suggest: The Witch's Castle.
SXiPPY Dennison . Apartments
Yes the Main building is a "douchy" Club house.
I can see the insane asylums original site from my school, SJP lmfao
No sounds?
anyone know if parsons state in fallout 4 is an easter egg to danvers, i believe it is
Having been to Danvers in person, I'm 90% certain it is. Too bad Parsons State wasn't as big as Danvers, though!
yea i read the fallout Wikipedia page about it its based on it because both are near Salem Massachusetts
I'll have to check that documentary out. If you like Session 9, I made a video tracking down locations used in the movie. You can check it out on my channel
I just whatched atleast 116 minutes of footage.
You are absolutely right he does mention Danvers in two different stories. Check my channel I have a video about HP Lovecraft locations. Including Danvers State and whether it was the inspiration for Arkahm Asylum!
I'm only here cuz I hear arkams based of this place
No sound
Not sure really not really any main people that were well known
The music used: "A Perfect Circle-Renholdër" "Nine Inch Nails-La Mer" "Mad Season-November Hotel" "Primus-Over the Falls" Thanks for watching more to come!
I don't believe in ghost so I couldn't tell you. It's all apartments anyway, so if there are ghosts they live with the tenants now!
I have some select words to say to the bastard developer who tore this beautiful place down.
They tore most of it down and converted the rest into an apartment complex! I made a video about the current state of the hospital. Check it out I will send you the link.
i take medicine to just two let you nurses know in this hospital that i take medicine to.
Session nine.
The asylum swiftly entered the public imagination. Charles Dickens, on his tour of America, visited the asylum and found “…everything had a lounging, listless, madhouse air, which was very painful. The moping idiot, cowering down with long disheveled hair; the gibbering maniac, with his hideous laugh and pointed finger; the vacant eye, the fierce wild face, the gloomy picking of the hands and lips, and munching of the nails: there they were all, without disguise, in naked ugliness and horror.”
do you guys in this hospital take medicine.
I live here lol
Lol, same here, fr!
The people that died there former patients
why would they tare down a landmark
why overcrowding oh the 60's birth control wasnt very much available then
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