Abandonned mental hospitals

If you look in the sounds of hell thread, you'll see a post saying that I was going to fabricate my own conspiracy. Well, I started to, but what I uncovered was so damn awesome that I just had to post it.

The Essex Mountain Sanitorium

http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/bronyraur.jpg

http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/prologue.jpg
ignore the gay quote...

This place sounds so fucking amazing to the point where I've been inspired to create a story based there. Read its history, look at some of the pictures and articles, and you'll see what I mean.

The haunted pictures are a bit lame, fixer spots up the kobayashi. But the stories are awesome.

Fact:California State Univ at Channel Islands isn't in CI. It isn't in Oxnard, which is south of CI, it's in Camarillo, located at the base of a hill on Potrero Road, where there is really nothing but farmland. Why is that importnant?

From the official page:

Minutes from the Pacific Ocean, the 670-acre campus rests at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains, halfway between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. The main entrance winds through agricultural fields, orchards, and rocky foothills leading to dramatic Spanish-revival architecture, built in the 1930s as part of FDR’s Works Project Administration program as a hospital for the mentally retarded/insane. The sprawling structures with their red-tiled roofs reflect California’s past, from the landmark Bell Tower that pays homage to a nearby mission to the Catalina and Malibu tile work on the fountains that decorate many of the 29 courtyards.

They leave the bold part out of the story, of course. If you've seen Lost Angels, you've seen the place.

also, http://www.madgroup.co.uk/canehill/

its history isn't as interesting, but its architecture is awesome. Check the arial shots.

... the lack of insane people in these pics make them kinda lame. Hell, take a photo from the emergency ward of any active hospital right now and THOSE are creepier than the pics in these sites. :/

Back when I was 18 I broke into an abandoned sanatarium with some friends and got arrested.

Terrifying place. We were in the basement and a big heavy metal door shut behind us. A door that it took three of us pulling on to open.

omfg haunted.

A friend of mine and I used to get drunk and go throw hamburgers at the retards.

When you don't have within 45 miles of you, you gotta do what you gotta do.

A zoo, mind you. We had no zoo :(

That would be cool if one these places was owned by a madman for putting in people to be stalked and murded just like that game manhunt.

Theres an abandoned one somewhat close to where I live. I've never been or know where it is. But I had some friends go and tell me about it. They say its pretty creepy and I want to go there sometime. They told me a bunch of stuff that goes on there but I only remember a few of em. One was the deeper you went into the building and down the stairs the colder it got. One room you were to go in would have a chair in the corner. If you'd turn out the lights you'd hear a noise scrapping the ground and then when you turned the lights back on, the chair would be next to you. I think there was something about paper burning too, but not sure.

Next time I talk to my friend I'll ask about it again.

If you like those kinda photos, this is one of the coolest websites ever:

http://www.abandoned-places.com/

There's all kinds of sites like that around the net. Just search for "urban exploration" or "urban decay".