Haverford State Hospital

Nairi: 14th Jul 2006 - 15:49 GMT

this article briefly explains why the hospital was shut down..
www.lcmedia.com/mind0024.htm

Grange: 14th Jul 2006 - 16:37 GMT

The kola bear with the torture device is pretty creepy .

Peter: 14th Jul 2006 - 17:21 GMT

WOW what an entry! and these sure are some great photos. do you do this sort of exploration often? because id love to see more of these sorts of posts... for real.

the light in there really adds to the derelict conditions, and makes the place look utterly creepy- which im sure it was. and yes, the koala photo is definitely tres creepy...

zagg: 14th Jul 2006 - 18:32 GMT

I'm loving these photographs --- and what is with the having sex with patients ... and then the specification FEMALE patients at a later time? Niiiice.

I love the shot of the clock on the cafateria floor.

"Rec. building. asbestos everywhere." reminds me of how the bay by my house looks when the ice is breaking up in spring.

Nairi: 14th Jul 2006 - 19:33 GMT

thanks guys

Peter, I don't do this often. It took me a lot of guts to go back in the day time. I'm still haunted from the first time I was there, at night!

Zagg, a lot of people go there to get drunk, stoned, or whatever. others, just go to explore. There is one room with pictures of naked porn stars on the wall and beer bottles everywhere...hah.

Happy Grammie: 14th Jul 2006 - 22:17 GMT

Say a prayer for the poor souls that were incarcerated here.

Scarecrow1fx: 21st Jul 2006 - 00:51 GMT

Nice shots. I frequent that place often, and really there is nothing to fear in that place. I understand the anxiety, my first time there bothered me. But i'm there often now, and it's like a second home.

The dental room shot is cool. I didnt even notice the bear the first time i looked at it.

JJ: 6th Sep 2006 - 21:32 GMT

It looks like something out of 12 Monkeys. Great pics!

ricky: 15th Oct 2006 - 04:10 GMT

yeah i live near it. but never had the guts to explore me and my friends might go soon. any buildings we should especially check out?

mike: 18th Oct 2006 - 15:52 GMT

what is the best past to go there, and is there cops around?

slimypants: 4th Nov 2006 - 18:15 GMT

I love the picture of the clock. Very artistic!

Hannahh.: 29th Dec 2006 - 15:33 GMT

me, my boyfriend, and a couple other kids went up there yesterday early afternoon. It was my first time going up there so i was excited. We went through everything, I got some documents of a patient & a bullet from a gun my boyfriend claims was used from a swat team. It freaked me out so much, just going through the rooms and ust imagining what people had to live in. I think that the morgue freaked me out the most. Just because people died there. But overall i must say it was amazing and such an experience. Anyone know if it is haunted ?

barb: 30th Dec 2006 - 03:29 GMT

i love hstate. i went there for my first time yesterday. at night too. it was really cool. my friends and i went in to the main building and went through the underground tunnels, the boiler room, mourge and others. the morurge gave all of us a really weird feeling. and the boiler room/tunnels are just plane scary. we also went on the very top of the roof and just looked down. its so high up. its an awesome place. too bad its being torn down in feb :( i wish they could just let it be.

nick: 24th May 2007 - 15:49 GMT

There knocking this place down soon .They just had their last open house

WINAZZ: 4th Jun 2007 - 02:38 GMT

ive been there alot and never saw any cops there we never broke shit or stole shit.
when we where in a small bulding right down the way from hilltop i we saw a cop car coming to us we ran in to the bulding and stayed there for a long time. the cops where just going around and shining a light into the windows then they started to us the PA and called my name on it terns out they found my car so we just run to the woods and got the fuck out it took about 3hrs to do all this it fucking sucked when i got back to my car i made up some shit that it broke down and we walked to a frends house. after the cop where done being assholes to us for a good 30mins they let us go and i have not been back there. AND TO ALL THE COPS THAT NIGHT FUCK U HAHAHAH U DIDNT DO SHIT TO US BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME

Karen: 11th Oct 2007 - 22:24 GMT

What a trip! The pics are great. I love to explore places like this myself. I wonder if there are any places like this in Salem, Oregon?

misty: 12th Nov 2007 - 10:03 GMT

I like the pics they are awsome.I agree you should get some of the morgue,I love anything that involves paranormal or haunted this would be a cool place to go.How
ever here in salem oregon where i live, Is oregon state hospital located on center street.Building condemned but people have driven by and seen apparitions in the windows,employees seeing figures at the courner of their eyes and ect....and this place was built on top of a asylum cemetery.this place is also know for one flew over the cuckcoos nest.I recently heard they do tours of the hospital and old sections of the underground tunnels where people felt as if they were not alone.My husband and i were always curious of this place and all the stories we have heard we want to go. check out on shadowlands salem,oregon

ashestoashes: 9th Jan 2008 - 18:29 GMT

yeah kids go there all the time. Apparently it was haunted, hannahh. I just wish I had known about it earlier, I would have checked it out.

Also someone killed themselves in the hilltop building. July 2007.

rt: 20th Jan 2008 - 02:56 GMT

i worked at hsh for 25 years and the patients lived in horror! If the aide said yes you lived if now then- this and all like were closed by the courts not the state. Those say they wanted it closed are liars and only have themselves in mind. Where are the 250 patients now? jail, dead, on the street. Pa state prisons have 67,000 inmates and 35% have long term mental illness.

nairi: 12th Dec 2008 - 18:29 GMT

sadly, the hospital has been torn down. i drive by 476 everyday and it's no longer up. i heard a shopping center was going to be built where it used to stand. :(

pepper131: 13th Jan 2009 - 18:50 GMT

I worked at HSH for 22 years. The aides were criminals and the patients were great. Most of the patients went to prison as it was planned by Ridge and Altenor. That is why there are 67,000 Sate Inmate and 20% are severely mentally ill.

CarterHall123: 19th Jun 2009 - 00:30 GMT

I lived within a mile of the hospital and had a girlfriend that lived up the street. The immediate neighboorhood is part of the Philadelphia Mainline (A very affluent area)so there was always mystery surrounding the hospital. It was weird to drive down the long driveway with the spooky hospital buildings and then out into the neighborhoods with the big estates. I had a family member who worked in the kitchen for years and he told the spookiest stories about the tunnels and some of the things that went on there out of the sight of authorities. Patients were both physically and mentally abused and it was overlooked because no one believed the patients. They are now building a very high end retirement community there.

Mad Dawg: 22nd Aug 2009 - 19:20 GMT

HSH was a home to me from February of '07 to October of '07. I had a lot of great times there and made some amazing friends through exploring the place. Nothing weird ghost-wise ever happened to me, but the cold, modern institutional feeling of the place was disquieting. Watching it be demolished in late '07 was definetly one of the most painful things i've ever had to watch.

Jacob Russell: 9th Nov 2009 - 23:02 GMT

Good images! I worked there as a Psych attendant... mostly in the geriatric unit, 1967-68... alternative service to military. Have some stories about that place. My niece is a very talented artist.. now living in New Zealand, who paints and photographs abandoned institutions like this.

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