When we moved to Connecticut seven months ago, one of the first things I noticed was a massive set of abandoned buildings near our home. Every time I leave the area around my house, I drive by this spooky place. About a week in, I sat down with my laptop to figure out what the story was behind this mysterious ghost town. This is what I found:
http://www.forbidden-places.net/urban-exploration-Norwich-State-Hospital#gal
It doesn’t really give a cut and dry explanation of why it closed down. I assume the main reason was because the need for this type of hospital vanished...although the building was polluted with asbestos... My personal thought is because once we discovered medication as a cure for the mental disorders of the world...the need for lobotomies expired. The whole area is very morbid. It is all over a stretch of a mile, and it is guarded by a chain link fence and signs threatening to cut off your left arm if you cross over the property line. Of course that held me back...okay if that didn’t the cop did (a whole other blog in itself). I took pictures of this area so you could see.
This is a video I found on youtube of the inside of this marvelous building. It is nine minutes long, so only watch it if this is as interesting to you as it is to me.
One more rockin’ fact...this hospital made it to the season finale of the show Ghost Hunters last year! They say it is haunted. We tease Little Man telling him if he doesn’t straighten up, I will make him spend an hour in their with the ghosts...it has yet proven to be affective.
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