While in most cases, when we hear of mental hospitals these days, most of them are gone, or, at best, run down and abandoned buildings.
Quote:In 1932, the State of California purchased 1,760 acres (7.1 km2) of the Lewis ranch, located three miles south of the city of Camarillo, and established the Camarillo State Mental Hospital. Camarillo State Hospital was in use from 1936 to 1997. During its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, the hospital was at the forefront of treating illnesses that previously had been thought of as untreatable. An example of this was the drug and therapy procedures the facility's doctors developed for schizophrenia. Many of these programs initiated at Camarillo helped patients formerly relegated to a lifetime of warehousing in an institution or lobotomies be able to leave the hospital and move to less restrictive group homes or become (at least nearly) independent. The hospital continued to be a leader in the research of drugs and therapies in subsequent years. They also had one of the first units of any hospital to deal with autism.
Since 2002, the campus has functioned as California State University, Channel Islands. I can't find the story now, but I remember reading a few year ago about some of the patients who'd been at the hospital in the 90s revisiting the campus and putting to rest their own personal ghosts. Whether there are other ghosts roaming around is another matter altogether, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were, considering the methods used to "cure" patients.
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(06-04-2010 03:09 PM)Andrasta Wrote: [ -> ]While in most cases, when we hear of mental hospitals these days, most of them are gone, or, at best, run down and abandoned buildings.
Quote:In 1932, the State of California purchased 1,760 acres (7.1 km2) of the Lewis ranch, located three miles south of the city of Camarillo, and established the Camarillo State Mental Hospital. Camarillo State Hospital was in use from 1936 to 1997. During its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, the hospital was at the forefront of treating illnesses that previously had been thought of as untreatable. An example of this was the drug and therapy procedures the facility's doctors developed for schizophrenia. Many of these programs initiated at Camarillo helped patients formerly relegated to a lifetime of warehousing in an institution or lobotomies be able to leave the hospital and move to less restrictive group homes or become (at least nearly) independent. The hospital continued to be a leader in the research of drugs and therapies in subsequent years. They also had one of the first units of any hospital to deal with autism.
Since 2002, the campus has functioned as California State University, Channel Islands. I can't find the story now, but I remember reading a few year ago about some of the patients who'd been at the hospital in the 90s revisiting the campus and putting to rest their own personal ghosts. Whether there are other ghosts roaming around is another matter altogether, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were, considering the methods used to "cure" patients.
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Oh im sure there is other types of ghosts at these institutes. My Great Grandmother was admitted into one of the state run mental hospitals out here in Massachusetts in the 50's for simply having later stages of Alzhiemers, which back then they treated as a mental illness due to the fact that they didnt know better. Anyway my Grandmother tells me stories all the time about the fact that she hated going to visit her own mother in this place because it was horrible, and almost traumatic the way the patients were treated.
My daughter and I went there for Senior Day. She wanted to see the band that was playing. We had met her girlfriend at the campus. The three of us decided to walk around before the show. I started noticing old guard shack buildings, areas that could be segregated from another. It was a strange place.
Here is a post I did in another thread.
(05-12-2009 07:35 PM)Ali Wrote: [ -> ]Shadowlands is a cool web site. Great for reference or if you need somewhere to visit.
About a month ago I took my daughter to see a band at Cal State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, Ca. The place had a feel to it that I could not quite put my finger on. A lot of abandoned buildings. Some that looked like they could of been guard shacks, vacant play areas, etc. I texted hubby to look the place up. Got a reply that it had been Camarillo State Mental Hospital until the late 90s. Only about half the place has been renovated. Took a couple of pictures on phone.
Came home read shadowlands and could not believe it. A few of the things listed on Shadowlands, we experienced. We used the restroom in the Bell Tower and could hear strange noises. My daughter’s friend told us about some lady asking her where the chapel was before we arrived.
Thinking of going back. I tease my daughter that CSUCI might be a school she should consider. Mom could play with her equipment and she can get an education. It's a win-win for all!
That's so cool Ali!!! If I had stayed in CA longer, I probably would've visited it.
For some reason, I've always wanted to go to a mental hospital just to see what goes on, on the inside. It's always been a strong curiosity.
I've always found abandoned mental hospitals intriguing. At least, the though of being trapped in one overnight whilst multiple malevolent spirits and otherworldly beings is what I'm intrigued by. I can't say I'd hate to have the experience, so long as I were to live through it. My friend told me a completely bone chilling story about him and another friend of his exploring an abandoned slaughter house deep in the night.
Oh and I forgot to add, there has been an ambient album (where the music is pure sound, as in doors closing, wimpering, footsteps, eerie moaning, that kind of stuff). It is by the Axis of Perdition, and is titled Deleted Scenes From The Transitional Hospital. I can safely say, this is the only ambient horror music that has made me too scared to sleep. I'm only writing about it because all the music takes place in an abandoned mental hospital though. If anyone cares to hear it, the best songs are Deleted Scenes I: In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, and Entangled in Mannequin Limbs.
(06-05-2010 07:14 PM)AngelSlayerPagan Wrote: [ -> ]I've always found abandoned mental hospitals intriguing. At least, the though of being trapped in one overnight whilst multiple malevolent spirits and otherworldly beings is what I'm intrigued by. I can't say I'd hate to have the experience, so long as I were to live through it. My friend told me a completely bone chilling story about him and another friend of his exploring an abandoned slaughter house deep in the night.
Oh and I forgot to add, there has been an ambient album (where the music is pure sound, as in doors closing, wimpering, footsteps, eerie moaning, that kind of stuff). It is by the Axis of Perdition, and is titled Deleted Scenes From The Transitional Hospital. I can safely say, this is the only ambient horror music that has made me too scared to sleep. I'm only writing about it because all the music takes place in an abandoned mental hospital though. If anyone cares to hear it, the best songs are Deleted Scenes I: In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, and Entangled in Mannequin Limbs.
The career academy I went to was an old mental hospital. The only new buildings on that property is the dorms & cafe. They still have alot of the old stuff there, such as the electro shock therapy tubs/incinerator with ashes still there to this day. The mattresses that are being used in the dorms are from an actual asylum which is real creepy in itself. Many people on the campus claim to have experiences. Even inside there dorm rooms, and those dorms are new. The old building that was used to keep the patients in is shut down due to espestice ( how ever it's spelled) Being in there. Though alot of people sneak in there at night it's dangerous to do so because of that which I mentioned and there's the risk of falling through the floor the building is so old.
http://www.angelfire.com/creep/liverr14/
Here you go, if you want to check it out. Now the person who created this website had special permission to go inside the old building.
(06-05-2010 08:01 PM)vzy4kat6387 Wrote: [ -> ] (06-05-2010 07:14 PM)AngelSlayerPagan Wrote: [ -> ]I've always found abandoned mental hospitals intriguing. At least, the though of being trapped in one overnight whilst multiple malevolent spirits and otherworldly beings is what I'm intrigued by. I can't say I'd hate to have the experience, so long as I were to live through it. My friend told me a completely bone chilling story about him and another friend of his exploring an abandoned slaughter house deep in the night.
Oh and I forgot to add, there has been an ambient album (where the music is pure sound, as in doors closing, wimpering, footsteps, eerie moaning, that kind of stuff). It is by the Axis of Perdition, and is titled Deleted Scenes From The Transitional Hospital. I can safely say, this is the only ambient horror music that has made me too scared to sleep. I'm only writing about it because all the music takes place in an abandoned mental hospital though. If anyone cares to hear it, the best songs are Deleted Scenes I: In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, and Entangled in Mannequin Limbs.
The career academy I went to was an old mental hospital. The only new buildings on that property is the dorms & cafe. They still have alot of the old stuff there, such as the electro shock therapy tubs/incinerator with ashes still there to this day. The mattresses that are being used in the dorms are from an actual asylum which is real creepy in itself. Many people on the campus claim to have experiences. Even inside there dorm rooms, and those dorms are new. The old building that was used to keep the patients in is shut down due to espestice ( how ever it's spelled) Being in there. Though alot of people sneak in there at night it's dangerous to do so because of that which I mentioned and there's the risk of falling through the floor the building is so old.
http://www.angelfire.com/creep/liverr14/
Here you go, if you want to check it out. Now the person who created this website had special permission to go inside the old building.
O.O
Dear God... it's... it's... BEAUTIFUL!
(06-05-2010 08:24 PM)AngelSlayerPagan Wrote: [ -> ] (06-05-2010 08:01 PM)vzy4kat6387 Wrote: [ -> ] (06-05-2010 07:14 PM)AngelSlayerPagan Wrote: [ -> ]I've always found abandoned mental hospitals intriguing. At least, the though of being trapped in one overnight whilst multiple malevolent spirits and otherworldly beings is what I'm intrigued by. I can't say I'd hate to have the experience, so long as I were to live through it. My friend told me a completely bone chilling story about him and another friend of his exploring an abandoned slaughter house deep in the night.
Oh and I forgot to add, there has been an ambient album (where the music is pure sound, as in doors closing, wimpering, footsteps, eerie moaning, that kind of stuff). It is by the Axis of Perdition, and is titled Deleted Scenes From The Transitional Hospital. I can safely say, this is the only ambient horror music that has made me too scared to sleep. I'm only writing about it because all the music takes place in an abandoned mental hospital though. If anyone cares to hear it, the best songs are Deleted Scenes I: In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, and Entangled in Mannequin Limbs.
The career academy I went to was an old mental hospital. The only new buildings on that property is the dorms & cafe. They still have alot of the old stuff there, such as the electro shock therapy tubs/incinerator with ashes still there to this day. The mattresses that are being used in the dorms are from an actual asylum which is real creepy in itself. Many people on the campus claim to have experiences. Even inside there dorm rooms, and those dorms are new. The old building that was used to keep the patients in is shut down due to espestice ( how ever it's spelled) Being in there. Though alot of people sneak in there at night it's dangerous to do so because of that which I mentioned and there's the risk of falling through the floor the building is so old.
http://www.angelfire.com/creep/liverr14/
Here you go, if you want to check it out. Now the person who created this website had special permission to go inside the old building.
O.O
Dear God... it's... it's... BEAUTIFUL!
It is a beautiful place, but carries not so beautiful memories. I have one memory that wont leave my thoughts.. One night while I was in my dorm room about ready to go to sleep for the night, my closet door crept open, I didn't have it locked or anything but it crept open and after it did I heard this deep demonic male sounding voice speaking in a different language that I couldn't understand. It was 3:00 Am when it happened. I wasn't harmed or anything I just sat and listened to the voice talking. I finally got tired and slowly drifted off to sleep. After that one night I hadn't heard the voice since. And I was fully awake that night, I even asked my roommates if they heard anyone talking last night and they all said no they didn't. It got a little warm in the room too when It happened.
I didn't see him but I heard him talking. And he was talking in a low voice, he didn't sound angry at all.
(06-05-2010 08:33 PM)vzy4kat6387 Wrote: [ -> ] (06-05-2010 08:24 PM)AngelSlayerPagan Wrote: [ -> ] (06-05-2010 08:01 PM)vzy4kat6387 Wrote: [ -> ] (06-05-2010 07:14 PM)AngelSlayerPagan Wrote: [ -> ]I've always found abandoned mental hospitals intriguing. At least, the though of being trapped in one overnight whilst multiple malevolent spirits and otherworldly beings is what I'm intrigued by. I can't say I'd hate to have the experience, so long as I were to live through it. My friend told me a completely bone chilling story about him and another friend of his exploring an abandoned slaughter house deep in the night.
Oh and I forgot to add, there has been an ambient album (where the music is pure sound, as in doors closing, wimpering, footsteps, eerie moaning, that kind of stuff). It is by the Axis of Perdition, and is titled Deleted Scenes From The Transitional Hospital. I can safely say, this is the only ambient horror music that has made me too scared to sleep. I'm only writing about it because all the music takes place in an abandoned mental hospital though. If anyone cares to hear it, the best songs are Deleted Scenes I: In the Hallway of Crawling Filth, and Entangled in Mannequin Limbs.
The career academy I went to was an old mental hospital. The only new buildings on that property is the dorms & cafe. They still have alot of the old stuff there, such as the electro shock therapy tubs/incinerator with ashes still there to this day. The mattresses that are being used in the dorms are from an actual asylum which is real creepy in itself. Many people on the campus claim to have experiences. Even inside there dorm rooms, and those dorms are new. The old building that was used to keep the patients in is shut down due to espestice ( how ever it's spelled) Being in there. Though alot of people sneak in there at night it's dangerous to do so because of that which I mentioned and there's the risk of falling through the floor the building is so old.
http://www.angelfire.com/creep/liverr14/
Here you go, if you want to check it out. Now the person who created this website had special permission to go inside the old building.
O.O
Dear God... it's... it's... BEAUTIFUL!
It is a beautiful place, but carries not so beautiful memories. I have one memory that wont leave my thoughts.. One night while I was in my dorm room about ready to go to sleep for the night, my closet door crept open, I didn't have it locked or anything but it crept open and after it did I heard this deep demonic male sounding voice speaking in a different language that I couldn't understand. It was 3:00 Am when it happened. I wasn't harmed or anything I just sat and listened to the voice talking. I finally got tired and slowly drifted off to sleep. After that one night I hadn't heard the voice since. And I was fully awake that night, I even asked my roommates if they heard anyone talking last night and they all said no they didn't. It got a little warm in the room too when It happened.
I didn't see him but I heard him talking. And he was talking in a low voice, he didn't sound angry at all.
Well, actually, I meant beautiful as in the amount of sinister vibes the place gives. It looks too physically perfect to not carry anything evil with it.