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The Ghost In My Machine

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The exterior of Old Changi Hospital in Singapore

Haunted Globetrotting: Old Changi Hospital, Singapore And The Specters Of War

April 5, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: Cincinnati Music Hall. (CW: Torture, murder, war crimes, human rights violations.) On the northeastern edge of Singapore lie the remains of an old hospital. Well — it was a hospital Continue Reading > about Haunted Globetrotting: Old Changi Hospital, Singapore And The Specters Of War

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: abandoned hospitals, ghosts, Haunted Globetrotting, haunted hospitals, haunted travel, hauntings, history, hospitals, Old Changi Hospital, Singapore, World War II

An aerial view of the grounds of Fairfield Hills

Abandoned: Fairfield State Hospital And The Future Of The Fairfield Hills Campus Redevelopment Project (Photos)

March 22, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: The Great Train Cemetery Of Bolivia. For decades, the landscape all over the United States was dotted with state-run psychiatric facilities first praised for their new and Continue Reading > about Abandoned: Fairfield State Hospital And The Future Of The Fairfield Hills Campus Redevelopment Project (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned hospitals, abandoned places, Connecticut, Fairfield Hills Hospital, Fairfield State Hospital, photography, urban exploration, urbex

A tunnel in the abandoned ruins of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital

The Weird Part Of YouTube: The Pennhurst Found Footage Videos & Degrees Of Believability

March 5, 2018 by Lucia

Previously: Hi I'm Mary Mary. On March 4, 2013, the YouTube channel RandomVideoCircus posted two short videos to its account. Called “Pennhurst Found Footage” and “Pennhurst Found Footage Part 2,” Continue Reading > about The Weird Part Of YouTube: The Pennhurst Found Footage Videos & Degrees Of Believability

Filed Under: Places, Tales Tagged With: abandoned hospitals, asylums, hoax, Pennhurst found footage, Pennhurst State School and Hospital, psychiatric facility, The Weird Part Of YouTube, video

Abandoned(-ish): The Half-Life Of St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. (Photos)

March 27, 2017 by Lucia

Previously: Zombie Subdivisions.  There’s a reason I’ve tagged an “-ish” to the heading of this installment of “Abandoned”: St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. isn’t totally abandoned. Continue Reading > about Abandoned(-ish): The Half-Life Of St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned hospitals, abandoned places, photography, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington DC

Abandoned: All That Remains Of Connecticut’s Norwich State Hospital (Photos)

January 18, 2016 by Lucia

Previously: Wonderland Amusement Park. Sprawled across 900 acres in Preston and Norwich, Connecticut was once one of the most notorious psychiatric institutions in the United States. Opened in Continue Reading > about Abandoned: All That Remains Of Connecticut’s Norwich State Hospital (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned hospitals, abandoned places, Connecticut, Norwich State Hospital, photography

Abandoned: Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Long Island, New York (Photos)

June 22, 2015 by Lucia

Previously: The Ghost Ship McBarge. I realize that perhaps a disproportionate number of the locations I’ve been dealing with in “Abandoned” are former hospitals or psychiatric centers. There's just Continue Reading > about Abandoned: Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Long Island, New York (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned hospitals, abandoned places, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, photography

The exterior of the Weston State Hospital

Abandoned: The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and Weston State Hospital (Photos)

November 17, 2014 by Lucia

Previously: The Knox County Poorhouse. The hospital’s name has changed many times. Some call it the Weston State Hospital, as it was known beginning in 1913; others favor the name it carried in Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and Weston State Hospital (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned hospitals, Kirkbride, photography, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West Virginia, Weston State Hospital

Abandoned: The Last Remnants of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center (Photos)

August 18, 2014 by Lucia

Previously: North Brother Island. In upstate New York, there’s a town called Dover. Within Dover is a hamlet known as Wingdale, and in Wingdale lies the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Continue Reading > about Abandoned: The Last Remnants of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center (Photos)

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Abandoned, abandoned hospitals, abandoned places, Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, Harlem Valley State Hospital, photography, urban exploration

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