The Eeriest Photographs Taken In Abandoned Hospitals
Yeah, hospitals have a major creepy factor.
The only place that might be creepier than a graveyard is a hospital and yes that's taking ancient castles into consideration as well. Medical buildings are extra creepy because, well, people die there. All the time. Every day. And some medical buildings and hospitals house and care for the most deranged of society's members and even worse? Sometimes medical providers are just as insane. Some of the world's creepiest and most haunted places in existence are abandoned hospitals.
But don't just take the reputation of the stories left behind in abandoned buildings when there's photographic evidence of precisely how creepy hospitals are. In case you've doubted the unexplainable... we found proof and lots of it. (You may want to switch your lights on, these are too creepy to obsess over in the dark.)
1. This wasn't supposed to bt The Grudge....
Late night in the hospital is no place to see mysteries, ghastly figures reminiscent of horror movies but that's precisely what happened here.
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2. Clawed Away
What horrors could lead even the mentally deranged to claw so desperately at a wall? We cannot even fathom.
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3. What lingers here?
What malevolent forces linger in the darkened doorways of abandoned mental institutions? The eeriest, of course.
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4. The Waverly Hill Sanitorium in Kentucky
Once a tuberculosis treatment facility, it became a mental institution in the 1960's before being permanently closed years later because of repeated reports of patient abuse. The heavy presence of the past weighs in even through an eerie photo of the empty hallways that remain.
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5. Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital in Korea
This abandoned mental asylum comes with a legend. Reportedly, the hospital was forcibly closed after patients began dying mysteriously and today it is believed to be haunted while the dilapidated building features rusted fences and disintegrated furniture.
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6. Eerie Illusions
Admittedly, this photo features some manipulation. The building is presented to us in its eerie present day form but that's not malicious graffiti on the walls. Those eerie decorations are original and the medical staff we see just emphasizes how creepy it must have been to receive treatment there.
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7. Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut
This mental facility was open for over 90 years and that left plenty of time to allow horror to manifest. They housed chemically dependent patients, geriatric patients, and tuberculosis patients and were notorious for forced lobotomies and forced abortions all in the name of "psychiatric care."
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8. Horrors
This image was captured by a hospital camera, supposedly the very day the woman pictured died. Her body is seen looking distorted and sends chills down the spines of those who stare too long.
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9. Linda Vista Community Hospital in Los Angeles, California
This famously eerie hospital may have closed in the 1990's but that hasn't stopped visitors from frequenting it's dark halls. Most commonly it is visited by paranormal investigators but it is also used to film horror movies, music videos, and TV shows. `
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10. The Hudson River State Hospital
Built in the late 19th century during the early days of Victorian psychiatric treatment, this hospital has been abandoned since 2003 but that hasn't stopped visitors with destructive tendencies from stopping in to burn and break things. What is left today is eerie and depressing.
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11. Poveglia Island
This small island in northern Italy is rich with dark history. After several ships arrived in 1793 carrying plague victims the island was quarantined before much later in life the buildings there became an asylum to house the mentally ill. The buildings were abandoned in the late 1960's but the very essence of death seems to linger.
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12. The Lier Mental Hospital in Norway
Norwegians may wish to erase the horrifying memory of this now abandoned mental institution but the stories linger. Once notorious for its frequent lobotomies and electroshock treatments, this hospital also had a tumultuous reputation for forcibly testing drugs on patients.
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13. The Beelitz Heilstatten Military Hospital
The now abandoned hospital has been used to film movies but well before it's doors were closed it was built to house tuberculosis patients and later went on to care for injured and sick military personnel in both World Wars.
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14. The mystery remains
The glowing image in the windows of this abandoned hospital has been a topic of debate but the truth is that nobody knows precisely what it is. A random Christmas tree? Perhaps that is as illogical as a malevolent spirit.
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15. The Babcock Insane Asylum
Open for some 130 years, this now long-since abandoned insane asylum is in torrid condition but visitors report that most of it has been left as it was in the 1990's with "patient files, medication and office equipment strewn throughout the building."
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16. The Babcock Insane Asylum
This additional photo of The Babcock Insane Asylum is a stark reminder that lingering through haunted hallways is not for the faint at heart.
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17. Riverside Hospital in Ohio
Opened in 1883 and abandoned in 2002, this hospital comes with a local urban legend which suggests that the ghosts of former doctors and patients continue to roam the halls today and any photos we've ever seen of the place show a destructive lingering environment.
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18. Unintentionally Creepy
Sometimes the scariest part of a photo is knowing that it was taken in innocence and only upon later inspection can one see the eerie image of a presence that doesn't belong. Atop the roof of an abandoned mental institution lingers the shape of a figure presumably struggling to move on from death and into the afterlife.
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19. The Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia
Abandoned after 70 years this particular area of the hospital was used to treat "300 of the most psychotic male patients." What is truly haunting though is that the rumors suggest treatment of these patients was "barbaric, cruel and inhumane."
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20. Thank you, nurse.
This photo was taken in a hospital BY a nurse and the unmistakable yet eerie presence of an elderly man is almost impossible to ignore. Yet clearly, he does not belong in the photo. It is commonly believed he is lingering between death and the after life.
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21. A Haunting Past
The photo may not seem blatantly suspicious at first but when you learn the history it's a lot creepier. This photo was taken in a mental institution but the children pictured were not the patients. In fact, they were the children of the patients. This play room occupied children that were either visiting their mentally sick parents or even worse? Some children lived in the hospital as well because they had nowhere else to go. Presumably they were taken care of by hospital staff but the vacant expressions on their faces leave you with a sinking feeling in your stomach as you grasp the concept of their innocence being taken from them as they grew up surrounded by the insane.
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22. A Haunting Image
Taken in the same mental hospital as the previous image, this photo is especially depressing. It doesn't feature any ghosts but this section of the morgue was for children and it's impossible not to feel the emotional weight of staring at a child-sized morgue knowing that countless lifeless bodies have passed those cold surfaces in a place they never should have been to begin with.
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23. Lingering Spirit
Imagine recovering in the hospital to awaken and see the hovering image of a ghostly figure over your head. Nope.
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24. That wasn't in the job description.
Nobody ever said working in construction was easy but when you are going about your normal day and stumble across the corpse of a cat who clearly experienced unimaginable horror before death it is something that will haunt you forever. What Hell on Earth could cause such trauma to an innocent animal?
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There are some creepy things that have happened in the past, especially in the circus of the 1800s. Check out some of these terrifying vintage circus photos that you have never seen before. Probably.
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