Unfortunately, Preston is tearing down the site, demolishing the buildings, selling what they can, and burying the rest. Over the decades, more building were added and the property was expanded; at its peak, the campus was over 470 acres and included over 30 buildings, many of which were connected by underground tunnels. I love writing stories like that. It's peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time! The voice was definitely ahead of us not behind while we stood there listening for so long. All anyone needs to know is the place is huge and includes many gigantic buildings, medical facilities, houses, neighborhoods, tunnels, a bowling alley, more tunnels, a chapel, water tower, and on and on and on. OK so you told me that your dog got sick on my hoodie and everything before. Change ). Norwich Insane Asylum - (c) Forbidden Places - Sylvain Margaine - 3- Solitude. Hope to see you there. Be sure to enter where the powerhouse used to be when you go back, and wave to the cameras once you're beyond the fence. When the voice instantly was behind us in the hall there was no way that anyone with feet had made it that far, that fast through a dilapidated building, around us and back up onto the second floor behind us without us noticing. Ghost? I have not been in the area for a while now. For a while we hid in the abandoned theater so we could look around the campus without being seen. Why would the workers haunt the place anyway? Hope all is well. Full names or other personal information posted regarding current or former patients from hospitals or psychiatric facilities will be obscured or removed. The extensive tunnel network, full of cancer causing asbestos, along with the rotting underground tanks and old hospital landfills created very expensive cleanup costs. Norwich Insane Asylum - (c) Forbidden Places - Sylvain Margaine - 4- The dentist and the decayed padded cell. Who knows.. but this is what I do know. Mumblings in the distance outside, then barking. This encounter with security dampened our spirits and made our visit a whole lot shorter than we would have liked. Unfortunately, I believe a few other explorers that happened to be on site were being flushed out. Keep it along with my scarf that you prolly use to choke yourself while you jerk off. look when i said someone got put in there place it was a knock at the person doing it not you sparkle because were not for that an about the hooded i no longer have but i would pay you the difference if you wish that's all i can do for you sorry. Sam had set off to explore the area by himself. The old floor tiles often pop under your feet, vines have intruded many of the walls, many rooms come across more as cages than as bedrooms. Sad she has to go. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! If you check manaforts website, they're selling things from nsh- like the cell doors from salmon, and some of those dressers, with the mirrors on top. Moving on… Many rooms look like they were simply left as they were when they closed the doors so many years ago. Aug 12, 2013 - Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum. To boot my camera batteries died, yet seemed to work just fine again about an hour later. Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America. Across the street there are several dormitory style buildings and a path to the abandoned neighborhood. Have fun sitting in your little shack Mr.Avcrad. I hate when that happens! A great place to visit. The building above is the first we wandered into. My baby works for sliplknot so I can get a shit ton more swag so I'm not worried about it. I found these boxes of ration crackers, that'll go well with that soup." We high tailed it back through a tunnel to the other side of the campus and decided to poke around a different ward. DO NOT believe anything he says. A forty-three and a half pound Salmon! I’m not going to bother anyone with the historical details of Norwich State Hospital. Rather than hike all the way to where NSH facilities meet the river we hopped on a little path that took us in through the woods. If anyone is interested in meeting up there. The Bell on Rays rod began to ring! On the way back to their Cottage, they stopped at the Greenhouse to grab some vegetables for supper. Earle Stedman and Ray Brigham went Woodward to go fishing at Stribling pond. "I think its a big one" he said. Tunnels at Norwich State Hospital, Preston CT. shouted Earle. Parking a few miles up the road in a housing complex we jumped on the the railroad tracks and hiked our way down the river. I will miss the summer days walking down the train tracks to NSH . Earle, being a doctor, quickly got it out using a Cutter to snip the barb- then push the rest of the hook back out. Ray had a Bell on the end of his rod, that he had made in the Maintenance shop of the Trade school where worked- though he usually worked in the Administration building. ... Other Norwich State Hospital Galleries: The New (Jan 2006) The Old (Dec 2005) November Chills (Nov 2005) Lockdown (Jul 2005) Places Near Norwich State Hospital: Nonetheless, demolition of the property started in spring of 2011 with the collapse of the tunnels surrounding Administration. So let's have meaningful conversations instead, thanks! Check out our video on youtube just search "kings Park Psychiatric center part one intro" there are 5 parts and we mock the hell outta security! Norwich State Hospital closed entirely in 1996, leaving only the Southeastern Connecticut Mental Health Authority in the Kettle and Lodge buildings until their relocation to the Uncas on Thames Hospital. I drove by the other day and noticed that the Norwich portion of the hospital appears to be for sale. ( Log Out /  Many people say they never see security, which makes me doubt they’ve ever been there. You may NOT reproduce this content without permission. they are ruining works of art all over New England for nasty looking shabby huts that will last maybe a fraction of how long these places have. The river behind the property. In 1996, the remaining patients were transferred to Connecticut Valley Hospital, and Norwich State was shut down for good. lol i have a male not a female dog an i would never choke myself an iam no longer working at avcrad i went back to working on car i got a great job at a ford shop in norwich an the pay is great to. Basketball hoops over garages overgrown with vines, empty kitchens and living rooms, just silent nothingness. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Comments pertaining to real location names (when given a pseudonym), methods of entering the property, or just flaming will be deleted. The Norwich State Hospital is listed on both the state and national historic register as a place of architectural and historical significance and thus many of the buildings, grounds, and infrastructure can not be removed (or even cleaned of medical wastematerial) without exception from both state and federal historical authorities. Making our way down the hall we were poking our heads into each room just checking things out when we heard a voice somewhere ahead, but quite distant. I'm scared I'll run across his remains when traipsing through NSH. Felt like the apocalypse had come or something. ( Log Out /  Where did you find these fine ration crackers?" Its just eerie all around. You get put in your place all the time. The next buildings going down are supposed to be: salmon, awl, the chapel and the theater. The entire facility was owned and operated by the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health. They wanted to get the fish into the Kettle, and have a surprise dinner ready for their friends Seymour Bryant and Mitchell Lippitt- who had spent the day hiking, and Mitchell's brother Sam. I'm pretty sure they would have smelled his carcas by now! Going to a second floor window and peering out it had never occurred to me that K9 might be called in when needed and sure enough there was an officer (state or local I didn’t wait to find out) with a K9 that was barking away at a different building. You Have Reached the Last Photo in This Gallery, Newington Home and Hospital for Crippled Children (36 miles). At the far end of the hall is a doorway to a common room with an office in the far corner. This method of travel was soon confirmed to be the safest. Fairfield State Hospital (as it was known from 1929 to 1963) or Fairfield Hills Hospital (as it was known after 1963) was a psychiatric hospital in Newtown, Connecticut, which operated from 1931 until 1995.At its peak, the hospital housed over 4,000 patients. Sparkles_Believes@yahoo.com. Norwich State Hospital was officially closed as a treatment facility in 1996 and its remaining patients were transferred to other facilities around the state. Its called joking around. Next to the office is an emergency exit/staircase. Boo Ya! There is no real way to convey the atmosphere of a place like NSH. Sorry Sparkles, what mcguilicutty said is true. Just leaves one really pondering the great question about whether ghosts exist. I may have joked around a bit here and there, from time to time about the status of the Wich, but was fairly blatant about it when I did. Just show me some proof right?… anyway, we were in one of the long abandoned and deteriorating wards towards the river when we had a bit of an unusual experience still yet explained. Aug 12, 2013 - Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum. Although Norwich State was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, the collapse of the tunnels surrounding the administration building resulted in the demolition of much of the property beginning in 2011. The others asked: "what did you do all day Sam? With security wandering around we were quite conscious of the popping the floor often made when walking around. So, let's make some progress, shall we? Its such a pain in the ass now, you have no idea! They're taking out the salmon building. They are very used to people snooping around and they are fairly prepared to stop explorers. There is absolutely no more tunneling it from building to building. Opacity is dedicated to documenting various abandoned places through both text and photographs; recording their transformations through time before they are demolished. After the security, the K9, then potential ghosts we left the main campus of NSH and worked our way across the street to other less visited parts of NSH. All non-user contributed content is © Tom Kirsch, unless noted otherwise. Staying put, this mumbling slowly grew louder as if approaching and honestly I fully expected someone to open the door to the stairway on the opposite side of the common room, by the office. NSH is guarded. Can anybody shed some light on this? The buildings are still quite connected underground, however, security happens to have an office in one of the smaller buildings with access to the tunnels so I could imagine they could easily hear anyone passing to close to their location from the echoing effect they seems to have. If you would like to share it, please use the social media buttons provided or write something up with a link to this website, thanks. And you're an idiot because we know who you are. There is really only one parking lot near NSH, a commuter lot at the corner of the property, which security seems to keep an eye on. I'm.planning on going very soon. They cut through the tops of the tunnels, and put huge steel plates between buildings. My buddy and I figured the easiest way in would be from the direction security probably wouldn’t be watching. Ghost Hunters visited the hospital not that long ago, long after we had passed through and I am now very disappointed in the show Ghost Hunters. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. These tunnels transported electricity, hot water, and patients to various areas on the grounds. "Heh, that's what she said" giggled ray. Please keep in mind that comments are moderated, and rel="nofollow" in in use. 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