Exploring a Massive Abandoned Kirkbride Asylum

[@ddylla85]

Kirkbride's were designed in an echelon shape (bat wings) to allow maximum exposure to fresh air and sunlight in each ward. Every "tier" was a separate ward, with the most dangerous patients at the end. The central building held Administration offices and an apartment for the hospital superintendent. Initially the hospitals functioned as a small city, patients produced food, clothing and some even had their own fire departments. It wasn't until the early - mid 20th century that mental hospitals became warehouses of horror. Random Fact: Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey (demolished) was the largest building in the U.S. until the Pentagon was completed. Edit: Greystone was in NJ not Penn.

[@AndrewHarron]

ddylla85 that is great info on Kirkbride buildings. I have also heard that the hallways were extra wide and the rooms were fairly small so that patients would be encouraged to spend time outside their rooms socializing. The original idea was that if you are well cared for in an opulent building with access to fresh air, sunlight, and good views of nature then you will recover from your mental illness which may be caused by the stressors of life. That is one reason why true Kirkbride hospitals are found in rural areas where they could find fresh air and good views of nature. I have also heard that the treatment outcomes were actually pretty comparable to what we get today with modern methods. Unfortunately, that approach to treatment got lost when facilities became overcrowded and budgets got slimmed down.

[@tx2128]

Greystone was in Morristown, NJ

[@akanishta99]

T X Yep, I used to go to Greystone when I was a kid. Cops used to patrol around that place a lot more than some other abandoned hospitals.

[@kevinloving3141]

@@akanishta99 Hmm Greystone must have been a MK-ULTRA exponential station.

[@steuk6510]

How do I email or phone him

[@lilyb9109]

Such a beautiful building! As a teen, I spent just shy of a year in a mental health facility. I was given the Rorschach test, which was extremely antiquated for 2001. I also encountered many clinically insane people every day, some of whom were allowed to walk the facility alone, and some with chains and leather cuffs securing each ankle and each wrist together. It was a total mindfuck, and I probably left more screwed up than when I went in.

[@19irving]

I was given the Rorshach test so many times I finally told one shrink it looked like a pair of panties that got stained from getting my period. Don't know what he scribbled on his PAD about that one.

[@malikaelyadiri7005]

Thats so sad,sorry for u I realy mean that

[@jenniferloving9054]

I don't talk about this alot, but I spent time in mental health faculty as a kid. The first place was horrible, and I wasn't there for very long thankfully. The second one was a much better run institution.

[@memyselfandi1512]

wow I am so very sorry that you had to endure such a nightmare

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Lily B but now you get to eat Krispy Kremes.

[@sd1068]

There is another Kirkbride asylum in Weston, West Virginia, called the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. It's actually the largest hand-cut stone building in the US. It closed around 1994, and it is still mostly intact. The owners are a little wackadoo, but they will let certain people walk through and explore it.

[@chayden153]

Its also *allegedly* haunted

[@WeirdoCertified]

Rico Suave let people believe what they want

[@att4008]

@Rico Suave you're real mature get lost

[@stcrletz]

yess, i heard about trans allegheny! i also saw a "reasons to be locked up" list they had for women in the victorian (?) times, featuring stuff like novel reading, kicked in the head by a horse, and political interest,,,😳

[@emmajane96]

@Rico Suave ghosts are more believable than jebus.

[@catiecagney7229]

my great-grandfather was a patient here! I know a good bit of history about the place if anyone is curious.

[@msg.timothy4914]

I'm curious

[@drewsa_mmxx2009]

Hey I’m writing a book about mental hospitals throughout the years! Did he perhaps have a journal or write any letters that would provide a first hand account? If not I would love any information you have!

[@nkirk0912]

Please share! I love places like this

[@nkirk0912]

I also would love to learn how patient care has evolved over the years

[@mslee4495]

I'm very interested too..

[@kayla7087]

The criminally insane patients were housed furthest away from the middle. So it all depends on the placement of the wings. The Kirkbride floor plan wasn't meant to confuse patients. The floor plan was that of stacked linear pattern to allow sufficient air flow and sunlight since Dr. Kirkbride believed it helped with healing mental illnesses.

[@matthewramsdell7216]

Miki Rivers I don’t think this building housed any criminally insane patients. There’s a couple of buildings near this asylum that probably housed them

[@Emma-ln1fb]

I like how they don’t have the jump scares. I can get my abandoned building fix without scaring my self half to death.

[@DFYLA72]

After watching dozens of your videos. I've come to find it surprising when a basement isn't flooded.

[@att4008]

can't be 1800's i saw computer monitors unless they used this till maybe 20 years ago

[@kaitlorenczi6049]

AT T I used to go explore this asylum all the time. They actually stopped using it in 1994, so it really hasn’t even been abandoned that long. It was in use for I think over 100 years though.

[@kaitlorenczi6049]

AT T it burnt down this morning actually and the fire started in the basement. It was a historic landmark so no one could legally tear it down to build anything new there, so they started a fire to make it look like an accident and now, we’re probably getting more apartment buildings. Boo gentrification.

[@cabinonfire6365]

@@kaitlorenczi6049 It's sad to think places like these were still open only a few years ago. It's crazy how little we know about mental health.

[@deendrew36]

@@att4008 it was built in the 1850’s, and in use until the 1990’s. So of course, in the 1990’s, they didn’t use the same documentation system as in the 1850’s! They moved with the times and got computers like the rest of the world when they came along.

[@loditx7706]

After seeing the desolation and ruin of this unsalvageable building it would be great to see historic photos of it in its heyday. Most of these giant institutions were partially self sustaining with dairy cows, pigs, beef cattle, and massive vegetable gardens. Patients who spent years or the rest of their lives there could work on the farms and enjoyed it. (No TV back then, let alone cable.) For many patients it was a safe environment that protected them a world with which they could not cope. And yes, I know the horror stories and I am sure maybe there were wards for patients who could not go out, but in my opinion this world was destroyed beginning in the 30s and gathering speed in the 40s and 50s with shock treatments, lobotomies, and psychotropic drugs. Those drugs, based on my experience with psychiatric patients, did little unless strong enough to put the person in a stupor, but they were used as an excuse to declare hospitalization was no longer necessary and the patients could be returned to communities and just buy a monthly prescription. Look around you. Did that work? Are they better off? Another legislative crime was to order that patients couldn't work at farming or livestock, etc. even if they wanted to do so. When that happened you saw the halls full of people sitting in chairs with little interest and the institutions had to start buying what was grown before and then everyone said that the institutions were too expensive to maintain, so the people sitting in halls were tossed out with a pill bottle to roam the streets. "Community Care" was one of the greatest propaganda panaceas ever fed to a willing public.

[@tokiwartooth4404]

People are treated like livestock for monetary gain. Pharma and the healthmaintenance industry is a joke. Why provide real solutions for medical issues, when they can become recurring revenue for life? Drug lobbyists pay off docs to sell their brand. What is this? Coke vs Pepsi for their vending machines? Check your local docs for bribe money - projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

[@kevinloving3141]

Well the laws stating that the patients couldn't voluntarily work on the asylum's farm, was passed to reward agribusinesses who made campaign contributions to these state legislators.

[@kevinloving3141]

@Bill Williams No politics here this an Urbex video. If you wish to inject politics into a BEV video fine have at it.

[@rlwieneke-cf3xq]

@Bill Williams thankfully Hussein Obama and his henchmen are now out and we have a President that truly loves this country and doesn't want to destroy it and turn it into Venezuela like the LIBTARD Democrats want.

[@gwendiffenbacher1695]

@Bill Williams: totally agree. Rhinos elected Obama. No true Republican would have ever voted for that idiot.

[@MikFindersKeepers]

Dodgy floors, risk of harm or death, send the new guy first lol

[@jenniferpowell79]

Pretty much 😂🕳

[@thethe2281]

i know right :D

[@libbyi15]

scott c nbh

[@silvana8246]

bully

[@jpkraken5533]

Fun unrelated fact: 6:35 this exact collapsed layout was used in a building in Fallout 3

[@patrickmorrissey2271]

Great video guys! @ 3:35, that is a Magnetic Tape Drive... When a disk drive the size of your refrigerator held 5 megabytes, MagTape was The Plan, Man..... Circa maybe 1985 or 1986 or so.... Prehistoric to you guys, but back in the day, medical records & what have you, was all on tape....

[@Sterlingk_]

yep the good ol days 1 computer = warehouse

[@darcywiley5096]

The 1950's version of a USB drive.

[@obsidianfeline0064]

+Please wait while I attempt to care... I actually took the time to search for that book for some odd reason, Lol! I just had to.

[@geraldmaine3300]

juicy cute patrick u look 28 ever made hott love in a Abandoned homes ever been to maine i am 1 min from the water

[@StalkerWolf]

from WANG computers out of Massachusetts. the buildings where shaped like giant W's

[@hollyjones8634]

i'd always love to see how these places looked inside before they were just left like that

[@ladyrose837]

Judging from the clothes/dolls/tech left in the asylum, it was probably abandoned around the early-mid 80's, I think. "Amusing Ourselves to Death" was published in '85.

[@grigorirasputin5020]

You are very good...and observant!

[@kdrama5962]

"Hey kids!" "Want to go see where mommy and daddy first met?!" This place was so fantastic, and creepy.... It's great that you were able to film it before it's torn down. Thanks guys!

[@onthemoverealestatephotogr9655]

Continuity of care refers to a patient's path to recovery. It's important that there are no gaps in treatment. Inpatient care - outpatient care (partial hospitalization, Intensive outpatient) - family/individual therapy - follow ups with docs, etc. I work in a large psychiatric hospital. It's not abandoned and it's still spooky to walk the halls. Great work guys, love your channel!

[@darianchance8021]

Andrew Neal same but mine is like a group home setting there's individual homes and different levels of mental disability as well as physical. When I first started working there I would constantly see a dark figure standing in one of the bedrooms(I work midnight to eight so it's extra creepy) but everyone in my home is completely disabled no one can stand on their own.. freaked me out

[@ghostedintheecoboost2.798]

The iconic red dome is now gone and multiple collapses due to the 3 alarm fire...very sad. Thankfully you documented this Historic Columbia SC Landmark.

[@danielboujee]

Does anyone else get chills while watching these videos?

[@hyporii]

Not really. Its way creepier when you do exploring yourself in the middle of the night. It just sucks that where I live the oldest buildings are only 100 years old.

[@danielboujee]

I seriously couldn't do it, WAY too risky!

[@danielboujee]

coral scott I had to stop an exploring with Josh video because he explored a school and it had satanic stars everywhere and it just made me feel really uncomfortable.

[@marshmallowamvs3313]

I do sometimes lol

[@hyporii]

Daniel's Planet A house I was at last weekend was completely empty and there was no staircase going to the second floor, we had to climb up the front of the house and in through a hole in the wall and we found old glass dolls. That was literally the only thing inside there.

[@BurnoutFilmsHD]

Thank you for actually doing research unlike Josh. "Oh this building must have been used for hiding aliens." No, dude. Just look stuff up before just speculating

[@DemonSmack]

LOL I can hear him saying that

[@DemonSmack]

+xJayFromVA naw, I can barely stomach his videos sometimes because of the random shit he says lmao. He's a cool guy, but certainly has a unique way of narrating things...

[@daveroe8612]

while I enjoy a few of Joshes's explores, Michael and Bryan are much more talented and I belieive really care about the history. The Proper People Rock !

[@adolfquinto3592]

Josh is an idiot.

[@BurnoutFilmsHD]

***** Reppin VA

[@MolotovSandvich97]

I know you guys have started to spread out with your explorations. I found a massive ammunition plant in Indiana. I understand that is a long and expensive journey, but it's hundreds of acres of abandoned labs, test facilities, warehouses, factories, and power plants. I feel like security is high, considering that there are roads on the property and it is government owned. The environmental hazards are high, so bring respirators. There is a large recorded history of the location, so plenty of video content. Again, it is quite a trip, but it definitely appears to be interesting. Maybe give it a shot 🎥

[@ironturtle7171]

I know its late to ask but what plant? is it demolished?

[@annied8611]

I know exactly where you’re talking about! Sadly it is being demolished. The main buildings have been as of now, and the smaller buildings that go further into the forest area continue to be :( I always wanted to go inside when I was younger, but never got a chance.

[@LunarSault23]

Where in indiana is this

[@uwouldntknowthem]

My old high school was originally supposed to be a prison but, they changed it last minute! So it’s super confusing and hardly has any windows. Also creepy random stairways, sooooooo yeah!

[@dillonchamberlain]

Where?

[@MistyBlahbull]

i mean same same

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

What's the difference?

[@grigorirasputin5020]

@@fzerowipeoutlover Ya beat me to it. Not much difference these days. Schools teach our youth how to be compliant future inmates. When I was in elementary and high school, we ate with metal utensils in the cafeteria. I worked in a Medium-Maximum prison in the mid-1980's. Inmates ate with metal utensils. Today, school kids eat with plastic sporks only. WTF?

[@akanishta99]

This place reminds me a lot o the old Overbrook hospitals that were in NJ. Long gone now, but I still have a ton of pictures of them. Also, I ran into more than one parent bringing kids there. They had relatives that lived there as a patient and the parents were bringing their kids there to try and explain what happened to them. Pretty sad story to hear.

[@burnbabylonburn78]

I'm sorry but I couldn't help but bust out laughing at the "Psychiatric Help: 5 Cents" sign. I guess Charlie Brown must been a patient at this asylum??

[@TMxtt]

Wow, 2016 Mum of the Year contender there! She was probably a patient there when she was young, that at least would explain why she's crazy enough to think its okay to take children into a place as dangerous as that. Great vid again guys!

[@danielstiles660]

I work in a kirkbride The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Thank you guys for showing these buildings.

[@MrTdogg175]

I wish I could get as excited with a smile on my face as Bryan does when he finds old Christmas decorations LOL.

[@dominick8648]

you should come to massachusetts, there are tons of abandoned building such as tire factories and wire companies that were built in the 1840s

[@JupiterLicorice]

OMG THAT'S MY CITY!!! I'm so sad I never got to explore this place before they refurbished it into apartments and a stadium. As much urbex as I did in Columbia, I never had the chance to get in there. I'm glad you guys filmed it so in depth! This video makes me so happy!!

[@mrsmasterchief33]

Not the same place

[@erinfreize4717]

That's definitely Columbia. It's easy to tell when they look out from the steeple.

[@erinfreize4717]

From 14:26 to 15:17 you get a good look at downtown and Segra park 14:52 with the best shot of the buildings on Main St right at the end of this segment. It even has "803" painted on the window.

[@fennec7328]

mrsmasterchief33 it is columbia, one the person with them wearing a usc bag and if that’s not enough for you i’ve been in there

[@kareng3847]

This the one in SC?

[@luketurner4173]

It's a crying shame that it's being demolished. Here in the UK we have societies & such who fight to keep historic buildings from being flattened, it doesn't always work as the money hungry developers often get their way.

[@DENPTrains]

Yeah, a colliery nearby me (Harworth colliery) got taken down in April, its been left on its side

[@TheProperPeople]

+Luke Turner The requirements that a building has to meet to receive historical protection are so stringent here that it only takes a little bit of money and political corruption to stop it from happening. And even if it does receive historical protection, there have been so many instances of protected buildings being demolished and developers facing little to no consequences. It's really a shame how little we care about our history and preserving amazing buildings here.

[@daveroe8612]

Thankfully we have " The Proper People" documenting much of the history for us all to experience.....Thank you for the amazing job.

[@yogo]

there is a building in nj that is historically protected so they decided to build a shopping center around it

[@gazelle1467]

It interesting and all and it has a lot of history, but seriously, if we left every single building standing we wouldn't have any space left.

[@emilyvwatts9305]

i actually live about 10 minutes away from this asylum and my grandmother use to work there. its so difficult to get into now though since theres a stadium right by it; it also takes away so much of the spooky appearance. love that i finally got to see what was inside!

[@gtp2nv]

Is it in North Carolina?!

[@abigailcarroll6982]

South Carolina. Columbia. South Carolina Lunatic Asylum. There isn't much LEFT to sneak into. The buildings up by Bull Street are in use, and I'm sure what isn't in use is now tightly guarded.

[@rashadheyward]

I get so excited when I get a notification from this channel!!! I stop everything I'm doing lol

[@K1ngOverseer]

Same. The videos are pretty rare since its every other Wednesday

[@Skidtire]

+Person With a Name ayy

[@K1ngOverseer]

Whats up brother!

[@Skidtire]

Just sternly looking at people.Person With a Name

[@K1ngOverseer]

Same here

[@joshuasutherland6692]

Update is that this building is likely going to be preserved and repurposed as part of the redevelopment plan for the old state hospital complex.

[@RyanY11]

"You kids better eat your vegetables or I'm gonna make you spend the night in an abandoned insane asylum!" -Mom of the year 2016

[@PatchesMother]

New subscriber from🇨🇦. Seeing all these beautiful buildings left to ruin or ending up demolished makes me sad, I don't know why they're not preserved & made into historical buildings as they're old but beautiful.

[@deniseshephard3347]

It's sad how all the patients personal items were just left and no one cared to give them back

[@TheBigfoot567]

You guys need to make a trip to explore the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, TX. 14 stories, built 1928. Shuttered in early 1970s. Supposedly haunted. Will need to be stealthy to find a way in without cops seeing you. It's right in the middle of town. Was famous resort destination in 30s and 40s, etc. Many famous folks stayed there, Presidents, actors, even Bonnie and Clyde.

[@professorkittyhawk]

Mental hospitals always give me the heebie-jeebies. Abandoned or active ones. Great video. Interesting to see. Shame you didn't find any straight jackets.

[@andrewchilds2704]

Also random point, and you may have already learned this by now, but those locks you zoomed in on early in the video speculating that they were "heavy locks" are just normal locks from the era. I live in Massachusetts and have seen many many old doors that still have those in place, though unused. In one of my previous apartments, every single door had an old timey key lock like that. Kitchen door, bathroom door, closet door, all of them had those locks. Fun fact, I read that they were apparently "easy" to pick and was one of the reasons deadbolts became common place because those were much harder to pick.

[@BushmasterXM15E2S]

I was briefly a prison guard. Unfortunately, the U.S, began shutting down its asylums in the 70's and it's lead to an increase of incarnation of mentally impaired people.

[@BamaChad-W4CHD]

They just handed a large problem off to other people. Those old asylums were straight hell and inhumane though. We have to do something about the mental health of this country and world. You hear people saying that so many people are incarnated in jail because there is no other place to put them. Seems inhumane to me either way. But what can we do. I also hate hearing people say "oh what happened to America? The problem with mental health didn't used to be this bad". Fact is that it was always bad. It's just back in the day people with mental health issues and mental handicaps were locked away in asylums and we don't do that today. So instead they are left to fend for themselves and eventually end up in jail because there is no other option. Sigh I wish someone had the answer. It seems like prisons here in America are about 50 percent mental cases, 40 percent weed smokers/sellers and 10 percent criminals who deserve to be in prison.

[@funnycreep]

BushmasterXM15E2S incarnation? Do you mean incarceration?

[@att4008]

it was the 80's and Ronald Reagan was responsible for that :/ they released the patients into society smart huh?

[@MAB1273]

Without really expensive health insurance or being in prison, mental health care is almost impossible to access in the U.S. That is the crux of the problem IMO.

[@3dfreak2000]

,@@att4008 He needed more GOP voters.

[@TheGKMinecraft]

One thing I love about the Proper People is that even though their channel is growing, their content hasn't changed in any way...it's still just the same as it was from the beginning.

[@benjaminshamel9383]

Just a rando update; I was there last month (early Dec 2018), and they've knocked down some of the smaller outbuildings, and they've placed all the furniture in a few rooms. I wasn't able to get to the one section with several collapsed floors on top of one another. It looked like scrappers REALLY got to it even in just the short 3 months it had been since I was last inside. I think they're renovating it, but I can't be sure, just because of the condition it's in; as I said, currently it looks even worse than when y'all explored it right here.

[@JTube571]

#chairsjustchillin

[@Sterlingk_]

#Agreed

[@JTube571]

***** I hate them too, it was a joke.

[@Jessgmatthews]

SO glad y'all did this! I've been searching for a inside look of this very building and I'm stoked I recognized it!! Thank you!!!

[@Underground2196]

How are you guys not at 1 million subscribers yet? The proper people are definitely the go to for exploring

[@brandonakey6616]

This was amazing. Subbed. I have a couple ideas on how to make these videos much better. One is to provide a picture overlay one and a while of what certain parts of the building looked like before. Another idea is to have a map overlay of where you guys are located in the building and\or what certain parts of the building were for. even if it's just a simple sat map. I also love to hear as much historical information on the sites while you go through them. Great production value. Keep up the awesome work.

[@hairystyles4212]

they need to be more careful. These damaged floors are super unpredictable and dangerous. I fell through a roof in an old building that had holes like that and ended up fracturing my skull and rupturing my eardrum losing 80% of hearing from the fall through.

[@grigorirasputin5020]

OUCH!

[@karenlindsey5988]

Wow! That was an enormous building! Great job u guys! U are definitely becoming one of my favorite explorers on KZbin!

[@smug8567]

My great great grandfather had schizophrenia, he heard voices threatening his son and his daughter He was nuts and couldn’t sleep or eat and they told him to hurt people but he knew he wasn’t going to ever get well. He took his own life in Weston in 1887, September 6th. He wrote diaries and he did sketches. He was a monster and he was wild, his name was Stephen Burns. I believe he is buried there on the property as there is a cemetery there. Nobody has found a headstone if there is one.

[@GrantSimons2]

Kinda insane that you guys might have the last video evidence of a lot of these places.

[@saint0wen]

These buildings and courtyards are absolutely beautiful (on the outside)!

[@kabkab8441]

3:36 Although it's hard to tell, the unknown piece of equipment looks like a WANG computer that used reel to reel magnetic tape for memory storage.

[@NeonMermaid5]

Makes me sad about all the resources and labor put into building such a huge pretty building , every detail, and now it's just getting demolished

[@drh-ov7eq]

imagine being in there when that floor collapsed

[@rootbrian4815]

The couch probably would've been the safest landing zone.

[@dillydilly9920]

I’ve noticed in so many of the abandon buildings the paint on the walls and ceiling. Why does the paint curl up and crumble in some rooms/areas and not others? So creepy... Thanks for taking the risks, I love watching you guys explore!

[@grigorirasputin5020]

Old lead based paint. I miss it. The chips were much tastier. 😁

[@brittanylee3326]

I just came across this video, thought you guys would like to know that unfortunately there was a fire recently that destroyed the tower and a large portion of the building. I am happy I got to see your video of it on the inside. New subscriber, great videos. 👏🏻👍🏻

[@Mr_Chris77]

Kirkbride design is still in use near me. Called Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, KY. Once held over 2,000 patients, now houses 225. The building is definitely the same design and eerie looking when driving by.

[@raptureboi]

I feel like im watching a TV Show, you guys are amazingly professional. Every video gets better and better.

[@lostboi210]

They're about to tear down the old San Antonio State Hospital on the bottom of the hill.. I was a patient in the hospital there in 83 til 2000 alot of the condemned buildings i was a patient in.. In 2018 I was employed by the hospital working food service I acquired a key (A-1) to get into all the buildings that are on the bottom of the hill!! Nifty stuff if ur ever in SA hollar!!

[@puremojito]

Ive visited this place many many times as I live in West Columbia... Ive never been able to go in during the day because of so much heavy police activity and have had to run out 3 times. Thank you, THANK YOU for getting this amazing footage of the place in daylight unlike my videos haha. Props to you guys.

[@kevinloving3141]

Wow another MK-ULTRA environmental station it's not people the authorities are worried Urbexing. But whatever MK-ULTRA brought in from the other side.

[@kennymsd]

i worked in a converted Kirkbride in Dayton, Oh. Now called 10 Wilmington Place, retirement community.. They were a client of mine actually. The basement remains fairly untouched with the original railroad tracks for transporting coal carts to stock the fireplaces throughout. The mental health facility is now behind the original location. Always super interesting to explore the building, especially the basement.

[@dylanchudoba6340]

I'd pay to explore a place with you guys

[@newkittymommy5849]

same

[@ThePoptartster]

The price is your butt. You'll learn this the HARD way! Xd

[@darkstar6923]

By the butt price he means prison

[@dylanchudoba6340]

@Marishi Ten depends on the day

[@doctor-aesthetic]

This is the most Fallout shit I think I've seen in an urbex, by the way. The area with the collapsed floor looked straight out of one of the games.

[@lizdevich7192]

I think you guys are incredible. Your videos are fantastic. I love ancient buildings because of the history behind these structures. If these buildings could talk you both could write a fabulous book!

[@simoncooper2663]

6:50 See, Bethesda? That's how you do floor collapses and debris. Not just floors disappearing and debris coming from nowhere.

[@blackberrybunny]

The thing the clay goes into, after you make your bowl, vase, etc., that is an 'annealer.' We used them at the glass blowing studio. They allow the glass/clay/metal to slowly slowly slowly cool down, so it won't crack or break. The slow cooling process strengthens the item. Worth a lot of $$, about $500, used. Too bad you couldn't take it out of there.

[@MichelleMahli]

the only thing that kept coming to mind while watching this was Kit Walker and Lana Winters from AHS: Asylum

[@meganwright197]

Thank god I'm not the only one thinking that

[@KK-ex5zu]

I was thinking of the movie "Girl, Interrupted".

[@oopsy-daisy]

Yeah, pretty much 😅

[@CassieMcKeever]

Oh hell yeah! I wrote a grad thesis on this place back in college. I also grew up not too far from here. This video is giving me a lot of feels.

[@REALdruide99]

Lol thanks for a new video and greetings from germany :D I love your high quality and the background storys!

[@ExploringwithRachel]

Sweet

[@Syndesi]

Nice greetings from germay too :D

[@lanievonn2619]

Hey I just wanted to say what you guys are doing is really cool. You've captured the beauty of this building. Even though it had be destroyed you have managed to immortalized it in time.

[@xcalltoarmsx]

I've run into families and elderly couples several times at an abandoned hospital about two and a half hours north of this asylum. I was a little surprised the first time I ran into an actual family.. they ended up being in a photo for the final I was working on for my Photo 1 class at the time.

[@grigorirasputin5020]

Two and a half hours north of this one? Where, in North Carolina, or maybe Virginia?

[@xcalltoarmsx]

@@grigorirasputin5020 NC. It was finally demolished about three years back.

[@selinas1555]

Been in this building a million times and it’s amazing! So crazy y’all went in something i’ve explored too!

[@ohok9960]

it would be terrifying if the construction workers just forgot you were there and started to demolish the place xD

[@K1ngOverseer]

Would make a good movie

[@ohok9960]

xD true

[@darkstar6923]

The clean up crew find their rotting corpses in the rubble

[@NorthFloridaMan]

How can your forget something you don't know

[@Sterlingk_]

I was thinking that too!

[@lizerbe6067]

Love the shot of the room at 4:30 and the office cubicles @ 5:53 don't see quality and detail like that anymore. such a shame they didn't have any architectural salvage companies come in pull some of this great stuff out of here! ☹

[@themotofixery]

you guys should see the abandoned missile silo here in colorado!

[@tajasnothere]

I've seen a video done on that place! By the creatures. I want to visit it the next time I'm there :D

[@themotofixery]

+Ta ja i haven't been there personally but I'd like to check it out. it looks like a place you'll want to bring some proper gear though.

[@tajasnothere]

darin amann yeah, there's supposedly a high amount of asbestos there.

[@FightFireWitFIre]

Was planning going there with some friends this summer, me and one friend found the entrance was kinda closed off (very small opening). But we went through one of the ladder hatches. We were only down there for like 4 minutes because despite having masks I was literally about to black out. I've seen pictures/videos where the people weren't even wearing masks though. Anyway, we came back and told our other friends about it. Then we planned another trip but our friend made us back out because he said 60+ people had been arrested there for trespassing...

[@themotofixery]

+FightFireWitFIre ouch! did it smell bad? I'm not surprised that you could be arrested for trespassing at that place. from the video i saw it looked pretty sketchy, dangerous, and or hazardous. if i remember right, the part i didn't like was the stagnant water in certain areas.

[@katiesimmonds4873]

I absolutely love Kirkbride asylums and their history. Thank you!

[@AstorReinhardt]

That's...a little odd for a family to do...I could see if the kids were older but judging by the video...they were like what 5-6? What the hell is the mother thinking...

[@aprilsmith5999]

I love watching your videos, this one was like a thriller. As I'm yelling at my computer don't go in there, don't open that door, don't go up the stairs. I love your adventures be safe and thanks for sharing.

[@martinthompson1392]

Shout out to the construction team for being cool 👏

[@dismantledbrain5910]

It's so refreshing to see someone making great exploring videos without putting themselves in the spotlight, especially when exploring asylums. I hate KZbinrs with forced positivity, and this guy is the ideal KZbin explorer for me.

[@maiqtheliar122]

But the real question is are the any pokemon in there

[@notateddy1409]

Heeello Gastly.

[@guitarkid-yc2xf]

XD

[@redcatjack]

stfu about shitting fucking dumbass pokemon

[@zabdisix]

+redcatjack you've had it havent you? XD

[@guitarkid-yc2xf]

+redcatjack stfu with ur stupid self

[@bosengineer]

this is in columbia south carolina i went there recently and there is a lot more security. they have a giant billboard showcasing how many arrests they’ve made in the past 30 days at that place.

[@justindestroyer1]

Spent a lot of time in the asylum, and go there periodically. I'm from Columbia {the town it's located} and have been all up and down that place and the surrounding buildings. Love it there.

[@VeXis101]

Another awesome find! Thanks for taking us along

[@LiveeviL6969]

A WANG computer tape drive! Martin on the Simpson once wore a shirt that said "Wang Computers".

[@koniw4234]

So sad its being demolished. Looks like it was built well. All those stairs to the top. Good on you guys to care about those children! Happy exploring.

[@glorydancer4804]

I really enjoyed this video. I looked up the history of the Kirkbride asylums and his philosophy of treatment. It was very interesting. I am old enough to remember when there were still stay asylums. I lived in Georgia and there was one called Milledgeville. A very scary place!

[@glorydancer4804]

State asylums I meant

[@AbandonedSteve]

wow, place is for sure massive. lots to see in there also. As you mentioned in the video, I could not believe a mom would bring 4 very young kids into a building like that with their young lungs. Great job on the explore!

[@jlucasound]

I've been binge watching for a week. I am 55! Damn Kids. ;-)

[@deendrew36]

Lol!

[@abpsd73]

The doors that "sealed off" wings are overhead fire doors. There is usually a chain arrangement with a temperature sensitive link that will release the mechanism, lowering the door. Most likely vandals tampered with the chains, dropping the doors.

[@paulinajimenez5853]

yeesssss this is one of my favorite channels 😍😍

[@ExploringWithHarry]

Same haha

[@elistavalentine8944]

I luv uuu

[@thethe2281]

tell josh he is a dumass

[@jrpwrld]

wow that was a really nice view from the top. great video guys. always look forward to them.

[@JD-dq8zn]

Should have called the police about those children. That was terrible.

[@JD-dq8zn]

@Marishi Ten In my experience the police are very reasonable people and focus on the bigger issues. Either way some ends justify the means.

[@rustymotor]

Thanks for another great adventure! You sure find some amazing places to explore, nice to document these buildings before they are pulled down and lost forever, well done!

[@helloteddy543]

Kinda terrified of what mental state that woman with her kids is like. God the little ones were so polite and innocent looking when you passed them the second time. The fact that none of them were crying because of the creepy atmosphere is also surprising however? I just I'm lost for words.

[@pleasewouldyouonetimeletme3348]

I think it depends on the person honestly. As a kid my parents would but deseased estate, homes, belongings, etc. Some of the homes didn't have any power so we used touches for light. We explored abandoned places in NSW and I was never scared. I absolutely loved seeing all the old places. Since having my own children I still do it and I take my children. They aren't scared at all they think its amazing because the old building are so different. We have explored old morisset mental hospital and they were amazed :) We have explored an old abandoned RAAF base as well. I think its only scary if your brought up believing old builds are scary.

[@joefranks4235]

Hey guys, that is a Wang. It has something to do with word processing. Years before Microsoft Word. I worked on one of the later models of the system.

[@Magnus44711URI]

When I was five years old, I learned to ride a bicycle on the grounds of an abandoned lunatic asylum.

[@att4008]

wonderful ! lol

[@Magnus44711URI]

@Marishi Ten More of a tidbit than story, I would've thought, but ok.

[@StarlightAlly]

I recently fell down the KZbin rabbit hole and ended up on your awesome channel. I've maintained a healthy curiosity about abandoned buildings since I was in my late teens/early 20s (33 now), but have never really been able to do much actual physical exploring, so it's cool to live vicariously through you. I have a question that I haven't seen answered anywhere here before. Do you guys explore places and then post them out of order from when you actually visited? In this video you're wearing hoodies, and, well, it's summer and crazy hot out, but then recently you posted videos from Japan and NY. Just curious if you keep a lot of footage and then randomly pick one place to put up on your channel at a time.

[@StarlightAlly]

In more simple terms, do you not post in chronological order? For over an hour I had the word "chronological" on the tip of my tongue and couldn't get it out.

[@TyTyson98]

My understanding is that they have a huge backlog of content so they can pick and choose when to upload videos. I would imagine that we wont see the places they explored during the north eastern vlogs for a while.

[@TheProperPeople]

+StarlightAlly We don't post in chronological order, we just post whichever video we feel like editing together that particular week.

[@doorchive19]

There's a kirkbride asylum near my house, it was turned into an apartment complex.

[@buffya8012]

Evil Eskimos Danvers state by any chance? If you knew the stories surrounding that place,you’d never live there...I don’t know why developers think people would want to live in old hospitals/asylums...the city where I live has one of the worlds most notoriously haunted hospitals(two of them,actually but they still use one) and they’re in the process of trying to turn it into condos...but something keeps stopping them 😳🙄

[@grigorirasputin5020]

@@buffya8012 I think most people, to include developers, do not believe in ghosts. I know better. They are real. People moving into such a place either do not believe, or they are curious.

[@benchedthatpiece]

That place is in the top five of my favorite explores, very nice video!

[@karlschweizer2554]

hahaaaaa dam right

[@ChiKitten]

I really hope you stayed in contact with Christian after this, it'd be really cool to see him in other videos. Train him. I'd watch his videos, exploration or not.

[@kitzcat]

This building reminds me a lot of the Babcock Bldg at the SC State Hospital. Babcock is smaller, but the architecture is similar outside. It's also "abandoned", but it's on the National Historic Register. I don't know if that will save it. The beautiful campus is in the process of being torn down to accommodate a baseball stadium I believe.

[@wwrightsc]

Kathy Kitzcat this video actually is Babcock

[@DerZardoz]

Yea, Babcock building for sure.

[@NapalmSenior]

there's a Pikachu inside haunted abandoned asylum, should I risk it?

[@connieo4282]

Wtf is yolo for then?

[@Brakvash]

YOLO is for weeding out the genepool of idiots- is what I usually say. Welcome to the Darwin Awards, maddafakkaa!

[@kalasmith5909]

+connie orellana yolo is from Satan

[@JackThelRipper]

Napalm Junior pending what level he is at?

[@trulyinfamous]

Is it a shiny pikachu?