Top 10 Spookiest Abandoned Asylums in Canada

This video is about thirteen of the creepiest abandoned insane asylums in Canada.
Try to stick around until the end if you can, because some of the stories surrounding these buildings are truly mind-blowing.
If you'd like to see more virtual explorations of abandoned buildings in Canada, check out the Freaktography KZbin channel:
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[@sincerewyd2285]

Hello. My name is Joshua shea. I have worked at riverview hospital in 2007-2009, I was a janitor for a filming company and was usually there working night shift. Growing up in Coquitlam I have many friends and family mention how haunted the buildings and grounds are. I've had one creepy experience when I was working on the 3rd floor and no one was working on the top floor. Floor 4. And 2 other accompanying workers heard a woman scream so loud above us we instantly ran outside and waited for security to check the building for intrusive people but their was no one found. And a second time we were in the underground tunnels cleaning and it's so dark down there we couldn't see 15 feet in front of yourself. Never heard anything down there but the feeling of being watched was so unreal and unbearable we hardly stayed down there for 20 mins a time..

[@HammersonPeters]

Spooky!

[@imaghost2961]

My grandma used to work there as a receptionist I think! She used to tell me all these creepy stories about things she’d hear and see, or other stories that she heard from co-workers. I can’t remember much of them unfortunately. But they were always interesting.

[@brianna4825]

I've never been inside Riverview proper, but I have been on the grounds a number of times. My sister has schizophrenia, and for years she was committed at a newer mental facility called Colony Farm, just across the highway from Riverview. When she was transitioning to being able to live on her own, she lived in one of the cottages on the Riverview grounds. I believe they were once used as housing for hospital staff, now they're housing for psychiatric patients who no longer need full time care, but aren't yet ready to be fully independent. Anyway, while she was living there, I went there with my mother a few times to pick her up or drop her off. I can attest, the grounds have a very eerie feeling even in broad daylight. There's no way you'd get me into the actual hospital building alone, especially at night. I have no way to verify if this is true or not, but I've heard there are sections where the night security staff flat out refuse to go.

[@violetblue62]

I worked at Woodlands & have similar stories!

[@bettyforddroput]

My uncle - who has since passed - worked their too. Do you know who I would get into contact with to talk to about staying a night alone?

[@risboturbide9396]

"Les enfants de Duplessis", children of Duplessis, is one of Quebec's famous scandal. Thank you, Hammerson. And peace to everyone involved in these sad stories.

[@HammersonPeters]

I was astonished that I had never heard about it before reading about the Dorea Institute. The massive barrier between French Canada and Anglo Canada becomes ever more apparent whenever I try to dip into Quebecois history.

[@risboturbide9396]

@@HammersonPeters well said. Again, thank you so much. I hope you're feelin' great.

[@lukea.907]

The organization posthumous character assassination of Duplessis is a symptom of Canada's unfortunste turn to godless liberalism. He did the best he could during some crazy times in the great white north.

[@HammersonPeters]

@@lukea.907 I got the same impression. Every English-language article on him is absolutely scathing, but if the past six years have taught me anything, it's the value of seeing journalistic opinion for what it is. From what limited knowledge I now have of the subject, I get the impression that his decision was a desperate attempt to get much-needed funding for social institutions under his watch, which unfortunately backfired horribly. Good intentions, but regrettable consequences.

[@lukea.907]

You are so right, time frame and everything. Over the last five years or so everything I've heard him mentioned or read anything about him one would think the man was the devil himself. Then one day I heard a man named Charles Coulombe speak about him and I felt ashamed that I hadn't done my own research until that point. No man lives in a vacuum and outside his time. Thank you for all your work and replying, it made my day.

[@fadetoblond]

My dad worked at Riverview, as a cook...for 20 some odd years. My mom was a psychiatric nurse at Woodlands asylum in New Westminster and got a transfer to Riverview. That was how my parents met. They got married in 1956 after dating for a year. They both quit working at Riverview in the late 60s since neither of them could stand the treatment the patients were getting, or lack thereof. My mom tried endlessly to bring the atrocities to the newspapers, only to be told that doctors said "former crazy nurses will try to come forward with horror stories, not to be believed". Finally someone covered the story and former patients came forward with their nightmare stories. I believe it was the Province newspaper that did the story and blew it wide open. Rapes, abuse, torture, tied up for days with no food, severe beatings, etc. NOW.....I wish they'd repurpose it into an addiction rehab centre, and work camp, to give addicts working experience, along with getting clean. Sadly our govt. doesn't think addicts are worth saving though.

[@L3onking]

Our government has never treated human life equally. Native reservations still don't have running water or electricity and it's 2022

[@fadetoblond]

@@L3onking yeah, that's pretty screwed up. I think their voices, along with lots of non native voices need to speak up, get petitions going and getting media coverage, and protests etc. It has to be done in such a large setting that the govt. can't deny anymore. I don't even know how they got away with their crimes for so friggen long. White man never founded Canada, but they were sure quick to steal everything from them (Native), including their dignity. 😠

[@L3onking]

@@fadetoblond I have seen solar punk movements to reclaim our communities and I think they are a good direction but we should at least recognize native languages as valid and maybe learn something from the people who live here? What local plant life makes the best salads etc There's so much opportunity for positive change if we talk to eachother and that's kind of why native reservations are located so far from settler cities, why we don't learn about their culture first hand. The government has not been subtle with its propaganda that wipes it's hands clean of current devastation of native culture they are directly responsible for.

[@clgray2470]

I’m one of those 30 years without clean water on our reservation in Ontario here

[@L3onking]

@@clgray2470 and I'm livid that if I try to advocate for basic human rights for you or any reservation. I'll be arrested and be put through such systematic torment that I'll be too traumatized to protect natives from settler exploitation. My best option is to try and build as close as I can to reservation land and extend my benefits to the gracious natives who have every right to hate all the silent bystanders that are foolishly obeying a government that will sooner turn on us than actually be ethical

[@samk3lly]

Oh, my. I don't think I could ever visit an abandoned asylum. It would be too creepy. A chilling video, indeed. Thank you.

[@AFloridaSon]

Gotta love a Hammerson Peters video on a cold night.

[@cherrypickerguitars]

I’m happy to see the HUGE St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital not get missed on this list!I worked as a kitchen porter there, in the mid 70’s. It also had a network of tunnels and that’s how the “meal wagons” were transported to each ward. I remember the old “electro-shock” room was being used to store paper products for kitchen use. It was a VERY creepy room to enter! The mens criminally insane ward, the women’s criminally insane ward and the geriatric wards were the worst! Peace

[@joshlesperanceCa]

27:53 wow! You went there! I’m glad to hear this getting more exposure and a wider few of how connected it was. I’d suggest looking into some of the orphanages too!

[@hereticsaint100]

I think the real crazy ppl were the ones in charge. How can ppl be so sick!

[@Dzanarika1]

I know

[@fegtynpax5147]

Too bad asylums have such a bad reputation. My Uncle is a Psych Nurse said a long time ago that why needs these institutions back because the Hospitals and Jails are getting so overrun.

[@shintoketchup8711]

Appreciate your dropping Charlie in in just the right spot. Very subtle. Well done video.

[@HammersonPeters]

;)

[@laylend8632]

I worked a construction job at Riverview hospital. We were not allowed to dig without archaeologists present.

[@Eyes.WideOpen]

Now That is Very interesting! I would Love to know what they were hiding when they built on top of it!!

[@midwest1389]

What's sad is now all of these people are on the streets.. they should never have closed them.

[@lisalambrecht6676]

These hospitals could be carefully monitored to prevent widespread bad policies

[@brandyjean7015]

I don't know who the guilty are in Canada. In the US goid old Ronnie Reagan sugned the death knell for our psychiatric hospitals. They are sorely missed.

[@DynamicOwl13]

I found a "lunatic asylum" metal bracelet in a jewelry jar I bought at value village. Thought it was just something someone crafted up but nope.

[@bretthines1020]

All hospitals are haunted; it’s the accumulation of all the people coming into the world and leaving it all in one tiny geographic place. Like a bottleneck. I’ve had a Shadow stand over me and pin me to the bed while recovering from mundane knee surgery. Cold Spots, Dread, equipment malfunctions, Staff seeing reoccurring ghost-patient in a certain elevator, etc. Hospitals are unhappy places. Love your channel!

[@deborahdean8867]

I worked in hospitals gor 33 years. Hospitals are not haunted.

[@knitwit014]

​@@deborahdean8867 Some of us have supernatural abilities to see and hear what others cannot. Albeit varying degrees of ability.

[@deborahdean8867]

@@knitwit014 that's very true. But you know what? Agyrt working in hospitals and nursing homes for 33 years, I've never even heard of anyone else having an experience with paranormal activities, ghosts, or ANYTHING like it in a hospital. I have heard of haunted hospitals. Its rare and they're always deserted and have a questionable past regarding treatment. So when it comes to hospitals, it's not a matter of personal varying abilities to sense the paranormal because of the vast numbers of people who work there. If it happened much AT ALL , people would be talking about it regularly. But they dont.

[@sarahoshea9603]

I suspect they just don't talk to her about it ;) I can see why.

[@musicland6477]

Just discovered your channel yesterday and am really enjoying these videos. Thanks 🙂

[@BCxFOREVER]

Ahh yes, Humber lakeshore campus. I spent 3 years there as a student. Lovely campus indeed but definitely encountered some spooky feelings a few time. It’s pretty much common knowledge among students that G building is the most haunted

[@miketheknife3072]

See thats why I always listen to your videos you have discretion and class two very rare things to find these days especially online lol keep it up love your stuff 👍👍💯👍👍

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

Was hoping you’d mention orillias asylum for idiots .. they changed the name for obvious reasons lol but it has a lot of complaints and shut down in 2009 because former residents/patients began a huge lawsuit for abuse ect.

[@economycry]

My uncle was a patient there from 1961 until its closure in 2009. He was kept a family secret for 30 years...I wrote an academic paper on the institution and the abuse that went on there.

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

@@economycry sorry to hear that but glad it’s finally over with. I drive past it everyday almost, Very creepy place

[@bruniabraincrumbs2211]

I just looked that up it deserves to be mentioned.

[@lindasue8719]

Great historical video, and as expected, diplomatically handled ❤️ I did a practicum at Riverview. That was before it was "de-institutionalized" and a lot of its patients sent out onto the streets. At that time very many patients were free to roam the grounds which were very picturesque at the time, and except for those patients who had to have on-ward meals for health reasons, most of them shared the cafeteria with staff. Depending on your attitude, you can either breathe a sigh of relief, or consider it sobering, that it was hard to tell who was who in a lunchroom. At some point it can be said that these types of facilities "tried", but I think we can all agree it's nowhere near good enough. It always broke my heart that some people who were completely normal mentally were confined for life there because of profound physical deformities. We have to do better by our fellow humans. A few years ago a few of my friends who are "sensitives" investigated the abandoned buildings thanks to connections one of them had. I always find it interesting that they said one of them took a photo of the people walking ahead in one of the underground corridors... and opposite to what normally happens in such photos, although he took pictures of those people in front of him, when the picture was examined nobody was in the shot! They never separated (dark, spooky corridors, after all!) and he swears they were in the viewfinder at the time of photographing. I respect and trust these people completely, so I take them at their word.

[@HammersonPeters]

Very interesting!

[@Coletrainbaby]

I'm surprised there's no Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford on here. It's a major facility and one of the first. It inspired the Weyburn Asylum which came years after. SHNB was a fully self-sufficient community that at it's peak of capacity held around 2000 patients I believe, built in 1913. The book managing madness expands on the history of this building as well as Weyburn. I think SHNB often gets forgotten/swept under the rug. I worked there while it was active caring for patients. I am typing this at 02:00 from the new facility built on the same property. Some of the same clientele. Asylums never went away, we changed the name and removed them from the public eye.

[@JamesSmith-op7yc]

All old asylums are spooky, abandoned or still populated. The pain fear and horror experienced by the people interned in these places can not be overstated. Unbelievable suffering.

[@karlschmid1855]

The Abandoned Log Mansion in Brampton Ontario. It's not that old, but the story behind and around is interesting.

[@masonfaraday9020]

I was just watching the 10 Lakes video from you and thinking to myself "I wonder when Hammerson will upload next?" Am I psychic?

[@lukea.907]

Every time you drop a video it brings me a cool moment of "ooooo, yay" hehe.

[@blubberfeet5430]

Legit this video hurt. I know canada did alot of bad shit in its history but the thought of asylums never came into my head. Gods. Has anyone tried to go to these places and help the spirits at all?

[@tyrannosuperior5248]

My favorite abandoned building is the former East Central Elementary School in Sandstone, MN. I spent my Kindergarten and 1st grade years there before my parents had me and my siblings transferred to a different school.

[@Eleivana777]

Were any of these Asylums patterned after the Kirkbride Arrchitecture? These Kirkbride buildings were in every state in the US. It sounds like originally the concept was born out of a real desire to provide a healthy, wholesome environment for the mentally ill. With decreased funding, overcrowding and ill trained staff the abuses just exploded in these institutions. Very sad. And even going on virtual tours of these once beautiful buildings leaves one with a feeling of sadness and loss for all the pain, fear and confusion those walls once witnessed.

[@TheWolfsnack]

Nice coverage on Tranquille....my grandmother was a nurse there in 1910....it was not an asylum as such...rather it was a hospital and residence for mentally disabled children and adults...I used to go out there a lot years back and explored a lot of the country around it.

[@peoplemeater]

They weyburn hospital is sad, my stepdads aunt worked there. It wasn't just mentally ill that got stuck there, wives and children were admitted there when the husband's met a new woman, you didn't have to get a divorce, you just had them committed, and continued with your new life. They didn't tear it all down, there are still some out buildings standing, but they are building a subdivision of new homes on the land.

[@StarWarsJay]

This is going to be creepy…nice!

[@Mikezulka]

This channel is the best! N this is crazy

[@morganmcp2994]

Love your work

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

Idea: A map for each province of Canada with all the known haunted places :P

[@TheNightlessFall]

the whole map will be red for sure

[@itsemily]

The downfall of this is so many people who would get there hands on it and go and steal and brake stuff would outweigh the ones who would go just to visit take pictures etc. I know of an old farm house that back in 2020 was amazing and untouched an explorer then told one person the address and they gave it to many and 2 months later everything was gone and I’m talking beds couches tv radios all from the 70s all in perfect condition the walls were in amazing condition for an abandoned place and in the 2 months after the address was shared it was striped and people vandalized it to the point where if you were to see the 2 months difference in pictures you wouldn’t even think it was the same house. I was going to do a photoshoot there but the owner ended up having it torn down due to the damage. I’ll never forget how sad other were that have used it for retro and Halloween shoots were. This is why a lot of places are gatekept by explorers because it only takes one bad seed to ruin it for the rest

[@samdiamond3402]

Glad to have this very important history so well documented.

[@Jellysproduction30]

this was truly amazing being Canadian it is great to see so many things i never knew about

[@mokajoe7727]

HP! Video after video after video after video the last while. Great work as always!

[@shaunnewbedford736]

As always great video........ can't get enough of your videos....... plz keep up the great work Thanx again

[@tyegress1708]

I am shocked that no HRC (Huronia Regional Centre) was mentioned in this list, particularly the one in Orillia, Ontario. Loads of history info and living survivors and their testimonies available and easily accessible. And a survivors’ monument now on site with iron crows as their theme…because “only the crows (that lined the window ledges) knew (the abuse endured)”.

[@kathmandu1575]

Excellent video - thanks!

[@deaconprepper8370]

This is very interesting, just enough info to peak more interest in each location! 👍👋🙏

[@Sheepdog1314]

I went through a police academy which was held in a victorian sanatorium, here in the NorthEastern US...with a ghost of a nurse who supposedly hung herself

[@sirroi3310]

Yup good old fashioned Monarchy giviner

[@HammersonPeters]

Weird vibes?

[@b.5191]

Oh dear, this is gonna be a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@keithblount229]

Thank you so very much HP. 👍🏻

[@cwb982]

Fascinating. Thank you for your hard work.

[@reverendjimjones9061]

used to drive through riverview if the lougheed hwy was backed up in the early eighties, lol, took a walk in there ten years or so back without issue, if you like horticulture there are lots of nice trees on the property, across the hwy a mile is colony farm which is still in operation but a more secure psych ward now, back in the eighties we would adventure down there to four by four around and we ran into a few strays on occasion, about the only way to describe the personalities encountered was" you could hang laundry on their stare" Keep em coming hp !

[@knelson3484]

Thank you, this was very interesting.

[@deborahdarling1799]

In America, the asylums were closed down, it seemed abruptly, the decitizens just sent somewhere one way. Most ended up homeless on the streets with this queer idea they could refuse treatment; or ended up in prison. I really don’t think the original evil of hospital “incarceration “ was replaced by a better idea. What is also goofy is those judged unable to stand trial are cared for in criminal hospitals while those not committing crimes are left to die on the streets .

[@cowboykelly6590]

🤠🖖🎄

[@SatoshiBee]

Great work!

[@richread6550]

Another great vid by HP awesome thank you

[@holmesey2000]

Hey man, you used my Lakeshore psychiatric hospital video…I was shocked when your video showed my video I made while I was there for college. Thanks for the shoutout buddy

[@hectic6981]

Did you ever experience anything there?

[@karencanterbury7177]

All right! I had to do it! I just ordered all three of your Mysteries of Canada books! I can't wait to get them!

[@HammersonPeters]

Thanks so much for your patronage! I hope you love them.

[@billyjblubear7412]

....my grandmother who had skizophrina was in weyburn asylum.... electro convulsion therapy was a treatment my mom has horrible memories of... the worst was hearing my grandmother scream in fear and pain as they punished her for basically everything.... 💔 o really would love to see these awful places have their grounds dug up... bet you'd find more then one set of bones under those hellish places...

[@Dzanarika1]

Sadists with various fronts.

[@billyjblubear7412]

@@Dzanarika1 ...yes... sadly... yes

[@DurpVonFronz]

Tremendous!

[@justinakers3196]

Great video

[@stevenmorgan8710]

At 14:58 you can see an apparition of a young boy walk across the door way down the hall

[@mapleflag6518]

Can’t see because of how shaky the camera is

[@mspicer3262]

I've lived in London, Ontario for most of my life. The "London Asylum for the Insane" was just a part of the very large, London Psychiatric Hospital. The LPH has now been torn down, along with most other structures on the property, as of the time of writing this (20July2024). I don't know if they kept any of the old buildings, as there is some large housing development scheduled to go in there now. Edit: My grandfather trained as a navigator at what became St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital. He graduated in 1943, and flew 66 combat missions with the RCAF, before being shot down on his 26th birthday. Him and 5 other members of the crew bailed and evaded capture, the last man, the tail-gunner, was captured and spend the rest of the war in a POW camp.

[@ambileotard3849]

I was watching curious to see if my favourite old building would be on your list, Red Deer Michener Institution.Two generations of my family worked there and I have so many sad, creepy stories. It has served multiple purposes of its years - Nurse school, sanitarium for soldiers returning mentally injured from world war two, home from young cognitively impaired children, and currently as an administrative building. It was struck by lightening and abandoned for some years. It is haunted and dungeons were found in the dirt basement. I have lots of info if you do another video.

[@HammersonPeters]

Dang! That would have been a good one.

[@Eyes.WideOpen]

There is slways room for a Part 2, or even 3 and 4! We're here for it! ❤​@@HammersonPeters

[@evelynjepson5955]

I remember a elderly lady I worked with that came from Alberta, saying that if you misbehaved her parents said that they would send you to the asylum, and that usually cured any want to behave badly....

[@faiththrower7951]

True

[@anadesantiago1994]

Thank you author for another fascinating work.

[@erniebubbert5995]

Yeah a creepy Hammerson Peters, video on Saturday, sign me up. Thank U Hammerson.

[@acidheadzzz]

Very well researched and presented. Thank you.

[@TheBrenno1981]

How cool, you used my pics from Fort San!

[@L3GHO5T]

#2 century manor is about a 5-7 minute walk from my girlfriends house. Quite the spooky place. Couldn’t pay me to go In there

[@beckyosborne]

I DIG THIS

[@En_Marche]

Hammerson, you chronicled the frequent horrors experienced when both the sincere but naive and the unscrupulous “follow the ‘science’”.

[@ShirleeKnott]

this comment for feeding th hungry algorithm it's favorites are comments, replies and likes to them

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

So a scene in dead pool 2 and around 200 other movies were shot on a several hundred year old Indian burial ground because the Canadian government build that asylum on it, kinda cool mostly sad though really the little respect given to sacred area

[@no-one-knows321]

Wow. Fascinating and historical. I Know a little bit of psychiatric history, Horrible.

[@jordanmagpiebullet7978]

Just sub and amazing video keep them coming

[@Overitall805]

Niiiice

[@mechaman7818]

Punch ghosts in the mouth and/or nose. That's where the ectoplasm comes out.

[@mapleflag6518]

That would be rude.

[@mgaeeeee9150]

.......... that's not where the ectoplasm comes out............

[@sinisterminister6478]

I wouldn't be setting foot in one of those places without being in full hazmat gear.

[@kathyludgate9487]

I used to work at the Whitby Pyschiatric Hospital many years ago.

[@cowboykelly6590]

This is Horrid . 😪💔 where is the "so called" Healthy, Loving people wanting to help . The people supposedly there to help, were insane themselves . 😡

[@Dzanarika1]

Only the evil ones are in charge, unfortunately.

[@chadmarsolais6975]

The Rockwood asylum in kingston ontario has some wild stories

[@mazokuchan]

Whaaaaat?!! I used to live about 30 mins from Franklin and I never heard of the Doria institute?!!

[@Nixxote]

charles camsell is now renovated to be an apartment complex. i grew up there in inglewood for 35 years.

[@mgaeeeee9150]

Camsell wasn't an asylum tho. It was a sanatorium then a regular general hospital. Now its an apartment building. I can only imagine how haunted it is

[@faiththrower7951]

Agreed Ponoka Alerta and Red Deer Alberta Edmonton.alberta.

[@adamrobbins2091]

Wich one does Treudeau call home?

[@EnclaveSgt]

all of them at the rate he's insane

[@anadesantiago1994]

@@EnclaveSgtHahaha!!!!!

[@danielbowkett1489]

😂

[@JahBreed]

They were all closed by Mulroney. Enjoying the crime rate?

[@jessejordan4662]

@@EnclaveSgt exactly what I was gonna say. you beat me to it👍🏻

[@CDNSnowDay]

I also am surprised you didn't talk about Rockwood Lunatic Asylum in Kingston. That place is rife with the dead.

[@12pawsinn]

Been to Fort San many times!! Got some amazing pictures and a few great stories.

[@cynthiapady9475]

Watch out for nurse Jane

[@Jellyrink]

Thank you for warning us of hazards of visiting these places

[@ALcarnage83]

I think they like to tear them down so they are forgotten

[@michaelmorton6566]

Surprised that the HRC buildings in Orillia Ontario are not on this list that place has always been creepy and i heard all kinds of stories about it when i used to live in Orillia

[@metuberob]

riverview is now in process of being reused under an aboriginal name as of 2021-2022

[@RottenAnimal]

I live near the Mimico nut house. Many years ago when they started construction, I went into the underground tunnels. One led to a crematorium were they burnt the corpses.

[@hectic6981]

That's what that big smoke stack is above by the "skating trail" and parking area, at least if memory serves me, it's been 25 or more years since I've been in there. Did you see the cells with the metal rings up on the walls like an old dungeon?

[@RottenAnimal]

@@hectic6981 No I didn't see the cells or anything disturbing, I just explored the tunnels.

[@a.m.6719]

Maribel hotel near appleton Wisconsin is a good one!

[@DameonStarflame]

Oh hey the Highbury Hilton made the list. Yes that's what quite a few older residents of London called that asylum. Sad that it shut down because now they're all stuck homeless downtown and have zero support structure to help them. So they're just wandering around having arguments with themselves or just generally unaware of the world around them, resulting in a very high risk of being hit by cars. I've also heard accusations of other cities bussing their mentally ill homeless to London because of that asylum, so that makes the situation even worse.

[@Precide]

13:29 this asylum got demolished unfortunately 😥 I went there about a month ago and it was gone. They demolished it back in December

[@makaylaforbes6719]

I know I'm not the coldest beer in the fridge, but how does a person end up being crushed by an elevator?

[@christianholmesblabs2894]

For real, I went to Humber Lakeshore, and I'm going to be 100% honest: I hated having a night class in one of the “cottages” that surrounded the L building. My friends and I were witness to some scary stuff. Doors were closing by themselves, shadows of people walking when we knew for sure it was just us. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.

[@bretth1478]

Check out the huronia regional center / Orillia asylum for idiots. Very creepy

[@kimberlydawnsmith]

My great grandfather was the architect for the St Thomas Hospital. I lived in St Thomas in the 1970s...I am sickened to think about what was going on in there as we drove past.

[@MikeHunt-zh6lt]

I love old watermills

[@Big_Chunks]

I recently worked an overnight security shift monitoring equipment and running generators at the gallipeau center. I was told which buildings were empty and which had been renovated and repurposed. While working, I saw movement clearly through multiple windows that shouldn’t have had anyone inside, including the building directly next to where I was parked and posted. I began avoiding the windows and after hearing noises coming from the woods and the building creaking I moved my car into the center of the compound so that I could still watch everything but any threat would have to come into light and at least 30m of visible parking lot to pose a threat to me - I’m glad that nothing happened where I would have had to protect the equipment. They didn’t need to be paying me to stay awake 😅 spooky vibes but I’d do it again

[@eklera]

😲 I never thought there were so many.

[@primalyawn]

Just a quick update, I live in London, On and the complex there has been demolished. A couple of the smaller buildings remain for now but all the larger ones are gone.

[@1rclife184]

We used to explore the Mimico asylum tunnels in the early 90s ,there was a lot of weird cells down there and endless hallways that never ended

[@stevelauda5435]

The one in Hamilton is very creepy!, Stephen King should come and see it, he wo7ld write a classic horror on it.

[@Heather-uw1kw]

Hi,how about Montreal,Quebec and the testing of slightly depressed patients at the old Victoria hospital?😢😢😢