Here's are a few Greystone memories that I have which are mostly second hand, but I wanted to share them. I lived in Morristown from 1956 until 1983 and continued working in and around that area until 2006. As time went, probably in the 80s or 90s, by I began to notice the place falling into disrepair and wondered what was going on as I just assumed it was still operating. Cruising around as kids back in the 60s and 70s we passed Greystone quite frequently. I remember when the rail siding was still intact and in use and cows in the fields adjacent the main buildings. One time my older brother drove past the place. A woman, apparently an escaped patient, was standing out front trying to thumb a ride. She lifted her dress to get my brother to stop, but he kept going. Another time when I drove by I noticed a man, apparently a patient, on one of the caged in porches a few stories from the ground. He was hanging onto the rails looking rather forlorn, but I can still see that image in my head. My father made a trip to Greystone on business back in the late 50s or early 60s. He was there to inspect the heating system as they needed some repairs and he sold the water pumps used in the system. He remembers hearing the howls and screams from patients confined to locked rooms as they walked the long hallways from ward to ward. While inspecting the various rooms he and his escorts went all the way out to the farthest extremes of the wings where the worst cases were kept. By the time they got to the last room patients didn’t even have any clothes on. One of the locks between the wards didn’t work too well and they were caught inside a large room of naked patients for a while. The patients started to notice their presence and began moving closer to them. He said it was really scary, but they got the lock to work and exited before anything happened. That's the way it was back then. We have better ways to care for the mentally ill today, at least those that aren't homeless. I do hate to see the place has been torn down. I've been following this case for a while and so hoped it would be preserved. It seems as if it were properly run and cared for it could still be used or better yet let someone take it over who has the funding. This is a great loss to the community. It's too bad more people don’t care about historic preservation. Closed insane asylums all across the country seem like such a terrible waste of resources. They should be renovated and repurposed.
Oscar Wang Thank you. It seems hardly anyone read my comment and no one, u until now commented. I thought i might get more responses from Greystone enthusiasts, but it hasn't happened. I wrote this so long I'd almost forgotten it.
wow, brilliant collection of picture there, and the music goes so well. i live in a town called Greystones in Ireland and i was just trying to find a vid of an abandoned house there and when i came across this i had to watch it, there is something very strange and creppy about places like this, fair play for going in and exploring, did you go in on your own?
ouch..the volume of the music...up and down...drove ME nuts! Great photos though! Growing up in Jersey, I remember various pple joking around saying, if you were bad( as a child) they'd send you to "Gravestone." I never realized just how horrific the reality was. Very sad!
Awesome place,if I ever win the lottery then i'm going to the states and visit a lot of places there. Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital is really cool. Have you ever been in Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital ?
There are but they did not appear to be working. Then again, the whole place has electricity so we may just have been lucky. Cops do patrol the grounds.. it's a bit tricky and very risky.
Well done. Only thing I would have liked better is if all the papers were turned so I could read them better. My neck hurts. lol... I've been interested in some of the forms that were used. I can't believe that when all those patients were transferred to other places, before Greystone closed completely, that their files & records were not sent with them. Tons of history & family information just distroyed. What a shame.
this has been known to be quite infamous but is it the way they treated the patients? i want to know what exactly it was that made this so horrific and infamous!
cwb0051 No worries. Yes, we have been having problems with them. The originally issue happened many months ago and we dropped the subject.. Not sure why they are going out of their way to harass us now.. Ugh.
Thank you for showing us some beautiful buildings why do people have to try to destroythem why can they not look with interest and then leave all those papers with personall information what about confidenciality doesent that happen to the law s of america
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Here's are a few Greystone memories that I have which are mostly second hand, but I wanted to share them. I lived in Morristown from 1956 until 1983 and continued working in and around that area until 2006. As time went, probably in the 80s or 90s, by I began to notice the place falling into disrepair and wondered what was going on as I just assumed it was still operating. Cruising around as kids back in the 60s and 70s we passed Greystone quite frequently. I remember when the rail siding was still intact and in use and cows in the fields adjacent the main buildings. One time my older brother drove past the place. A woman, apparently an escaped patient, was standing out front trying to thumb a ride. She lifted her dress to get my brother to stop, but he kept going. Another time when I drove by I noticed a man, apparently a patient, on one of the caged in porches a few stories from the ground. He was hanging onto the rails looking rather forlorn, but I can still see that image in my head. My father made a trip to Greystone on business back in the late 50s or early 60s. He was there to inspect the heating system as they needed some repairs and he sold the water pumps used in the system. He remembers hearing the howls and screams from patients confined to locked rooms as they walked the long hallways from ward to ward. While inspecting the various rooms he and his escorts went all the way out to the farthest extremes of the wings where the worst cases were kept. By the time they got to the last room patients didn’t even have any clothes on. One of the locks between the wards didn’t work too well and they were caught inside a large room of naked patients for a while. The patients started to notice their presence and began moving closer to them. He said it was really scary, but they got the lock to work and exited before anything happened. That's the way it was back then. We have better ways to care for the mentally ill today, at least those that aren't homeless. I do hate to see the place has been torn down. I've been following this case for a while and so hoped it would be preserved. It seems as if it were properly run and cared for it could still be used or better yet let someone take it over who has the funding. This is a great loss to the community. It's too bad more people don’t care about historic preservation. Closed insane asylums all across the country seem like such a terrible waste of resources. They should be renovated and repurposed.
agreed, good anecdote
Oscar Wang Thank you. It seems hardly anyone read my comment and no one, u until now commented. I thought i might get more responses from Greystone enthusiasts, but it hasn't happened. I wrote this so long I'd almost forgotten it.
Yes, the power is on. They were doing renovations to preserve the place. I'm not sure of the status on that.
wow, brilliant collection of picture there, and the music goes so well. i live in a town called Greystones in Ireland and i was just trying to find a vid of an abandoned house there and when i came across this i had to watch it, there is something very strange and creppy about places like this, fair play for going in and exploring, did you go in on your own?
It has been under renovation. There are cops there daily and I know of someone who was arrested there.
ouch..the volume of the music...up and down...drove ME nuts! Great photos though! Growing up in Jersey, I remember various pple joking around saying, if you were bad( as a child) they'd send you to "Gravestone." I never realized just how horrific the reality was. Very sad!
No we have not. That would be about a 10 hour drive. We will eventually start to branch out of NJ so maybe one day!
Awesome photography! Loved it!
I giggled at this a bit more than I should have.... (-Kat)
Fun fact I work at the new Greystone Park! It is nice! Not as disturbing as this one alot more put together
I declined to trespass at that location. Didnt trusted the light inside. When i c that, i regret a little bit. Really a nice place. Great work.
Are there any motion sensors in the building?
Awesome place,if I ever win the lottery then i'm going to the states and visit a lot of places there.
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital is really cool.
Have you ever been in Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital ?
Awesome! I believe Dixmont State Hospital, formerly in Pittsburgh, was also named after Dorothea Dix.
What a fascinating place! If these walls could speak.... I'd love to see it after it has been renovated.
There are but they did not appear to be working. Then again, the whole place has electricity so we may just have been lucky. Cops do patrol the grounds.. it's a bit tricky and very risky.
Well done. Only thing I would have liked better is if all the papers were turned so I could read them better. My neck hurts. lol... I've been interested in some of the forms that were used. I can't believe that when all those patients were transferred to other places, before Greystone closed completely, that their files & records were not sent with them. Tons of history & family information just distroyed. What a shame.
this has been known to be quite infamous but is it the way they treated the patients? i want to know what exactly it was that made this so horrific and infamous!
Great Pictures, but why the Hassel for DIHYW?
Not sure what you are asking? Content from our channel was stolen by them, they did not ask permission to use anything.
oh..They said they asked, so sorry if they didnt..
cwb0051 No worries. Yes, we have been having problems with them. The originally issue happened many months ago and we dropped the subject.. Not sure why they are going out of their way to harass us now.. Ugh.
wow..sorry to hear that, cause they seem like good people..
Great work!
Thank you for showing us some beautiful buildings why do people have to try to destroythem why can they not look with interest and then leave all those papers with personall information what about confidenciality doesent that happen to the law s of america
this is said to be haunted...
bob Dylan really visited a patient there ? wow! I grew up in morris county . very interesting .
+greg finn Yes, check out the book "Wardy Forty" by our friend Phil Buehler.
pictures ok live walk thru would of been better got bored half way thru
It is so great that people have been documenting Greystone. I took some aerial video there today th-cam.com/video/J_n_w2WwdCY/w-d-xo.html