Thank you for this film. My biological great-grandfather was hospitalized here after an altercation in downtown Newcastle, which caused him to fall & hit his head on the curb. I suspect he had a brain bleed & due to semi-comatose state was transferred to Dixmont. He was committed there by the court. He died in 1930. Although this video shows the hospital in its' death throes, it has given me connection to James Hayson, my great grandfather. Thank you
The cemetery has been preserved. It has volunteer caretakers. The Walmart actually didn't get built. They started excavating and the site landslid blocking Rt 65. The developers ended up in court in LOTS of trouble owing LOTS of money in damages. People say the ghosts caused the slide. :) I'm not superstitious but it's a nice thought.
Thank you so much for what you wrote. I was recently trying to describe to someone what it felt like to know that Dixmont's days were numbered and to feel an urgency to commemorate it in some way. You give me reason to think I succeeded... Thank you
Back then, in 2010, this was the very first time I fantasized of a foul mouth reprobate who sensitizes a hard-core looney. Since I fantasized about Conan O'Brien cussing out George Mickey Dolenz Jr. I even fantasized about Conan O'Brien cussing out Nick Park and Don Bluth. Here's what this memorial video now reminded me about. This was when the 7th Avenue Santa Cruz County CA. mental institution called Harbor Hills came to a close. There's already a new mental institution that's on Soquel Avenue. It's right where public storage is. Also, another animal hospital. I also fantasized about a juvenile hall inmate cussing out a hard-core looney. I never found myself like this before.
State Hospital closures were initially looked at as a great thing but instead today we have hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients walking the streets hungry, homeless, not taking their medications and not receiving any follow up care…..so are they really better off today?
I found your channel by chance and as someone with mental illness, all I can say is, I'm glad I wasn't born during those horrific years of so much death and pain, it's just horrible to think about all those innocent lives lost just because they had mental health problems or couldn't walk or talk or hear.... just so sad
What these bastards did to my poor great grandfather, I am glad they were shut down and I hope those responsible are paying for what they did to him and so many others. His remaining years spent living in that hellhole were truly Hell on earth, the stories I was told made me sick to my stomach what they did to that poor harmless man.
My mother was a patient in Dixmont for four years, from 1963 to 1967. In that time, she underwent 23 shock treatments and was on thorazine. After her release, she lived alone in govt. housing, in an apartment in Rochester with no sunlight and barely enough room to turn around in. I remember accompanying my father to see her at Dixmont on a few Sundays. Dad visited her for two years, then he could not do it any longer. I was 11 years old when Mom was committed.
Glad it's gone. That backward, experimental hell held my mother for four years. By the hands of sadistic wannabes, she suffered 23 shock treatments and never was the same afterwards. Following those four years, she lived in a metal dungeon where she was placed by the state. She never came out of the out-of-touch stupor they put her in. A bunch of SOBs they were, nothing less. May they all rot in hell.
@@maengun2091 The Nazis took the baton from the U.S. when it came to disposing of the sick and the aged as a drain on the State: The U.S. carried out medical experiments on unwitting subjects, tested poison gases on them and so on Judge Oliver Holmes favoured euthanasia for criminal types and incurables. When the war ended, top Nazi doctors who ran a euthanasia program were hanged for it
Thanks for your comments. Today the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had an article about the closing of Mayview State Hospital. It's south of Pittsburgh in Bridgeville. Tomorrow is its last day of operation. I'm hoping it has a better fate than Dixmont did... I plan on 'visiting' Mayview in the spring with video camera in hand.
Great video, thanks. What a magnificent building this was and could still be. I know the mental institutions were horrible back when this building was in operation but it could have been preserved and turned into a place where the mentally ill could get help and refuge. We have a terrible problem in this country now with the mentally ill roaming the streets. It is cruel and wrong.
Thanks for the video, sad to not walk around it, but was looking at records, knowing alot of 18-20 yo boys and girls were there, most died there too... strange
although I have no relationship with Dixmont state hospital, this video gives me so much nostalgia. maybe it's the way the video and pictures were shot, maybe it's the music, maybe it's just trying to picture and identify with the patients who lived there, I don't quite know.
The only thing Dixmont was haunted with was it's history. The history will always be at that site. I've been in Dixmont numerous times. Day and night. Above and underground. There was nothing "Paranormal" about it. It was a 144 year old building being taken over by mother nature. It just looked creep. I miss Dixmont!! :( Fucking walmart.
Beautiful video, considering it was a place that witnessed such tragedy, nightmares and maybe some miracles too. I think this is the oldest TH-cam recommendation I've received! Very good quality!
Surprisingly, some good did come out of there along with the bad of course. You don’t hear too much about since the haunted house and torture chamber thing is much more interesting.
THANK YOU! I’m from here and remember people saying that if you didn’t do what was asked of you; Dixmont is where you’d go. My actual experience was working in a Maryland state psychiatric center in rehab. Many of those discharged were placed in homeless shelters and eventually the street where they go off their meds and start medicating illegally. So how far have we really come in treatment of people with mental illness?
I had an aunt who was a patient there. wonder if you can get a record of people who lived and or died there. we lost touch with this relative and would like to know what became of her.
Can't preserve everything. But for something that served for over 100 yrs. And the lives that suffered and passed through. To vulgarize its footprint with something so thoughtless speaks to the shameless greed of the here and now.
What an eerie place! Just watching the video gave me a strong feeling of unease, I can't imagine what it was like to actually be in that place, walking around the same hallways and corridors where those poor patients did all those years ago. Just curious, did you guys feel any kind of presence or feeling that you weren't alone while in that place? Thanks for the video.
Me and my friends used to sneak in and explore at night. I was there 5 times. I remember parking by a weird playground. Sneaking around the owners house in a huge circle,and climbing in the ball room window.I never saw much in the way of ghosts. But it was eerie walking down a decayed road passing other small cabins. What always sticks with me is, we found a sleeping bag with a metal rod next to it.while walking through the tunnels.
State hospitals do have an amazing history. But the development of new meds and treatments enabled many patients to live 'normal' lives. As the last state hospitals close the truly mentally ill are now found in nursing homes. Sad for them... Difficult for the other residents (elderly) to deal with.
@@guambyguambelle1864 Reagan was just a dummy, a mouthpiece for the vested interests that control politics irrespective of fake-issue Party policy-differences. Most Presidents have been front-men for the bankers and the corporations.
i can remember going in here when I was in high school taking acid or mushrooms we would go all thru this place till the security guard would catch us or call the police. very scary place
Awesome video!!! I freakin' miss Dixmont! This history was amazing. It's crazy seeing a window still up in the top floor patient window at 2:10 Do you have this video for download?
@jillclimbs Mayview state is still there, near bridgeville. It's shut down, it'sa really neat place to explore. They are starting to tear down buildings now, its not gonna be there much longer. There are still about 5 State hospitals still functioning in pa.
We had an old nursing home sold to tear down and build a new Brookshire Bro's grocery store. I wonder if it is haunted but no one has ever said if it was.
I have snuck through similar places all my life and absolutely LOVE it. You just gotta be careful. And sadly not one ghost, ever. No cold or hair standing on end, nothing, bupkiss. Disappointing.
My uncle worked there in the 70’s till it closed then was transferred to mayview I can’t remember which place but he got stabbed in the back with a fork
Hi, The music is by a group called Halloween, Alaska. On every CD they produce they add the instrumental versions as mp.3 files. They've been great supporters of my video work. Check them out! I would love to see the asylum in Athens. Can you tour the building?
i remember when we broke went there 7 years ago and me and my buddy were the ones that smashed open the morgue room right before we got busted by the guy in the pickup truck who watches the place and the kilbuck township cops!! those bastards!!
I was talking to my dad's buddy who I bought me dirtbike off of. He said he drove his bike through the building. His friends step dad owns the land behind it or something they would make there way to the building. Walmart owned the Kirkbride at the time they went through though. Do you live in Kilbuck?
The only one left in western pa (that I know of) is Warren State Hospital in Warren, PA. There are definitely others in various states but little by little they are all closing.
haha yeah I know I have lived in the area my whole life I was just saying wal mart is the reason that it was tore down they are building the wal mart down the road off 65 in conway now
What a tremendous pile of bricks... All piled in a particlar manner..peculiar.. Interesting & amazing..I must ask myself.. Could the "Ancient Aleins" be responsible.?
Thank you for this film. My biological great-grandfather was hospitalized here after an altercation in downtown Newcastle, which caused him to fall & hit his head on the curb. I suspect he had a brain bleed & due to semi-comatose state was transferred to Dixmont. He was committed there by the court. He died in 1930. Although this video shows the hospital in its' death throes, it has given me connection to James Hayson, my great grandfather. Thank you
A truly grand building... The video quality is surprisingly good for 2008. My great grandmother always said "You're gonna drive me to Dixmont"
The cemetery has been preserved. It has volunteer caretakers. The Walmart actually didn't get built. They started excavating and the site landslid blocking Rt 65. The developers ended up in court in LOTS of trouble owing LOTS of money in damages. People say the ghosts caused the slide. :) I'm not superstitious but it's a nice thought.
I still see the bare hillside everytime I return from visiting my mother in West Virginia. And everytime I am filled with sadness.
idiot
Thank you for this film--so glad dixmont is now remembered.
You're very welcome
Remembered with a level of respect for the people who lived there and not just a haunted torture chamber
Thank you so much for what you wrote. I was recently trying to describe to someone what it felt like to know that Dixmont's days were numbered and to feel an urgency to commemorate it in some way. You give me reason to think I succeeded... Thank you
Back then, in 2010, this was the very first time I fantasized of a foul mouth reprobate who sensitizes a hard-core looney. Since I fantasized about Conan O'Brien cussing out George Mickey Dolenz Jr. I even fantasized about Conan O'Brien cussing out Nick Park and Don Bluth. Here's what this memorial video now reminded me about. This was when the 7th Avenue Santa Cruz County CA. mental institution called Harbor Hills came to a close. There's already a new mental institution that's on Soquel Avenue. It's right where public storage is. Also, another animal hospital. I also fantasized about a juvenile hall inmate cussing out a hard-core looney. I never found myself like this before.
@george ... Stop fantasizing so much !
It's not healthy and may get you locked up in a backwards jacket ! Just saying bro .. Chill !
I was actually just at the cemetery yesterday when finding a geocache nearby. So sad to see all those grave markers with no names.
Yes Sad😢
State Hospital closures were initially looked at as a great thing but instead today we have hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients walking the streets hungry, homeless, not taking their medications and not receiving any follow up care…..so are they really better off today?
Also imprisoned with no hope.
More money for the obscenely rich
I found your channel by chance and as someone with mental illness, all I can say is, I'm glad I wasn't born during those horrific years of so much death and pain, it's just horrible to think about all those innocent lives lost just because they had mental health problems or couldn't walk or talk or hear.... just so sad
Your video is excellent! Just wanted to share what I saw. I feel horrible for anyone who had family there. Always showed respect when we went
What these bastards did to my poor great grandfather, I am glad they were shut down and I hope those responsible are paying for what they did to him and so many others. His remaining years spent living in that hellhole were truly Hell on earth, the stories I was told made me sick to my stomach what they did to that poor harmless man.
My mother was a patient in Dixmont for four years, from 1963 to 1967. In that time, she underwent 23 shock treatments and was on thorazine. After her release, she lived alone in govt. housing, in an apartment in Rochester with no sunlight and barely enough room to turn around in. I remember accompanying my father to see her at Dixmont on a few Sundays. Dad visited her for two years, then he could not do it any longer. I was 11 years old when Mom was committed.
I am sorry you had to go through that.
Wow! I don't know why this video you uploaded 15+ years ago was recommended to me, but I'm glad. It was really well done.
Thank you
Glad it's gone. That backward, experimental hell held my mother for four years. By the hands of sadistic wannabes, she suffered 23 shock treatments and never was the same afterwards. Following those four years, she lived in a metal dungeon where she was placed by the state. She never came out of the out-of-touch stupor they put her in. A bunch of SOBs they were, nothing less. May they all rot in hell.
I'm sorry too vwbug. It was a cruel system. What people can do to each other.
I was lucky my mother got well after 10 years. I was 1 when she got sick. She wasn't at this hospital though.
@@maengun2091 The Nazis took the baton from the U.S. when it came to disposing of the sick and the aged as a drain on the State: The U.S. carried out medical experiments on unwitting subjects, tested poison gases on them and so on Judge Oliver Holmes favoured euthanasia for criminal types and incurables. When the war ended, top Nazi doctors who ran a euthanasia program were hanged for it
Thanks for your comments. Today the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had an article about the closing of Mayview State Hospital. It's south of Pittsburgh in Bridgeville. Tomorrow is its last day of operation. I'm hoping it has a better fate than Dixmont did... I plan on 'visiting' Mayview in the spring with video camera in hand.
Wish I would had been able to explore this... I'm 18 now and this is one of the places I would of loved to explored
I wish this place could have been turned into a real home for people with disabilities who could not live on their own.
Great video, thanks. What a magnificent building this was and could still be. I know the mental institutions were horrible back when this building was in operation but it could have been preserved and turned into a place where the mentally ill could get help and refuge. We have a terrible problem in this country now with the mentally ill roaming the streets. It is cruel and wrong.
Thanks for the video, sad to not walk around it, but was looking at records, knowing alot of 18-20 yo boys and girls were there, most died there too... strange
such a shame the building was not heritage listed...the brickwork is amazing...surely the cost of demolition verses repair is academic...a shame.
although I have no relationship with Dixmont state hospital, this video gives me so much nostalgia. maybe it's the way the video and pictures were shot, maybe it's the music, maybe it's just trying to picture and identify with the patients who lived there, I don't quite know.
The only thing Dixmont was haunted with was it's history. The history will always be at that site.
I've been in Dixmont numerous times. Day and night. Above and underground. There was nothing "Paranormal" about it. It was a 144 year old building being taken over by mother nature. It just looked creep.
I miss Dixmont!! :(
Fucking walmart.
Beautiful video, considering it was a place that witnessed such tragedy, nightmares and maybe some miracles too. I think this is the oldest TH-cam recommendation I've received! Very good quality!
Surprisingly, some good did come out of there along with the bad of course. You don’t hear too much about since the haunted house and torture chamber thing is much more interesting.
THANK YOU! I’m from here and remember people saying that if you didn’t do what was asked of you; Dixmont is where you’d go. My actual experience was working in a Maryland state psychiatric center in rehab. Many of those discharged were placed in homeless shelters and eventually the street where they go off their meds and start medicating illegally. So how far have we really come in treatment of people with mental illness?
I miss those places. I feel at home there. I know the pain left behind.
I used to be from around that area. From what the area residents had said, it was named after local star athlete big bill dixmont
I had an aunt who was a patient there. wonder if you can get a record of people who lived and or died there. we lost touch with this relative and would like to know what became of her.
Very interesting 🤔 ❤❤
Thanks for your positive feedback. Glad you enjoyed it. :)
Can't preserve everything. But for something that served for over 100 yrs. And the lives that suffered and passed through. To vulgarize its footprint with something so thoughtless speaks to the shameless greed of the here and now.
Yep. Did they ever build that WalMart. I thought I heard there was some problems with the hill side slipping?
Nicely done. Music was good.
What an eerie place! Just watching the video gave me a strong feeling of unease, I can't imagine what it was like to actually be in that place, walking around the same hallways and corridors where those poor patients did all those years ago. Just curious, did you guys feel any kind of presence or feeling that you weren't alone while in that place? Thanks for the video.
I was there probably 4 or 5 times. And yes. At all times it felt like eyes were on you. Sometimes more than others
Me and my friends used to sneak in and explore at night. I was there 5 times. I remember parking by a weird playground. Sneaking around the owners house in a huge circle,and climbing in the ball room window.I never saw much in the way of ghosts. But it was eerie walking down a decayed road passing other small cabins. What always sticks with me is, we found a sleeping bag with a metal rod next to it.while walking through the tunnels.
why is it that every single mental hospital in the country are closing
State hospitals do have an amazing history. But the development of new meds and treatments enabled many patients to live 'normal' lives. As the last state hospitals close the truly mentally ill are now found in nursing homes. Sad for them... Difficult for the other residents (elderly) to deal with.
Or worse...homeless and on the streets
Or in jail. Reagan is responsible for a lot of the homeless and mentally ill issues we have these days.
@@guambyguambelle1864 Reagan was just a dummy, a mouthpiece for the vested interests that control politics irrespective of fake-issue Party policy-differences. Most Presidents have been front-men for the bankers and the corporations.
@@virginiaritter7992 Exactly! Some folks fared very well and some didn’t….
Rip Dixmont i miss it so much. now there is no were to go ghosthunting anymore unless anyone knows any other places
Correction to my prior post. My great-grandfather's last name was Haydon, not Hayson.
i can remember going in here when I was in high school taking acid or mushrooms we would go all thru this place till the security guard would catch us or call the police. very scary place
Awesome video!!! I freakin' miss Dixmont! This history was amazing. It's crazy seeing a window still up in the top floor patient window at 2:10
Do you have this video for download?
Subscribed. Any updates?
Thankyou
Nice. My dads friend rode dirtbikes up there. I would have loved to ride dirtbikes through dixmont. That would be awesome.
@jillclimbs Mayview state is still there, near bridgeville. It's shut down, it'sa really neat place to explore. They are starting to tear down buildings now, its not gonna be there much longer. There are still about 5 State hospitals still functioning in pa.
We had an old nursing home sold to tear down and build a new Brookshire Bro's grocery store. I wonder if it is haunted but no one has ever said if it was.
I have snuck through similar places all my life and absolutely LOVE it. You just gotta be careful. And sadly not one ghost, ever. No cold or hair standing on end, nothing, bupkiss. Disappointing.
Too bad that drones weren't mainstream back then! 🥲
Did they just make a parkinglot ontop of the graveyard or did they move it?
I laughed my ass off at the wall mural of the people at 4:13. The guy with horns and the guy with blood coming out his eyes, creepy but funny.
If they tore it down for a walmart, what did they do with the 1000's of bodies buried on the site? Would'nt want to shop at that walmart!
My uncle worked there in the 70’s till it closed then was transferred to mayview I can’t remember which place but he got stabbed in the back with a fork
Hi, The music is by a group called Halloween, Alaska. On every CD they produce they add the instrumental versions as mp.3 files. They've been great supporters of my video work. Check them out!
I would love to see the asylum in Athens. Can you tour the building?
i remember when we broke went there 7 years ago and me and my buddy were the ones that smashed open the morgue room right before we got busted by the guy in the pickup truck who watches the place and the kilbuck township cops!! those bastards!!
Thats gonna be one haunted ass walmart XD
You were right!
@@colink7017 They never did build that wal-mart, right? Hillside problems
@@marshalljimduncan right! Landslide in Kill Buck,was intense
@@colink7017nice profile pic RIP kids
@Mtbrcharlie yup. I can't believe you know what my profile Pic is. RIP KIDS
@jillclimbs if you are talking about state hospitals aka mental places there is one in Danville PA if you have ever heard of it
great vid,
Thanks
Whats The music?
It's by a group called Halloween, Alaska
I was talking to my dad's buddy who I bought me dirtbike off of. He said he drove his bike through the building. His friends step dad owns the land behind it or something they would make there way to the building. Walmart owned the Kirkbride at the time they went through though.
Do you live in Kilbuck?
The only one left in western pa (that I know of) is Warren State Hospital in Warren, PA. There are definitely others in various states but little by little they are all closing.
@AJH0014 Where do you live?
Is there anything left of this?
I think the cemetery is still there
Thanks
haha yeah I know I have lived in the area my whole life I was just saying wal mart is the reason that it was tore down they are building the wal mart down the road off 65 in conway now
This place was amazing why did they have to tear it down... stupid wal mart
What a tremendous pile of bricks...
All piled in a particlar manner..peculiar..
Interesting & amazing..I must ask myself..
Could the "Ancient Aleins" be responsible.?
whats the creepest thing you saw there a picter a spirit or just the place itsself?
Wow Massive Hospital
Your thumbnail reminds me of an old jail.
wow! scary!
Someone actually slept down there
great video... glad u were able to get such views!
there's still one building left, folks...
Where is it?
@@Mtbrcharlie
500 Huntington Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15202
Oh, sad there’s nothing abandoned left
Was this a hospital for the criminally insane?
I think there was a mix. But many people have told me a relative was there for depression, drug addiction, schizophrenia etc
Medication time...
By the grace of the lord there for go’s I. I could of easily been one of the people that was there
Session 9
great movie!
the worlds an asylum and im sitting in a cell, but dont feel sorry for me coz you are as well.[icons of filth]
man wtf