Exploring an ABANDONED Gothic Asylum and Camping Overnight inside
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ธ.ค. 2023
- Today, we will be visiting a Victorian Gothic Style asylum built in the late 1800s. This type of asylum is known as a Kirkbride, These types of asylums promote fresh air as well as natural light as key features in their rehabilitation process for the patients. The buildings were operational for over 100 years until it closed permanently in the 1970s. Leaving behind medical equipment, patient belongings, and so many more artifacts of the past, this abandoned hospital complex is like a living museum of medical history. As well as admiring the history of the property, we will be paying much detail to the amazing architecture put into this facility built over 200 years. All this while camping overnight and surviving the winter cold, as well as some coyotes that came close to our campsite. This video has it all. Hopefully, you will enjoy the overnight camping style video inside abandoned locations because I want to do more of this in the future. let me know what you guys think, and give me feedback!
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A huge thank you to everyone who is reading this and has been here supporting me in the past year. Its been the hardest one of my life and im just appreciative of the ones that have been here for years.
Wanted to say Happy New Year to all my my friends and i hope you enjoy this different style of video. I want to change things up going forward with more camping oriented videos inside impressive and historic abandoned properties!
Let me know your guys thoughts ! And have a safe 2024 everyone
Thought this was bruce wayne’s mansion… wayne manor lol 😂
Thanks for the upload !!
Cool The Proper People done this a few months ago This Asylum
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Affiliate link coming in 2024?
You guys are some of the best. I love your humbleness. And being an old lady not in the best of health I am so happy to hear your going to be camping out at the abandoned locations. Had this been going on back in the 70s when I was a young chic, what you are doing would have been a dream of mine. Sure, I used to camp out, but in the mountains or in the desert. Never in an abandoned building, let alone an abandoned asylum. We dont have to worry too much about the dead. It's the living that will kill you!! Keep up the good work. You rock!!!
I have always wanted to explore an abandoned place. Maybe someday.
These old hospitals have always absolutely fascinated me. To think that these buildings represent all that thousands of human beings would ever experience of life. Their best days and their worst, encapsulated within these walls, day after day, to the end. And now they're just... empty rooms. Forgotten. It's mindblowing.
Sorry your past year has been rough. I sincerely hope 2024 is a great one for you! You're closing in on 500k subs, and that is no small accomplishment! Imo, a lot of URBEX/Abandoned channels aren't very good, despite the fact that I *love* abandoned places and have always felt drawn to them, because the content creator/s is too distracting or just babbles too much throughout the video, instead of letting the location "speak." Yours is one of the few urbex/abandoned channels I actually subscribe to, so you must be doing something right! 🙂
I agree with this comment. Your personality really shines. Like I've said before humbleness is a very attractive attribute. Some viewers may believe that what you explorers do is easy. But, from what I have observed, this kind of hobby/job can cause alot of mental distress. I, of course, am not speculating as to why you have had a bad year ( as have I, believe me, it has not been easy). I pray for all of us to have a much, much better year in 2024.
Have been born in the 50s and watching all the interesting and some (not so) changes in this world it has been interesting. Having lived during the hippy Era, the Jesus' freak movement, the Vietnam War, all the other wars, technology changes have felt like a lifetime. Oh, my goodness, it has been a lifetime. My ending will be coming soon, but watching you explorers do what you do with loyalty and respect gives me hope for your futures and future generations to come.
Just don't overdo it to the point of burnout.
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100% agree with this post.
The only thing I'd like to add is that your research on this location is phenomenal.
Please keep these kinds of videos going.....thank you much!!
I also was a 50"s baby, you hit the nail on the head! My roommate in the 70" s & i loved going through abandoned houses. Only got spooked in one.
I love watching your videos. Be safe & keep on truckin
It’s also super honorable how you went through and honored people’s art vs making this whole place spooky. I think you were welcomed here and brought additive happiness into the space. Good job. Some people would tokenize and make scary. Thanks for honoring their memories.
Forget spooky. The place was Hell.
This building was once brand new with shiny floors and people hustling up and down the halls. It will be interesting to see where you go in the New Year. Thanks for the explore!
You guys are crazy for sleeping there. Never mind coyotes. Anyone could get in that place. I'd be more afraid of people getting at you than coyotes. Poughkeepsie itself can be a little sketchy in certain places. I was also worried about the floors, or lack there of. Beautiful views of the Hudson river though. And great waterfront dining. Be safe.
It's lovely how present and thoughtful of past experiences you are. Most would just look at an object and comment, but you dive so much deeper. Imagining who touched it, how and why. You respect the lives of all that walked those halls and acknowledge that they were once there. It's sad to think so many people that created energy in that area are long gone and forgotten. I feel that returning to these places returns a little spark back to all those who've crumbled away, just like the structure. I would have taken those drawings and had them framed, respected. I sense the creator would have had a smile on their face, knowing that their expressions are still creating good energy. Thank you for being you. Know that next year will be rough, but better than last year. We're moving into year of the 8🕯
Edit: I wrote my comment way before your final thought outside. It's wild how similar they are💮😁
The horse pictures weren't drawn by any of the residents. They were prints with sticky backing which they put up just as decoration. The lady who was doing the decorating at the time liked horses, and thought that surely everyone else must. I guess it was okay. Some people didn't like it, but I always thought that if it made her happy, why not?
I guess I don't understand what you mean by, "created energy." Hope you can clarify a bit.
The crafts done in the recreation hall weren't really done by any of the residents. The daughter of the DoN was bought crafts on the place's budget, and made them all herself.
They put up Christmas decorations in November each year, and sometimes they took them down and sometimes they didn't. Some people got presents at Christmas time from relatives, but those of us who had been dumped there as infants or very young children got nothing. Holidays never meant much to me, because really they were pretty much like any other day. Maybe they were even worse in a way. There weren't as many people working in the kitchen during holidays, so the food got very bad, and not much of it at those times. Usually holiday fare would be cold cereal and a glass of water for breakfast (no milk or anything for the cereal) no lunch, a roll, a pat of butter, and a glass of water for supper. Again, for the residents who had relatives, there was usually a little something more from them, but for those of us who really had no one, we really didn't look forward to the holiday meals, and we couldn't wait to get back to regular stuff, as awful as it actually was.
I'm sorry if I'm being ignorant, but what is the year of the 8?
@@Chompchompyerded hi. Thank you so much for giving living testimony to what life was like there as a resident. Were you "dumped there" as a young child? And did you know why you ended up there? Were orphaned kids also put there, too?
What happened to you; were you put out into the world when you turned 16 or 18? You express yourself well. Has life been good for you since? Or do you carry lasting trauma from being there? You are welcome to reply or not reply. I am just so intrigued that we have a person that lived here and walked these grounds. Truthfully, after what you've said, it doesn't sound as healing & great as it was cracked up to be. You literally could write a book!
Omg, this is next to Poughkeepsie by the Home depo. You finely saw my request. Thank you so much i live near it
At 16 my first job was working at an Asylum that looked a lot like this one. That was 51 years ago. I grew up fast an got wise real quick. I have a great story about a man that road up and down in an elevator when I would come to work every day. To make the story short, I found out he had chopped a women up in an elevator with an ax. Many stories that I will never forget.
Wow 😮 scary 🫣
OMG, I could just see it now. Comes to work, gets on the elevator, Looks over to see a "nice old man" riding the elevator and thinks nothing of it : / Ignorance is bliss sometimes : )
There was a lot of violence at Kirkbride too. A lot of rape. Kirkbride wasn't just crazy people, but that didn't mean the crazies weren't going to do something to the non-crazies or the staph. After the first time that I got raped, I moved my bed up against the door at night so that no one could get in. I spent a lot of time in my room barricaded in like that even during the day. There wasn't enough staff to do anything about it if you got attacked. The men were supposed to stay on their wing, but they didn't always. Further, there were plenty of women in there who would be happy to do a lot of violence to you if they had a hallucination and thought that you were something bad. It always seemed messed up to me that they were trying to run the place as a psychiatric facility and an orphanage at the same time, and that we had to be in the same spaces where violent residents and the criminally insane were. Being a child and having to be mixed in with violent people who were ten times my age was a difficult way to grow up.
@@Chompchompyerded jesus christ! 😢😢😭😭damn! i am so fucking sorry you went thru that. holy fuck.
You've answered a question I had above. You were sent there as an orphaned child. OMG!
This is a BEAUTIFUL explore! I love the pics at night, how you noticed the lighting the morning, your approach to the beauty of it all....... this is great!
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One of the best explores yet! 🤩
Love the different format of this one.
I cannot wait to see what 2024 has in store!!
I really like the camping format you used. It takes the explore to a different level being able to see what you ate and how you spent the night there.
Amazing video! Thank you for capturing it for us!! ❤
My dad was a psych nurse in a beautiful old building (1885) , it’s Thursday that I’m watching this and dad passed on Monday, it came up on my feed for a reason, think he’s saying he’s good
Please accept my sincere condolences.
@@tomgore9696 thank you x
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It's always good to change things up and camping is a great idea Thanks for all you've done It may have been a rough year but still put out great content And I'm here for the long haul Happy New Year to you and yours
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Thanks for the support fireman. Have a happy new year
PIZZA! Amazing video, loved it! Thank you, Devin. Happy new year to you.
It is so sad too see a beautiful building fall to ruin. The craftsmanship of people so long ago was stunning.
You have come a long way my friend! I have been subbed to your channel for quite a few years now, almost from the beginning and I've seen your channel grow and become more and more.
It's not just taking pictures and saying a few things in your videos bro.
You look up history and teach us about places that we didn't even know existed. Please keep it going my friend.
Cheers to many more years.
I am 25 minutes in and I don’t want this to end! You guys are the best and Thank you for sharing and being so brave to camp out. The look and architecture of these buildings is very similar to the hospital I was born in and went to 57 years ago here in NY. Unfortunately it was abandoned and torn down. Shame as it should have been preserved. As a child and going for visits i remember there was a marble grand staircase that fascinated me. But the outside of the building use to creep me out. Today I wish I could see it. You guys stay safe and keep up the good work. ❤
EXCELLENT VIDEO! I loved the entire vibe of this video. I love your attention to detail and your overall filming abilities. I used to do this type of thing well before TH-cam existed and well before digital photography existed. In those days I couldn't afford to document anything. Film was expensive and development was even more expensive. I did have a super 8mm camera but couldn't afford the film, let alone afford to get it developed. All I have are my memories. As far as spending the night in abandoned places, I love the idea. I used to do it, but the world was much safer back then. I did what you are doing in the late 1970's to mid 1980's. I never trespassed, and always had permission from the owner of the land.
Wow.....This building must have been beautiful when it was fully operational.
Made with quality when first built.
Big and luxuries.
i grew up urbex, this video brought back memories of my teen years exploring every inch of kings park psych on long island ny. anongst many other places. So no surprise i watch alot of urbex youtubers, gonna have to subscribe and put you up in the higher ranks with the proper people, You kept my interest all the way through and noticed alot of things that many would have walked right by. very well done!!!!!
WOW, an articulate TH-camr that knows how to speak the English language!!! Happy new subscriber here. Love these old buildings and especially enjoyed the owl and coyotes under a full moon. YOU KNOW HOW to present your subject with interest and excitement. Lincoln Regional Center in Lincoln Nebraska was a large facility in the 1970's with underground tunnels connecting the buildings. Very scary for a 17 year old girl to travel alone but warmer than the Nebraska winter above my head. I was so naive and very fortunate that nothing ever happened to me as I did my job which lasted approximately 1 year as it was a very sad and depressing environment. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there ❤
You got some great pics. Interesting place.
Pizza is a very bad choice of words😮
lool you and i think alike...
I’m a first timer to you and your videos and I thoroughly enjoyed both! You seem like a genuine, kind spirit and I LOVED your quality, well done video. I’m now “following” you! Stay well and happy 2024.
The photography in this vid is magnificent. I would love to have them in a book with your storytelling. One of your best vids ever. Thanks. ❤
What an amazing building! Thank you for the tour. You document the forgotten. I appreciate it so very much.
I hate that these buildings go unused and rot away. They’re so beautiful. I wish we had prettier architecture. I’ve always wanted to own and school and I can only fantasize about buying something like this, fixing it, and opening it. People don’t realize how much architecture actually affects the human spirit.
Thank you guys we really enjoyed this- your calm, articulate manner and obvious respect and appreciation for detail and beauty really shines through. Felt like we were right there with you! Take care, love from England 🇬🇧 ❤
Pizza, I watched the premiere and as I'm from the UK had to go to bed as it was beyond midnight. I've just come back to finish what I missed and found I only had ten minutes to go! Your appreciation of history is so good, you see the beauty of all the past artifacts, architecture and family importance. I'm so impressed by this as it's something that I've been part of in my life too. Many years ago I worked in cinemas and in mostly old style 1930's buildings and I LOVED that they had so much history in them. Imagining people in the war and families through the years going to their local picture house and it being part of their lives, I felt very close to the buildings, emotionally attatched and cried when some of them closed-as I worked for an old company that slowley shut all it cinemas was able to see them after closure too - full of history, so many now demolished. I've watched your cinema/multiplex explores and find them quite upsetting BUT I am grateful for you doing them as I see what it was like for you in the US. Always facinating explores, excellent work.
PIZZA!
Amazing. You’re such a captivating story teller & i enjoy your comments about beauty and style very much. Been binging all your video’s. Looking forward to more camping one’s!
Fascinated by the history of Asylums and enjoyed how informative this was. Happy New Year!
Pizza! Great video, enjoy the camping element as well. We desperately need these asylums opened back up. Too many mentally ill homeless and drug addicted trying to self-medicate.
I think they self medicate to deal with the horrors of homelessness.
As a wise man once said-and I wish I could remember his name-once said those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I’m so glad you see the importance of documenting history. Some of it isn’t pleasant but it happened and we do need to learn from it. The architecture is so beautiful. Hope 2024 is a good one for you. Happy New Year. Looking forward to many more of your explores.
George Santayana
@@davemoff8232 thank you. I love that quote but I’m bad with names!
@@sassysue6472 I too like the quote but I must be honest and say I did have to google his first name
Pizza ! Wow. I was completely transfixed by this explore. Watched all the way through. I love the way those places were constructed and in particular the philosophy of its design. Thanks for the history too. A terrific job!
Just found your channel and immediately subscribed. Your appreciation for all the small things not just the architecture (the stain glass, the drawings on the walls, the toys left behind, the old machinery, the natural takeover) is so beautiful to watch. My mother is an antique dealer and I appreciate all those small intricacies as well. You show a deep love and respect for the places you explore and your enthusiasm is felt and passed on through your videos. Thank you
Epic explore, Devin. Keep up the good work, there is sunshine after the rain 👍😀
Awesome video beautiful pictures!! Enjoyed watching!! God bless and stay safe🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This was once more another great video. I love that you tell about the past times. Thank you for the entertainment. I hope you have a great Happy New Year. Please stay safe.
This was an amazing video. Watched it the whole way through. Thanks, keep up the great work .
Awesome content. Thank you and Happy New Year to you all!!!
I found a kirkbride asylum in west virginia. Gothic revival style. It wasn't abandoned though. Got to walk inside it. Alot of it was restored. Has afew other buildings around it added in the early 1900s. Wasn't allowed to go inside most of them. It was a nice trip.
Pizza
So many emotions going thru me watching this.... Just in awe of the beauty, sadness, hope, curiosity & melancholy all at once.
Your photography & editing are amazing.
This is my 1st time watching. But i hope for more of this wonderful content. Thank you
Happy new years! And thanks for all the great work you did this year, you're one of the best explorers and love to see you're
still improving!
1:13:17 _"They just need time, space, nature and patience"_
I was in a psychiatric ward back in October and yes, this is exactly what the doctors ordered, along with medication. My favorite part of being there was the floor to ceiling windows in the common area that overlooked the city. Mental health has come so far since then but man I wish the architecture was still the same. Probably too many features that had risks of hanging on them. The doors, faucets and lights are sloped in such a way now that it's impossible to hang yourself from. I wish they still did baths though, that would have been nice.
Pizza! This was great. Loved the long video and I hope there will be more! Happy New Year-be safe and stay well❤
Well done! Enjoyed the video very much. 🎉Happy New year!
Happy New Year 🎉 Thanks for all the amazing videos. I appreciate how thoroughly and calmly you do your explorations. You really let the viewer spend a lot of time in the location with you and examine the details. I'm excited for your new videos!
HI GUYS ,, WOW!! WHAT A GREAT GIFT THAT YOU HAVE GIVING TO US,, A GREAT SLEEP OVER AND WATCHING THE SUNSET AND SUNRISE AND TEACHING US NOT TO BE AFRAID TO GET OUT AND EXPLORE ,,.. THOSE STAIN GLASS WINDOWS ARE GREAT AND THE HORSE PICTURES SO OLD IS HISTORY.. THAT DOOR THAT YOU OPEN OMG WOW!! THAT MADE ME JUMP BACK,, THAT WAS A DROP ,,HA!!!! THE OLD TOYS ARE COOL ..SAD, MAGAZINES,..SHADED GLASSES BRINGS IN HAPPYNESS TO THE BRAIN ,,JUST LIKE THE STAIN GLASS BRING IN HAPPY THOUGHTS ..THANKS GUYS ,, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Thank you for showing this beautiful campus. So glad I found you guys. I enjoyed it very much. I love urban exploration.😀
Thank you for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed the vid. It’s sad to see such a beautiful place in such disrepair.
So awesome running into Your Channel. Your Content is amazing and brave. Take care. Looking forward to watching all your old & new videos! Be safe!
As always, you did amazing with this video! I love how you give the history and as much information as you can. Thank you for your dedication to your craft. This definitely looked dangerous to navigate! What a gift to be shown inside this gem of beautiful decay! I wish humanity could rewind and go back to a time of pride in craftsmanship like what was put into those buildings. Such exquisite detail from the stained glass windows, iron railings and tin ceilings. Also loved the houses on the property with the antique furniture. ❤
So beautifully done. Always appreciate your love and insight on the history 🙏🏼 2023 was rough on me as well, may we know peace in 2024. Happy new year 🎊
Thanks for this wonderful video! I enjoy it very much Pizza
So very sorry for having such a hard year. Wishing you a Happy Healthy New Year. Thank you for all your exciting videos 🎉
This will be awesome !!!
Happy new Year🎉
Such a fascinating & prestigious building! I liked the door half open while filming above the missing floors. I think over night stays at different locations would be awesome. You have the most peaceful, interesting, & mindful exploration channel, just keep being creative! I also watched the video to the end- 🍕
Thank you for all the wonderful content you put out. Awesome job on this exploration.
Thank you so much for the extensive history on this absolutely gorgeous campus.
This was amazing! I have loved exploring old buildings since I was a kid and if we had social media around back in my day, I would’ve been able to show so much. This was a great exploration and I’ve served in the field of mental health and behavior for 30 years. This was really wonderful history that I did not know. I wish we still had facilities like that today in which they are built for the patient not for the profit ;may your new year 2024 be everything that you desire think it speak it believe it 🎉🎉❤you got this!!!
Great video, PIZZA! Keep up the awesome work, look forward to more videos.
Thank you for all the wonderful videos this past year. God bless you and have a Happy New Year.
This was such an interesting video and place to be able to see that one normally wouldn't. I do watch camping videos from time to time so I really enjoyed the camping aspect of this one and I'm excited to see what other abandon places you stay overnight in, in the future! Happy New Year!
Also pizza!
Delicious pizza! Love this long explore. Of course all of these explores are fascinating but I also love listening to your commentary and how much you appreciate and love on these abandon places.
I absolutely loved this video, thank you. Happy New Year to you and everyone else. Peace ✌️
Happy new year. Can't wait to see more videos
New Subbie here. I LOVE watching videos like this and you by far are my favorite. You're soft spoken and you keep the camera steady. You also are respecful when going thru every place you've been. I'm going to research this asylum and if it's everything you've been told, that'll make me very happy. Thank you for your videos. ❤
Pizza!!! Great video . . Loved the way you presented this. Thank you
Shared. Really enjoyed.
Pizza!
My first video of yours and i loved it. Im a holistic therapist so this was super fascinating that there were asylums back then that took a more natural approach and less of the the electro therapy, straight jacket approach.
Subbed now so looking forward to more ❤
First of all Happy New years! I am so sorry to hear that this past year has been so difficult for you. Same here and I imagine it was that way for many of us.
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and it was very interesting and thought provoking . You did a great job! Please be safe in the future (advice coming from a mom ) I look forward to seeing videos you put out this year and will also check out your previous ones. Stay safe. Wishing you happiness, health and prosperity for the new year going forward. 🍕🏚️
Quality explore that. Subbed.
I always look forward to your videos and the reverence you have for those old homes and buildings! You're a good guy, Devin. Keep up the excellent work! BTW, PIZZA sounds really good right now. 🍕😎👍
Happy New Year's 🎊 Awesome video!! PIZZA❤✌️
Absolutely loved this explore ,always love your passion for these beautiful places and to think in 5-20 years all these places will be gone is a shame it's so glad people like you document them thank you for sharing .pizza
This is so kickass! Yall are awesome!! New subscriber here great video!
Creepy and fascinating, great job !
this is sweet! happy new year!
I'm late to the show but wanted to say thank you for the years you have shared your wonderful videos with us.
God bless & happy new year. Pizza 😘😘
That was an amazing video and I hope to see many more of these like this I personally took 2 days to watch this just so I can take in all the footage that you guys did thank you and I appreciate it and I hope that your 2024 will be amazing
great vids! love it
Greetings: Indeed such a beautiful building. Thx 4 the share.
Got me subbed here, bros. Outstanding informational video, with such respect for the structure, and the history of the location. Wish all urban explorators been this way.
I love these longer films full of adventure! Well done.
Pizza! Thank you for exploring this building and posting it! I regularly visit the area and I’m always drawn into this magnificent structure and wonder what it looks like inside, so - mystery solved! 😊
🍕🍕 Great video! I love seeing the old beautiful buildings. Your commentary and your respect for the buildings makes your videos so enjoyable
Great find. PIZZA loved the video
First video I have see now yours, will certainly be watching more! :)
Pizza. Your videos are so good. I can't wait to see what you are going to do next. Have a much better year this year.❤
Thanks, I just loved the video.
Pizza! Really interesting and very well put together, i enjoyed watching this episode xx
♥️♥️👍🏻 Great idea camping where your located. Will you have a trap camera or 2 on to catch something while you’re sleeping?
Pizza! As an Upstate New Yorker, I must say you have balls for not only spending the night in a state hospital but in late fall/winter. I would never. I’m fairly new to the channel, slowly going through all your videos. They’re great and I think you’re doing an excellent job. Looking forward to your future overnight/camping expeditions. Stay safe! ⛺
Pizza. Love your videos, melancholy and peaceful all at once. Keep your head up and keep making these amazing videos
"Pizza" Watched it through to the end and thoroughly enjoyed it. You do a wonderful job exploring abandoned places and always look forward to your next one. Happy New Year!!!
I'm a new subscriber as of today.😊. I wish you all the best and thank you for bringing us these wonderful videos and all your hard work, Cheers from Canada, NS
I hope you guys started a new urban legend! Cleaning that examination table. Imagine defacing something like that and coming back to see it gleaming new. 😮
Absolutely stunning!
Ran across your channel last week and I put this stuff on my to watch list. This place reminds me of the Danvers hospital where they filmed the movie session 9. Can't wait to watch more of your videos