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
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
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.
Exactly, some people own property and rather than sell it they let it rot to the ground. There are three old buildings near where I live and some old civil war era houses. They sit and another one bites the dust.
I wish you were right about re-purposing these buildings but if they to be for something for anything other than healthcare there is definitely a stigma about these hospitals.
We use to have badass architecture in this country. Nowadays they don’t anymore.. living in St. Louis I get to see that old school style of buildings.. everything just looks the same now. Don’t make em like that anymore.
Simply too expensive to run, hell your local activity center can have an electricity bill that would make you choke on your drink, my father manages one locally pro bono
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!!!
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. HAPP¥ N€₩ ¥€AR!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ P€ac€ ~n~ £0v€
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.
I like the way you presented this place. No spooky effects, DIY seances, waiting for random noises and pretending they’re voices. You’re respectful of the people who once passed through those doors and lived behind those stained glass windows. Thank you for this. People with mental health issues are still people, and we’re not all that scary. Many differences we now accept got people put in asylums, including things like depression, autism, and women who wished to run their own lives.
Fellow Hudson Valley local here. Me and a friend of mine snuck into the grounds of this Asylum probably 15 years ago on a cold rainy day. This was back when a lot more abandoned buildings existed and we would spend our days in the summer and after school exploring these forgotten remnants of the past. I’m sure you guys were in awe and wonder just as we were. Love to see this archived for all of us to be able to reflect upon. Keep exploring, stay safe and bring me next time haha!
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!
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!
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!! ❤
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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. ❤
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
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 🇬🇧 ❤
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!!!!!
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 Fireman 🔥🔥🔥👍
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!
Definitely subscribing. Really love and appreciate how you treat the buildings and the past they represent. Connecting yourself to the people that once walked those halls. Your calm demeanor and obvious appreciation and respect, along with a good portion of knowledge, makes these the best videos I've seen of exploring these abandoned places. Thank you for making and posting these, and respecting the history left inside.
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!
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. ❤
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!!!
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 🎊
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.
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 ❤
Oh my gosh this was wonderful to watch. These are so good to preserve and have documented. I wish there was less vandalism but is the world we live in. So many things to learn from going and exploring places abandon places like this. How things age structurally, hidden history, lost artistry, the list goes on. Thank you so much for sharing this adventure!
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- 🍕
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
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 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. 😮
Thank you for this video. We need a big state hospital "city" built similar to this one in Southern California! Bring these back, only this time the government can get it right - with the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid and Medical doing routine checks on their facilities. I like the idea of the patients being engaged in work to keep the facility running. We desperately need this for the mentally insane and borderline-functioning, and non-functioning people trying to live on the streets with what they receive from Social Security Emergency Fund that replaced the old Welfare Program. We need the Welfare Program re-instated and separated from Social Security again so that Social Security can once more be for retired workers. Something has to be done for our street people.
@tigerlillybell75, I agree. I agree I agree. But w/ Repubs in Congress taking steps to end the Affordable Health Care Law, privatize Social Security, cutting people off Medicaid & denying Medicare aid, it is unlikely to get any movement towards building state institutions for the mentally unwell. Strong D control in both Senate & HofR and in the WH would restore stability to those listed entities. I was never too political, being a person who embodies both conservative and progressive values. But having listened to daily Congress debate every day on C-Span for 25 yrs showed me where loyalties and interests lay.
A beautiful place. Great architecture, great details. The battle between nature and civilisation continues at its best. The view of the remains is impressive, as are all the effects of nature now taking back what is hers - through, for example, this vegetation as if growing out of a basin. An amazing impression. It is a pity that this mental institution has been left to its own devices, falling partly into ruin. You mentioned that the last year has been the most difficult of your entire life. I firmly believe that it was the worst and that such a difficult period will not happen again - I wish you this with all my heart. We see only professionalism and passion. A successful young person - because that is what you are to me. Full of passion, professionalism. We do not see difficult moments, tragedies - we look at someone thinking that this person has a trouble-free life. How often the truth is far from that! All the best to you. May you prosper in life!
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!
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.
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.
My grandmother worked as the bookkeeper for the hospital way back, and my father took care of patients. Most of the campus has been converted to a shopping center today. The administration building was one of the many structures that were demolished, and more changes are still coming. supposedly, a few buildings are to be restored.
@natehoot9714 This is in poughkeepsie NY right next to the Home Depot on North Road. It is off 84, I'm not sure when you last visited, but it's been a shopping center for at least 2 years now.
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.
This explore was absolutely amazing guys, you have some guts spending the night inside! They're must be stories of hauntings associated with that massive structure. It must have been gorgeous during its glory days. PIZZA !!
It's awesome. If it really was abandoned in the 70s, it would've been more fun exploring it in the 90s (1992-1997). But i found out that it was actually abandoned in the early 2000s
Nice I can see you have learned a lot from other channels, you seem very respectful. Surprised you were able to stay for so long at this location without running into other people. Please stay respectful and hold others accountable for ruining these amazing places.
I have just discovered your documentaries. They are fantastic and beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to discover, research, and film these beautiful sites. By the way, Pizza!😊
Firstly, thank you to yourself, Luka and Chris for exploring and recording this location for history and for us. I have deep appreciations for Victorian Gothic architecture. The scale of works necessary to achieve this level of beauty, functionality, workmanship, almost does not exist anymore, sadly. Kirkbride had exceptional knowledge of both architecture and mental health care of that time, and that vision is still alive today, in the many remains of the Kirkbride facilities still standing. Some of my favorite things about those days, are the craftsmanship utilized, and the various hardware utilized, such as door knobs, hinges, the eventual light fixtures that came after the gas lamps, etc. He was ahead of his time, in my opinion. Mental health care - unlike physical body health care - requires far more than just trying to keep people alive physically. However, once "Doctors" began experimenting with various "treatments" such as massive insulin shock "therapy", lobotomies, etc. there was hardly a human alive who would voluntarily submit to those so-called treatments, but many, many people were forced unwillingly to be the guinea pigs for such experiments. Then came the first pharmaceutical drugs. At first, they were initially a god-send to mental health patients. But in a short time, pharmaceutical manufacturers "realized" the get rich quick schemes they could create, would give them riches beyond their wildest dreams...to the detriment of mental health patients around the world. Many pharmaceutical drugs helped enormously, but many of their manufactured drugs caused far more harm than good, at the expense of mental health patients lives. Unfortunately, Big Pharma still runs rampant all around the world, especially here in the US. But genuine medical researchers and their facilities are making great headway in drug efficacy, use, and oversight on Big Pharma. At about 51:00 you mentioned the Dr.'s residences must have been abandoned way before the rest of the (brick) buildings. I'm wondering if they may have been abandoned about the same time, as, the Dr.'s homes were built only from wood, vs. brick and concrete. Wood taking far less time to disintegrate. Sorry this was such a long reply, but thank you again for preserving what is left of this facility.
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
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! ⛺
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. 🍕🏚️
Pizza! Man, what an awesome video. So beautiful and desolate. I can’t believe you didn’t see any other explorers. I love these places. The architecture. The history. I’m just too cowardly to visit them. So I live vicariously through folks like you. Thank you for making this video!
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 ❤
Pizza🙋🏻♀️great explore. Super detailed. Even though these old ruins are beautiful, they also are sad. Mental Institutions started getting a bad rap in the 70’s & slowly started closing down. The buildings have really deteriorated. Stay safe
This is my second time watching this video. I REALLY HOPE YOU DO MORE OF THESE PLACES. Sad an so decayed but You record them with such concern and feeling . Keep up the great work. BE SAFE ❤😊✌️
I was in this hospital as a teen sent there for from a strip 53:08 room in brookside .my crime was not adhering to the criminality and abuse in these places starting from age 5 , I was put in with adults , this place was alot of abuse , shock to treatments , beatings., water tortured and yes rapes. I finally saw my chance to run away , when they can't control you being a free thinker and make you conform they lock you away deeper.glad to see it closed
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! 😊
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 was so nervous for you guys safety when it came to walking planks over gaping holes and trusting such an old building not to fall in! Since the video had been uploaded I’ll assume you all are alive. Glad you hear it.
🎼GE..We bring good things to life..🎼 50 year old girl here that remembers the old commercial jingles. When you showed that refrigerator, that old song came to mind😊
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!
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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?
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
@@mel212115 x
My sincere condolences for your dad. He is in a better place.
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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.
Exactly, some people own property and rather than sell it they let it rot to the ground. There are three old buildings near where I live and some old civil war era houses. They sit and another one bites the dust.
I wish you were right about re-purposing these buildings but if they to be for something for anything other than healthcare there is definitely a stigma about these hospitals.
@@Velo1010 very sad too bc I think they’re so beautiful
We use to have badass architecture in this country. Nowadays they don’t anymore.. living in St. Louis I get to see that old school style of buildings.. everything just looks the same now. Don’t make em like that anymore.
Simply too expensive to run, hell your local activity center can have an electricity bill that would make you choke on your drink, my father manages one locally pro bono
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.
I like the way you presented this place. No spooky effects, DIY seances, waiting for random noises and pretending they’re voices. You’re respectful of the people who once passed through those doors and lived behind those stained glass windows. Thank you for this. People with mental health issues are still people, and we’re not all that scary. Many differences we now accept got people put in asylums, including things like depression, autism, and women who wished to run their own lives.
It is so sad too see a beautiful building fall to ruin. The craftsmanship of people so long ago was stunning.
Fellow Hudson Valley local here. Me and a friend of mine snuck into the grounds of this Asylum probably 15 years ago on a cold rainy day. This was back when a lot more abandoned buildings existed and we would spend our days in the summer and after school exploring these forgotten remnants of the past. I’m sure you guys were in awe and wonder just as we were. Love to see this archived for all of us to be able to reflect upon. Keep exploring, stay safe and bring me next time haha!
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!
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!
Man would I love to be a time traveler to back in time to watch this building being erected.
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!! ❤
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!
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.
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.
Omg, this is next to Poughkeepsie by the Home depo. You finely saw my request. Thank you so much i live near it
Wow.....This building must have been beautiful when it was fully operational.
Made with quality when first built.
Big and luxuries.
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!
@@Chompchompyerdedholy smokes! That’s an atrocity.
My cat is sooo interested in this video. I was so surprised. I am enjoying also. 😅
Ur cat used to be a patient here in one of its past lives🐈⬛✨🧱
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. ❤
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
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 🇬🇧 ❤
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!!!!!
PIZZA! Amazing video, loved it! Thank you, Devin. Happy new year to you.
What an amazing building! Thank you for the tour. You document the forgotten. I appreciate it so very much.
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
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.
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.
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!
Bear Grylls of urbex
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.
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!!
Definitely subscribing. Really love and appreciate how you treat the buildings and the past they represent. Connecting yourself to the people that once walked those halls. Your calm demeanor and obvious appreciation and respect, along with a good portion of knowledge, makes these the best videos I've seen of exploring these abandoned places. Thank you for making and posting these, and respecting the history left inside.
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. ❤
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!
Thank you for showing this beautiful campus. So glad I found you guys. I enjoyed it very much. I love urban exploration.😀
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. ❤
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!!!
Pizza :) Great Video with lots of Introspection and Insight on the Building. Hope 2024 has been more kind to you 🐈💕
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 🎊
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
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 might wanna wipe that brown stain off your nose
@@Steven_Will hahahaha
Oh my gosh this was wonderful to watch. These are so good to preserve and have documented. I wish there was less vandalism but is the world we live in. So many things to learn from going and exploring places abandon places like this. How things age structurally, hidden history, lost artistry, the list goes on. Thank you so much for sharing this adventure!
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- 🍕
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
Epic explore, Devin. Keep up the good work, there is sunshine after the rain 👍😀
You have such a breath of fresh air personality dude. Been watching your channel for a few years and I’m here for the camping videos!
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.
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. 😮
Thank you for this video. We need a big state hospital "city" built similar to this one in Southern California! Bring these back, only this time the government can get it right - with the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid and Medical doing routine checks on their facilities. I like the idea of the patients being engaged in work to keep the facility running. We desperately need this for the mentally insane and borderline-functioning, and non-functioning people trying to live on the streets with what they receive from Social Security Emergency Fund that replaced the old Welfare Program. We need the Welfare Program re-instated and separated from Social Security again so that Social Security can once more be for retired workers. Something has to be done for our street people.
Would the welfare program pay the same amount as SSD does for permanently disabled people like vets with cptsd?
@tigerlillybell75, I agree. I agree I agree. But w/ Repubs in Congress taking steps to end the Affordable Health Care Law, privatize Social Security, cutting people off Medicaid & denying Medicare aid, it is unlikely to get any movement towards building state institutions for the mentally unwell. Strong D control in both Senate & HofR and in the WH would restore stability to those listed entities. I was never too political, being a person who embodies both conservative and progressive values. But having listened to daily Congress debate every day on C-Span for 25 yrs showed me where loyalties and interests lay.
A beautiful place. Great architecture, great details. The battle between nature and civilisation continues at its best. The view of the remains is impressive, as are all the effects of nature now taking back what is hers - through, for example, this vegetation as if growing out of a basin. An amazing impression. It is a pity that this mental institution has been left to its own devices, falling partly into ruin.
You mentioned that the last year has been the most difficult of your entire life.
I firmly believe that it was the worst and that such a difficult period will not happen again - I wish you this with all my heart. We see only professionalism and passion. A successful young person - because that is what you are to me. Full of passion, professionalism. We do not see difficult moments, tragedies - we look at someone thinking that this person has a trouble-free life. How often the truth is far from that! All the best to you. May you prosper in life!
You got some great pics. Interesting place.
Pizza is a very bad choice of words😮
lool you and i think alike...
Thank you so much for your time in recording your visit. I never knew this place existed. Beautiful architecture and so sad at the same time. 😢
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!
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.
♥️♥️👍🏻 Great idea camping where your located. Will you have a trap camera or 2 on to catch something while you’re sleeping?
I love how these buildings are still up even though the inside is just destroyed
Pizza! This was great. Loved the long video and I hope there will be more! Happy New Year-be safe and stay well❤
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.
My grandmother worked as the bookkeeper for the hospital way back, and my father took care of patients. Most of the campus has been converted to a shopping center today. The administration building was one of the many structures that were demolished, and more changes are still coming. supposedly, a few buildings are to be restored.
Love from the 845❤
This campus was not converted to a shopping center.
@natehoot9714 Unfortunately, it was it's a shoprite now with a bunch of restaurants and a CVS pharmacy.
@@doe9de995 is this not right off 84?
@natehoot9714 This is in poughkeepsie NY right next to the Home Depot on North Road. It is off 84, I'm not sure when you last visited, but it's been a shopping center for at least 2 years now.
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.
This explore was absolutely amazing guys, you have some guts spending the night inside! They're must be stories of hauntings associated with that massive structure. It must have been gorgeous during its glory days. PIZZA !!
This was an amazing video. Watched it the whole way through. Thanks, keep up the great work .
My great grandfather was admitted to this hospital and eventually died there, he’s now buried in a mass unmarked grave on these grounds to this day.
It's awesome. If it really was abandoned in the 70s, it would've been more fun exploring it in the 90s (1992-1997). But i found out that it was actually abandoned in the early 2000s
Nice I can see you have learned a lot from other channels, you seem very respectful. Surprised you were able to stay for so long at this location without running into other people. Please stay respectful and hold others accountable for ruining these amazing places.
Fascinated by the history of Asylums and enjoyed how informative this was. Happy New Year!
You should checkout the Norristown State Hospital, would love to see you do a video there!
I have just discovered your documentaries. They are fantastic and beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to discover, research, and film these beautiful sites. By the way, Pizza!😊
Firstly, thank you to yourself, Luka and Chris for exploring and recording this location for history and for us.
I have deep appreciations for Victorian Gothic architecture. The scale of works necessary to achieve this level of beauty, functionality, workmanship, almost does not exist anymore, sadly. Kirkbride had exceptional knowledge of both architecture and mental health care of that time, and that vision is still alive today, in the many remains of the Kirkbride facilities still standing. Some of my favorite things about those days, are the craftsmanship utilized, and the various hardware utilized, such as door knobs, hinges, the eventual light fixtures that came after the gas lamps, etc. He was ahead of his time, in my opinion. Mental health care - unlike physical body health care - requires far more than just trying to keep people alive physically. However, once "Doctors" began experimenting with various "treatments" such as massive insulin shock "therapy", lobotomies, etc. there was hardly a human alive who would voluntarily submit to those so-called treatments, but many, many people were forced unwillingly to be the guinea pigs for such experiments. Then came the first pharmaceutical drugs. At first, they were initially a god-send to mental health patients. But in a short time, pharmaceutical manufacturers "realized" the get rich quick schemes they could create, would give them riches beyond their wildest dreams...to the detriment of mental health patients around the world. Many pharmaceutical drugs helped enormously, but many of their manufactured drugs caused far more harm than good, at the expense of mental health patients lives. Unfortunately, Big Pharma still runs rampant all around the world, especially here in the US. But genuine medical researchers and their facilities are making great headway in drug efficacy, use, and oversight on Big Pharma.
At about 51:00 you mentioned the Dr.'s residences must have been abandoned way before the rest of the (brick) buildings. I'm wondering if they may have been abandoned about the same time, as, the Dr.'s homes were built only from wood, vs. brick and concrete. Wood taking far less time to disintegrate.
Sorry this was such a long reply, but thank you again for preserving what is left of this facility.
So very sorry for having such a hard year. Wishing you a Happy Healthy New Year. Thank you for all your exciting videos 🎉
Best Pizza 🍕 Ever thanks Devin amazing explore always enjoy your heartfelt perspective ❤ rough year for me too maybe next will be better 🙏
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
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!
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 😘😘
Pizza 🍕 great video!
What makes us enjoy your content so much is that your passionate about it so video length is mute we are here for it 😊
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! ⛺
I love thé new camping adventures! This place is absolutely gorgeous. To me, hearing coyotes howling is one of the joys of camping.
I really enjoyed your video, and photos too. This is the first of your videos that I've watched, it will not be the last. And, pizza. :)
Pizza. Great video. I live in the UK and have never heard coyotes. I would have legit thought the place was haunted or they were screaming girls
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. 🍕🏚️
Pizza👍👍👍👍👍. wonderful thanks so much for taking us all along.yall living the dream👍👍👍👍👍
Pizza. Love your videos, melancholy and peaceful all at once. Keep your head up and keep making these amazing videos
Pizza! Man, what an awesome video. So beautiful and desolate. I can’t believe you didn’t see any other explorers. I love these places. The architecture. The history. I’m just too cowardly to visit them. So I live vicariously through folks like you. Thank you for making this video!
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 ❤
Amazing place. Glad you could capture it before it becomes just a memory.
The sound of the birds is nice for them when the patients lived there gladen there hearts
Pizza🙋🏻♀️great explore. Super detailed. Even though these old ruins are beautiful, they also are sad. Mental Institutions started getting a bad rap in the 70’s & slowly started closing down. The buildings have really deteriorated. Stay safe
This is my second time watching this video. I REALLY HOPE YOU DO MORE OF THESE PLACES. Sad an so decayed but You record them with such concern and feeling . Keep up the great work. BE SAFE ❤😊✌️
Thank you so much for the extensive history on this absolutely gorgeous campus.
I was in this hospital as a teen sent there for from a strip 53:08 room in brookside .my crime was not adhering to the criminality and abuse in these places starting from age 5 , I was put in with adults , this place was alot of abuse , shock to treatments , beatings., water tortured and yes rapes. I finally saw my chance to run away , when they can't control you being a free thinker and make you conform they lock you away deeper.glad to see it closed
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! 😊
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.
You both are way braver than I could ever be glad you were both safe
I was so nervous for you guys safety when it came to walking planks over gaping holes and trusting such an old building not to fall in! Since the video had been uploaded I’ll assume you all are alive. Glad you hear it.
Awesome video beautiful pictures!! Enjoyed watching!! God bless and stay safe🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
0:05 Positive Vibes Sent Your Way
Amazing Detailing you did on the Gothic Asylum So Many Amazing Rooms😊
🎼GE..We bring good things to life..🎼 50 year old girl here that remembers the old commercial jingles. When you showed that refrigerator, that old song came to mind😊
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!