Abandoned Childrens Asylum - Found Hundreds of Restraints (Closed from Abuse)
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- Originating in 1860 this children's asylum was created in attempts to "cure" ones with mental disabilities. Instead many lawsuits came out exposing the hospital for SEVERE mistreatment. Closing in 1993,an extreme amount of artifacts are left behind. From electronics, X-Rays, to hundreds of child size restraints all over the campus. A very dark location, one that time will erase once the buildings are no longer. Documenting and exploring this location was one of my favorites in past memory. Hopefully you enjoy, if you do ,leave a thumbs up and subscribe for more exploring content!
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This is a true Dark Exploration. One of my favorites from over the years. Filmed this 2 years ago and I forgot how so much equipment was left behind. The future holds nothing but demolition and the remeberence of hospitals like this will soon be forgotten. Thanks for watching, if you enjoyed please leave a thumbs up and lets hit 500k! Let me know what you guys thought of the vid ✌️
Load of crap. The equipment is for physiotherapy purposes . Stand aids, side lying boards etc all for physical disabilities to help stand, sit to use muscles & joints in the appropriate way rather than what the muscles would be. Everyone with supports to prevent falling and injuries
@@muaythaimags some are maybe was a physical therapy hospital at sone stage but def a kids asylum and back in the old days many patients were abused tortured even lobotomised .. sadly even kids .. back then anyone could be classed as a lunatic esp women you would only need to have a diff opinion or speak up or "not be in agreeance" with your husband and suddenly you are wild and feeble minded .. all bc you had your own opinion .. and thrown in the luntic asylum .. thank God times of changed (sadly many Muslim countries still don't allow women to have their own opinions bit old fashioned I say)
I hope i helped!! Great job.. gripping!
u filmed this 2 years ago and didn’t upload it until now? wow dang haha
Do you know the name of the place? I wanna look it up
FYI, all those devices with straps, wood, padding etc are not for torture or restraint. For example, the long horizontal wood board with straps at the top, middle, and bottom is called a Stander. People, (like my son), who are unable to stand still need weight-bearing on their hips and legs so that the hip sockets will still try to form. The patient is laid down, strapped in, then the entire table rotates vertical, giving the person the weight-bearing as if they were actually standing they need for development. And often, tray tables attach to them once they are vertical. The other devices with Velcro straps are all to secure the patients who are unable to support themselves. My son's wheel chair supports him with side laterals, straps, leg and foot supports and even a padded brace for his head as he doesn't have the ability to move or even sit up on his own. Love all of your videos, just wanted to pass on my info.
The company in the video (Rifton) still sells these chairs. There are some articles about misuse to restraint childrens and even a public statement from the company but there are legitimate theraptic reasons for these chairs. Thanks for your insigts.
THANK YOU!! I was just going to say the same thing. Yes many many were abused but, these were all to help the patients!! Another great video!!
I was thinking the same .
pin this, please. not saying they didn't misuse these devices, but that is not the intention of them.
Very well said
Those X-rays were most likely to check each resident for tuberculosis on an annual basis before they had injectable TB tests. Necessary in such close quarters. Many of the devices with straps for sitting/standing were actually adaptive equipment allowing residents to better interact with their environment for a period of time as opposed to lying flat on a bed looking at the ceiling. Yes, I am sure there was abuse as staffing got less and less. I used to work in a children’s home for profoundly disabled children. Thanks for showing us this one!
Maybe some day, you could attend therapy sessions with differently abled kids and see these things used for good. It will make you smile.
the pedophiles had a grand ole time
"Custom Adaptive Devices."
Just in case anybody is wondering most of those chairs and standers you see are not restraints, they're for people with physical disabilities to help them sit up properly and stand properly hence why they're made out of velcro to be easy on easy off and they are also padded for comfort. Illegal restraints were usually found in beds or cribs and were made out of hard leather. This is coming from somebody who has cerebral palsy and I used a lot of equipment like that when I was younger. I just don't want someone to see equipment like that and think abuse but, Rifton still makes medical equipment like that you would probably find it in any local children's hospital. If you want an example of an illegal restraint look up pennhurst State School in Pennsylvania they have a whole documentary on the abuse that went on in the state schools. It's called suffer the little children. They have a pennhurst haunted asylum every year. That don't sit well with me but it would be something you could check out if you wanted to if your near Pennsylvania. I just don't understand why they would make a haunted house out of a place where disabled people really suffered seems in bad taste. I wish they would turn it into a museum instead but I guess it's better than not having it there because people can learn about it
Well, the support devices they used back then for getting severely physically disabled patients to stay in a fixed body position when necessary look a lot like the restraint devices they used during that same overall time period. Also, the restraints weren't likely illegal back then.
A guy I knew, when he was a teen, he was sent to a “residential treatment facility”, one of those troubled youth programs. He was there for two years. From what he had said, there as a lot of abuse going on. 30 “residents” going at each other all the time. Staff not caring, or instigating it like “Fight Club”.
This was in the mid-90’s, before cellphone cameras and hidden recording devices became affordable.
He had nightmares of that place for years! Therapy has helped, but the experiences has really affected his ability to have relationships. He’s terrified of parenthood because he’s seen where the state can send children.
Ah that’s terrible. 😞
May God bless your friend and May Jesus heal him with His supernatural love be pour on him, For God Jesus is the best Father to have🙏🏻✝️he is right many abuse happens, they will sow what they reap
I have a very similar experience from when I was admitted to an acute psych ward both times. It really is terrifying and I feel very much for him.
I was in those type of places during that time from the ages12-18,(I'm 35 now and doin better) and I know what he means. But I hope he's doing better 🙂.
I had a friend who escaped from a place such as that at age 17, she managed to get to a distant relative’s home and lived with them until she turned 18. She told me some major horror stories of the place. It was shut down five years later.
Those chairs were NOT restraint chairs. The chair with the round seat is called a bolster chair. It's used for therapy to work on a child's balance and positioning. Most of what I've seen in the video is all just rehab equipment for physical therapy.
I agree with everything you said
Really be a patient then talk
can't even imagine the horrors that went on there and how those kids were treated. so sad
Not all of those were restraining devices. A lot of those devices are actually rehabilitation devices. For example, the ones with the padding and the straps and the foot plates, those are standers. Those are used to help children and adults stand if they are unable to. A lot of times you may see people who have Sarabel palsy being put into one of those and then it rotates to stand them up. This way it allows the person to put some sort of weight on their joints and muscles, since they are unable to actually move about on their own. It’s actually good for them to spend time in a standard so that their muscles don’t atrophy and alleviates a lot of things like hip problems.
Indeed you are so correct sounds like ur playing with a full deck 👍
The stander is to help people who can’t walk stand up right my friend who’s non verbal has one
I know right I feel so bad for them
These places are creepy. I can’t imagine the horrors that the children saw. It’s interesting to watch your explores but as a sad place, I’m glad it’s gonna be knocked down 😀
I like creepy abandoned places and all,(Which is why Iike this video,) and I agree with you that we both can't imagine the horrors the children at this place saw it's so sad.
But like I said "I love creepy abandoned places".
Also I love horror films.
Yea im glad about that but im happy im from 1910
At 9:30 That was originally meant to be an activity chair for someone who has like low muscle tone and can’t hold themselves up as well. But items like that were regularly abused as restraint. They still use things like this today for people with physical disabilities who need the support
16:50 again some thing for Physical Therapy. Still in use today.
17:55. That’s a standing frame for people who are not able to stand on their own. But we need to stand for bone density. We just have more modern forms now. Not everything here was a torture device.
19:30 it’s called a corner chair. For somebody who needs the physical support I’ve just having something at their sides without it being too restrictive.
Thank you for pointing out that these are not used as punishment and torture if used correctly or for the true purpose it was intended. I have mild CP & have had to use similar items as a child and have friends they continue to.
My aunt had Down Syndrome and sadly they & those on the Autism Spectrum were the ones that were the most mistreated in places like this. Thank goodness my grandma refused let her go in the early 1950’s. She grew up with her siblings. She never faced what many other’s did. I miss her every day.
@@wvugirl2007 My aunt grew up in an asylum because she had seizures. Because at that point they considered epilepsy something completely terrible to be hidden. She lived there until they closed and was finally able to have her own place with support and she was 50. I am disabled and I was born in 1990 and my parents were told to put me in a place like this. So the history of these kind of places really hits home because even though I wasn’t born that long ago there were medical professionals that wanted to throw me away.
I used to live near that hospital. Crazy thing about it is that a lot of the structures on the campus are still used for other things such as state surplus sales and some private companies. Another portion of the campus was temporarily a prison. I believe a local university wants to make it a Psychiatric School now which is kind of poetic.
When I was a child I was in the States custody. Because of the lack of foster homes and lack of beds in orphanages and group homes, they put me in mental institutions for 2 years until a bed opened for me at an orphanage. It was awful. I was terrified. I still can't talk about what went on in those places even now.
i am sooooo sorry that you had to experience this especially as a child my heart goes out to you. i can imagine what u seen n heard and told. i watch this i can hear screaming, yelling, crying, and kids so medicated there just there physically.
My uncle was in a state hospital and i r
My uncle was in a state hospital and my mom told me so many stories all he was pstd Android it thought he had lost his mind
Looks like the orphanage I was born into and lived in until age 12 yrs. Children with cerebral palsy and polio filled the orphanage home.
Omg-can’t imagine? So sorry you went through that. You are obviously a strong person. God bless you and give you sweet dreams.
I subbed at around 20k subscribers, it’s amazing to see how far you have come brother! I love your content!
Love your channel! You obviously have a kind heart. My son is autistic and has Down Syndrome. He is 13 now. I worry about his life after my ex and I pass. It's great that these places have closed. But we all must watch over group homes, too. If you have friends with special needs relatives, be kind. And try to help out anyway you can.
BTW, Rifton is a GREAT company. And makes many useful items.
dont get the state involved if you help it ty i have aspergers myself
My 14yr old has the same diagnosis. It is so true, that our greatest fear is leaving our children behind. When you see infants in a Mental Hospital it was usually babies with Down Syndrome. Parents were told to put them in institutions and to forget about them. Heart Breaking!
@@pikaluv43 they dont have a choice. adult family home would be the only option
Yeah the group homes that have largely replaced such asylums can be just as abusive and restrictive as the Victorian asylums.
@@pinkpugginz Though a few areas do have supported independent living apartments, wait-lists and criteria usually makes it extremely difficult to get into these apartment complexes, and this type of supported independent living complex is few and far between.
This is truly a very creepy place with lots of negative energy. Your narrative was extremely informative and made it even more disturbing, knowing what went on in this place. Great video once again, Thanks guys.
Except his narrative was way off and made up. Those devices weren't used for torture they are used for kids who can't hold their own body up and need restraints in order to not just lay in a bed their whole life and stare at the ceiling
Seeing all of this makes me very happy for my cousin who was placed in one of these facilities at 3 yrs old, to finally be out and living life. Thankyou for sharing this with me. I always wondered what it was like for him. 💖💖
God bless you, why you were put in there only God knows, God loves you he sent his son so we can have eternal life!
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3: 16
Written for yus,
Yeah, I dunno about that above nonsense. I think it's important to understand that this life is all you are guaranteed. Maybe we'd treat each other better if we all understood that. Glad your cousin got the hell out of there and is able to make the best of what he still has! That cannot be easy on one's psyche...
You're awesome, and I love asylum and Hospital videos. But my number one are These beautiful houses you're discover 🥰keep it up
Some of these facilities have unmarked cemeteries, with unmarked Graves. Most deaths were simply overlooked, and forgotten.
The museum is the most interesting part of where he’s exploring. The taxidermied birds are in really rough shape and they look like they’re decaying.
the quality of these videos goes up and up, never disappointed 😍
Thankful for progress in mental health and developmentally disabled services for our fellow human beings!
Not enough. Most wander homeless. In the name of "freedom", and because society doesnt care anymore.
So sad to think what went on. Bless the children 🙏. Great explore as always 🥰🥰🥰
This is the first time I've seen your channel and I enjoyed it,it's also very sad to see how they treated the children 😢, what's wild is every shot you showed of them crazy seats they put them children in,it was like I could picture them screaming, crying cause they didn't like being in them,I could feel the happy times but so many sad,hurtful crying times,thank you for showing us and reminding us also how beautiful any children and blessings they are,and how blessed the life of any child is,them poor babies God bless them,Amy from texas
This was crazy wild watching this. Lots of history. Can you mention where this took place? It would also be interesting to see what’s in those files -names redacted of course! It would be very interesting as to how they diagnosed, treated, and responded to their patients.
Thorazine and restraints
You must have gathered so much of Courage to enter this place. My god, our little Stars don't know where we've lost them. I was crying throughout the Video❤❤.
Wow, how creepy that place looks nowadays. Thanks for the incredible explore.
@4:12 that’s an ancient Sony CV-2000 reel to reel video recorder from the mid 60’s. @13:48 that Rusco Cue Master professional turntable deck is highly sought after and worth quite a bit. That is the campus radio station broadcasting room you’re in there.
Good eye. I cringe when I see stuff like this abandoned. Check out some of the abandoned movie theaters with film projectors, crazy they are still there!
I’d love to see a Scully lathe waiting for me to rescue it!
This makes me so sad. My 4 year old daughter is autistic. I'm sure there were a lot of autistic children like my daughter and they would have suffered in this building.
Your video was well done with the visuals. The restraints were upsetting and barbaric 😢. I’m glad this place was shut down. Great job documenting. Thumbs up from me.
You changed things up, like how you did the video!! I really enjoyed this ☺️
Subscribed.. from near Heathrow London.
Loved this video, thanks for uploading.
Had an aunt who stayed in a place similar to this for a while.. so sad.
Thus us an awesome channel with great content 👌 I can't believe you don't have millions of subscribers on this channel. Been binge watching all morning. Keep up the good work. 👍
Agree 👍 I just found this channel after YT suggested. I was watching videos on Harrisburg State Hospital
I first explored this place almost 20 years ago in the peak of my UEX days. It's amazing to see so much of that hardware is STILL exactly where it was.
Is the big electron microscope looking thing still on the stairs outside the admin?
wow, it would be cool if u had some footage (u probably don’t though) to see how much decay has went on over 20 years
Wow what an amazing find, love seeing all the old items left behind, makes you realise what they did to those kids for whatever reasons they had. They were always horrible places and like this one many shut down because of abuse to the children unfortunately. Great find though with the original stuff left behind, loved seeing this really interesting, thank you for sharing (UK)
I can’t even imagine what went on there. Who would be so cruel to place a kid in that place. Bummer!!!!!
really all you have to do is read up on Pennhurst or Willowbrook to get an idea.
Thanks for the info. Have a great day!,,,
I lived near a home for really badly disabled person. They use those strap things to keep them upright. A lot of them are not even able to sit or be in an upright position but they can not lie down their entire life. I've seen some laying in wooden boxes with wheels pushed around by others who are not so disabled. The box looks like an open casket but they would fall off anything else than these boxes. It looks cruel but it is not.
Exactly!! I work in the disability area, they are support straps not restraints, stop people slumping over or sliding off chairs.
Although it's often difficult to tell Victorian restraints apart from the devices they would have used for holding the severely physically disabled in a fixed body position when necessary.
Yay! Great way to start the weekend!!! 🌸✌️💜
I agree 👍💯
Yeah it is. Dark is in my home state.
I am a sensitive and would relish the opportunity to terrify the former abusers. The footage video is credible genuine and by all accounts one of the most tangible and authentic I have ever seen. The human atrocities against kids in the past always come to life in the end, why those files should be accounted for and those records to be made public property for relatives etc.
How in the world could anyone put an infant in a mental hospital???
i was thinking the same thing
for mentally/physically disabled babies
Maybe they didn’t have any orphanages open for the baby to be taken into
You would be surprised. Parents will send kids to mental hospitals just for them disobeying them.
It’s not like it is today. Doctors told parents to give up their babies/children to the state and try again. Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, birth defects, hydrocephalic, microcephalic, deaf and more were given up to the state as infants.
Good video. Sad, disturbing place. Thanks, Devin
Idk what horrors took place here, but some places, the conditions are worse today. I have MDD, anxiety, and suicidal tendencies. I was locked up at Grand Lake Mental and it was literally one room that everyone shared. Didn't even get beds, just chairs. Had to share and ask for the bathroom. I was refused medications and went through withdrawals. Daily fights. They mixed criminals with mentally ill. It was the worst thing I have ever experienced, medically.
hello there, how are you doing now? mentally and physically?
Better. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of help for mentally ill. I have been homeless off and on, but blessed to have such good friends to help.
@@liamjohnston8923 ah, I'm glad you're doing better and I hope that you continue to do better♡ wish I could help in someway but I wish u the best in life and I'm proud of you not giving up regardless whatever shitty stuff you've gone through. Glad that there are people besides you!
@@carefreemee thank you for your compassion and support. i wish the best for you and yours as well- stay blessed!
2:20 my kindergarten class had a thing like that. It was a see saw/teeter totter and also a slide when you turned it over. Attracted a lot of static electricity too.
This was an interesting exploration, with a lot of history left behind . The architecture was beautiful, and there was a clear intent to educate and engage the inmates. Some of the restraints were to keep the patient from harming themselves, and some were to hold a patient in an upright position as some problems can interfere with a person’s ability to hold themselves upright. I am sure that they were probably overused, and not always as intended. Thank you for sharing this, beautifully done.🖤🇨🇦
I’m surprised those papers weren’t collected for law suits!
Those chairs with straps are for children that could not sit up due to paralysis, abnormal spines etc. They are no way used for punishment. The upright board with restraints was to put a paralyzed person in a standing position. Modern physical therapy has such things Today. Quadriplegics in this century have wheelchairs with Velcro belts around chest ankles etc.
Lung x-rays were necessary to check for Tuberculosis.
Ive been restrained before, it was like hell. I remember a 7 year old girl getting locked up because she was "too violent" all she wanted was her mom, ill never forget the day she screamed, "PLEASE, I JUST WANT MY PARENTS" right before her death because of neglect/abuse
thank you for documenting this shows how bad the state is those looked like torture devices for the in mates
These places attracted the worst in humanity. Psychopath, sociopath, violent types, and just mean and cruel people...for employment. If someone was let go from an institution because of cruel behavior, they could just move on to the next place. It was a shame. If you look historically into institutions, it's very hard to find a place that treated patients with respect and humanity. This place must have been horrible to be in. Thank you for doing the exploring and this video.
you are correct!
Wow. I remember having these in the SEU for cerebral/HIE patients, used to help them stand and sit correctly. Thirty years ago they looked extremely different to todays equipment
There's a abandoned hospital really close to where i live. Not been used in probably 50 yrs maybe 20 yrs at least tho. But it's bad. It's huge. And just gives me the creeps when I'm close to it. It's pretty locked down good. So don't think anyone can get in there to see it. But man I'd love to see inside of it. Like this one. This just sad and interesting see at the same time. Great video
Restraints are necessary to protect the patient from a multitude of things... Namely, traumatic brain injury, self inflicted harm, bodily injury. Not to mention, "we" as bedside care staff deserve to be safe too.... We only use restraints as a last resort and if absolutely necessary ,but please know they aren't for abuse and torture ... Even patients without psych issues experience medication induced psychosis, seizures, rage, and psychotic episodes which makes them a danger to themselves and others.... Before juicing them up with a hefty dose of thorazine, haldol, risperidone (or whatever tranquilizer the doctor orders) it's sometimes necessary to use restraints until we determine which route of medical intervention the doctor orders . If vitals spike or the patient continues to grow increasingly more agitated it's necessary for us to mitigate the threat of danger they pose to staff, other patients, and themselves.
Everyone wants to paint the institutionalization era as inhumane and abusive, and there are a lot of instances where that was true, but in many situations it was merely how they implemented safety and preventive measures. An agitated and combative psych patient is no joke. We can't be compromising the care and safety of our other patients on the unit because people think restraints are "cruel"...
Restraints were also used to keep the patients out of staff's hair. Don't act like patients were tied up only for their "own good."
Blow away by the amount of comments professing what a great place this must have been, with nothing but theraputic equipment and life enriching possibilities. Smh.
Also as it has been mentioned in the comments below, some of the wooden looking devices are legitimate therapy equipment for physiotherapy etc, for example I have a standing frame in my home that looks very similar to the devices here (they haven’t changed much) BUT judging by the recorded history of this place it is possible that this equipment could be used in restraint in terms of them leaving kids in these pieces of equipment for extended periods of time and unfortunately it still happens today where people are left in these pieces of equipment for long periods of time for abusive purposes.
I can't even imagine what depths of hell the people who tortured and neglected, and experimented on these children who were cast out, vulnerable, and couldn't even defend themselves against these demons. GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEM🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭😭
As others have commented below, those items are NOT restraints. They were used as support to sit or stand, so the belts were used to keep them in place. My daughter was handicapped and had a supportive chair and a prone stander (which are the ones seen in the video with the long slanted back.....they would stand in them belly side to the padding and would be propped up against a table to do activities). My daughter also had the same brand "Rifton". However, it could be that this place was not using them correctly or keeping the patients in them too long, which would be abuse....but the items themselves are not meant for restraint or abuse.
I bet that vacuum would still outperform current models haha
9:09 that is called a rifton seat, it is meant to be a positioning chair to hep with posture and blood flow, breathing, feeding etc. they were not meant to be used as a restrain or punishment, but sadly they did end up being used for that, but the actual purpose of it is for positioning someone who limited body control for circulation, reducing contractions, cramps, clots, stomach and intestinal issues swallowing and so fourth,so yeah, for use it in short bursts, not for hours on end.
Love love love your asylum videos!
When ppl have physical disabilities, they often cannot sit up or even stand up on their own. A lot of the strange contraptions are to help and/or correct bad hurtful posture ECT.
Overcrowding leads to neglect, which is a form of abuse. More institutions offering more and more services I believe is a large part of the answer.
Aww poor babies 🥺😢
I just googled Richard Weir the name that was on one of the dressers and I don't know if it's the same person. But there's a man by that name in human rights watch. I doubt it's him. But what a coincidence that he's the first one to pop up when I googled him.🙏
lovely to think that i would have been in there if i had been born in that time..:(
me too dude
An interesting explore of another care facility. Abuse can cover so many different aspects in care. The history behind this place when open, why it closed, I don't know. These places always look eerie though once abandoned. Like an echo of the past.
Lot's of mobility equipment for short transfers and standing. I guess in 30 years time the equipment we are using now will look barbaric. Some of these chairs will be specially adapted, to each individual, for support and safety (example foot straps), which prevents feet from falling off foot plates. Which avoids risk of injury in transfer, also to prevent limbs from becoming more contracted.
Then there were some of us who suffered due to a so called doctor's quackery. Being misdiagnosed as having ADHD and then put on a high dose of Ritalin which caused vivid hallucinations along with night terrors. Then the quack tried sending me to one of these places. There is a special place in hell for quacks like him. Decades later I have tried to forgive but cannot forget the terror and abuse I endured. Yeah, I am "normal" now, but it took a long time to overcome the traumas.
One word of advice for anyone else dealing with the same sort of thing....
Journal... Write about what you went through... And write a letter to the people that abused you and then build a bonfire and burn the letters. Also heavy bag training is a good way to get the anger and hurt out. You can even take it to the next level and put a picture of your abuser on the heavy bag and then beat the ever loving crap out of it. Trained many hours. At times until my joints hurt. But afterward I felt much better, and with every training session I felt stronger, and the pain of the past lost it grip on my life.
These hospitals probably have information and photographs online from when they were in operation. Maybe you could include the name so we can look them up, or do it yourself in future videos.
...touching this garbage with your bare hands...crazy
I’m not sure those junkies who destroy buildings like this don’t care at all what history behind each of them is. Sad to see the decaying walls of the historical building which are all over tagged
How do these places get so trashed. Who moves heavy furniture for kicks?
Amazing as always .. bet those walls could talk if it was a paranormal video with spirit boxs ..it's so sad what ppl did in asylums esp to kids of all ppl .. and the fact they had mental asylums for children too 😔😔
So standard - a building with beautiful architecture and a frightening history.
I see that there are many comments here about the true purpose of the remains - that they were used for rehabilitation purposes rather than to harm children. It is great to add to your knowledge; in any case, we have explorers here, not employees of mental institutions. Everyone can be wrong.
The restraint chairs were likely adaptive seating to help them sit up. Being they had physical disabilities this would make sitting up and body control.
Quite terrifying to think about the poor kiddos who were sent to places like this for things that we now know how to properly treat and take care of. I am so glad these places aren’t common or normal anymore.
Mansfield training school.
Do you know this place?
There's a very expensive, irreplaceable piece of art in that place.
If you live local please go and collect it or contact a museum, i would hate to see this piece wasted.
I have never been here yet but live in the state it's in.I just started my own TH-cam channel on April 1st so maybe I will go. My channel name is Film it.
Awesome video man! Been subscribed for many years. Keep it up🤘🏻
This place reminds me of Muskatatuck. It's an assylem/ group home south of Indianapolis that the state purchased for a national guard and state police training grounds. Everything was left intact in every building and the whole place is haunted as F..k.
These institutions offered so much. If u have never worked with and been trained on these devices you don't understand what you are looking at.
With all the cruelty, it was nice to see the pics of the teenagers smiling and look to b having a good time!!😊
Those chairs weren’t for punishment (per se). They were used to prevent children who were impulsive from trying to stand and getting hurt when adults can’t watch them 24/7, or to support children with different conditions that don’t allow them to hold their body upright or can’t support their head. I 100% agree there was abuse, but those chairs weren’t it. In fact, we still use chairs like that today (just better manufactured so they are more comfortable). 16:40 those are to practice core stability. A lot of children with neurological issued struggle with core stability- such as CP. and 18:15 these are again used to support them so they can be in a more upright position. The ankle restraints are so their feet don’t slip forward- and belt is so they don’t fall forward (they don’t have the strength to hold themselves up). The two pieces by where the head would be is to support their head so they can still look around, otherwise they will often fall into uncomfortable positions. 21:03 looks like an inversion table. We use them sometimes for traction but often for individuals who can’t sit up right. We slowly attempt to increase degrees every few days/weeks in an attempt to help their body acclimate to standing upright. These are still used. Wanted to like this video but too much misinformation. Maybe a little research on future videos.
Absolutely brilliant. Thankyou
OMG how heartbreaking💔 I can only imagine the horror and indignity that went on behind those walls💔🙀😿
IT HAS BEEN ALWAYS KNOWN THAT THESE PLACES ARE HORROR INSIDE AND EXPERIMENTS WERE PERFORMED TOO.
The unique looking chair in the basement with the green section and wheels looks like a piece of physiotherapy equipment as we still have very similar looking equipment today, it’s often used today for children to stretch their hips and inner thighs, the foam looking cylinder keeps a gap between the legs and the child would scoot around (using their feet to push like kids do with balance bikes) holding on to the handles at the front for exercise and stretching. So thankfully as far as I can guess at least this ONE piece of equipment was not for restraint but by the sound of the history of the place I’m sure much of the equipment could have been used for restraint, particularly seats that could be used as therapy devices, it’s possible that they could strap kids in and leave them there for extended amounts of time.
8:14 "Happy new year" fits pretty well as I am watching this on 2024-01-03
8:58 I swear to God I saw something in the right dark room when he walked by
You could probably salvage a lot of those machines especially with people always wanting collect old medical type stuff nowadays and make some good money. It's left there so obviously who ever still owns the building isn't worries about them
At 9:34 we see a rifton chair the company rifton is still around making great products for people with positional needs at 1830 we see a sandal positioner obviously he was for a chair maybe even a standing apparatus none of the products that I’ve seen are abusive they’re all standard therapeutic products that are still used today
This place is sad af and haunting. Im glad it is abandoned and closed now. Those poor children. It's crazy how these things were allowed to go on.
Horrific, that humans can be so cruel. Good look into this place and what went on. Poor kids. ☮️
I was in such place in another country locked up put in restraints because I am autistic not many years ago it still happens
I’ve faced prejudice in my life having autism myself, but not to this scale. I was born around the same year this place closed, quite surprised it was that recent, looks more to have shuttered in at most the 70s. I did attend a special Ed school from 1999-2002 before heading to kindergarten at a normal school at age six. The special Ed school I attended didn’t even come close to what I saw in your post, although I did look up the Rifton brand name on the restraining device, found out they make these adjustable special Ed chairs that are wooden, which I’ve seen, which are used to accommodate children with birth defects. I guess this was a school for poor special needs students, compared to the exceptional special Ed accommodations I had, and the fact that both my parents are registered nurses with a wide knowledge in child development. I’ve thrived in my K-12 and college years, receiving exceptional straight A’s, I have deep sorrow for those who went to this hellhole of a school and were treated like animals, just makes my hair stand on end.
The restraints used here aren’t child abuse. They are commonly used now for children who cannot support their body weight or who have hyper mobility and spasms. It’s a way of ensuring safety.
The ‘restraining’ that this centre was closed down for - wouldn’t be of this kind.
It would have been adult members of staff physically holding down children .. which is obviously abuse.
The use of straps and high boarded chairs are not abuse - they’re for the safety and protection of patients.
The thought of children in that warehouse is heartbreaking.
A very nice explore with a lot of interesting stuff too see.
Have you ever heard of pennhurst is out in Pennsylvania that would be a good one for you to do a video
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me w-w what's that in the back. HOLY!! ..........
Back when Thorazine was first discovered that was considered a miracle drug to treat mental problems 2:38
These wooden chairs are for children who cannot sit alone and need more support. These chairs are also available these days.
Very nice cinematography
Bro...not everything in there was made for torture.
3:55 who’s that black figure
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