I was a caregiver for an older lady ill call Helen. She told me about the treatment she recieved as a child in Willowbrook. She was thriving and living a much much better life now. Love you Helen. One story ahe said was the staff would clean everyone up and make it look better than ot was when the State was coming in for inspections.. Some wards were locked because the patients couldnt be "seen" by the public. So sad but she is doing well. Ahe loves the radio and loves to sing. What a joyful lady considering her horrific childhood.
Not time stamping myself, but I remember this. But this wasn't the only place this bad. In 1969, some doctors were still telling young parents of downs syndrome babies ( at the time a monogloid baby) to put them in a home and walk away. Thank God times have changed. Hope all those who mistreated these angels find out how hot hell is.
Your weakness of sympathy for defective life is absurd. Taxes should be used to make the world a better place not to drag gods mistakes into the future
Sir or mam. The only defective one I can see is you. And I paid taxes my whole life and can say I sincerely hope they never helped you or yours in any way. Opinions are like assholes... Everyone has one. Your opinion is yours, and mine is mine.
I for one choose to ignore the infant warrior with a keyboard! Times have changed drastically and hopefully people will have a bit more compassion for the mental and physical impaired... now if the government and the rest of humanity would work on mental health care for anyone who needs it, it would be the next big step in evolution!
God does not err. Do some due diligence lest you come off as biased per personal standards. Man has done this snd there have been thousands if redacted documents released about the horrific experiments done to man by his fellow man. Yes, in pregnant women as well with injections in the 1950s. The road to genocide is slippery and those who promote it will likewise end up its eventual victim. Natural law evens things out in that way. Many may cibsudwr your perspective to be broken ir of a weakened mind. Who decisions who lives and dies? No. Nature does just fine on its own without our interference.
I live by the area and drop by it every once and a while. The "feeling" of the area is feeling way more errie than it normally is. It's super creepy and I couldn't even bring myself to venture inside.
Ditching your loved one in a fucking group home, no matter if the treatment is better or not is no better. BRING THE “LOVED ONE” HOME WITH THEIR FAMILY…. If you truly loved them they’d be home with you.
@@melissasturgis in my opinion not all people can understand with people with disabilities like Down syndrome or any disabilities plus some people don’t want that responsibility so there are group homes for them to be at least some what independence I am sure they love them but not all can handle it.
My friends Mom worked at Letchworth.Abuse was rampant.Sexual and other.Employeesxroutinely stole food and other supplies for their own use.A really heartbreaking commentary on us all as humans.
Geraldo and Dr Wilkins risked a great deal to bring light to the literal horror that occurred behind those gates. Geraldo learned that in response to his initial coverage of the facility, the Governor scheduled a visit. Geraldo and his supporters turned up 2 hours before that to see the overworked and under supported staff frantically trying to make the facility and it’s patients as presentable as possible. It’s hard to believe we’ve gone from news and journalism sources utilizing their time and effort on things that actually matter, with the ultimate goal of improving people’s lives, to a culture of journalists and news sources who only seem to be concerned with being right.
My father, who will be 83 this year, grew up in a town very close to this place. He worked there in his teens. When I was perhaps 16, he shared with me the things he witnessed there, which this video corroborates. I can't believe this place lasted until 1996. It's a prime example of how evil can exist right under our noses, and normal people, so busy with their day to day existence, don't even notice until the horrifying acts have not only been committed, but the monsters who committed them have moved on to the next fun house, while all their previous crimes were swept under the rug, and they continue to torture our fellow human beings.
My mom worked in Letchworth Village, and lived on the property in employees housing. It was before it got bad, but she couldn't handle it before it caved in, and it was so bad she couldn't discuss it. In 40 years she has never said more then a few words about it. My dad didn't work there, but he worked in Rockland State insane asylum which was not far away at all. Why did NYC be something that massive? Research Tartaria.
@@AndrewGulak Awesome. I'm stuck in the rabbit hole. It has taken a lot of research for me to say positively that there's _something_ to it. I'm not sure what, but things like Letchworth make me believe it more so. They say that they built most of it in 1 year. That's not possible, so the lies are what peaks my interest. Look into it more sometime and let me know what you find!👍🏽
I lived in New City most of my life, it's in Rockland county! My neighbors mom worked at this place! I visited it once in the 70's! Sad , and miserable place
Services for th developmentally disabled have been greatly improved. Unfortunately, the mentally ill have been shifted to residence in tent camps and under bridges.
Shocked that you didn't look for the underground tunnels to explore. Letchworth is my neighbor and I love the history behind it. The tragic part isn't my favorite; the part where Geraldo blew the lid open and exposed how mental health patients were treated. It started the reform for their care and for that, we can be grateful, in the very least. I still vote every year in one of the buildings. I am in and out of there as quick as possible. Quite spooky A friend of mine with aspergers had a full on episode of psychosis as teens when we explored in a group. It was freaky and hard to describe.
One of my favorite locations to visit, yet it still it's painful to walk through some of those buildings, to see the way people were crammed into big open rooms with little dividers making tiny bedrooms. To see the hospital beds that were put upstairs in a power plant, to see the little kids beds that were made in the eaves of some of the buildings, tragic😢
I grew up a couple miles down the road in pomona/ mt ivy ny.. We use to go exploring in the buildings at night when we where teens...its a heavy feeling just being there and alot of weird stuff you would experience before even knowing the story of what happened there... Papers and equipmemt all over the floors.. Flooded elevator shafts and tunnels all under the facility .. We would be respectful while we were there but again you almost feel a sad emotion wash over you instantly without even knowing the full measure of what took place there
The fact that they could treat people like this is just absolutely horrible and absurd! It makes my heart break seeing what these patients had to go through! 😢
Nothing is better now. You can see how horribly the poor, disabled & homeless are treated but you just turn a blind eye. All you care about is your job, going shopping & watching football on the weekends. Nothing has changed. Now the people are left in the street to rot, suffer & be forgotten instead of being tossed in a big building. Stop acting like things are any better now. This world is a friggin horror movie, you just choose to not see it.
It's deeper than that. Let me tell you something that will shift your paradigm. How did they build that place in 1 year from 1910-1911? Why did they need an asylum that big, that is so close to another massive asylum? The answer is in the idea of "Tartaria." We are slowly getting worse on every level. The health care business is really a death machine. They are rotten serpents just like the logo on their white coat. Doctors of death admit that they never cure anything. They manage, but rarely cure patients. It's a sick sick world, but it won't last long.
Believe it or not, most of them like being homeless. I'ts not anyones fault but the governments. I'll continue going to work and doing what I work and keep myself sane.
People are selfish these days! and lacking in empathy eating animals products lowers the empathy hm maybe that's why and they prefer to live in their fake lifes than the real truth they dont seem to care...
It's pretty cool the way the town handled the ruins. Nice park and a good place for rebellious teens to have their moment by poking around in the haunted facility before they return to society & grow up. There are a lot worse things teens could do during their rebellious phase. They poke around a few times then go off to college.
Truly devastating how many institutions that were meant to help, & provide care, became such nightmarish places. Especially when it became overcrowded 😢
You made a great video about a cruel place. Man describes himself as the most developed living being. A bad joke. .. have tears in my eyes... thanks for sharing with us.
Amen. Then we blame God as of it's not our own doing. The experimental injections and human cruelty left a paper trail few follow to it's proper course.
After Geraldo went there, things changed greatly for the people there. I worked there in the office in the late 80’s early 90’s. I also worked in several group homes and loved all the people I worked with.
I’m sure it could be but a lot of it could be just leftover negative energy. There were some scary spots in that place! They say there’s all kinds of tunnels underneath
So tell us how was it like there ? Was there anything bad going on that you knew of ? What was the most horrible thing you seen there ? Really looking forward to your reply !! Thank u !!!
Fantastic coverage of this asylum. I first clicked on another site and it was just some girl sitting in front of the camera telling the story with very little to no pictures to show. That was boring so I looked for another and came across yours. Man would I LOVE to be able to photograph inside this place!! I have worked with adults with intellectual disabilities for 20 years now, and it just blows my mind how far we have come. So sad how they were treated 😢
That was heartbreaking to watch those patients at the beginning of the vid what must they have had to endure 😢💔 As always tho thanks AC for all the info on this place as well as the tour around it ❤️
This place was described what my best friend went through at the Belchertown state school in Belchertown Mass! He (Richard Dresser) has a story online as well with others. He's going to be writing a book called "behind the closed doors" with his worker. Some of the buildings are still there. But they are building a condo complex which the town is not happy about.
This just breaks my heart all these innocent people being treated like garbage No one cared for them the pain and terror in their eyes it made me shudder because they couldnt speak for themselves Thank you for honouring these innocent people and making their voice be heard
I was part of a group in my high school that had trips to letchworth village. It was horrible. I’ll never forget it. The smell was something I had never experienced. At 16 yrs old this was so eye opening and disturbing.
@@amyelizabeth135 I don’t remember why the high school organized this. I don’t even remember why I was part of the group that went. A little PTSD with that trip!!
I went with an honors high school class for college credit to an institution for profoundly mentally and physically disabled children. What we saw was the best the place had to offer, and the ward they’d had time to fix up in advance. It was still awful. They tried, but the stench couldn’t be completely hidden by the Pine Sol. The I’ll-fitting clothes were clearly not those belonging to the patients, and there was nothing to be done about the din coming from beyond the model ward. There was an outdoor playground that was rusting and overgrown, clearly unused for many years. The talk of outdoor therapy was obviously lies. We weren’t fooled. The place was a snake pit.
Where’s this Chanel been my whole life ? Great video as always. Sad but whoever is in charge should be arrested and thrown in prison somewhere for the rest of their lives
Who in Gods name would put a family member in there? Those poor souls. I’m sure that they are all at peace now. That place is worst than any nightmare.
@abandonedcentral Come spend a couple of days at my house, and you'll have your paranormal experience. These are very interesting, though. And you have a good Eye on pointing things out. That others may not notice right away.
Rip the people whom died in mental institutions and insane asylums in the United States that were committed because of having a disability or mentally ill children and adults that were forgotten by their families
I'm pretty sure I already commented on this one, but you get another lol. I would love to go to see this place for myself. But...by the time I get there, it will be all gone. Thank you for documenting it, for us, and others who won't get to see it for real.
I actually went to middle school in letchworth village. They rebuilt a building to be known as now fieldstone middle school and they have a elementary school right next to it. It was creepy bc you would go outside for lunch and would see all the destroyed buildings while playing basketball.
I love your videos! Whenever I go through abandoned places I panick and can't post the videos 😂. Did you ever get to go into the old tuberculosis/psychiatric hospital on blakesy in Kalamazoo before they tore it down?
I wonder if we are really doing any better now - the mentally challenged seem to end up homeless on the streets living addicted in squalor and filth - sleeping literally on the sidewalk / street or in tent cities - makes you think.
I've visited the grounds there as a part of it is a park, its pretty huge and some parts of it are apart of a school that exists still.. you can spend all day walking around and exploring. The cemetery for the asylum is about a mile down the road away from the property down a dirt path along a stream/creek. its on a small hill that is open to the sun despite being in the woods. there is a monument there for the children who died . there are a lot of gravestones, some are marked with names and DOB/DOD some have no name but a DOD. i vaguely remember some unknown grave markers.
This is terrible, absolutely heart breaking. I'm not sure how I missed hearing about this. I'm glad the regulations for these places have changed. Sadly, it still goes on in places. There is a special place in h**l for people that abuse the handicapped. Great video, really enjoyed it.
This place started off good and the creator had good intentions, but the more popular and in demand it got the more the level of care descended into neglect and abuse
Our High School was only a mile or so away, North Rockland HS, we used to run through parts of it in track practice, we used to play hockey on the pond across the street.
@@abandonedcentral Yes, we used to talk to some of the patients who were allowed to walk around, we made friends with several, but my experience was primarily in the 70s after changes were made, one patient always had a radio and loved listening to Yankee games, he would yell out the scores to passer byes
Patients in those kind of places, including retiring homes, are STILL treated the same way up until now and will be treated the same way forever in ANY country.
Be careful where you go, you may be trespassing on municipal property or onto school grounds. There's an elementary, middle, and high school right nearby.
This place would have had such a potential for good things, You can see how the buildings themseves were made nicely, purposefully, sad it turned out to be so horrible 😢
Watching this kind of make you think why not hell of a president intervene and do something about it instead of sitting in this pleasure little office her matter fact any government agency should do something about this crap happy belated still going on but there's nothing getting done about it
I went there with my friends like 10 years ago, such a bad idea lol I’m pretty sure spirits followed us back, a whole bunch of weird shit started happening
@@Texaslife98 I got into a bad accident 3 weeks after this, my car lost control and I flew off the highway into a forest, me and my GF broke up, my friend and his GF started having domestic abuse problems, my other friend and his girlfriend got kicked out of their parents houses, me and my first friend I mentioned lost our jobs, both girls are currently single mothers, after I got a new car I started getting pulled over every other week, I started getting into really bad fights with my parents which was strange, these are just a few things lol I went to Mexico and got cleansed but this stretched out about 7 years
Country club? Hardly! Like many such institutions, it started out with the best of intentions, did actually provide a therapeutic environment for a time, but got over crowded, under funded, under staffed, and the people abandoned to concentration camp like conditions in the end. We need to provide good quality institutions for our homeless, addicted, mentally ill, disturbed with no one to assist them. Today, these people are on the streets, in homeless camps, in prisons. It’s no better than the conditions found by Geraldo in the early 1970’s. Dignity and care must be restored and staff be properly trained and supported to offer proper care.
My aunt spent time there and was never the same. There is a religious faction prevalent in Rockland County that is chomping at the bit to purchase the land and develop it. We can only hope we don't erase our history, a museum, an educational facility and many other things can be planted on these grounds that honor the previous residents.
Everyone runs around saying how horrible the people were treated but the real criminals IMO are the parents that would dump their kids off without checking on them or the conditions they had them living in. This place would have been a lot better off if they sent bills to everyone of the families on a monthly basis. Charge them to make conditions better
It's time to bring these places back to put these creeps who go on shooting sprees ( like Adam Lanza and others) medication doesn't seem to be working.
thanks for this = u should tell my brother (David S. Grant - Regina Beach, saskatchewan) to upgrade on how his mental brother is doing (yes me) === he hates me enough to threaten to kill me
My nephew is severe autistic>>>>I could not imagine putting him in a place like this>>>but since they have now closed these facilities>>>They encourage "group homes" for likeminded people>>>It all boils down to the state wanting money>>>>And these patients fit their criteria>>>The school instill this into their vocabulary starting in high school so no>>>Their intentions have not stopped
Good friend found out that her grandfather put her dad brother and sister into mental home nothing was wrong with neither one of them her dad would with to see them the women he married didn't want the two kids and no one take them only the one put them there he died and those two children lived and died in that is crazy house and we they are buried in mental health cemetery.
HA! "...leading to the much needed reform of disability services throughout the country. " Yeah, right. Now they're dumped on the street homeless, drug addicted and 'tr@nsed' by exploitative profit seeking 'healthcare' 'systems'. That's so much better. NIMBY and politics continues to prevent actual treatment, acceptance and integration into wider society. The asylum model with a focus on farming, nature and productive activities were immensely successful, and that was their downfall. There were not enough facilities or staff to take on the massive influx of people who needed such environments to thrive. Had asylums been supported and expanded to function as originally intended and designed, what happened at Willowbrook, Letchworth and so many others would not have happened. It is no different today except many are homeless and the few facilities that do exist are dispersed into communities who largely have nothing to do with them and do not want them in their neighborhoods. Police are left the responsibility of catch and release because there is no place for these people who need intensive support. Hospitals do not admit them, jails release them, shelters refuse them, so they are left to wander aimlessly, panhandle and steal.
At least they probably got some good vaccines out the testing . Now all the testing is done on poor animals . They should reopen places like this and carry on testing on them, they aren't gonna be useful in any other way .
Historically speaking, that's an extremely slippery slope. Fernald school and MIT teamed up and put radioactive pellets in oatmeal. Many of the former patients got cancer and died as a result. The survivors sued and won. So no.
I was a caregiver for an older lady ill call Helen. She told me about the treatment she recieved as a child in Willowbrook. She was thriving and living a much much better life now. Love you Helen. One story ahe said was the staff would clean everyone up and make it look better than ot was when the State was coming in for inspections.. Some wards were locked because the patients couldnt be "seen" by the public. So sad but she is doing well. Ahe loves the radio and loves to sing. What a joyful lady considering her horrific childhood.
Not time stamping myself, but I remember this. But this wasn't the only place this bad. In 1969, some doctors were still telling young parents of downs syndrome babies ( at the time a monogloid baby) to put them in a home and walk away. Thank God times have changed. Hope all those who mistreated these angels find out how hot hell is.
Your weakness of sympathy for defective life is absurd.
Taxes should be used to make the world a better place not to drag gods mistakes into the future
Sir or mam. The only defective one I can see is you. And I paid taxes my whole life and can say I sincerely hope they never helped you or yours in any way. Opinions are like assholes... Everyone has one. Your opinion is yours, and mine is mine.
@@Brokenhearted2030 bravo. Who needs your money ?
I for one choose to ignore the infant warrior with a keyboard! Times have changed drastically and hopefully people will have a bit more compassion for the mental and physical impaired... now if the government and the rest of humanity would work on mental health care for anyone who needs it, it would be the next big step in evolution!
God does not err. Do some due diligence lest you come off as biased per personal standards. Man has done this snd there have been thousands if redacted documents released about the horrific experiments done to man by his fellow man. Yes, in pregnant women as well with injections in the 1950s. The road to genocide is slippery and those who promote it will likewise end up its eventual victim. Natural law evens things out in that way. Many may cibsudwr your perspective to be broken ir of a weakened mind. Who decisions who lives and dies? No. Nature does just fine on its own without our interference.
I live by the area and drop by it every once and a while. The "feeling" of the area is feeling way more errie than it normally is. It's super creepy and I couldn't even bring myself to venture inside.
I’m so thankful that my sister never had to go through this,she is in a wonderful group home..
Putting a family in a group home shows how nasty family is towards those they say that they love.
Ditching your loved one in a fucking group home, no matter if the treatment is better or not is no better. BRING THE “LOVED ONE” HOME WITH THEIR FAMILY…. If you truly loved them they’d be home with you.
@@melissasturgis in my opinion not all people can understand with people with disabilities like Down syndrome or any disabilities plus some people don’t want that responsibility so there are group homes for them to be at least some what independence I am sure they love them but not all can handle it.
My friends Mom worked at Letchworth.Abuse was rampant.Sexual and other.Employeesxroutinely stole food and other supplies for their own use.A really heartbreaking commentary on us all as humans.
Geraldo and Dr Wilkins risked a great deal to bring light to the literal horror that occurred behind those gates. Geraldo learned that in response to his initial coverage of the facility, the Governor scheduled a visit. Geraldo and his supporters turned up 2 hours before that to see the overworked and under supported staff frantically trying to make the facility and it’s patients as presentable as possible. It’s hard to believe we’ve gone from news and journalism sources utilizing their time and effort on things that actually matter, with the ultimate goal of improving people’s lives, to a culture of journalists and news sources who only seem to be concerned with being right.
My father, who will be 83 this year, grew up in a town very close to this place. He worked there in his teens. When I was perhaps 16, he shared with me the things he witnessed there, which this video corroborates. I can't believe this place lasted until 1996. It's a prime example of how evil can exist right under our noses, and normal people, so busy with their day to day existence, don't even notice until the horrifying acts have not only been committed, but the monsters who committed them have moved on to the next fun house, while all their previous crimes were swept under the rug, and they continue to torture our fellow human beings.
I was so upset to read about this treatment. The Germans WW2 were just as cruel.
Absolutely horrible
My mom worked in Letchworth Village, and lived on the property in employees housing. It was before it got bad, but she couldn't handle it before it caved in, and it was so bad she couldn't discuss it. In 40 years she has never said more then a few words about it. My dad didn't work there, but he worked in Rockland State insane asylum which was not far away at all. Why did NYC be something that massive? Research Tartaria.
@@Overstand100 I know all about tartaria my friend. It's a deep rabbit hole to be sure
@@AndrewGulak Awesome. I'm stuck in the rabbit hole. It has taken a lot of research for me to say positively that there's _something_ to it. I'm not sure what, but things like Letchworth make me believe it more so. They say that they built most of it in 1 year. That's not possible, so the lies are what peaks my interest. Look into it more sometime and let me know what you find!👍🏽
I lived in New City most of my life, it's in Rockland county! My neighbors mom worked at this place! I visited it once in the 70's! Sad , and miserable place
Services for th developmentally disabled have been greatly improved. Unfortunately, the mentally ill have been shifted to residence in tent camps and under bridges.
As a person who have hard hearing, I was terrified about this documentary. My inner meltdown and haunts me dreams.
Shocked that you didn't look for the underground tunnels to explore. Letchworth is my neighbor and I love the history behind it. The tragic part isn't my favorite; the part where Geraldo blew the lid open and exposed how mental health patients were treated. It started the reform for their care and for that, we can be grateful, in the very least.
I still vote every year in one of the buildings. I am in and out of there as quick as possible. Quite spooky
A friend of mine with aspergers had a full on episode of psychosis as teens when we explored in a group. It was freaky and hard to describe.
One of my favorite locations to visit, yet it still it's painful to walk through some of those buildings, to see the way people were crammed into big open rooms with little dividers making tiny bedrooms. To see the hospital beds that were put upstairs in a power plant, to see the little kids beds that were made in the eaves of some of the buildings, tragic😢
I grew up a couple miles down the road in pomona/ mt ivy ny.. We use to go exploring in the buildings at night when we where teens...its a heavy feeling just being there and alot of weird stuff you would experience before even knowing the story of what happened there... Papers and equipmemt all over the floors.. Flooded elevator shafts and tunnels all under the facility .. We would be respectful while we were there but again you almost feel a sad emotion wash over you instantly without even knowing the full measure of what took place there
The fact that they could treat people like this is just absolutely horrible and absurd! It makes my heart break seeing what these patients had to go through! 😢
This is so very sad,it just breaks your heart…Makes me cry….
It really is heartbreaking what they went through.
That's just a crying 😭 shame to see how those people were treated back then 😭
It really is 😔 Thanks for watching Robert.
@@abandonedcentral yes it is a crying thing
My best friend went through the same shit but it wasn't this location. (See my comment in the chat.)
Nothing is better now. You can see how horribly the poor, disabled & homeless are treated but you just turn a blind eye. All you care about is your job, going shopping & watching football on the weekends. Nothing has changed. Now the people are left in the street to rot, suffer & be forgotten instead of being tossed in a big building. Stop acting like things are any better now. This world is a friggin horror movie, you just choose to not see it.
You are soo right. This world has no sympathy, nobody gives a shit.
It's deeper than that. Let me tell you something that will shift your paradigm. How did they build that place in 1 year from 1910-1911? Why did they need an asylum that big, that is so close to another massive asylum? The answer is in the idea of "Tartaria." We are slowly getting worse on every level. The health care business is really a death machine. They are rotten serpents just like the logo on their white coat. Doctors of death admit that they never cure anything. They manage, but rarely cure patients. It's a sick sick world, but it won't last long.
Believe it or not, most of them like being homeless. I'ts not anyones fault but the governments. I'll continue going to work and doing what I work and keep myself sane.
People are selfish these days! and lacking in empathy eating animals products lowers the empathy hm maybe that's why and they prefer to live in their fake lifes than the real truth they dont seem to care...
It's pretty cool the way the town handled the ruins. Nice park and a good place for rebellious teens to have their moment by poking around in the haunted facility before they return to society & grow up. There are a lot worse things teens could do during their rebellious phase. They poke around a few times then go off to college.
It’s goofy not Pluto btw but great video and I love the way you bring the history into your videos so much
My bad haha! Thanks for watching our videos.
Yeh Pluto is goofys dog lol
I journeyed through it was so creepy
I'm beginning to think that the good ol' days really weren't that hot for many.
Truly devastating how many institutions that were meant to help, & provide care, became such nightmarish places. Especially when it became overcrowded 😢
You made a great video about a cruel place. Man describes himself as the most developed living being. A bad joke. .. have tears in my eyes... thanks for sharing with us.
It really was a cruel place. Thanks for watching and supporting our videos.
Amen. Then we blame God as of it's not our own doing. The experimental injections and human cruelty left a paper trail few follow to it's proper course.
After Geraldo went there, things changed greatly for the people there. I worked there in the office in the late 80’s early 90’s. I also worked in several group homes and loved all the people I worked with.
Would you say this place is haunted? Just looking at videos and pictures you can feel the bad juju
I’m sure it could be but a lot of it could be just leftover negative energy. There were some scary spots in that place! They say there’s all kinds of tunnels underneath
So tell us how was it like there ? Was there anything bad going on that you knew of ? What was the most horrible thing you seen there ?
Really looking forward to your reply !! Thank u !!!
Fantastic coverage of this asylum. I first clicked on another site and it was just some girl sitting in front of the camera telling the story with very little to no pictures to show. That was boring so I looked for another and came across yours. Man would I LOVE to be able to photograph inside this place!! I have worked with adults with intellectual disabilities for 20 years now, and it just blows my mind how far we have come. So sad how they were treated 😢
Amazing documentary. So sad what happened to them. I like your words at the end!!!!
Its horrible what happened here. Thanks for always supporting our videos Claire!
That was heartbreaking to watch those patients at the beginning of the vid what must they have had to endure 😢💔 As always tho thanks AC for all the info on this place as well as the tour around it ❤️
It is heartbreaking to watch. We appreciate the support. Thanks for watching our videos ❤
I subscribe to your channel a while ago but I but I just started watching it I enjoy the way you go through the detailed history Of the locations
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This place was described what my best friend went through at the Belchertown state school in Belchertown Mass! He (Richard Dresser) has a story online as well with others. He's going to be writing a book called "behind the closed doors" with his worker. Some of the buildings are still there. But they are building a condo complex which the town is not happy about.
This just breaks my heart all these innocent people being treated like garbage No one cared for them the pain and terror in their eyes it made me shudder because they couldnt speak for themselves
Thank you for honouring these innocent
people and making their voice be heard
I was part of a group in my high school that had trips to letchworth village. It was horrible. I’ll never forget it. The smell was something I had never experienced. At 16 yrs old this was so eye opening and disturbing.
Wtf kind of trip is that
@@amyelizabeth135 I don’t remember why the high school organized this. I don’t even remember why I was part of the group that went. A little PTSD with that trip!!
I went with an honors high school class for college credit to an institution for profoundly mentally and physically disabled children. What we saw was the best the place had to offer, and the ward they’d had time to fix up in advance. It was still awful. They tried, but the stench couldn’t be completely hidden by the Pine Sol. The I’ll-fitting clothes were clearly not those belonging to the patients, and there was nothing to be done about the din coming from beyond the model ward. There was an outdoor playground that was rusting and overgrown, clearly unused for many years. The talk of outdoor therapy was obviously lies. We weren’t fooled. The place was a snake pit.
Where’s this Chanel been my whole life ?
Great video as always. Sad but whoever is in charge should be arrested and thrown in prison somewhere for the rest of their lives
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Who in Gods name would put a family member in there? Those poor souls. I’m sure that they are all at peace now. That place is worst than any nightmare.
I wonder if they ever get paranormal responses or visuals. .
I've been doing this for about 8 years now. Never really had any paranormal responses or visuals.
@abandonedcentral
Come spend a couple of days at my house, and you'll have your paranormal experience.
These are very interesting, though. And you have a good Eye on pointing things out. That others may not notice right away.
Now they are in prisons
Rip the people whom died in mental institutions and insane asylums in the United States that were committed because of having a disability or mentally ill children and adults that were forgotten by their families
I'm pretty sure I already commented on this one, but you get another lol.
I would love to go to see this place for myself. But...by the time I get there, it will be all gone. Thank you for documenting it, for us, and others who won't get to see it for real.
I actually went to middle school in letchworth village. They rebuilt a building to be known as now fieldstone middle school and they have a elementary school right next to it. It was creepy bc you would go outside for lunch and would see all the destroyed buildings while playing basketball.
27:41 the door moved
So sad! Poor patients!
18:41 that is Goofy my man, trust your instincts! At least they’re both canines lol
I love your videos! Whenever I go through abandoned places I panick and can't post the videos 😂. Did you ever get to go into the old tuberculosis/psychiatric hospital on blakesy in Kalamazoo before they tore it down?
Yes I was able to explore it but that was before I was filming videos. That was a cool locations. Thanks for watching our videos!
I wonder if we are really doing any better now - the mentally challenged seem to end up homeless on the streets living addicted in squalor and filth - sleeping literally on the sidewalk / street or in tent cities - makes you think.
Exactly.. we need facilities that are run with integrity & care. Not abusive facilities or just letting the ill rot in the streets.
Well, you can take them in then.
I've visited the grounds there as a part of it is a park, its pretty huge and some parts of it are apart of a school that exists still.. you can spend all day walking around and exploring. The cemetery for the asylum is about a mile down the road away from the property down a dirt path along a stream/creek. its on a small hill that is open to the sun despite being in the woods. there is a monument there for the children who died . there are a lot of gravestones, some are marked with names and DOB/DOD some have no name but a DOD. i vaguely remember some unknown grave markers.
This is terrible, absolutely heart breaking. I'm not sure how I missed hearing about this. I'm glad the regulations for these places have changed. Sadly, it still goes on in places. There is a special place in h**l for people that abuse the handicapped. Great video, really enjoyed it.
I wonder if any of the patients or employees are still alive
Probably. But they might not want to talk about what happened
If it closed back in 1996 then there are definitely patients or former employees that are still alive.
This place started off good and the creator had good intentions, but the more popular and in demand it got the more the level of care descended into neglect and abuse
Our High School was only a mile or so away, North Rockland HS, we used to run through parts of it in track practice, we used to play hockey on the pond across the street.
Have you ever been curious and went inside any of the buildings?
@@abandonedcentral Yes, we used to talk to some of the patients who were allowed to walk around, we made friends with several, but my experience was primarily in the 70s after changes were made, one patient always had a radio and loved listening to Yankee games, he would yell out the scores to passer byes
Wonder if geraldo Rivera would ever revisit these news pieces he's ever done?
Yes there are two videos with him revisiting. One of them is 25 years later
Patients in those kind of places, including retiring homes, are STILL treated the same way up until now and will be treated the same way forever in ANY country.
I first saw this place on ghost adventures. The thing that got me was the amount of abuse that went on in this place.
OMG noooooo
Back in the day 😢RIP ANGELS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
a place like this should be torn down
Hi, i explored this last weekend, couldn't find the morge table building you started with, where is it? thanks
Be careful where you go, you may be trespassing on municipal property or onto school grounds. There's an elementary, middle, and high school right nearby.
Is the building structurally safe? Could it be turned into a home for the homeless?
These building aren't structurally safe anymore. They should all be demolished.
@@abandonedcentral Is it still standing as of now? Curious because this video is a year old.
This place would have had such a potential for good things, You can see how the buildings themseves were made nicely, purposefully, sad it turned out to be so horrible 😢
Watching this kind of make you think why not hell of a president intervene and do something about it instead of sitting in this pleasure little office her matter fact any government agency should do something about this crap happy belated still going on but there's nothing getting done about it
I went there with my friends like 10 years ago, such a bad idea lol I’m pretty sure spirits followed us back, a whole bunch of weird shit started happening
Like what?? I gotta know
@@Texaslife98 I got into a bad accident 3 weeks after this, my car lost control and I flew off the highway into a forest, me and my GF broke up, my friend and his GF started having domestic abuse problems, my other friend and his girlfriend got kicked out of their parents houses, me and my first friend I mentioned lost our jobs, both girls are currently single mothers, after I got a new car I started getting pulled over every other week, I started getting into really bad fights with my parents which was strange, these are just a few things lol I went to Mexico and got cleansed but this stretched out about 7 years
Country club? Hardly! Like many such institutions, it started out with the best of intentions, did actually provide a therapeutic environment for a time, but got over crowded, under funded, under staffed, and the people abandoned to concentration camp like conditions in the end. We need to provide good quality institutions for our homeless, addicted, mentally ill, disturbed with no one to assist them. Today, these people are on the streets, in homeless camps, in prisons. It’s no better than the conditions found by Geraldo in the early 1970’s. Dignity and care must be restored and staff be properly trained and supported to offer proper care.
How sad that happened to these people. The people who did this will be paid baud if they weren’t already.
My aunt spent time there and was never the same. There is a religious faction prevalent in Rockland County that is chomping at the bit to purchase the land and develop it. We can only hope we don't erase our history, a museum, an educational facility and many other things can be planted on these grounds that honor the previous residents.
Hasidic community?
This is very sad that this is how we used to treat people with disabilities
I thought that was Goofy too! I also thought Pluto wasn't anthropomorphized?
Pluto was a yellow dog that walked on all fours.
How awful💔😿
18:45 bro thats goofy...
Everyone runs around saying how horrible the people were treated but the real criminals IMO are the parents that would dump their kids off without checking on them or the conditions they had them living in. This place would have been a lot better off if they sent bills to everyone of the families on a monthly basis. Charge them to make conditions better
We 100% agree with that.
How did you double down on calling goofy pluto? Thats honestly wildly disrespectful 😂
And let's name it "Letchworth" of all things! Lol.. Like a Harry Potter villain.. Great idea! 😂👍
Yeah... They didn't even give most of the patients that died there their own plot... Two miles down is a mass grave with markers...
18:40 no offense but I’m pretty sure that’s goofy 😂
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It's time to bring these places back to put these creeps who go on shooting sprees ( like Adam Lanza and others) medication doesn't seem to be working.
Add to that all the adults who harm or kill children. There needs to be a special hell just for them.
Real Ass Asylum
Crazy what happened here.
Location ?
Letchworth Village in New York.
thanks for this = u should tell my brother (David S. Grant - Regina Beach, saskatchewan) to upgrade on how his mental brother is doing (yes me) === he hates me enough to threaten to kill me
@Sunshine 🌠 Sunshine 🌠 because i'm an epileptic
It.sounds like the original concept was enlightened and humane but over time, in practice, it became a hellhole.
My nephew is severe autistic>>>>I could not imagine putting him in a place like this>>>but since they have now closed these facilities>>>They encourage "group homes" for likeminded people>>>It all boils down to the state wanting money>>>>And these patients fit their criteria>>>The school instill this into their vocabulary starting in high school so no>>>Their intentions have not stopped
Good friend found out that her grandfather put her dad brother and sister into mental home nothing was wrong with neither one of them her dad would with to see them the women he married didn't want the two kids and no one take them only the one put them there he died and those two children lived and died in that is crazy house and we they are buried in mental health cemetery.
😭🇨🇦😭ORILLIA ONT
H.R.C HOSPITAL
And it is Goofy. Pluto wore no clothes and a dog collar and walked on all 4’s, like a dog. Goofy walked in two legs and wore clothes.
HA! "...leading to the much needed reform of disability services throughout the country. " Yeah, right. Now they're dumped on the street homeless, drug addicted and 'tr@nsed' by exploitative profit seeking 'healthcare' 'systems'. That's so much better. NIMBY and politics continues to prevent actual treatment, acceptance and integration into wider society. The asylum model with a focus on farming, nature and productive activities were immensely successful, and that was their downfall. There were not enough facilities or staff to take on the massive influx of people who needed such environments to thrive. Had asylums been supported and expanded to function as originally intended and designed, what happened at Willowbrook, Letchworth and so many others would not have happened. It is no different today except many are homeless and the few facilities that do exist are dispersed into communities who largely have nothing to do with them and do not want them in their neighborhoods. Police are left the responsibility of catch and release because there is no place for these people who need intensive support. Hospitals do not admit them, jails release them, shelters refuse them, so they are left to wander aimlessly, panhandle and steal.
My Aunt was yhere
I would take my Mom to visit
An example of
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10:46 hammers and hacksaws and prybars oh my! Crowbars and wrenches and drills oh my!
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Luis J Gomez brought me here.
No clue who that is but we thank him 😂
gahhhhhhhhhhhhh
is that Andrew Tate narrating lmaaoo
Sounds nothing like him.
At least they probably got some good vaccines out the testing . Now all the testing is done on poor animals . They should reopen places like this and carry on testing on them, they aren't gonna be useful in any other way .
We shouldn't be, people in asylums should be .
Historically speaking, that's an extremely slippery slope. Fernald school and MIT teamed up and put radioactive pellets in oatmeal. Many of the former patients got cancer and died as a result. The survivors sued and won. So no.