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Which of us has not read the stories about the houses in which ghosts? And if mystical events happen in the hospital, yes still psychiatric? .. Quite a suitable plot for a “horror movie”. However, ghost stories are not always fiction that proves the phenomenon of the abandoned hospital Kings Park on Long Island (New York).
This impressive building was erected at the beginning of the year before last. centuries, and in 1855 the local bishop opened a clinic here for mentally ill, in which about 10 thousand were simultaneously treated patients. “The refuge of the lunatics” was nicknamed this institution by the people, which was explained quite simply: at that time you can get to the clinic was even with slight mental disabilities, including sleepwalking. Subsequently, these conditions ceased to be considered pathological, requiring treatment in mental hospitals. However when Kings Park prospered, similar disorders in it were treated with such innovative methods like lobotomy, exposure to electric charges, occupational therapy.
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Many terrible legends go about this clinic. They say in particular that patients suffering from staff aggression and “new” methods of therapy, often escaped from the hospital. These miserable lost in the forests surrounding the hospital and died of hypothermia. Those whose bodies were not found were officially recognized as drowned. in the local river. In addition, silent patients often died at the hands of violent, and the clinic staff for some reason could not or did not want this discourage. But keep these facts a secret Kings Park could long enough. There were such patients (however, they could to be completely healthy), who were placed in underground punishment cells, lest they infect other patients with revolutionary moods and did not see the staff in person.
Curse of the abandoned mental hospital Kings Park
Since 1996, when the hospital was closed, it is considered abandoned. It is believed that the still-empty Kings Park building damned.
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According to rumors, many ghosts of former patients live in it. clinics. These entities are eager to avenge the “cure” that is only exacerbated the situation of mentally ill people. Ghosts concentrated primarily in the main hospital building, having thirteen floors. Eyewitnesses claim that in the windows of the building ghostly faces often appear with their fixed expression of suffering.
The daredevils, who ventured to go inside, for some reason then didn’t can find a way out – just mysticism. Once the guy who went into main hospital building, heard human crying and saw a whole host of terrible faces. Already on the verge of insanity, young man, fortunately, managed to find a way out — the guardian angel helped. Leaving the building, he looked around and noticed someone else’s face and the inscription next: “Inside is evil.”
A group of teenagers were a little less fortunate. Guys long and unsuccessfully wandered around trying to find a way out until finally they called the police. Having pulled them out of the forbidden territory, law enforcement officers discharged Parents of hapless tourists fine. There was a case when an adult the man somehow fell into the shaft of the hospital elevator. Of course, lovers of mysticism immediately blamed the evil-minded a ghost, however, the victim himself could not explain how it happened – he didn’t even remember very well how he got out of this trap.
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But the most interesting and mysterious thing happened to one brave man, who successfully got out of the clinic, told his friends amazing and terrible stories about his visit there … and then suddenly disappeared! From his words followed that the guy was in the dungeon, where in the punishment cells contained the most objectionable patients. They are still there, said Ghostbuster. Under the feet in that dark basement squished some liquid, and an adventurer decided that it was water. However, when he came into the light, he saw his shoes in something very similar to blood … It is not known how true the stories were the brave man, however, he was never found after his disappearance. Moreover he disappeared in the most mysterious way from his own bedroom …
As for the local authorities, they have long been trying to attract investors to this mysterious place, but wishing to “settle down and ennoble “this is a terrible place for some reason everything is not …
