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posted February 17, 2008 12:18 PM         

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http://www.lioddities.com/index.html

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posted February 17, 2008 12:54 PM         

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This is very interesting, nattie. Thanks for sharing it.

I read about the abandoned houses and the haunted ones. I have always had a fascination for old, abandoned houses. We have a few around here as this all used to be farm area. When I pass I always wonder who lived there and if the house is haunted.

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posted February 17, 2008 09:23 PM         

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What i find sad is the hospitals that closed displaced a lot of people. there a lot of homeless who used to be patients hanging around there. they have no place to go. But long island is a hotbed of spooky with all the hauntings going on.

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posted February 18, 2008 05:28 PM         

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I checked out the asylum site last night and it is very sad. It was kind of depressing looking at all those pictures and I also wondered what happened to all the patients when the psychiatric hospitals closed down.

Those were quite huge complexes with farms and dairies and even their own railroad systems and fire stations. My goodness! Huge. They must have cost a lot of money and to close down like that and just go to ruin it seems like such a waste of tax payers money.

I wonder if there were any other psychiatric hospitals like that any place else in the country. I never heard of anything like that in Michigan for sure.

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posted February 18, 2008 06:25 PM         

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I know what you mean Mirandee it is depressing. i even found a state school for children on that site. That is even more depressing to think of children in a place like that
I had a friend who worked for pilgram state for many years she was a nurse i dont know how she did it. but i remember one story she told me of a women who was there for 30 years or more who was there beause she was raped and in those days i guess the answer for trauma was to lock people up and medicate them. its a good thing those times are over

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posted February 20, 2008 02:23 AM         

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Wow, lot of sites around.

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posted February 20, 2008 02:17 PM         

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A good friend of mine created a great MySpace page about "Kings Park Hospital" because his grandparents lived and worked there. It wasn't a sad place at all. They did a tremendous amount of pioneering work there. Check it out and look at some of the pictures. He spent a lot of time there with his grandparents.

http://www.myspace.com/livingatkingsparkhospital

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posted February 21, 2008 01:50 PM         

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It looks like a much nicer place. I was only familiar with pilgram state.

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