Pools Once Swum In
October 17, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
We won’t be jumping in these abandoned pools any time soon—-this one is in a “modernist mental institution“—-more than glad I am able to take Charlie to our YMCA pool to swim with everyone else.
I completely agree with you, but those are great photos
My husband and I had an interesting conversation last night about Norwich State Hospital (http://www.designedbreakdown.com/photo/norwich/galleries/2008-03-22/index.html) . I have seen photographs of it for years online- it’s an old State “mental hospital”, and the photos of it online are decidedly creepy. It turns out that he and and old girlfriend had toured the place about 20 years ago- her father used to work there, so they snuck in one night to look around. Apparently it’s not creepy at all- he said that you can definitely tell that it was a “mental institution” as there were chains in some of the rooms (ugh), but he said that basically it was just an old, abandoned building. From what I’ve seen on TV (a lot of people have done filming there), it’s definitely a gathering place for paranormal “researchers”, but apparently it’s actually pretty boring when you’re walking through it, to the extent that a lot of filming crews (VH1 etc) just make up rooms to look worse than they are (making fake padded rooms for example).
Sorry- I went off on a tangent, but I like hearing the stories behind some of the old photos that we see online.