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harveyspictures · 2 years ago
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Birthplace. Salem Massachusettes October 17, 2022. Bottles, obviously.
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massachusetts-official · 1 year ago
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Alright, time for some Shire appreciation
Western Mass has:
The tallest mountain in Mass, Mt Greylock, which was the inspiration for Moby Dick (Melville’s home is in a nearby town and viewing a snow-covered Greylock gave him the idea for a white whale) as well as a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes and a horror story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The home of Norman Rockwell, now a museum, as well as dozens of locales (and people, although fewer as time goes by) featured in classic paintings of his
The homes of Edith Wharton, Emily Dickinson, and William Cullen Bryant, plus the Dr Seuss and Eric Carle Museums, Mass MoCA, and the Clarke Art Museum
The birthplace of basketball and basketball hall of fame as well as the locale of the first written evidence of baseball (sorry, Cooperstown fans, the Doubleday thing is a myth)
The hometowns of Penn Jillette, Misha Collins, Elizabeth Banks, plus the birthplace of Matthew Perry, and adopted hometown of James Taylor as well as numerous other celebs with seasonal homes in the area
A castle and a crapton of Gilded Era mansions
A Gilded Era theater that was hidden in the back of a paint store for half a century
Tanglewood
And, perhaps most importantly, the town with the highest number of lesbians per capita in the US (also, not coincidentally though less importantly, Smith College and a dozen or so other colleges that aren't UMass)
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elegantzombielite · 5 months ago
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"Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth."
Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (4th July 1804-1864)
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linusjf · 7 months ago
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Unaccustomed earth
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer.
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thesehauntedhills · 4 years ago
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House of the Seven Gables.
Salem, Massachusetts. 1692
No, this house did not steal its name from the classic novel—in fact, it inspired the novel itself. Aside from being the site of those famous witch trials in 1692, Salem also happens to be the birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who used this 17th-century house as inspiration for his famous 1851 novel, The House of the Seven Gables. Aside from its beautiful-yet-spooky facade, the house is surrounded by tales of paranormal activity and ghost sightings (all based on personal experiences of visitors and staff).
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forineffablereasons · 5 years ago
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house of the seven gables / nathaniel hawthorne’s birthplace
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myhauntedsalem · 6 years ago
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The Old Danver’s State Asylum
Another Massachusetts facility, the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers is actually quite famous in horror. It’s said to have been an inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham Sanatorium and it served as the setting for the film Session 9. The exterior even appears in the asylum level of the game Painkiller.
So what has earned Danvers State such distinctions? Actually, when the hospital was constructed in 1887, it was designed by Nathaniel J Bradlee according to the theories of mental health advocate Thomas Story Kirkbride, who believed in the compassion care and treatment of the mentally ill. That meant ornate interiors, private rooms, and long, rambling wings that would let the sunshine in. But while Danvers was meant to be an appealing place whose interiors promoted the health and well being of its patients, its gothic design has captured the imagination of many a lover of horror.
Unfortunately, as the decades wore on, Kirkbride’s influence touched nothing more than the main building’s floor plan. The structure was originally meant to contain 600 patients, but in 1939, it had a daily population of 2,360, and the staff, whose size had remained relatively stable, was at a loss for how to control the patients, who were sick and dirty from their lack of care. Sometimes the patients died out of the staff members’ sight, and weren’t discovered until days later, rotting away in some forgotten room. Eventually, all of the nightmarish trappings of asylums were introduced: solitary confinement, straightjackets, electroshock therapy (which gets a bad rap, but was likely overused as a means to control patients rather than as a mode of treatment), and the lobotomy.
After psychiatrist physician Walter Freeman performed the United States’ first transorbital lobotomy in 1936, many large psychiatric hospitals took to the procedure like an icepick to an eye socket, using it to treat everything from daydreaming and backaches to delusions and major depression.
Danvers is often given the dubious title of the “birthplace of the prefrontal lobotomy” for its use and refinement of the procedure. While some patients certainly saw stunning benefits from this so-called miracle treatment, many others had adverse effects. Visitors to the hospital in the late 1940s described the patients as aimlessly wandering the halls, or vacantly staring at walls, perhaps a result of both their poor treatment by the staff and their various medical interventions.
Portions of the hospital were shuttered starting in 1969, with most of it closed by 1985, and the entire campus shut down in 1992. For years, the building sat empty, but eventually the property was bought up by Avalon Bay Development, which demolished most of the buildings, including the interior of the historic Kirkbride building. The Kirkbride building’s facade was used as part of the new Avalon Danvers apartments. Some of the campus’ tunnels, the cemetery, and facades of a couple of the other buildings remain, but the “modern ruins” version of Danvers State now exists only in photographs and videos.
The original name for Danvers was Salem Village. This is where the Salem Witch Trials were held not in the current town of Salem. People were actually hung on Hawthorne Hill where the hospital was built.
Jonathan Hawthrone, perhaps the most fanatical judge in the infamous Salem Witch Trials, is said to have lived in a house on the same hill long before the hospital was built. He over saw the deaths of 23 innocents.
The mold infested crops that have been said to have caused the hallucinations that lead to the Salem Witch Trials are said to have been grown on the same hill as the hospital was built.
By the 1940s faced with intense overcrowding the hospital resorted to brutal techniques including early-style shock treatments, lobotomies and hydrotherapy total immersion in freezing cold water.
Dozens of requests were made to perform seances on the property to the Massachuetts Department of capital Assets who owned the property during the period of abandonment. All were denied.
Jeralyn Levasseur lived on the property as a child in a house lent to her father by the Hospital administrator. She remembers hearing footsteps in the second story hallways when no one else was home as well as doors that would open and close as well as lights flickering. She also remembers her brother and sister seeing the apparition of an older woman scowling at them. When she was in high school all of the covers were ripped off her bed when no one else was in the room.
There are 2 schools of thought about the site. One says it is purely haunted by the incredible amount of negative energy from both the witch trials and the horrific treatment of the overcrowded patients at the hospital. The other school says the actual ghosts of former innocents killed in the witch trials and the former patients still walk the grounds.
Countless apparitions of both former patients and staff, shadow figures, phantom sounds of voices, laughter, crying, screaming and every other imaginable sound, feelings of being touched, pushed and tugged at, feelings of being watched, not being wanted, general unease, intense and uncontrollable fear and intense overwhelming sadness, reports from people of having their names spoken, doors opening and closing on their own, electrical disturbances, light anomalies, mysterious mists and glows and pretty much any other paranormal activity ever experienced. A feeling of intense evil is said to hang over this area that seems to exist to this day.
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asyoulikeitnow · 6 years ago
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Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (4 Jul 1804-1864)
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laguanrodgers · 3 years ago
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Highlight of the day for me was definitely visiting the house that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel and the one of his birthplace. From his writing desk to excerpts from his personal letters with his wife to learning about why he added a letter to his last name, the history nerd in me was content. #YFD #myendlesssummer #history #adventures #salemma #freestylingboston #explore #meandmycub #houseofthesevengables #newengland (at House of the Seven Gables) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfc6ilEO0p6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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streetsofsalem · 4 years ago
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Renaissance and Reign of Terror
Renaissance and Reign of Terror
1904 was a big year in Salem’s commemorative history: it was the centennial of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birth, and his birthplace received both regional and national attention. This was squarely in the midst of the time when Witch City and Hawthorne/Colonial City were duking it out to see which one would define Salem’s identify going forward: the former won, of course. Hawthorne was born on July 4,…
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paranormalhappenings · 7 years ago
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Danvers State Lunatic Asylum, located in Danvers, Massachusetts
The Danvers State Lunatic Asylum was opened on May 13th, 1878, it was a Victorian style building and was known as The State Lunatic Hospital, it was also said to be the birthplace of pre-frontal lobotomy. It was built under the supervision of Boston architect Nathaniel J. Bradlee. It was a large and self-contained hospital and was built in the Kirkbride Plan, this was the plan widely used since it was considered the best for the care of mentally ill people, the wings of the hospital were staggered to the east and west and radiated off from a central administrative building, it also was connected by a series of underground tunnels for the means of privacy. The building cost 1.5 million dollars to build, it had numerous kitchens, laundries, a boiler house, a chapel and dormitories for the attendants. It was common that male patients were housed in the west side and females on the east. The patients who were considered to be the most extreme cases were housed in the outermost wards. There was also a building to treat patients who were diagnosed with Tuberculosis, this was a common back then. It was built to only hold 500 patients, but by the 1930s over 2,000 patients were admitted to the asylum. Lack of funding caused many problems for this asylum and many others in America during this time that were state-fun. Due to this there were staff shortages, low wages, overcrowding, and poor quality care for patients. This hospital became a nightmare for some but was left as their only option and others were forced to close down. 
The staff and doctors didn't waste their time studying progressive treatments or giving patients proper therapy, they saved the hospital’s money and their time by administrating the most minimal levels of care that the system could provide, of course the end result was very pretty. The outermost wards as mentioned earlier that housed the most extreme cases became “back wards” this was for the hopeless and incurable, it was called a human cesspool in investigations and it turned into sensational newspaper headlines. During peak operation the asylum held up to 2,400 patients, and there was a variety of treatments as medical history progressed, this included lobotomy, electroshock therapy, insulin shock therapy and drug therapy.
It was slowly deinstitutionalized starting in the 1960s, it released patients to community-based group homes and other Massachusetts state hospitals. The asylum begun to close the wards and wing tips in the mid-1980s, it operated until 1992 when it was finally fully closed down. 
Hauntings
Danvers State Lunatic Asylum is known as one of the most intriguing and haunted places on earth, it has an unsettling look to it as it sits atop Hawthorne Hill, overlooking a scenic countryside. It was nicknamed the “ witches castle on the hill”. Danvers, Massachusetts was formerly known as Salem Village, many people are unaware of this, Salem Village was the first location of the Salem Witch Trails in 1692, the witch trails did not begin in Salem, but Salem Village, or what is now Danvers. The most fanatical judge of the trails, Johnathan Hawthorne lived in a house that was built by his father atop of the hill, and this spot is also to be said to be the spot were John Proctor and four other accused witches were hung on Gallows Hill. This is where the asylum sits today, hence the name “Witches Castle.” 
As it fell victim to the lack of government funding, it became understaffed and over populated, so it’s physical state began to deteriorate and was considered a hell-hole, compared to that of a German death camp, once applauded for it’s humane treatment of patients, it turned into a dark place by the mid half of the century. 
Patients were subjected to the treatments of shock therapy, hydrotherapy, insulin shock, psychosurgery and lobotomies, the frontal lobotomy was said to be perfected here, these therapies were used to keep its burgeoning census under control. As patients were subjected to these treatments they became haggard and ghostly and spent much of their time alone and in solitary confinement, the space they stayed in was no bigger than a small bathroom. They were poorly clothed, even sometimes naked, they would pace aimlessly in the wards and lie on filthy cement floors or sit with their head against the pock-marked walls. If a patient were to die, they would go unnoticed for days because of how bad the other patients just seemed like they were the walking dead. 
The Danvers Asylum was bought in 2005 and converted into Apartments and parts of it was demolished, it is still recognizable however. Tenants of the apartments report they have flickering lights, full body apparitions, hear footsteps, and their doors will close and open on their own.
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klnofziger · 5 years ago
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Boston, and the surrounding areas, is by far our favorite New England spot thus far. Every time we find ourselves seeking adventure in this city, we find new and exciting things to return to. Undoubtedly, Boston is well known as a historically significant place. It is here that many of our nation’s beginnings were birthed and grew. History buffs will love this town but the historical sites are not the only reason to visit.
Boston is bursting with sites for those with a passion for the literary. Here, we provide you with some of the sites in and around Boston that every bibliophile would love to see.
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Boston Public Library – You show me a bibliophile and I’ll show you someone who can get lost in the rows and stacks of a library. The Boston Public Library is a stunning building dating back to the 1800s and home to over 23 million texts, artifacts and works of art.
Omni Parker Hotel – Since 1855 the Omni Parker Hotel has been a meeting place for the bookish, whether writer or reader. The Saturday Club met here as well as other literary greats like Longfellow!
Old Corner Bookstore – One of the oldest buildings in Boston, completed in 1712 and frequented by renowned authors in the area. One of the many stops along the Freedom Trail, we recommenced traveling to visit this iconic piece of the literary fiber of America.
Boston Literary District – It is here that you can find sites such as childhood and young adult homes, restaurants frequented by authors like Kerouac, intersections near significant places such as Poe’s birthplace, bookstores and museum collections of the many significant writers of America’s past and present.
  Surrounding Areas
Longfellow House –  Henry W. Longfellow, one of the world’s most well-known, and beloved 19th century poets called this stunning place home. But Longfellow is not the only major American historical figure to have a link with this property. It was once occupied by George Washington!
  Louisa May Alcott House – Orchard House –  No far from the Longfellow House, you will find the home of the Alcott family. It is here that Louisa May Alcott wrote and set “Little Women”. Open year round for tours, you can see some of the artwork, sketched on the walls by Alcott’s sister, walk to grounds and view books owned by Alcott as well as the very desk on which Alcott wrote her books.
Walden Pond – Undoubtedly  made famous worldwide by Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond holds great significance in the Transcendentalist History of the time. Often walked by those who shared in the views of Thoreau and Emerson, Walden Pond is where Thoreau made his home “closer to nature” and is now a Nature Reservation.
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – While not the “Sleepy Hollow” of Irving fame, it is here that you can find “Author’s Ridge”, a section of plots where you will find the gravesites of many of America’s most well-known writers. The graves of the Alcott Family, Emerson, Thoreau, Channing, and Hawthorne as well as some other notable historical names such as Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial and Ephraim Wales Bull who created the Concord grape, are all found here.
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The House of The Seven Gables/Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace –  A key piece of American literary history that stands in Salem, Massachusetts, the House of the Seven Gables is a must-see for all literary lovers. Whether you have read “The House of The Seven Gables” or “The Scarlet Letter”, this historical home offers a glimpse into the young years of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Built in 1668, the home has undergone several “updates” and “additions” over the last 300+ years. Some of the original beams can be seen as well as the passageway behind the fireplace. Visit the gardens and the gift shop while you are there too.
Boston has so much to offer, whether you are a “foodie”, a writer, reader or history buff. Take the time to take in the many sites as well as the surrounding areas, it is a truly rewarding and enriching area to visit.
“Keep your heart open, a suitcase packed and wonder often, for the world is wide and adventure awaits.” ~ Emylee
Literary Travels: Boston Boston, and the surrounding areas, is by far our favorite New England spot thus far. Every time we find ourselves seeking adventure in this city, we find new and exciting things to return to.
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travelindude · 7 years ago
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salem, massachusetts, usa.
1) salem witch house 2) salem heritage trail 
3) nathaniel hawthorne birthplace 4) old burying point
this town is an obvious addition to a list of spooky and autumny towns. the historical backbone of salem is an extremely vital part of american history. the acts committed within the town lines in 1692 are the basis of many insights into human behavior and psychology. You can take a historical walk through salem, following the salem heritage trail or maybe you can walk picturesque chestnut street before visiting the towns museums, graveyards, and the famous witch house.
there is also the witch trials memorial, dedicated by eli wiesel (author of such books as briar rose) where you can reflect on the lives lost in the tragic event.
Ii you’d like to visit something other than the witch trials, salem is also home to the birthplace of american writer nathaniel hawthorne (the scarlet letter, the house of the seven gables) the house of his birth has since been converted into a museum on 27 hardy st. 
that being said, there are a multitude of sights to see in salem and it seems to be rich in autumn activities.
for more witch trial tour ideas, check this out!
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modernmissbennet · 8 years ago
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I've spent way too many hours alone in this place so it deserves a little appreciation for dealing with my humming and pacing brought on by boredom (at Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace)
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merulae · 8 years ago
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Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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myhauntedsalem · 5 years ago
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Danvers State Hospital
Another Massachusetts facility, the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers is actually quite famous in horror. It’s said to have been an inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham Sanatorium (Danvers is also mentioned in Lovecraft’s stories “Pickman’s Model” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”) and it served as the setting for the film Session 9. The exterior even appears in the asylum level of the game Painkiller.
So what has earned Danvers State such distinctions? Actually, when the hospital was constructed in 1887, it was designed (by Nathaniel J Bradlee) according to the theories of mental health advocate Thomas Story Kirkbride, who believed in the compassion care and treatment of the mentally ill. That meant ornate interiors, private rooms, and long, rambling wings that would let the sunshine in. But while Danvers was meant to be an appealing place whose interiors promoted the health and wellbeing of its patients, its gothic design has captured the imagination of many a lover of horror.
Unfortunately, as the decades wore on, Kirkbride’s influence touched nothing more than the main building’s floor plan. The structure was originally meant to contain 600 patients, but in 1939, it had a daily population of 2,360, and the staff, whose size had remained relatively stable, was at a loss for how to control the patients, who were sick and dirty from their lack of care. Sometimes the patients died out of the staff members’ sight, and weren’t discovered until days later, rotting away in some forgotten room. Eventually, all of the nightmarish trappings of asylums were introduced: solitary confinement, straightjackets, electroshock therapy (which gets a bad rap, but was likely overused as a means to control patients rather than as a mode of treatment), and the lobotomy.
After psychiatrist physician Walter Freeman performed the United States’ first transorbital lobotomy in 1936, many large psychiatric hospitals took to the procedure like an icepick to an eye socket, using it to treat everything from daydreaming and backaches to delusions and major depression. Danvers is often given the dubious title of the “birthplace of the prefrontal lobotomy” for its use and refinement of the procedure. While some patients certainly saw stunning benefits from this so-called miracle treatment, many others had adverse effects. Visitors to the hospital in the late 1940s described the patients as aimlessly wandering the halls, or vacantly staring at walls, perhaps a result of both their poor treatment by the staff and their various medical interventions.
Portions of the hospital were shuttered starting in 1969, with most of it closed by 1985, and the entire campus shut down in 1992. For years, the building sat empty, but eventually the property was bought up by Avalon Bay Development, which demolished most of the buildings, including the interior of the historic Kirkbride building. The Kirkbride building’s facade was used as part of the new Avalon Danvers apartments. Some of the campus’ tunnels, the cemetery, and facades of a couple of the other buildings remain, but the “modern ruins” version of Danvers State now exists only in photographs and videos.
The original name for Danvers was Salem Village. This is where the Salem Witch Trials were held not in the current town of Salem. People were actually hung on Hawthorne Hill where the hospital was built.
Jonathan Hawthrone, perhaps the most fanatical judge in the infamous Salem Witch Trials, is said to have lived in a house on the same hill long before the hospital was built. He over saw the deaths of 23 innocents. The mold infested crops that have been said to have caused the hallucinations that lead to the Salem Witch Trials are said to have been grown on the same hill as the hospital was built.
By the 1940s faced with intense overcrowding the hospital resorted to brutal techniques including early-style shock treatments, lobotomies and hydrotherapy (total immersion in freezing cold water).
Dozens of requests were made to perform seances on the property to the Massachuetts Department of capital Assets who owned the property during the period of abandonment. All were denied.
Jeralyn Levasseur lived on the property as a child in a house lent to her father by the Hospital administrator. She remembers hearing footsteps in the second storey hallways when no one else was home as well as doors that would open and close as well as lights flickering. She also remembers her brother and sister seeing the apparition of an older woman scowling at them. When she was in high school all of the covers were ripped off her bed when no one else was in the room.
There are 2 schools of thought about the site. One says it is purely haunted by the incredible amount of negative energy from both the witch trials and the horrific treatment of the overcrowded patients at the hospital. The other school says the actual ghosts of former innocents killed in the witch trials and the former patients still walk the grounds.
Countless apparitions of both former patients and staff, shadow figures, phantom sounds of voices, laughter, crying, screaming and every other imaginable sound, feelings of being touched, pushed and tugged at, feelings of being watched, not being wanted, general unease, intense and uncontrollable fear and intense overwhelming sadness, reports from people of having their names spoken, doors opening and closing on their own, electrical disturbances, light anomalies, mysterious mists and glows and pretty much any other paranormal activity ever experienced. A feeling of intense evil is said to hang over this area (perhaps pre-dating the hospital) that seems to exist to this day.
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