Abandoned Hospitals

Abandoned Hospitals
Author: Alix Wood
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1482459000

It seems peculiar that hospitals—places where people’s lives are saved—can be downright creepy once they’re abandoned. Leftover medical instruments, stained walls, and mysterious sounds all contribute to the unsettling feeling one gets once inside. Luckily, readers won’t have to travel to deserted hospitals around the world. They can tour them in the pages of this hair-raising volume. They’ll visit the Taunton State Hospital in Massachusetts, Old Changi Hospital in Singapore, and others. Plenty of history is mixed in with the odd anecdotes connected with each, and a chilling design and images add to the eerie ambience.

Abandoned Asylums

Abandoned Asylums
Author: Matt Van Der Velde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9782361951634

Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America's abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality that these once glorious historical institutions now sit vacant and forgotten as their futures are uncertain and threatened with the wrecking ball. Explore a private mental hospital that treated Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities seeking safe haven. Or look inside the seclusion cells at an asylum that once incarcerated the now-infamous Charles Manson. Or see the autopsy theater at a Government Hospital for the Insane that was the scene for some of America's very first lobotomy procedures. With a foreward by renowned expert Carla Yanni examining their evolution and subsequent fall from grace, accompanying writings by Matt Van der Velde detailing their respective histories, Abandoned Asylums will shine some light on the glorious, and sometimes infamous institutions that have for so long been shrouded in darkness.

Abandoned America

Abandoned America
Author: Matthew Christopher
Publisher: Jonglez Photo Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9782361950941

Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more.

Abandoned NYC

Abandoned NYC
Author: Will Ellis
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02-28
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780764347610

From Manhattan and Brooklyn's trendiest neighbourhoods to the far-flung edges of the outer boroughs, Ellis captures the lost and lonely corners of New York. Step inside the New York you never knew, with 200 eerie images of urban decay

Abandoned Places

Abandoned Places
Author: Henk Van Rensbergen
Publisher: Abandoned Places
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: Abandoned buildings
ISBN: 9789401461511

"Haunting photographs" - The Wall Street Journal. "Henk van Rensbergen is a hero for urban explorers around the world" - Flanders Today. "As an airline pilot, Belgian-born Henk Van Rensbergen was used to travelling the world. But he found a great way to supersize that passion: hunting for the most wonderful, secret, haunting abandoned places" - CNN. While his crew is resting at the pool, pilot and photographer Henk van Rensbergen explores deserted city palaces, overgrown factories or desolate areas of nature, finding beauty in the decay. This engaging book of photographs, a revised edition with new material, lets us wander through abandoned places, including Abkhazia, a break-away region bordering Georgia and Russia and the newest must-visit for every urban explorer. AUTHOR: Henk Van Rensbergen is the pilot of a Boeing 787 and a pioneering Urban Explorer. For more than 25 years, he has been capturing the most beautiful pictures of desolate and forgotten places. His Abandoned Places picture books (1, 2, 3 and The Photographer's Selection) have been highly successful. SELLING POINTS: * A new selection of the best images from Henk van Rensbergen, an urban explorer pioneer, in a handy format * This revised and expanded edition of his bestselling photo book of unusual places is packed with fascinating new images, including over 50% new material 120 colour, 50 b/w images

Old stories of a forgotten village

Old stories of a forgotten village
Author: Luis Arturo Acevedo Acevedo
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0244804559

The information that will be presented below does not indicate that they are true facts, it is the product of stories told and heard, in order to make known that precious and enigmatic treasure that exists in each area of our region. In what is now the south of the abandoned town of La Serranilla, in front of the El Progreso store, in southern Colombia; there is an old house, from which only ruins can be seen from the outside. A gate barely hides an entrance into the unknown. Perhaps the most bizarre and difficult cases to check or explain due to the lack of disclosure or oblivion that has been given. It is not known precisely in what time the first supernatural phenomenon of this house happened. The strange facts began to occur and it did not take long for people to ask themselves, what will be inside, or how will it be, to all the anecdotes or stories told by the adventurers.

South Carolina State Hospital, The: Stories from Bull Street

South Carolina State Hospital, The: Stories from Bull Street
Author: William Buchheit
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 146714472X

Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the state. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, it housed, fed and treated thousands of patients incapable of surviving on their own. The patient population in 1961 eclipsed 6,600, well above its listed capacity of 4,823, despite an operating budget that ranked forty-fifth out of the forty-eight states with such large public hospitals. By the mid-1990s, the patient population had fallen under 700, and the hospital had become a symbol of captivity, horror and chaos. Author William Buchheit details this history through the words and interviews of those who worked on the iconic campus.

Abandoned Arkansas

Abandoned Arkansas
Author: Michael Schwarz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781634990974

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Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
Author: Rusty Tagliareni and Christina Mathews
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467116491

The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was more than a building; it embodied an entire era of uniquely American history, from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride. After well over a century of service, Greystone was left abandoned in 2008. From the time it closed until its demolition in 2015, Greystone became the focal point of a passionate preservation effort that drew national attention and served to spark the public's interest in historical asylum preservation. Many of the images contained in this book were rescued from the basement of Greystone in 2002 and have never been seen by the public. They appear courtesy of the Morris Plains Museum and its staff, who spent many hours digitally archiving the photographs so that future generations may better know Greystone's history.