PROPYAT UKRAINE

При́п'ять, Pryp”jat’

Pripyat is an abandoned city in the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine. The city was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. The city of was evacuated in two days.

The city and the Exclusion Zone are now bordered with guards and police, but obtaining the necessary documents to enter the zone is not considered particularly difficult. A guide will accompany visitors to ensure nothing is vandalized or taken from the zone. The doors of most of the buildings are open to reduce the risk to visitors, and almost all of them can be visited when accompanied by a guide. The city of Chernobyl, located a few miles from Prypyat, has some accommodations including a hotel, many apartment buildings, and a local lodge, which are maintained as a permanent residence for watch-standing crew, and visitors.

 

DANVERS STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL

DEMOLISHED

Danvers State Hospital is also known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, The Danvers Lunatic Asylum, and The Danvers State Insane Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital located in Danvers, Massachusetts. It was built in 1874 and opened in 1878. 

While the hospital was originally established to provide residential treatment and care to the mentally ill, its functions expanded to include a training program for nurses in 1889 and a pathological research laboratory in 1895. By the 1920's the hospital was operating school clinics to help determine mental deficiency in children. During the 1960's as a result of increased emphasis on alternative methods of treatment and deinstitutionalization and community based mental health care, the inpatient population started to decrease. Danvers State Hospital closed on June 24, 1992 due to budget cuts within the mental health system. 

By June 2006, all of the Danvers State Hospital buildings that were marked for demolition had been torn down, including all of the unused buildings and old homes on the lower grounds and all of the buildings on the hill.

However, on April 7, 2007, four of the apartment complex buildings and four of Avalon bay's construction trailers burned down in a large, mysterious fire visible from Boston, some seventeen miles (27 km) away.

THIS IS WERE THEY FILMED SESSION 9 

WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM

"I found this place to be the most interesting 

places I have ever read about."

 During the 1800s and early 1900s, America was ravaged by a deadly disease known by many as the “white death” tuberculosis. This terrifying and very contagious plague, for which no cure existed, claimed entire families and sometimes entire towns. In 1900, Louisville, Kentucky had one of the highest tuberculosis death rates in America. Built on low, swampland, the area was the perfect breeding ground for disease and in 1910, a hospital was constructed on a windswept hill in southern Jefferson County that had been designed to combat the horrific disease. The hospital quickly became overcrowded though and with donations of money and land, a new hospital was started in 1924.  

In many cases, the treatments for the disease were as bad as the disease itself. Some of the experiments that were conducted in search of a cure seem barbaric by today’s standards but others are now common practice. Patient’s lungs were exposed to ultraviolet light to try and stop the spread of bacteria. This was done in “sun rooms”, using artificial light in place of sunlight, or on the roof or open porches of the hospital. Since fresh air was thought to also be a possible cure, patients were often placed in front of huge windows or on the open porches, no matter what the season. Old photographs show patients lounging in chairs, taking in the fresh air, while literally covered with snow. 

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Patients take in the sunlight on the open porches outside of the rooms.

Other treatments were less pleasant --- and much bloodier. Balloons would be surgically implanted in the lungs and then filled with air to expand them. Needless to say, this often had disastrous results, as did operations where muscles and ribs were removed from a patient’s chest to allow the lungs to expand further and let in more oxygen. This blood-soaked procedure was seen as a “last resort” and few of the patients survived it. 

A staged display of the Pneumothorax procedure -- without all of the blood 

By the late 1930s, tuberculosis had begun to decline around the world and by 1943, new medicines had largely eradicated in the United States. In 1961, Waverly Hills was closed down but was re-opened a year later as Woodhaven Geriatrics Sanitarium. There have been many rumors and stories told about patient mistreatment and unusual experiments during the years that the building was used an old age home. Some of them have been proven to be false but others have unfortunately turned out to be true. Electroshock therapy, which was considered to be highly effective in those days, was widely used for a variety of ailments. Budget cuts in the 1960s and 1970s led to both horrible conditions and patient mistreatments and in 1982, the state closed the facility for good.  

ROOM 502

Perhaps the most infamous area of all in the hospital. is room 502.  The story goes that In 1928, the head nurse was found dead in the room. She had hanged herself from the light fixture. No one knows why the 29-year old woman would take her own life, but it's believed that she was unmarried and pregnant. It is unknown how long her body hung before she was finally discovered. The county coroner’s office attributed her death to suicide.
In 1932, another nurse who worked in room 502, supposedly committed suicide when she jumped from the balcony of the roof. No one knows why.
Folks have seen the full body apparition of a female nurse in white on this floor.
People have also reported that this room gives them an "unsettling" feeling of great despair.  Some have heard a voice say, "Get out!" 

BODY CHUTE

What is now called the “body chute” is actually a 500 foot long tunnel that leads from the hospital to the railroad tracks at the bottom of the hill. When someone died they were sent down the tunnel via gurneys to an awaiting hearse.  This was done so that patients wouldn't see the hearses or the bodies--in order to keep morale high.  Concrete steps line one side of the tunnel while the other side consists of a motorized rail and cable system. Voices are often heard along the long eerie passage. 

 

RIVERDALE ROAD

RIVERDALE RD HAUNTED?

History:

Riverdale Rd is a very long strip of dirt road that is very dark. It is said that it was all farmland in the 1700 - 1800`s. This is a location of slavery abuse, witchcraft and hangings. There is a small turn off road at about 132nd where the cornfields are high and the oil mills are silent. When you park your car on this gravel road and turn the car off and roll your windows down, you can hear the pace of someone running down this road and passing your car. You can also feel a presence there that makes you want to hide. If you listen carefully you can also hear the sound of screams and a faint heart beat that slowly gets louder and louder until you feel the need to cover your ears. You can only take so much of this before you have to turn the car on and take off! Don`t ever go alone. Also, when driving down Riverdale road, there has been sightings of a women dressed in white waiting at the side of the road, if you pull up to her it is said that she walks to your car but disappears before getting in.

MY EXPERIENCE:

I have not yet been to Riverdale Rd. I am currently trying to get my team together and make a trip there this Friday.

THIRD BRIDGE

Third Bridge also known as "Ghost Bridge" is one of the many places we have done a investigation at.

HISTORY:

A little history of third bridge is that in 1997  there was a car accident there involving car full of teenagers were they lost control and their car flipped over the bridge and landing a tree. Also they say there was a school bus accident. They say you can hear the running and the screams of the children. You see a little girl standing on the bridge staring back at you. There is a man that repeatedly walks back and forth and back and forth right next to the sign that says "Bridge Ahead".

MY EXPERIENCE:

But of course I've been out there. Third Bridge actually gives me the chills when you come over that hill and you see all the trees that surrounds it...

The first time that I even been there I was with a few people. Two of us standing on one side of the bridge near the car. The other two were standing across the street. All of a sudden my sister tells me to stop kicking rocks. Which wasn't me. Then were kept hearing really strange noises. So we panicked and jump in the car then all 5 of us heard someone run all the way around the car and then heard a really loud bang like someone punched the car. So we took of in a hurry...

GOLD CAMP ROAD

GOLD CAMP ROAD

HISTORY:

The 3rd tunnel of Gold Camp Road are haunted by the spirits of school children who were killed in tunnel 3. They were on their way back from a field trip to cripple creek and while going through tunnel 3 it collapsed killing them all. You can hear their spirits laughing and giggling in the first 2 tunnels when you park and sit quietly; and hear their screams in tunnel 3. When you drive through the first 2 tunnels they leave their fingerprints on your vehicle. In tunnel 3 you can see "blood spots" all over the walls and ceiling. ( Tunnel 3 is gated and can not be accessed by vehicle.)

MY EXPERIENCE: 

Truthfully my experience at Gold Camp Road could have been better, needless to say. Do I believe that Gold Camp Road is haunted? Yes I do. I've only been there once. I have experienced many different things. 

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