The hospital first opened its doors in 1904 in Norwich, Connecticut. It was built in an idyllic location chosen for its therapeutic properties overlooking the River Thames.
The Norwich Insane Asylum was built isolated from civilization, which worked to its benefit as it began to grow during its early years sprouting new buildings that accompanied the original construction (see aerial view of the hospital here). These new construction projects included patient wards, staff cottages, laboratories and workshops. All of the structures were interconnected by a large network of underground utility tunnels. These tunnels transported electricity, hot water, and patients to various areas on the grounds. The hospital remained self-sufficient, almost like a small town, with its own power plant, pump house, working farm, kitchen, theater and church.
Over 3,000 patients and 1,000 employees were residents on the asylum grounds in the 1950’s.
Slowly patients began to leave Norwich State Hospital due to deinstitutionalization and it permanently closed its doors in 1996. Since then time has basically stood still on the property with a few exceptions. Currently there is talk about converting the grounds into a theme park, but nothing has been set in stone.
After a long tedious drive we leave the car in a commuter parking lot close to the buildings. Ever the vigilant group of explorers we notice a State Trooper making his rounds and dive into the forest for cover. Luckily we outsmarted the police yet again and after regrouping walk along the Thames River for a few hundred feet. We finally see the abandoned pump house looming in the distance and decide to make this our entryway into the campus.
This site has a reputation for being well guarded, well patrolled, and does not take kindly to trespassers. I am always on edge when exploring across the Atlantic and the numerous “State Property – No Trespassing” signs that litter the grounds did not bode well for my paranoia. Instead of exposing ourselves above ground to security and prying eyes, we decided to take the underground route through the utility tunnels.
Using the tunnels we explored many buildings without ever being forced to go outside. This method of travel was soon confirmed to be the safest. On our first attempt to venture outside we were only a few feet away from a security officer in a black uniform. Fortunately he didn’t look our way and we quickly receded back into the tunnel network. For a while we hid in the abandoned theater so we could look around the campus without being seen.
This encounter with security dampened our spirits and made our visit a whole lot shorter than we would have liked. We made our grande exit through the empty chapel, this allowed us to avoid walking back through the forest. As we were walking back to the commuter lot to pickup our car we noticed the State Trooper had been watching us as we suspiciously walked down the road. I wonder where we went to and were coming back from?!
Archive document introducing a new therapy (click to enlarge):
Special thanks to Dr. Bob for sharing the old postcards.
Yea...and call me too...bitch.
Hey..that's our queue..Time to bust'a move over that way..call me
Woot woot
here it is the 411 as of 3/11/10 there will be no security on the preston side of nsh but a new security company will put one guard per shift on the norwich side of the hospital
Hmmm who knows... Check 4chan
I can see why you can't post "some" stuff on your website..You didn't touch that.. did you?
Can't mace a computer screen.
Thanks chris, I just use facebook for publishing stuff that cannot be on my website. Like this one below. Become fan -------> Forbidden Places on Facebook
Someone who totally agrees with me that the internet helps people commit crimes. (Take it from someone who knows the "Myspace rapist") The internet sucks in so many ways... And yet, it's great.
LOL..I wasn't trying to bash Forbidden's facebook..lol I'm actually a fan. I just dislike facebook..myspace..twitter. ..it was said on here earlier.."it makes a stalkers job easier" ..Now burglers are using it to know when people wont be at there houses..pretty creepy.
Nah, check my recent stuff ----> www.facebook.com
As far as the weird stuff coming up when we posted..I sent an e-mail to Sylv. it was fixed shortly after. Facebook is a piece of crap..and the internet in general is a giant unsecured lobby of "batshit" as you put it.
Twitter has been tweaking out too...
Well supposedly the world's going to end in 2012
Any one know the date of when security changes over, I know it's march or April but, forgot the date. Also, the other day somebody posted about weird stuff coming up when you posted, has any one noticed crazy shit happening all around the internets? Saturday facebook bugged out, and now psn has gone batshit!
checked.replied.
Check your email. I sent you a link that gives some basic history on the place.
..Oh..i plan on going. Can't pass this one up. By the way you never sent me the info on that place you were looking into..you said ..it's legal and tons of history
Hmmm.... Email me if you plan on going.
Sure.. The place is called "English station" ..it was most recently occupied by United Illuminating which realized that the plant which was constructed in 1929 was completely inefficient to run..they walked away from the plant in 92..Since then there has been talk of re-use of the plant which claims to be a now.."contaminated site" ..Quinipiac energy wants to re-open the site and burn a #6 fuel..which is horrible for the environment..so the odds of this site being re-opened are slim..its being that the contractors would need a permit to operate the plant with such a dirty fuel source. The plant sits on it's own island and has been silent since UI walked away from the site.
The most interesting part of the info that I have been digging..is the fact that a LARGE company such as UI would walk away from the site..calling it "obsolete" rather than updating this behemoth. Makes me think about some cool old-school feeling boilers..and instruments..and design.
Have you found out any info about the place?
The location I posted is an abandoned power plant..I scouted this one after seeing it on Google maps. The location is huge..It's pretty awesome seeing it eye to eye..I'm going to continue to scout that one out a bit..but I'm sure it's full of goodies from when the plant was still active..There's nothing like decayed goodies to document.
I will definitely check it out later this morning. (Don't want you to think I'm ignoring you)
Chris- What exactly is the place you're talking about?
Zeke, yeah lets go exploring together. You're taking the chance of my fist meeting your face though. And if you had my real cell then you would have called me by now.
I live in N.H county..I'm well aware of the way the area is..fortunately though this area isn't on of those area's such as Fair Haven. I personally scouted this location..not a sole going in our out..and if you look at the location..its almost it own island.
Sent you something, broke protocol. Please reply.
Chris- G-mapped the coords you posted- major concern in New Haven would be homeless/addicts. N.H. is not a nice place to be crawling around at night. People do get killed there. Wouldnt want to disrespect gang territory either- if its been claimed , best to stay away.
Zeke- you really are tempting fate. Dont know Sparkles or Paul, but the last thing I would want is to get some people PO'd at me, then go into a dark, isolated, abandoned building with them!
As for the various grabasstic posts, methinks it was in the figurative as opposed to literal sense. Butt, what do I know?
I would suggest you lead by example, Sir. Perhaps, a good showing of what you can do would energize and inspire?
you people need to stfu and go explore you all sound like a bunch of school girls. to much info and not enought action or pictures of your ventures
Hope you're a girl blaze, and if you're the blaze I'm thinking of, you are and sup! Otherwise any dude grabs my ass anywhere, I won't be the one screamin'! But as far as zeke, grab away. Now that I look at that post, I smell a bomb.
hey zeke watch your self boy hey zeke i bet if you were at nsh an somthing grab your ass you would scream like a little BITCH an that somthing is going to be me
Hey! I wanna go check your place out too. where is it? is your gay boyfriend goin to}? you should meet up...we can explore...can I call your real cell?
41.306861, -72.906402 ..google maps. Drove by here today. Looks promising. Industry Giant abandoned.
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