Mental Hospitals are creepy to say the least, as you probably have saw in the feature film Shutter Island. But what if I said this one was for children. Elmcrest Mental hospital was opened in Portland, CT in 1942 and was built around the historic childhood mansion of Elizabeth Jarvis Colt. Not only did this site host In-Patient help but also an on campus school for the youth patients. In 1998 a patient was killed while being restrained by an employee and the final chapter on this historic location ended in 2003. Today the campus remains untouched but be warned is patrolled heavily by security.
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Is the hospital hard to get into because of the security?
ReplyDeleteSecurity was easy to get around. Just be smart.
DeleteSecurity was easy to get around. Just be smart.
DeleteI actually spent some time there. Very creepy. Stay away.
ReplyDeleteI spent some time there too. The staff was awful and I'm surprised more kids weren't killed.
DeleteI spent time there when i was 13. After being sexually assualted by another patient and telling, they punished me too nu restaining me in a body bag then locked in a padded room for hours. I couldnt breathe, no one could hear me crying and no dr ever came in. Im lucky they didnt kill me. I have flashbacks 30 yrs later. Place was as close to hell you can get
DeleteI was there twice in 1987 and 1988 as a teen. EVERYONE was put on psych meds which enabled insurance payment due to being labeled. The environment made us crazier than we started. Spooky place.
DeleteI was there in the 80s never been same since and did make ppl more crazier than when went in
DeleteI knew a kid who went there in the mid 80's. he was missing 2 teeth and told me that at night some other kids there put heavy stuff in socks and beat him half to death.
DeleteThe staff was no good.
Abuse by the staff probably been going on at that place since the 1940's when it opened. I was there around 1983 and every other day something was always going on, being staff related or other. I saw this kid get his arm pulled out of the socket by the staff's infamous arm behind the back restraint. Not to mention the body bags. For those of you who don't what a body bag is, it's a rectangle shape (the length of a human body) canvas and board "straight jacket" that the staff would put people in and have them lay in that thing on their back on the floor until the staff felt like letting the person out. It had boards inside along the sides where the person's arms were and straps outside so the staff could tighten as tight as they wanted to. They didn't use straight jackets like in movies and !*it like that. Now, there was some good staff members but a lot of them were bad. So, this is all I have to say about the bad staff, ya'll can eat a !*ck and die.
DeleteRIP Andrew McClain
They should of closed that place years before the staff killed you.
I think the people who worked there (such as staff) had friends and relatives put people in there pretending to be patients because, think about it, these would be the people that set you up the first few days you're there, always got away with sh*t and never got in trouble for nothing.
DeleteNah not really, lots of the buildings are hard to get into because they are boarded up real good tho
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ReplyDeleteI volunteered there in 1973 while attending Middlesex Cummunity College. If any employee complained or spoke out about the inhumane treatment some of those wonderful children were recieveing, they were let go. I guit before I was let go.
ReplyDeleteSo you're saying you worked there in 1973? Saybrook, Portland and Chapman units weren't built until the mid 70's. Before that it was just Manor house and Marlboro house and I'm pretty sure they both had adult patients. Correct me if I'm wrong here.
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ReplyDeleteJust got in here yesterday, great spot. The gym is a no mas. Very bad vibes in there. Check out my insta @dillbo802
ReplyDelete1 more posting of elmCrest property and your Web page is going to be investigated for obtaining stolen property and the solicitation of stolen property, the police are aware and are ready to prossicute any trespassers to the fullest extent of the law, fair warning!!!!!
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DeleteI was sexually abused by another patient there. I was 13. I told on him and they restrained me just like the kod who died and put me in a padded room. I couldnt breathe i could barely cry and no one came for me for hours. I have ptsd 30 years later remembering being in that bag. Lucky im alive but it basically taught me my first sexual encounter, a rape, was excusable and apparently my own fault
DeleteYou will shut down the page for posting of ElmCrest property? You're so tough and convincing, but you post as anonymous. Make a fist, now punch yourself
DeleteHonestly how on earth does it negatively impact you if someone explores an abandoned building? He isn't defacing it or taking anything from it. Also, it's not like anyone else is using it.
DeleteJust some pathetic little toady who works for the state on a power trip.
DeleteDoesn't even have the guts to post his name.
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DeleteWhat's the matter, you don't want people knowing about the two way mirrors with video cameras behind them in the bathrooms? That's why you didn't want people going in there and finding them because there was children as patients.
DeleteFu** you and Fu** elmcrest.
RIP Andrew McClain.
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ReplyDeleteI was a patient there in the early 90s(in patient 2x) and went to highschool there for part of 10th & 11th grade
ReplyDeleteI was a patient there in the early 90s(in patient 2x) and went to highschool there for part of 10th & 11th grade
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ReplyDeleteRifat Ansari STFU. Unless you were in there and went thru hell like many of us did then save your BS excuses why the abuse and using people as a cash cow for the state went on in there.
DeleteI was there as a kid they pic on you nd single u out retrain u in a hold were u cry
ReplyDeleteAll the files of all the kids names plp should relly press a law suit
ReplyDeleteP.DIDDYPUFFY what you mean all the files of all the kids names? Believe me, if I could sue the state of CT for what they did to me, I would.
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ReplyDeleteI was a INVOLUNTARY court ordered guest in this place...TWICE!!! Chapman unit is the only name the comes to memory and I believe that was the teen and preteen unit I was in the first time. My placement both times was for drug addiction so I can't really say anything all that terrible besides the other memory I have that sticks out on the second go round I was a 17 year old girl in early pregnancy and I remember getting extremely sick from the meatloaf they served for dinner one night!!!😂😂😂Just sayin my first stay I was just 16 in 1988 and the second one was obviously required and in mid 1989 and back then I don't recall any kind of shit happening there (KNOWN ABOUT/REPORTED). But I do remember when that poor boy was overly restrained by an ill trained employee to the point of suffocation and dying. Very very sad....God Bless that boy.😞🙏🙏🙏
ReplyDeleteKendraR. teen and pre teen (up to age 15) was Saybrook Unit. It was also known as the adolescent unit. More than likely you were on Portland Unit or Chapman Unit. Some people even were in that new building over by Manor house.
DeleteBut I hear you, everybody went through hell in that place including me when I got put in a body bag for no reason.
Which unit was the one with the tall wooden poles that you couldn't go past without certain privileges? It had a partly tile floor near the kitchenette area and some of the rooms and a big open area in the middle for group.
DeleteMost likely Portland or Chapman unit. Saybrook unit was like that too except without the tall wooden poles.
DeleteI was there in September 1991 and I remember being forced to take medication also remember staff being scumbags reading about that poor 11 year old boy instantly brought me back to one day being put on what they called a "focus" plan and i was to write about how I'd wronged everyone in my life when I refused I was drug to the padded room arms pulled behind my back and layed on top of by a 280lbl staff member it's crazy how 28 years later I remember like it was yesterday I also remember a kid in there name was Mike he had been shuffled through these places since he was 6 years old because his parents had died he was hilarious and made me laugh even though I was miserable he would quote salt n peppa ride it like a horse and let nature take its course in an ALF voice Mike if you ever see this I hope life since has treated you well
ReplyDeleteI was there for 55 days mid 80s at 13 years old. Then in php day school remainder of the year. Some staff were definitely sadists and jerks, but others were real nice. I actually advanced from "runaway" status upon admittance be one of the few "unit" status kids able to roam the unit freely (never applied for "privileged" status, which allowed leaving the building). Despite the bad stuff that went on, I actually came to really like it there, and didn't want to leave (insurance ran out). Worst part was when I got out, I didn't know wtf to do with myself. Had lost contact with outside friends. Remember sitting on the couch at home and crying because of it.
ReplyDeleteWow, 55 days? It took me 3 months to do that and that's with all privileges but it was called a day pass. I was there for 4 months altogether (the first time) and still didn't get out of that place unscathed.
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