Connecticut State Hospital, Middletown
Getting inside the abandoned sections of this mental hospital is said to be pretty difficult (though I’m pretty sure I could get myself admitted without too much trouble!). Lucky for me, I ran into a bored and amicable State Trooper who let me inside. He then directed me to a cemetery of unmarked graves. I hear the cemetery is haunted. Investigation to come!
Also known as the Connecticut Asylum for the Insane, Connecticut Valley Hospital.
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If you want truly damned, then check out the Riverview Children’s Hospital behind CVH. Basically a warehouse for kids who the teachers of CT have given up teaching, counselors of CT have not even tried to counsel, and parents who can’t parent. Preparatory area and launch pad for the next crop at places like Long Lane and eventually Somers… or middle management at some of the state’s least exciting businesses.
The building looks so old, but I’m sure there’s so much history tied to it though. Can anyone please tell me where Connecticut State Hospital is located? Or any information regarding it’s history or when or why it was closed? It would be greatly appreciated!
I love the pictures by the way, I don’t know what it is, but that building just catches me.
The hospital is located on silver st in middletown CT
I would love to go there and take pictures. Do you know who to contact and ask for permission?
Caitlin, I hate to break it to you but this is state property, with strict no trespassing policies. I live only a couple miles from this location. The buildings are also set to be torn down, but there has been a lot of speculation when that actually will occur. To clarify some of the history on this location it used to be a correctional facility for females, and was a mental asylum. There are rumors of a lot of trouble that took place, but the state decided to close it not because of hauntings but rather becacuse they wanted to consolidate all mental facilities. They did just that and now all the former facilities are merged into Middletown, CT. If you are going to try and visit there is a vacant lot not far from the Weslyan Campus facilities but I have not entered the buildings so I wouldn’t know where to go. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
actually the ct state hospital is located on the norwich/preston border heading towards groton, and the highway near mohegan sun
TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH THE HOSPITAL ON SILVER ST IS VERY HAUNTED IT IS WERE SOME OF THE FIRST LABODAMYS FIRST HAPPENED I KNOW SPELLING SUCKS BUT OH WELL YOU GET THE IDEAR!!!!! AND THERE ARE MANY STATE HOSPITALS BY THE WAY IN CT.
Mike, yes there are several throughout the state but the one used for this, and the name of the location is actually currently Connecticut Valley Hospital, it is literally right off of Rt. 9. Just so everyone knows though this location is heavily guarded due to the recent explosion at the Kleen Energy Plant.
The hospital on the Norwich / Preston line is called Norwich State Hospital not Connecticut State Hospital. There were a lot of mental facilities in the state up until the mid 90′s and the majority of them are since shut down. Norwich State being one of them. There are also many many institutions across the country that have all been claimed to be the first to perform a lobotomy. Nothing has even been proven as to which one was.
I’ve been there myself. There is definatly a presence of something.
Hello guys, I was wondering if someone could give me information on how to contact the owners of this.
Thanks,
-Ghost, Shadow Ops 1st in command.
Interestingly, I visited the abandoned, Norwich State Hospital (Norwich/ Preston area) 7 years ago for a class project. My peers and I were also very lucky as the security guard was willing to give us a tour inside. He led us through some of the tunnels which brought us to a bowling alley, an auditorium, an area where people’s belongings were allegedly stored after people died, a lobotomy room, and office areas and many other creepy rooms. I recall right before entering the building where the criminally insane patients stayed, I felt very queasy and desired to leave. So we did!
My feelings throughout this experience were fine and we felt comforted by the security guards knowledge of the mental health hospital.
hey, anyone who wants to check it out, better hurry up!!! i drove by about a week ago, and they started to tear parts down
Forget it, they tore it down.
I always felt bad for our next-door neighbor who was a patient at the hospital. She was such a nice woman but I guess had trouble with severe depression following the death of an infant son. She may have been subjected to ECT and who knows what all. Scared the crap out of me watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and I thought of her. I just learned this morning that she died there in 1997. I guess she’s better off now.
Just to clarify, CT was known for their mental hospitals, because we were on the pioneer of Mental Illness healing
Sorry I got cut off, but the place they are showing is known alternatively as Long Lane, and the location pictured no longer stands.
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How many buildings are left to the nsh Norwich state hospital would like to know
They didnt tear any of Norwich, dont say shit unless you know what you are talking about. All the buildings are still there, they are doing work on ADMIN that why the construction company is there right now. Eventually they will demolish most of the building but its not gonna happen this summer.
i was placed at Riverview Children’s Hospital back in the 60s and spent most all my childhood there once in a wihle when i got to go home for weekend vist we use to drive back thought and see all them old type buildings my mom always told me that is where they keep the nuts at and i tryed to run away from RVH the nuts whould get me well as a child i beleaved her and i never did try and run away from RVH it wasnt called RVH back then if i remember right it was called cvh childrens hospital im 48 years old now and i see rvh is still the same as it was back then the cottages and silvermine
sorry my bad it was called CVH childrens unit when i was there they chanced the name later on not sure when but it was changed to riverview hospital at a later time
interested in going here this weekend
any intel email me por favor
My entire family lived for several years on the grounds of Connecticut State Hospital during the late 50′s and early 60′s in the Doctor’s housing. My Father was the Superintendant for many years. I have visited the Hospital a couple of times..Yes it is old and now seems kind of spooky now that I am all grown up.
i remember there use to be a lot of houses on silver street kind of like the projects i see by google map they long torn then down the whole grounds is guarded by state copers it is state so inless u haVE SOMEONE there or going to vist someone i wont go there if i was u u will get busted for tresspassing as someone said it is state grounds and has cops watching it 24/7 what the heck someone has to watch the nuts and make sure they dont get away aND maake sure unwanted guest dont enter the grounds that is why i never gone back there to vist rvh or russlle hall when it use to be the adolescent unit it closed in the 90s and merged back to rvh undrcliff in the old days was used for children with tb and many died there too i know kids use to say they hear funny sounds at night when we movd from russlle hall to undercliff in june 1979 but its been closed now for over 20 years there is videos on undercliff on youtube