Here is a little information regarding the tombstones at CVH. I am into genealogy and was researching a family member who “did a little stint” at this state hsopital many years ago. It all has to do with the stigma that was attached to mental illness years ago. This is from the New York Times.
Hi i was wondering if this is open to the public or not? im currenly writing a book about asylums and the mentally ill and history and such and i was wondering if it’s open so i may get photos and such. This would be something that i’d like to add about the history and mistreatment.
This is in my home town. CVH is still a running hospital… This part is open and there are more then one cemetery there. All have that eerie feeling even during the day time. There are also abandon buildings in this area. Along with the # grave stones and the history of how patients were treated back in the day there is a lot of troubled energy in this area. I am sure that police will take notice if a lot of people start poking around though.
is there any place in ct that the police wont get involved? im all for asking for permission but theres got to be some allegedlly haunted place were you can just stroll up right?
Kiba try Green Lady cemetery. Good place to do a investigation and times we were there, no police. See http://www.ctghostseekers.com for directions on how to grt there.
The scenery seems to go nicely with the pictures. You know, dark cloudy day, dead trees and leaves everywhere. Very nice pictures. Do you have any stories or heard of any rumored hauntings? I would love to know if you don’t mind! Any history about the Asylum? Love this site!
CVH is patrolled by state police… i was there 4 a month 4 detox-drug rehab and heard they used 2 do all the crazy shit like people speak of at other psych joints… theres old abandoned buildings that r fenced off that were built around 189-sumthing and those r said 2 be haunted- i was told by a staff memeber about this… like fairfiled hills i was also told there tunnels connecting many of the buildings- not all of them i think she said.
Most of the major state hospitals had underground tunnels. Norwich State does for sure, as does Undercliff. It was often the best way to route power etc, along with the fact that moving patients who needed to be physically restrained from building to building was best done out of sight.
This is right near where I live. I live across the river but I know the area and a former high ranking official over CVH. I used to date his daughter and I remember one halloween I asked him about the place. He said they had a lot of eerie things happen but the cemetery itself is not haunted, and that the numbers were used because many of the patients that they recieved did not use their real names, or went under other aliases. Furthermore, a porition are also criminals. As awful as it sounds but a good portion were people who were buried with no family, or familys who were not interested in them, but it truly is sad. Some also lacked record of family things like that. I also want people to bear in mind, not to screw with the story or situation, but it is a state location, and it does have a lot of state plots/cemetaries, a good poriton of the tombstones and things like are almost like tombs of the unknown soldiers, because they just are people who were buried with no place to go in the earlier years of the state.
Nonetheless because I love this kind of stuff I had to visit myself and actually see everything. I went with the daughter of the former owner, who had the house on the road that leads to CVH. We walked down to the graveyards, and a couple of abandoned buildings. The buildings honestly are a lot more spooky than the graveyards, a couple times my ex-girlfriend would grab me tightly because she claimed she hear screams. We go to the graveyard that the wonderful lady took pictures above of. It is indeed a little irking, but nothing out of the ordinary, I took some pictures and in the middle of summer i started to see my breathe. A little offsetting, but we continued on. The state owns a lot of land, but if you walk to far down past the juvenile prison and over to the right off the main road you get to state veterans cemetary. I have family buriend in there so i knew the limits but not far from that road there is another little known plot of land not far from some fencing, where I believe there is another cemetary but I am not sure. It may have been one of the underground tunnel access points but I didn’t bother to check, in the fall this year I plan to visit it again. Regardless all the land near the state prison/mental hospital or what remains of it, is definitily eerie but be careful, I had restricted access, only because of luck, but it is filled with state police understandably now. You need to have sufficient enough reason to be driving through the premises.
Ohh furthermore it is under investigation because of the Kleen Energy Explosion, which is not far from the facility, so I would advice remaining away from the location for at least a good couple of months.
[...] actually treat its denizens. At this particular hospital, when they died, they were buried in the hospital cemetery. In an effort to protect the family, headstones didn’t include names, only numbers — [...]
Each of us can locate a person formerly an “inmate” in any Mental Hospital for example CT Valley Hospital. At your public library computer, go to AncestryLibrary.com (not available at home). Select CENSUS; select 1930; type in no first name; type in last name JONES. keyword? type in inmate. You will get all pages listing all inmates male and female including: first name, sex, age, race, marital status, age of first marriage, birthplace, parents birth countries, language spoken, year of immigration, naturalization status. This is PUBLIC information not restricted by any confidentialy laws, for ALL states, for each year that the CENSUS existed. If JONES doesn’t not work; type in SMITH, etc. Read all inmate names until you locate kin you are seeking.
Hi Ray,
Here is a little information regarding the tombstones at CVH. I am into genealogy and was researching a family member who “did a little stint” at this state hsopital many years ago. It all has to do with the stigma that was attached to mental illness years ago. This is from the New York Times.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EED9163AF936A15752C1A9679C8B63
Great website!
Jim Benson
creepy! have any hauntings or anything been reported there?
That’s so sad dying and having a number on your gravestone instead of a name.No wonder ghosts are thought to haunt the place,they have no peace.
Hi i was wondering if this is open to the public or not? im currenly writing a book about asylums and the mentally ill and history and such and i was wondering if it’s open so i may get photos and such. This would be something that i’d like to add about the history and mistreatment.
This is in my home town. CVH is still a running hospital… This part is open and there are more then one cemetery there. All have that eerie feeling even during the day time. There are also abandon buildings in this area. Along with the # grave stones and the history of how patients were treated back in the day there is a lot of troubled energy in this area. I am sure that police will take notice if a lot of people start poking around though.
is there any place in ct that the police wont get involved? im all for asking for permission but theres got to be some allegedlly haunted place were you can just stroll up right?
Kiba try Green Lady cemetery. Good place to do a investigation and times we were there, no police. See
http://www.ctghostseekers.com for directions on how to grt there.
The scenery seems to go nicely with the pictures. You know, dark cloudy day, dead trees and leaves everywhere. Very nice pictures. Do you have any stories or heard of any rumored hauntings? I would love to know if you don’t mind! Any history about the Asylum?
Love this site!
CVH is patrolled by state police… i was there 4 a month 4 detox-drug rehab and heard they used 2 do all the crazy shit like people speak of at other psych joints… theres old abandoned buildings that r fenced off that were built around 189-sumthing and those r said 2 be haunted- i was told by a staff memeber about this… like fairfiled hills i was also told there tunnels connecting many of the buildings- not all of them i think she said.
Most of the major state hospitals had underground tunnels. Norwich State does for sure, as does Undercliff. It was often the best way to route power etc, along with the fact that moving patients who needed to be physically restrained from building to building was best done out of sight.
This is right near where I live. I live across the river but I know the area and a former high ranking official over CVH. I used to date his daughter and I remember one halloween I asked him about the place. He said they had a lot of eerie things happen but the cemetery itself is not haunted, and that the numbers were used because many of the patients that they recieved did not use their real names, or went under other aliases. Furthermore, a porition are also criminals. As awful as it sounds but a good portion were people who were buried with no family, or familys who were not interested in them, but it truly is sad. Some also lacked record of family things like that. I also want people to bear in mind, not to screw with the story or situation, but it is a state location, and it does have a lot of state plots/cemetaries, a good poriton of the tombstones and things like are almost like tombs of the unknown soldiers, because they just are people who were buried with no place to go in the earlier years of the state.
Nonetheless because I love this kind of stuff I had to visit myself and actually see everything. I went with the daughter of the former owner, who had the house on the road that leads to CVH. We walked down to the graveyards, and a couple of abandoned buildings. The buildings honestly are a lot more spooky than the graveyards, a couple times my ex-girlfriend would grab me tightly because she claimed she hear screams. We go to the graveyard that the wonderful lady took pictures above of. It is indeed a little irking, but nothing out of the ordinary, I took some pictures and in the middle of summer i started to see my breathe. A little offsetting, but we continued on. The state owns a lot of land, but if you walk to far down past the juvenile prison and over to the right off the main road you get to state veterans cemetary. I have family buriend in there so i knew the limits but not far from that road there is another little known plot of land not far from some fencing, where I believe there is another cemetary but I am not sure. It may have been one of the underground tunnel access points but I didn’t bother to check, in the fall this year I plan to visit it again. Regardless all the land near the state prison/mental hospital or what remains of it, is definitily eerie but be careful, I had restricted access, only because of luck, but it is filled with state police understandably now. You need to have sufficient enough reason to be driving through the premises.
Ohh furthermore it is under investigation because of the Kleen Energy Explosion, which is not far from the facility, so I would advice remaining away from the location for at least a good couple of months.
If you do go there please say something nice to anyone who is there and leave some flowers or something on the graves.
I just went there today. I actually have a picture of the tree that is posted, and there are now even more gravestones placed against the tree.
http://tinypic.com/r/2hre6uo/7
[...] actually treat its denizens. At this particular hospital, when they died, they were buried in the hospital cemetery. In an effort to protect the family, headstones didn’t include names, only numbers — [...]
Each of us can locate a person formerly an “inmate” in any Mental Hospital for example CT Valley Hospital. At your public library computer, go to AncestryLibrary.com (not available at home). Select CENSUS; select 1930; type in no first name; type in last name JONES. keyword? type in inmate. You will get all pages listing all inmates male and female including: first name, sex, age, race, marital status, age of first marriage, birthplace, parents birth countries, language spoken, year of immigration, naturalization status. This is PUBLIC information not restricted by any confidentialy laws, for ALL states, for each year that the CENSUS existed. If JONES doesn’t not work; type in SMITH, etc. Read all inmate names until you locate kin you are seeking.