Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration

VinCo Properties of Boston,  paid  $5.17 million from the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management in February last year with a 1992 legislative redevelopment plan already in place. The 93-acre section will be used for  203 residential homes P 73 single-family homes measuring between 2,200 square feet and 7,000 square feet and 130 condominiums measuring between 500 square feet and 3,000 square feet P 100,000 square feet of commercial office space and 55,000 square feet of retail space planned. The site will offer 40 acres of recreational services: two football fields, two baseball fields, bocce courts, volleyball courts and an already-completed playground.

VinCo Properties is developing the retail and commercial space, some of which is historical rehabilitation. The Abrams Group, which focuses on the redevelopment of under-performing real estate assets, is responsible for developing all residential units, which includes some historical renovation in the old hospital buildings. Intoccia and Douglas A. King Builders are developing the single-family homes located in parcels of land away from the main hospital site and also the recreational aspects of the projects. Crocini is the project manager for Chestnut Green and oversees all aspects of the project, working closely with all the developers.

The hospital buildings have been gutted and are awaiting permits so redevelopment can begin. Construction and redevelopment of all parcels of the development will be simultaneously ongoing over the next two years.

(Project goal depiction)

Built in the 1880s, Foxborough State Hospital opened in 1889 to treat alcoholics, and was later used to treat pyschiatric disorders. Foxboro State Hospital later closed in 1976 due to the mistreatment of patients within the hospital. The basement has a morgue fit for eight bodies. There are two cemeteries nearby holding approximatly 1,100 patients with headstones marked with only a patient number. The state later declared the hospital unnecessary in 1993, and  150-acres then was transferred to the town of Foxborough over the past decade. The town is building a public safety facility on part of the property...

At first glance this  small family cemetary located off of Bird Rd. in Mansfield MA seems nothing but normal, but as we went in and took some pictures a few strange things happened, for once their was a very strange warm misty feeling near two of the headstones on the left corner of the burial site, and when we took a few pictures of the headstone of elizabeth drake the ground seemed to sink in and make noises, lastly we felt the strange feeling as if we were being watched.

The cemetary is dated back to the early 1800's and supposedly has 12 headstones followed by a few footstones, however some of these stones have been destroyed for reasons unknown, probably due to old age, weather, and neighboring people. the latest date known on the headstone is from 1814 an Elizabeth Drake who died at age 75, which is extremly old for that era where the average death rate was in the 50's...

Throughout the early 1900's till the 1930's was a mental institution on Hanover Ma, later in the 1930's the institution closed and was turned into a Hotel "Hanover Town Hotel". Many of those who roomed in the hotel would leave earlier then expected for the hotel was considered haunted by those who died in the hospital prior to the creation of the hotel. the hospital is still considered haunted and has an eerie look and feel to it just when you pass by.

Constructed in 1928 Metropolitan State Hospital served as an insitution for psychiatric patients. This hospital was a special project of Frankin Kirkbride, son of Thomas Kirkbride ( a pioneer in asylum medicine who advocated humane treatment for the mentally ill at any cost) .In 1978, a patient named Melvin Wilson murdered co-patient Anne Marie Davee with a hatchet, and buried her body parts in several shallow graves on the grounds. Wilson kept seven of Anne Marie Davee's teeth in his possession which was found on him by staff, giving the institution the nickname "Hospital of Seven Teeth." On August 12, 1980, Wilson led investigators to the graves, and was taken to Bridgewater State Hospital for trial. In January of 1992 the hospital was forced to close. What is left of the complex are the helpless souls trapped within the walls of the distorted, rotting buildings. Their are also many tunnels and a graveyard lot of over 400 deceased patients...  The complex is now being demolished in order to construct low income housing, a nine hole golf course, and just an open lot for further construction in the near future...

Metropolitan State Hospital has a very eerie feel to it, the first visit we took we suddenly got chills, nausia and migrains within minutes of each other. the EMF detectors used picked up slight readings around one of the buildings. Our second trip, we contiued to have the same feelings of chills, nausia, migrains and now a disturbing feel of being unwanted and overlooked. At First entrance we hear a scream from the 3rd floor of what looked to be the main entrance building (its hard to depict seeing as how met state is made up of several buildings). When we later roamed the halls of a patient ward we came across a heavy steel door that opened and closed 5 times within seconds, noone was in the room behind the door... Also if you view our photo's from met state you can see a slight apparition in the stairwell picture, and ectoplasm in another.

Reports from demolition workers have seen ghost and when working around or in the tunnels they feel like people are grabbing at their legs or pushing at their backs...

(Blueprint of Kirkbride Building)

Brief summery (more to be updated)

Originally named the Hanson Tuberculosis Hospital, Its name changed shortly after its conversion to becoming a general care hospital  (Plymouth County Hospital). The medical center then changed purpose once again in 1982 to become a rehabilitation and pulmonary care facility and was renamed Cranberry Specialty Hospital . Due to lack of inpatients it was closed in 1992. Since then the buildings have been subject to vadalism and a 4-alarm fire in october of 2005 which was pronouced to be arson and 4 teens were charged for the crime. After exploring the grounds which seemed too easy to walk around on seeing as how their is no security present we found ourselves hearing alot of strange noises. One of which we hear heavy footsteps as if a person were to be wearing heavy steel toe work boots and the clanking of a ring of keys as the person walked, our first thought was security and search around the location cautiously trying to find the source of the noise and found noone... later on our investigation we felt alot of cold spots, got chills frequently and in one corner of the building on the outside along the paved path surrounding the complex we felt as though something was touching us, like a brush of a hand along your back, hard to explain but was creepy and felt often in that location only... Most of what we found here were noises and the eerie feelings (cold spots/chills/brushing) we plan to go again and investigate further inside the building seeing as how it is boarded up tightly and hard to gain access to many parts of the complex...