 The Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital: We parked at a construction site behind one of the supervisory trailers and lurked through the high grass toward a hole in one of the gates we had seen while driving by. As quickly and quietly as we could, we slipped through the hole in the fence and into the abyss. It was dark and leaves crunched beneath our feet as we moved like hunting tigers or maybe like hunted tigers down the pathway. We heard laughter and through the fence we saw a huge building with lights on. The state had built a new operating addition onto the Hospital's 500 acre property. A dog barked and we stepped backward slowly down the path and decided we'd try our luck in one of the abandoned houses we had passed by when walking down the path. Larry pulled his knife and went first, we waited and then he gave us the 'ok'. We had left our cameras and flashlights in the car because we were afraid of dropping them when we ran. However, Shaun and myself had brought our cell phones with us, so we ventured into the house using the light from our glowing cell phones to guide us. In the downstairs living room area, there was a noose made of electrical cord which was rather unnerving. The railing along the stairwell had been busted out and all the bars for the railing with it. As we made our way to the upstairs we saw in the upstairs bathroom that all the railing bars were in the bathtub. We each took one for self-defense, just in case. Larry led the way with Shaun in the middle with his cell phone and Larry with my cell phone. The floor boards occasionally creaked causing a bit of a stir between us and a few shhh's. We saw hospital beds in the bedrooms upstairs and a crib... The crib was a bit unnerving as well. The attic was one place we would not go. However, we went back downstairs and ventured into the basement. It was dark and dank and smelled like lysol and urine. We saw a puddle near the water heater, assuming the water heater had busted and also took a card from the electric company off the electric box as a souvenir. We went back upstairs and got out of the house. Pumped and ready, we saw 8 or so more houses all facing inward at each other and a humming generator in the middle. Each of the buildings were abandoned and several has a walkway lined with railings and ramps and such. We took the number off building number 2 but couldn't get into it because it was locked. We moved to building number 3 and opened the unlocked door putting something in the door to hold it open. This building unlike the previous one was not completely stripped, the other one was. This building had garbage and papers on the floor, a trash basket next to the stairwell and a piece of paper duct taped to the backdoor that said..."Keep out broken glass on floor". We proceeded up the stairwell and carefully into the door on the left-hand side and opened it to find medical paperwork strewn everywhere. Someone's personal medical documents were all over the floor mixed with other Marlboro psychiatric hospital documents. This was very strange we thought that hospital staff had left these documents behind in the abandoned section of the property. We collected a few documents (which after examining later I shredded and disposed of) and then proceeded to the room across the hall. We had a very eerie feeling of being watched while in this room and clearly a squatter had been staying in this room. There were food wrappers, toys and belongings in the closet with a jacket as well and a chair was in the middle of the room. After this we were rather freaked out and proceeded back downstairs and out of the building. When we proceeded further onto the property again we heard laughing from what appeared to be the main building. We decided our luck may in fact have run out and proceeded quickly back through the opening in the fence and off the property. Crew Members in Attendance:
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