The old orphanage at Muscatine

Iowa · United States · Cemetery

The nursing home was an orphanage. Staff say that every new patient who goes into one particular room on the seventh corridor dies soon after.

This nursing home at Muscatine, Iowa was an orphanage before it was anything else, and there are said to be old tunnels beneath the building, though nobody has seen them.

The staff report something about one room on the seven hundred corridor: every new patient put in it dies soon afterwards.

On the six hundred corridor the call lights come on with nobody pressing them.

The room is worth handling honestly. Nursing homes place the most frail residents in particular rooms, close to the desk, and a room where people die shortly after arriving is very often a room reserved for people who are already dying. Staff know this and still find the pattern hard to sit with.

An orphanage and a nursing home in the same building is a whole life in one address.

The home is private and residents should not be disturbed.

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Where is The old orphanage at Muscatine located?

The old orphanage at Muscatine is in Iowa, United States.