Foxboro State Hospital

Massachusetts · USA · Hospital

Massachusetts closed the hospital and the buildings were left standing. Visitors describe the outside doors being pushed from within, as though something.

Foxboro State Hospital in Massachusetts was closed by the state some years before this account was collected, and local opinion holds that the treatment of patients was part of the reason. The buildings were left standing.

The report that recurs is unusual and specific. Visitors describe the outside doors moving as though being pushed from the inside, as if someone were trying to get out.

The account itself offers the obvious alternative, and it deserves to be stated plainly: people without homes have lived in the buildings. An abandoned hospital with intact doors is shelter, and a door being pushed from inside is exactly what shelter looks like from the outside.

The other reading offered locally is that these are the people who were beaten or otherwise mistreated here.

The original account came from a former employee of the hospital, which is a better class of witness than most abandoned asylums attract. Institutional mistreatment in Massachusetts state hospitals is a documented matter of public record rather than a rumour.

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Hvor ligger Foxboro State Hospital?

Foxboro State Hospital ligger i Massachusetts, USA.