With the modern healthcare system becoming better with each day, hospitals are becoming a hub for innovation in mental and physical health. While we don’t like to go there, it is certain that these places help us get better in the long run and have a better life, increasing the longevity of humanity as a whole. However, hospitals and Asylums are still considered creepy enough as it is, and once they are abandoned there is a certain terrifying chill that crawls under your skin, especially considering the people who’ve died there out of illness or worse – have committed suicide. For one reason or another, these 5 hospitals and asylums have been abandoned and they will certainly terrify you!
5. Fort Totten Army Hospital
5. Fort Totten Army Hospital
Sitting on a peninsula of the Long Island Sound in the northeast part of Queens, there is an abandoned military installations, which has over 100 historic buildings. One of them, the Fort Totten Army Hospital is the creepiest of them all, as even the photographer who went there to picture it later questioned his sanity.
4. Fairfield Hills State Hospital
4. Fairfield Hills State Hospital
A popular site among ghost enthusiasts and paranormal seekers, the abandoned Fairfield Hills State Hospital is full of mystery, creepiness and just a touch of strange beauty.
3. North Brother Island
3. North Brother Island
Part of a pair of small island in NYC’s East River, North Brother Island was the site of a hospital. Now abandoned, it was featured on Life After People on the History Channel as an example of what would happen to structures after 45 years without humans.
2. Pripyat Hospital, Chernobyl
2. Pripyat Hospital, Chernobyl
Giving you a glimpse of a Post-Nuclear world, the Pripyat Hospital in Chernobyl is one of the most terrifying places to visit, not only because there is still radiation there, but simply because of its haunting beauty.
1. Rancho Los Amigos Hopsital
1. Rancho Los Amigos Hopsital
Included in the ‘Best Hospitals’ rankings for the past few years, Rancho Los Amigos Hospitals is one of the biggest rehabilitation centers in the LA County. However, one of its buildings, part of the mental hospital, was abandoned because, as rumors go a patient there went mental and killed a priest who was on a visit.
