Just The Terror - Kings Park Asylum
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True scary stories with Edi and Nick
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🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A found diary from Kings Park Asylum.
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| 0:00.0 | It's now time for just the terror with Nick Guerra. |
| 0:20.0 | Kings Park. I grew up on Long Island, right outside of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center, home with the legend of Cropsy. |
| 0:27.0 | I was always a good kid, never broke any rules, never really pushed the limits of what was and wasn't allowed. |
| 0:33.1 | But recently, I moved home after graduating from college |
| 0:36.4 | and just started looking for a job in NYC. |
| 0:39.3 | Throughout my college years, I struggled with anxiety |
| 0:42.0 | and depression, which led me to being medicated to control it. |
| 0:46.0 | Through this entire ordeal all I could think about was the poor children of Kings Park and what they must have gone through. |
| 0:52.0 | Some of them just had anxiety, |
| 0:54.4 | a common ailment in today's society |
| 0:56.7 | and one that's completely manageable. |
| 0:58.6 | And yet they were stuffed inside an insane asylum |
| 1:02.0 | which was overcapacity by a thousand people and treated like animals. |
| 1:06.3 | This revelation that I got extremely lucky has always been on my mind. |
| 1:10.9 | If I had been born just a couple of decades earlier and in the same area, who knows what may have happened to me? |
| 1:17.0 | On the hinges of self-awareness, I decided to break the rules for once in my life. |
| 1:22.0 | I had to visit Kings Park and see what it was for myself. |
| 1:25.0 | For those of you who don't live in the New York area, Kings Park has a gate around it. |
| 1:30.0 | It's situated in the middle of a wooded area, but it's not like there's guards and an electric fence or anything. |
| 1:36.0 | It's private property, so you're not supposed to trespass, but I can't say that almost my entire high school didn't go anyway. |
| 1:42.0 | But I never did. I was always |
| 1:44.6 | too terrified of the legends and Cropsy in particular. I'll tell the story of |
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