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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Medfield State Hospital

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This abandoned hospital outside Boston, Massachusetts was originally conceived as a place to help people with mental health issues. But it wound up doing a lot of harm. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/medfield-state-hospital

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just a quick heads up, today's episode contains some descriptions of violence in mental health treatment.

0:12.0

Is the hospital haunted?

0:15.0

Well, I've go in and out of these buildings frequently.

0:19.0

I've grabbed door handles of doors that are open, a crack, and I know that they're open,

0:25.0

and I have had the feeling that somebody pulls pulling the door on the other side.

0:32.0

I've had a paranormal smell experience here. I went in an attic of a building by myself.

0:42.0

Nobody had been in there for more than a month, and I walked up in that attic, and all I could smell was a woman's perfume.

0:50.0

I have no, I can't explain that.

0:56.0

What I've come to understand is that there's good energy and there's bad energy,

1:05.0

and you do not want to walk out of here and carry bad energy home with you.

1:12.0

I'm Dylan Therese, and this is Alice Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

1:25.0

And today we are taking a trip to the suburbs of Boston, to the shuttered, possibly haunted,

1:32.0

Medfield State Hospital, once known as the Medfield Insane Asylum.

1:37.0

It was a place meant to help people with mental health issues, but that wound up doing a lot of harm.

1:43.0

After this.

1:59.0

On the outside, Medfield State Hospital looks mostly like a fancy prep school.

2:04.0

It's got these big, charming, red brick buildings, and they're scattered across a vast green lawn.

2:11.0

They're beautiful trees growing, and during the day, families walk their dogs, kids run around on the lawn,

2:19.0

but inside, things get spooky.

2:23.0

The hospital has been closed for two decades.

2:26.0

Paint contaminated with asbestos is peeling from the walls, and the creaky floors echo with each and every step.

2:34.0

There are spider webs in every corner.

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