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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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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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