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The creepy abandoned hospital/[[Bedlam House|mental institution]] is a common setting in horror. Dirty tiles, broken cabinets, corpses in bloodstained lab coats/nurse uniforms, and rusted metal bed frames are all common themes. Other themes include [[Cold-Blooded Torture|grisly]] [[Mad Scientist|medical]] [[Playing
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▲The creepy abandoned hospital/[[Bedlam House|mental institution]] is a common setting in horror. Dirty tiles, broken cabinets, corpses in bloodstained lab coats/nurse uniforms, and rusted metal bed frames are all common themes. Other themes include [[Cold-Blooded Torture|grisly]] [[Mad Scientist|medical]] [[Playing With Syringes|experiments]] and [[Body Horror|deformed, inhuman monsters]] shambling about, as well as using medical equipment as [[Torture Cellar|torture devices]].
Even without all these things hospitals are pretty creepy to begin with. Maybe because hospitals are associated with illness and death, as well as being places that should be clean. Or perhaps it's because most people are afraid of hospitals for several reasons: germs; the stale, blaring white atmosphere; doctors poking and prodding you with weird and often painful instruments... not to mention [[Afraid of Needles|needles...]]
Many older, real life
See also [[Abandoned Warehouse]] and [[Never Recycle a Building]]. When a character wakes up in a newly-abandoned hospital, that's an [[Abandoned Hospital Awakening]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The sixth episode of ''[[
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'' had an episode set in an abandoned
* ''[[Ghost Hound]]'' features an abandoned hospital that was where Tarou and Mizuka were found when they were kidnapped. It is also the place Hideo and the others investigated in their youth and later became cursed from. It scores extra points for having been submerged under water since the area was dammed decades before.
* Most of ''[[Doubt]]'' takes place in an abandoned psychiatric hospital.
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** Not split. Split Personality is the translation of Schizophrenia, which is when you suffer auditory or other sensory hallucinations. The patient and {{spoiler|Gordon}} have Disassociative Identity Disorder.
** Actually, the film is ambiguous on the nature of Simon. Whether he is a {{spoiler|a demonic entity}} or something more mundane is open to interpretation.
** Moreover, the movie was filmed in and around a '''real-life abandoned hospital''', the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers in Massachusetts. In a truly bizarre postscript, the crumbling remains of the hospital have been reborn as a ''luxury apartment complex.'' For the most part, they've kept the central building (the same one used in the movie) [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113132839/http://www.avaloncommunities.com/avaloncore/nfloor.asp?comm=306 intact.]
*** And just in case things weren't creepy
* The 1999 remake of ''[[House
* The climax of ''[[The Frighteners]]'' takes place in an abandoned hospital. Said hospital {{spoiler|was also the scene of a brutal series of murders some years previously. Scenes from this rampage appear to the hero in visions while he's trying to avoid being similarly slaughtered by one of the original perpetrators and her dead boyfriend.}}
* ''[[Alone in
* In ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors]]'', it was revealed that {{spoiler|Freddy was conceived}} in a mental hospital when {{spoiler|a nun was mistakenly locked in there, enabling the inmates to have their way with her}}. Said hospital, having been abandoned for several decades by the time of the movie, is also the location of a [[Plot Coupon]] that provides the key to Freddy's defeat.
* The (creepy version) hospital scenes in ''[[
* Part of the original ''[[One Missed Call]]'' takes place in such a hospital.
* ''[[The X
* The main characters in ''[[Accepted]]'' turn one of these into a college when they are rejected from the schools they applied to and decide to start their own.
* Though barely recognizable as such, the Abandoned Smallpox Hospital on [[Big Applesauce|New York City's]] Roosevelt Island has appeared several times in movies. It was the site of [[Spider
* ''[[
* ''Alien vs Predator 2's'' climax takes place in an abandoned hospital. Abandoned except a bunch of xenomorphs.
** ''[[Aliens]]'' plays most of the trope straight (but in The Future!) with the abandoned Med Lab.
* Japanese horror film ''[[Chakushin Ari]]'' features one towards the end, populated by only one green corpse in a wooden crate.
* In the film ''[[
* The ''[[Halloween (
** This is particularly noticeable in Rob Zombie's remake of ''[[Halloween (
*** Justified, as it was {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]] (and Michael is shown to have mutilated most of the staff in the director's cut)}}.
* The Finnish movie ''Dark Floors''. A wheelchair-bound autistic girl is being treated at a hospital, gets her father and some other people trapped in a parallel-universe abandoned hospital somehow, then defeats some kind of demon. It's not wholly clear what was going on, but it looked cool.
** Well, since the movie is essentially a long advertisment for the monster-metal band [[Lordi]], and the monsters of the film are the members of the band...
* In the 2008 film ''[[
* ''Death Tunnel'', which was based on the [[Real Life]] example of [[wikipedia:Waverly Hills Sanatorium|Waverly Hills Sanatorium]]. A group of young women must escape a haunted hospital.
* The movie, ''Boo''. Long story short, a psycho burned it down years ago, killing lots of people, some rather stupid teenagers sneak in to do whatever it is stupid horror movie teenagers do, and lots of them end up possessed and dead.
* The mental hospital in ''[[
* A part of the {{spoiler|[[Dying Dream]]}} movie ''[[
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* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s novel ''[[Neverwhere]]'', Villains Croup and Vandemar use the lower levels of an abandoned hospital as their hideout.
* In ''[[The Stand]]'' by [[Stephen King]], The Stovington Plague Center in Vermont turns into this [[After the End]].
** ''[[The Dark Tower
* ''The Blackstone Chronicles'', a series of short horror stories by John Saul, revolve around an abandoned insane asylum whose patients and former staff end up connected to a series of murders. It was later made into a computer game.
* ''[[Hannibal]]''. FBI agent Clarice Starling returns to the mental institution, now closed down, where Hannibal Lecter was imprisoned to dig up some old files. Most chilling of all is the fact that one of the inmates (who'd cut off his mother's head) is now living there as a homeless outpatient, though nothing happens between them.
* In the novella ''Magic City'', Nelson S. Bond's Meg the Priestess enters one of these, the Place of Stlukes, well known to the locals as a temple of HIM (Death).
* Ravenhill in ''[[Psychoville]]''.
== Live Action TV ==
* Featured in the ''[[
* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Asylum".
* Happens in the first season of ''[[Dexter]]'', where the title character finds Tony Tucci. Initially a suspect in the case, Tony had been kidnapped by the Ice Truck Killer, and was near death.
* The Staff Station on ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' involved an abandoned sanitarium, and flashbacks to when it was in use, along with one of the more tragic characters in the series.
* ''[[Kingdom Hospital]]'' pulls this off even while still open and busy with patients. There's some kind of otherworld hospital, possibly under it...
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** Played for laughs in one episode. Budget cuts forced the hospital administators to close a wing of Sacred Heart until they had the funds to open it up again. Turk and J.D. go surfing on gurneys in the emptied section of the hospital.
** At least once, people seeking medical treatment have entered the hospital which serves as the set.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* T.A.P.S., of ''[[Ghost Hunters]]'' fame, have visited a couple of these.
** So have the guys on ''[[Ghost Adventures]]''. As a rule, if great numbers of people have died there (somewhat inevitable with a hospital), there's gonna be some kind of haunting and paranormal investigators will come to check the place out.
** So has the PRS at ''Paranormal State''.
* [[The History Channel]] series ''[[Life After People]]'' goes into an abandoned hospital from the 1970s to show how the building has been taken over by nature in only 30 years.
* An episode of ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'' featured one of these when Frank and Lara went to investigate a killer nurse. The nurse would get his supplies from an abandoned hospital to avoid detection. To make things worse, the morgue actually contained a body that was forgotten and was used by the killer to test his skills and sate his morbid curiosity about death.
* In a few episodes of ''[[Being Human (
* In one episode of ''[[Series/Face Off|Face Off]]'', the contestants are called to an abandoned hospital to start off the spotlight challenge. They had to sit in a dark room alone with a flashlight and come up with the concept of a monster that represents a phobia.
== Music ==
* The video for "Stricken" by [[
** [[Rule of Scary|The reason's right there in the band name]].
** The building's boiler room was apperently used to shoot a scene from ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]''; they included it in the video, again for no reason.
* The video for "Vengeance Is Mine" by [[
* [[Nox Arcana]]'s album ''Blackthorn Asylum''. The titular hospital was formerly owned by a twisted surgeon determined to unravel the secrets of human illness and deformity - in the cruelest way possible. The point of the attached puzzle is for the listener to figure out what happened at the hospital that caused it to be abandoned.
== Theme
* In Fuji-Q Highland, Japan, there is a [http://www.fujiq.jp/attraction/senritsu.html massive haunted attraction] based on this trope.
== Video Games ==
* [[Nightmare House]] 2 has Never Lose Hope Hospital.
* The entire story of ''[[The Dark Meadow]]'' takes place in one of these. Notorious for lobotomies and sub-standard treatment, the hospital was abandoned long before the main character arrives there. And when the player gets there, he has to fight off hordes of demonic monsters led by [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the White Witch.]]
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' has one of its most terrifying sections take place in an abandoned
** It's a pretty refreshing subversion though when you get to {{spoiler|pal around for once with the (very attractive) monster.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Resident Evil]] 3'' has Raccoon City hospital, filled with Zombies. They were also engineering Hunters in the basement, for some reason.
** ''[[Resident Evil]]: Outbreak'' included a level in another part of the same hospital filled with leeches.
*** ''[[Resident Evil]]: Outbreak 2'' includes another level set in a different abandoned hospital, this time overrun by evil plants and plant-zombies.
* ''[[Silent Hill]]'' features not one, but two of these hospitals, with Alchemilla Hospital in the first game and Brookhaven in the second and third. They're notable for being the rare locations that are just as scary in the 'real world' as in the dark Otherworld. The fourth game involves a bizarre abstraction of a hospital seen through the lens of a terrified child.
** The prequel ''Origins'' takes this a step further and makes a massive abandoned mental asylum into the second level. If the rotting motif or floating harnesses didn't creep you out, then the pill puzzle did. And if it wasn't the pill puzzle, it was the final boss...
** [[Silent Hill 3]] technically has both hospitals in it. You spend quite a bit of {{spoiler|[[Shaggy Dog Story]] wasted}} time in Brookhaven, looking for Leonard Wolf, and his talisman. When you get to the church at the end of the game, things take a turn for the surreal and hellish, with parts of it being transformed into Alchemilla hospital, due to {{spoiler|Heather's memories as Alessa returning}}.
* ''[[
** [[Crowning Music of Awesome|What kind of hospital is this?]] One full to the brim with zombies overrunning the remaining Combine soldiers in the vicinity, apparently.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fatal Frame]] 4'' is ENTIRELY set in an abandoned hospital.
* ''[[Time Splitters]] 2'' had a multiplayer map in some kind of Hospital/Chapel hybrid. Naturally, the default bot set was made of zombies.
* ''[[Thief]]: Deadly Shadows'' has a positively terrifying level set in an abandoned insane asylum (prior to becoming an asylum it was an {{spoiler|orphanage, and for a short while it was both, with arsonists and psychopaths in the same building as cute widdle children}}.
** You may soil yourself in the process. You may need several breaks. You may be unwilling to go near orphanages after playing this mission. You may display an involuntary visible reaction when someone says "Shalebridge" or "The Cradle" within your hearing.
*** Even the first part of the level, which contains {{
** The treatment methods, described by expository letters, involved branding the patient with a hot iron.
* ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]]'' features a hospital room puzzle, and a large portion of the ship was converted into one during its stint in WWI in the British Royal Navy.
* ''[[Clock Tower (
* ''The Blackstone Chronicles'' computer game was set a few years after the stories and has the main character, Oliver, hunting through the abandoned mental institution his father used to run in order to find his son.
* The game ''[[Painkiller]]'' featured a level that took place in an abandoned asylum. The enemies consisted of guys wrapped in strait jackets constantly being electrocuted and undead amputees who you could also find waiting for you on the ceiling.
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** A mild subversion in that it's a very modern, fully-equipped, well-designed and well-lit hospital. And any possible creepiness is removed by the sight of an infected in a surgical gown that leaves his greying arse on display. Or possibly amplified.
*** It's additionally subverted by the fact that the hospital is actually far from deserted...it's not occupied by anyone who is well or sane, but aside from that it's just packed with people.
* ''[[Dead Space (
* ''[[The Suffering]]'' features one of these levels as part of its nearly exhaustive tour of [[Horror Tropes]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Siren (
* ''[[
** The various Facemakers shops in ''[[City of Heroes
** By the end of the game's life, the available maps for both official and user-created missions included a redress of the standard "abandoned office" as Abandoned Hospital, with privacy curtains, oxygen tanks and other medical detritus cluttering the floors and often acting as obstacles.
* ''[[Condemned]] 2: Bloodshot'' - After receiving a brick to the head from a [[Evil Sounds Deep|gravel-voiced]] hobo with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|glowing eyes]], protagonist Ethan Thomas enters a [[Alternate Universe|spooky evil world]]. As you proceed through this other world, you find yourself entering a
* ''[[
* ''[[Urban Dead]]'' is full of abandoned hospitals which survivors try to hold onto for the first aid kits and the zombies try to raid for the brains.
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'' starts out in one of these, but it's weird because you have two friends with you and there's lots of sunlight coming through the windows. Perhaps the creepy factor is increased by the fact that {{spoiler|the hospital is home to an apocalyptic cult who sort of destroy the world within the first five minutes, that the hospital is basically empty except for you and your friends, who wait in the lobby and make you investigate the basement for them, and that after the pseudo-end of the world it turns into a flipped-around blue-tinted ghost-and-demon-filled alternate version of itself. Oh, and later on you have to return. Not so scary anymore, is it? [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Till you meet the resident boss...]] }}.
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* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has one called Our Lady of Hope Hospital located in Downtown DC. The place is swarming with Super Mutants, Centaurs and skeletons.
** Plenty of other hospitals, both permanent and temporary, abandoned and manned, can be found across the wastelands. Many hold records/offer glimpses of the horrors of the period just before and immediately after the war.
* The 2009 ''[[Wolfenstein (
* The first Map Pack of ''[[Call of Duty]]: World at War'' contains a Nazi Zombies map called Zombie Verruckt, which takes place in the abandoned Wittenau Sanatorium.
* One of the locations in ''[[
* Episode two of ''[[Ju
* ''[[The House of the Dead (
** Did we mention the chapter is titled '''Ballistic Trauma'''?
* In Chapter 8 of ''[[Dark Sector]]'', you visit one as well.
* ''[[
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]'': The Angel of Darkness has two levels inside a sanitarium filled with genetically modified mutants in straight jackets.
* The ''[[
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' has an abandoned hospital ward, which happens to be home to your first encounter with Scarecrow. It's easily the scariest building on the island.
* ''[http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/legacy-the-realm-of-terror/ Legacy : The Realm of Terror]'' features an insane asylum on the 3rd floor. Unfortunately, while abandoned by any semblance of normal people (if insane people can really be called normal), it is now happily inhabited by zombies and other mutant freaks.
* SAW, the video game based on the horror film series of the same name, takes place entirely within Whitehurst Asylum, an abandoned insane asylum.
* The [[Hidden Object Game]] "Nightfall Mysteries: Asylum Conspiracy" is set at, you guessed it, an abandoned insane asylum. Well, ''mostly'' abandoned.
** Sometimes it seems like 1/4 of all Hidden Object Games are set in abandoned hospitals/asylums.
* ''The Godfather'' has an abandoned hospital...because of bribery. The only people left inside are Don Coreleone, a wounded mafia soldier and your love interest. And the window in the next room has just shattered...
* ''[[Dead Nation]]'' has Marrow Hospital as a level. You only get to see a brief glimpse inside of the hospital (as in, one room in a comic book style cutscene), but it is definitely abandoned (well, except for the zombies), and the parking lots/roof are definitely swarming in crazed barely-human monsters consumed by bloodlust and bioweapons that came as a result of government genetic experiments.
* In ''[[
* Chapter 2 of ''[[Meat Boy
* The PC game ''Sacra Terra: Angelic Night'' takes place in a massive complex that is part hospital, part cathedral, part mansion. The player character was a patient at the hospital, the specialty of which seems to have been extracting the [[Seven Deadly Sins]] from patients, but he has no memory of being admitted and he's the only living thing left in the compound. {{spoiler|There are plenty of evil spirits, though...}}
* ''[[Sanitarium]]'' begins in a creepy asylum where some of the inmates are banging their head on the wall.
=== Visual Novel ===
* In the second chapter of ''[[
== Web Original ==
* All three islands used in the three ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' seasons have had an abandoned clinic, usually small buildings. The location name on the forum is usually some variation of "
* An
* ''[[
** And it plays with how abandoned "abandoned" really is. Sure, no one's using it as a hospital ''right this exact second'', but it's implied that Ruby is doing-slash-discovering some of these things for the second or third time, raising the question, "How, exactly, does she end up back at the start with no memory of doing this stuff if the hospital isn't operating on some rudimentary level?"
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Doctor's Disorders" mostly takes place in the abandoned North Mercy Hospital, where the sign outside the building has weathered so that it now only says "No Mercy".
* You could say twice on ''[[
** In Heat Signature, the back drop for a big part of the episode appears to be an abandoned and delapidated old hospital building with a helicopter plate.
** The second time this happens, Finn wakes up in the abandoned hospital wing of the Candy Kingdom, only to realize the only one in the whole area is Jake.
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* The old Alexandra Hospital in Singapore was the site of a massacre of doctors and their patients by the Japanese during World War II, and has a reputation for being haunted.
** The abandoned Old Changi Hospital, another haunted hospital in the same city, has a torture chamber added by the Japanese secret police, with bloodstains still set into the floor.
* The Saint Louis City Hospital was built in 1845, and was shut down in July
** They've done the same thing to an old asylum in Melbourne, Australia, that was rumoured to be haunted. Now it's an apartment building.
*** That would be Willsmere, Kew. Enormous Second Empire building (think arches and towers), formerly Kew Lunatic Asylum. Nice apartment building, actually. And, yes, reportedly haunted.
* If you've said the words "haunted" and "hospital" in the Philadelphia region over the last thirty years, then you've heard of [http://www.opacity.us/site10_philadelphia_state_hospital_byberry.htm Byberry Mental Hospital]. Built in 1906 and finally demolished one hundred years later, it reads like a nonfiction checklist of haunted house cliches. Subterranean tunnels? It's got 'em. Total lack of electricity? Check. Some brilliant fluke of architecture that renders most of the building pitch black even during the day? All yours, daddy-o. This place would give [[House
* [[wikipedia:Waverly Hills Sanatorium|The Waverly Hills Sanatorium]]: it's definitely got a reputation for being haunted.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130531020110/http://www.forgottenoh.com/LimaTB/limatb.html Lima Tuberculosis Hospital] in (oddly enough) Lima, Ohio. Pretty darn creepy.
* The Chicago State Hospital, now known as the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in the community of Dunning on the Northwest Side. An insane asylum, sanitarium, and poor village was built there back in the 1860's and it eventually changed hands to the city. Many were taken there, to the point where it got horribly overcrowded in the 1910's. Eventually sections got closed down, including a small school and one of the hospitals, a rather big facility. Both of them lay abandoned for years, but the big hospital was eventually torn down for condos a few years back.
** [[The Windy City]] is also home to the ''[https://www.edgewaterhistory.org Edgewood Hospital]'' (5700 N. Ashland Avenue, 1929-2001), an abandoned neighbourhood eyesore notable as the birthplace of serial killer John Wayne Gacy (executed by lethal injection in 1994) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (whose presidential ambitions were exterminated by the [[Russia]]ns in 2016). Deserted after a Medicare fraud and mismanagement scandal [https://web.archive.org/web/20200806222627/https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/photos-show-inside-abandoned-edgewater-hospital/2018871/ ended in bankruptcy], everything was left behind to rot – including [https://wgntv.com/news/edgewater-hospitals-medical-records/ confidential medical records].
* According to the [[Nothing Is Scarier|rather eerie]] book ''Ghostly Ruins'', which features photographs of various places around America which have fallen into disrepair, the [[wikipedia:Danvers State Hospital|Danvers State Mental Hospital]] in Danvers, Massachusetts falls squarely into this category. Danvers was once named Salem (yes, [[Witch Hunt|that Salem]]), and changed its name due to the associated trauma, and the hospital itself was constructed on the site where one of the fanatical judges had lived. As the book puts it, "The Danvers State Hospital may have the worst bad karma of any abandoned site in the country." This is in fact the hospital on which Lovecraft based Arkham. It was a model facility when constructed, but eventually succumbed to abuse, overcrowding, and disrepair; when it closed in 1990, it held 2000 inmates (and was meant to hold only 200). What makes things even more fun is, after the hospital was torn down in 2006 and an apartment complex was built, there was a mysterious fire that destroyed a large portion of the construction...one which is apparently still unexplained. Cue [[Scare Chord]].
** And to [[Up to Eleven|worsen the karma even more]], it seems it was pretty much the birthplace of the lobotomy as we know it.
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** Urban legend. When the plague hit Venice in the 1500's, a different island was used as a hospital. Poveglia spent maybe three decades as a quarantine island, and was most lately the home of a retirement community for about sixty years. There never was a mental hospital.
* Many large hospitals in London have abandoned or little-used sections. This Troper has worked in a couple, and let's just say you don't want to make a wrong turn late at night.
* The Hugh Gallen State Office Park in Concord, New Hampshire, is comprised of a variety of re-purposed old buildings that were originally collectively known as the New Hampshire Asylum until being renamed to the less threatening "New Hampshire Hospital." Some buildings on the campus - the Acute Psychiatric Services building (APS, 1989), the Anna Philbrook Center (1960), and a few
** Rumors have long persisted among locals that there are walled up portions of the Main Building's basement that contain the remains of tuberculosis patients who died during a time when TB ran rampant. "People say" that excavating these walled up rooms could end up infecting the workers in the building with tuberculosis, which could then spread to the greater population. This is a completely unfounded and illogical rumor, but if you've ever been in the Main Building's basement (as this Troper has), you would be hard-pressed not to wonder what's in the walls.
** Many of the older buildings in the state office park have been renovated but still retain a lot of their original structure, both internally and externally. Some sections of these buildings, particularly the Main Building, have not been renovated at all due to the cost of asbestos removal and other improvements that would need to be made to make those areas safe and usable. This has left portions of the interior of these buildings in a state of eerie desertion and decay. One unrenovated wing of the Main Building has been dubbed the "Stephen King Wing" by state employees who have had the opportunity to check it out (and yes, it really is that creepy).
* Thanks to the Community Care Act (1990) in the UK, there are still a number of old abandoned mental hospitals, in various states of decay. [[Genre Savvy|Unsurprisingly]] developers have been less than keen to move in.
* One which is far creepier in reality than any fictional Hospital is in the island of Guernsey, and yes it is ''in'' as in built underground. Constructed by [[Those Wacky Nazis]] in [[WW 2]] during the island's occupation it was used as hospital, mortuary, ''ammunition store'', and * [[Ghostapo|research centre]]* on Slavic Labourers. See a video of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acd-IuMRL8 here].
* An abandoned hospital figures in the [[wikipedia:Goiânia accident|Goiânia accident]], one of the worst nuclear radiation leaks in history.
* Ironically, Danvers and many of these other places were originally supposed to be actual ''asylums''; places of humane treatment according to the Kirkbride plan. The problems occurred with overcrowding due to warehousing. Not just the mentally ill, but drug addicts, immigrants with nowhere to go, the unemployed, the "friendless", homeless people. Danvers was supposed to only have about 600 clients; it ended up with well over two thousand.{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* The [[wikipedia:Glenn Dale Hospital|Glenn Dale Hospital]] in Maryland was not a place that people visited to get better. As a sanitarium for tuberculosis, anyone who wound up here could only hope to die in the most dignified way possible. And yes, there is a children's compound. Features of note include the incinerator, refridgerated morgues, the flooded underground hallways, and the elevator shaft that "breathed". The sad thing is that it really was a beautiful place in its prime, and probably could be again if any restoration were put into it. Budget shortfalls and copious amounts of lead paint make this unlikely, however.
* Due to a combination of budget cuts and a report about the absolutely deplorable conditions by Geraldo Rivera, The Willowbrook State School was closed in 1987 and the patients were turned out on their own. Shortly after this it was discovered that several people were living in the tunnels under the facility. It was speculated that the residents might be former patients. Short after that, the body of a recently missing girl was found in a shallow grave on the property...
* A hospital in Khovrino district of Moscow was abandoned after five years of construction in 1985 and has never been finished. It is commonly called [[Resident Evil|"Umbrella"]] by urban explorers because of its shape that closely resembles a Biohazard symbol when seen from above.
* The hospital portion of Ellis Island in New York was this until the entire site was revitalized into the tourist center it is today. Those who spearheaded the renovation spoke of finding various abandoned equipment and the like. Another abandoned hospital on the grounds of the island, and other quarantine wards, are fenced off from the main tourist sections and are off limit to the public.
* Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey's state mental hospital since 1876, has persistently been overcrowded and required new construction. Older buildings have not all been demolished, giving the entire campus something of a creepy atmosphere-especially considering some of the abuse scandals that took place in those buildings...
* Charity Hospital in New Orleans was somewhat rundown before Hurricane Katrina. Afterwards...
* The historic buildings on the western campus of Washington, D.C.'s St. Elizabeth's mental hospital, has been abandoned since 1987. [[Development Hell|It is expected to become]] the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.{{verify}}
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