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Originally Posted by YAZ
Gotta check out the state hospital ruins in Northville, if they're still standing.
Yep.
An insane asylum.
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When we were teens, we used to sneak into that place at night and look around. We found some really neat stuff in there. The best was a log book kept by a former warden. It had some funny entries and some that were shocking. When we found something like a bent spoon, we liked to make up stories about what it was for or how it got that way. The stories were probably far from the truth (i.e. someone dropped the spoon and the floor and stepped on it). We also found a room with shackles or handcuffs or something attached to the wall. I do nto remember it well but we thought that room was very exciting.
Once we brought dates to break into the insane asylum with us. We thought it was really cool, but our dates were not impressed, just scared. No second date there.
The only scary thing we ever found in there, was a bunch of peace officers who somehow learned that we were inthere and came with flash lights and searched the place. We hid outside in the bushes. After they left, we went back in while they searched the outside area for us. They had a car sitting near our car for half the night (our car was parked about a quarter mile away with a note saying "Out of Gas be back soon"). They seemed to fall for it becuase they did not tow the car or boot it or anything, they just watched it for a long time. We could not leave until morning. It was an exciting night, but no ghosts, not even any creepy noises that could not be attributed to one of my friends trying to scare everyone.
We may not be talking about the same place. The one right in northville was still open when I was a teen (one of the guys who broke into the looney prison with us ended up at northville state hospital or whatever it was called, for a while). It was open within the past 20 or so years. It was more for the treatment of depression and drug abuse than for criminally insane people.
The one that we snuck into was near a prison. It was not the one that is pretty much in town, it is out a ways. It was for people who committed crimes but were found unfit to stand trial. There was a huge empty field behind it, we sometimes drove on a dirt track throughthe field and got pretty close to the place so we did not have to walk so far, but it was risky because our car was pretty obvious sitting in a field less than half a mile away. You could park in the front, but you could only get in through the back so if you parked int he front, you had a long long walk. There was a prison nearby (within sight) and a sherriffs building fairly close to it (that is where the officer who searched for us came from). It may have been technically within the boundries of Livonia, or Plymouth I do ntoremember exactly where, but it was pretty close to northville.
About the same time, I used to maintain the old graveyards around Lyon township. There were really old small rural graveyards dating back to the early 1800s. It got spooky if I had to work into the evening to get done. IN some places I was the only person around for quite a distance and I was alone. It is kind of hard to get scared while mowing though with all the noise and everything. I once saw something that I could not explain, but thinking back on it I believe that it was probably the reflection of distant headlights on a tombstone.
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