Scared Straight

theMan went to an old mental hospital in Illinois last week with some of his pals. They caught video footage as well as a ton of pictures of this exceptionally creepy place. It was the Illinois State Hospital from the 20's until the mid-80's and had almost 8,000 patients at one time. At one time they had their own in-house Typhoid Fever outbreak which resulted in 30 deaths a month. Some of these sick patients were boarded up in their rooms until they died for lack of anything else to do with them. It was reportedly 40 buildings large and has tunnels leading to all buildings underground.

These tunnels are where theMan caught some exceptionally creepy footage. Click here and tell me those aren't footsteps you hear overhead. The building was COMPLETELY empty when they went...there was NOBODY that was walking over their head, and especially not loud enough to be heard in the tunnels. More creepy footage to come but this is the loudest of the footsteps for now.

Remind me to show you the bathing room completely covered in black marker. Eeep.

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