Wear breathing masks..They use those all the time on Ghosts show..And if you have a organized paranormal group you can ask the property owners to investigate
guy sounds homo and i wanted to ghost hunt here but i heard security is worse now and its a federal crime to get caught...sucks heard it was haunted as shit
i went there bout a year ago before it was boarded up,me and like ten of my friends went in there and was in there the whole night just walking around and lookin around theres spirits in dat place.but we heard screams! felt things touch us, and on da second floor in the cafeteria a cabinet slammed closed by itself when we walked in da room!they did sum messed up and inhuman things to kids there.i even heard of kids being strapped to the bed too long and they would b found dead by the staff!
Eugenics is an immensly unsafe practice and attitude, its only fair for safety argument is against deformity not insanity because there are too many security and human rights issues, in effect too the only aim truthfully allowable that is not deformity is chronic criminal insanity of a life threatening level e.g. Manson was supposed to be in TALA at one time. TALA is as offensive for having a childrens ward while such practice is able and physically(geographic transport) associate the hospital.
I hear it's being watched more closely now until it's raised. There's a few really good albums on the Net about it.
My experience at Choate Psychiatric in southern Illinois was great back in '87 - '88. Female staff and nurses were taking me off grounds to screw at motels. Time of my life!
This place needs to be cleaned out of asbestos and torn down. It's a disgusting reminder of it's founder and his and cruelty and his IGNORANCE toward mentally ill people!
I was a patient there in the summer of 1991. Your video brought back many memories - some good, some not so good. I especially remember the little above ground pool near the basketball court on the westernmost end of the building - I wonder if it's still there? About the dangerous issues - that was true even when the hospital was in operation. The air conditioning, plumbing, and electricity were all below par. I'm not surprised that the Commonwealth decided "the hell with it" and closed it.
i was just here like a few weeks ago...i had heard it was totally boarded up but i thought i might be able to find a way in. there is no way in at all. it's pretty to look at but that's about it. i think they should turn it into a museum personally...
As most of you know, the buildings have been completely boarded up and they are planning to have them razed sometime in 2011. Such a shame nobody wants to take on the resposibility of restoring them.
@DemonInTheWall I'm really sorry to hear that. I have very fond memories from 84-85. DJ actually did help some of the kids that were there. They helped me. Every time I see those buildings I feel safe. What Dr. DeJarnette did had nothing to do with the treatment I received there. I will be very sad to see it go.
Please do not visit the former DeJarnette Sanitorium in person! The air quality of the building is horrid, quite close to toxic. Homeless persons have been known to stay there; and it's the property of the Frontier Culture Museum! SO -- Please, don't attempt to tour the structure under any circumstances.
The buildings are owned by The Museum of Frontier Culture. The property was given to the museum by VA in the late 1990's. The estimates I heard for either renovation or demolition were 2 -5 million dollars. Needless to say, the museum could never afford such a costly undertaking. It was discussed to create a museum gallery for the hundreds of artifacts that are housed in the basement of the museum buildings, artifacts that the public hardly ever sees.
I went there for 2 hours late Saturday night - it was a really cool place. The buildings first piqued my interest because they are massive and just look so cool from a distance!
Unfortunately, when you get up close, they are in pretty bad shape.
on halloween 07 my friends and i took a trip to dejarnettes. it was pretty creapy and we saw a lot of signs warning us of asbestos. but we saw the whole place. one thing was kinda of weird and unexplainable but the cops cut our trip short and a couple of people that were with us actually got arrested for trespassing.
I can see DeJarnetts from my balcony. People always ask me what it is when they come over because even overgrown and from a distance it's an amazing building. It would be a real shame if it were torn down or continued to be allowed to decay. I know asbestos abatement is a huge undertaking, but other historical buildings in the area (VSDB and the original Western State) have renovated and carry on like normal...
The fake science of eugenics gained great momentum during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1915, the real Dr. DeJarnette was furious with the Virginian legislature for declining THEN to authorize laws that would allow for forced sterilization of the mentally ill. Science has made tremendous progress sucbe 1915, & there are many valid opinions / arguements surrounding the issue of forced sterilization procedures as they occurred across American states until the late 1970s and early 1980s.
@twyla3 They used to sterilize the young women. Then at the Western State Hospital in later years every female patient was automatically placed on birth control. Birth control I have no problem with, but permanent sterilization was very cruel. Who were they to know these women were not going to get better?
Compared to the other places I had been by that point (Fairfax Juvenile Detention Center,. Dominion Hospital in Falls Church VA.) I found it to be much more easy going as far as the rules went. Unlike Dominion, I was allowed to wear all of my crazy punk shirts, I had my little black and white TV in my room, my boom box and all my tapes, stuff you couldn't have in Dominion.
Also, they didn't complain when I taped blankets over my window to keep any trace of sunlight out, or drew all over the walls in permanent marker.
Even when you got restrained and put in "The Quiet Room". If you showed them that you had calmed down, you could be out of there and back in the lounge watching TV in 15 minutes. As opposed to Dominion where I was sitting in the QR for 22 hours once just for almost getting into a fight with a dude.
So yeah, I would say that I or anyone else in my unit were treated fine. Not great, but as good as is to be expected of a place like that. The staff pretty much just made sure that we stayed relatively behaved.
There were always rumors though of a unit somewhere in the building where they had the more troubled kids locked away in cells. It was a big place, so who knows? I suspect that it was our imaginations at work though.
Oh yeah, there were definitely some violent kids in there, and there were the units for people with serious mental issues. It's just that the other kids on my unit would talk about it as if they were chained up with straight jackets in some dark and dripping dungeon.
The meds were terrible. I was once given one that actually made the back of my tongue swell up and started to choke me. Another would make me see double vision anytime I smoked a cigarette.
@dannygringo My step son was acting out and taking medications that were not prescribed to him. On his last episode (got a hold of Xanax) we decided it was time for drastic measures. We put him in the Commonwealth Center in Staunton. How long did it take him to "see the light?" ONE WEEK. The staff said he was the best kid there and I think he learned a lot. He told me "There are kids in here 12 and 14 who have killed people!" That was three years ago and he hasn't acted out since.
A lot more horrific things happened than just sterilizations.
zuniga6412 1 month ago
if going please be safe and use a miletary styl or grade a gass mask and use gloves for the lead paint
demonlver13 2 months ago
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cmMerlin 10 months ago
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cmMerlin 10 months ago
Thank you for this excellent presentation.
hunterv41 1 year ago
Wear breathing masks..They use those all the time on Ghosts show..And if you have a organized paranormal group you can ask the property owners to investigate
CosmicDestroyer99 1 year ago
guy sounds homo and i wanted to ghost hunt here but i heard security is worse now and its a federal crime to get caught...sucks heard it was haunted as shit
TheMcClamroch 1 year ago
The place is haunted. Before it was borded up, several people sneaked in their and heard doors slamming, wispering, and screaming.
TheConservativesrock 1 year ago
@TheConservativesrock i went in there with a couple people for a couple hours but we didnt hear anything sadly
envyranner02 8 months ago
your dates are wrong I know, I was there in '95
mattnjenmitch 1 year ago
i went there bout a year ago before it was boarded up,me and like ten of my friends went in there and was in there the whole night just walking around and lookin around theres spirits in dat place.but we heard screams! felt things touch us, and on da second floor in the cafeteria a cabinet slammed closed by itself when we walked in da room!they did sum messed up and inhuman things to kids there.i even heard of kids being strapped to the bed too long and they would b found dead by the staff!
Tashasupastar 1 year ago
Eugenics is an immensly unsafe practice and attitude, its only fair for safety argument is against deformity not insanity because there are too many security and human rights issues, in effect too the only aim truthfully allowable that is not deformity is chronic criminal insanity of a life threatening level e.g. Manson was supposed to be in TALA at one time. TALA is as offensive for having a childrens ward while such practice is able and physically(geographic transport) associate the hospital.
nicephotog 1 year ago
Rest In Peace Link Furrow
DemonInTheWall 1 year ago
I hear it's being watched more closely now until it's raised. There's a few really good albums on the Net about it.
My experience at Choate Psychiatric in southern Illinois was great back in '87 - '88. Female staff and nurses were taking me off grounds to screw at motels. Time of my life!
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 year ago
@xxxMrSuspendedxxx Yeah, yeah.
FoxtrotLester 1 month ago
@FoxtrotLester So... you've never been banged by a freaky psychiatric nurses and staff? Too bad.
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 month ago
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This place needs to be cleaned out of asbestos and torn down. It's a disgusting reminder of it's founder and his and cruelty and his IGNORANCE toward mentally ill people!
meddetect10 1 year ago
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meddetect10 1 year ago
I was a patient there in the summer of 1991. Your video brought back many memories - some good, some not so good. I especially remember the little above ground pool near the basketball court on the westernmost end of the building - I wonder if it's still there? About the dangerous issues - that was true even when the hospital was in operation. The air conditioning, plumbing, and electricity were all below par. I'm not surprised that the Commonwealth decided "the hell with it" and closed it.
RebelKnightCSA 2 years ago
i visited a family member there a few times in the seventy's. A true house of horrors.
tjmoe 2 years ago
@tjmoe What didn't you like?
meddetect10 1 year ago
i was just here like a few weeks ago...i had heard it was totally boarded up but i thought i might be able to find a way in. there is no way in at all. it's pretty to look at but that's about it. i think they should turn it into a museum personally...
TheJessieAshleyShow 2 years ago
As most of you know, the buildings have been completely boarded up and they are planning to have them razed sometime in 2011. Such a shame nobody wants to take on the resposibility of restoring them.
DemonInTheWall 2 years ago
@DemonInTheWall I'm really sorry to hear that. I have very fond memories from 84-85. DJ actually did help some of the kids that were there. They helped me. Every time I see those buildings I feel safe. What Dr. DeJarnette did had nothing to do with the treatment I received there. I will be very sad to see it go.
MyAlteregoIsToni 1 year ago
Please do not visit the former DeJarnette Sanitorium in person! The air quality of the building is horrid, quite close to toxic. Homeless persons have been known to stay there; and it's the property of the Frontier Culture Museum! SO -- Please, don't attempt to tour the structure under any circumstances.
linkfurrow 2 years ago
@linkfurrow what was that ? visit the former dejarnette sanitorium , ok !
NNASTYNATE666 4 months ago
The buildings are owned by The Museum of Frontier Culture. The property was given to the museum by VA in the late 1990's. The estimates I heard for either renovation or demolition were 2 -5 million dollars. Needless to say, the museum could never afford such a costly undertaking. It was discussed to create a museum gallery for the hundreds of artifacts that are housed in the basement of the museum buildings, artifacts that the public hardly ever sees.
magentaangelmage 2 years ago
I went there for 2 hours late Saturday night - it was a really cool place. The buildings first piqued my interest because they are massive and just look so cool from a distance!
Unfortunately, when you get up close, they are in pretty bad shape.
Zeppelin4962 3 years ago
on halloween 07 my friends and i took a trip to dejarnettes. it was pretty creapy and we saw a lot of signs warning us of asbestos. but we saw the whole place. one thing was kinda of weird and unexplainable but the cops cut our trip short and a couple of people that were with us actually got arrested for trespassing.
jpsutton2007 3 years ago
i was there for that, the building was amazing, but yeah the cops busted our trip
fallsrusty 2 years ago
I can see DeJarnetts from my balcony. People always ask me what it is when they come over because even overgrown and from a distance it's an amazing building. It would be a real shame if it were torn down or continued to be allowed to decay. I know asbestos abatement is a huge undertaking, but other historical buildings in the area (VSDB and the original Western State) have renovated and carry on like normal...
seihsif 3 years ago
that place is awesome,its only 30 min. from where i live ive been there at night and its preety creepy, nice vid
ADN89615 3 years ago
"The Germans are beating us at our own game." -- Joseph DeJarnett 1938 - This facility can be seen from I-81 sitting on hillnear Staunton VA.
dalidog255 3 years ago
I did not know that they did those procedures, that is terrible!
twyla3 3 years ago
The fake science of eugenics gained great momentum during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1915, the real Dr. DeJarnette was furious with the Virginian legislature for declining THEN to authorize laws that would allow for forced sterilization of the mentally ill. Science has made tremendous progress sucbe 1915, & there are many valid opinions / arguements surrounding the issue of forced sterilization procedures as they occurred across American states until the late 1970s and early 1980s.
linkfurrow 2 years ago
@twyla3 They used to sterilize the young women. Then at the Western State Hospital in later years every female patient was automatically placed on birth control. Birth control I have no problem with, but permanent sterilization was very cruel. Who were they to know these women were not going to get better?
meddetect10 1 year ago
I spent 30 days here in the summer of 1990, for a "psychological evaluation" An interesting place, that's for sure.
dannygringo 4 years ago
@dannygringo How were you treated? I've heard a lot of ex-patients say they were not well treated.
meddetect10 1 year ago
@meddetect10
Compared to the other places I had been by that point (Fairfax Juvenile Detention Center,. Dominion Hospital in Falls Church VA.) I found it to be much more easy going as far as the rules went. Unlike Dominion, I was allowed to wear all of my crazy punk shirts, I had my little black and white TV in my room, my boom box and all my tapes, stuff you couldn't have in Dominion.
dannygringo 1 year ago
@dannygringo
Also, they didn't complain when I taped blankets over my window to keep any trace of sunlight out, or drew all over the walls in permanent marker.
Even when you got restrained and put in "The Quiet Room". If you showed them that you had calmed down, you could be out of there and back in the lounge watching TV in 15 minutes. As opposed to Dominion where I was sitting in the QR for 22 hours once just for almost getting into a fight with a dude.
dannygringo 1 year ago
@dannygringo
So yeah, I would say that I or anyone else in my unit were treated fine. Not great, but as good as is to be expected of a place like that. The staff pretty much just made sure that we stayed relatively behaved.
There were always rumors though of a unit somewhere in the building where they had the more troubled kids locked away in cells. It was a big place, so who knows? I suspect that it was our imaginations at work though.
dannygringo 1 year ago
@dannygringo This may not have been your imagination at all. There were some treated here who were very violent.
meddetect10 1 year ago
@meddetect10
Oh yeah, there were definitely some violent kids in there, and there were the units for people with serious mental issues. It's just that the other kids on my unit would talk about it as if they were chained up with straight jackets in some dark and dripping dungeon.
The meds were terrible. I was once given one that actually made the back of my tongue swell up and started to choke me. Another would make me see double vision anytime I smoked a cigarette.
dannygringo 1 year ago
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nicephotog 1 year ago
@dannygringo swelling:Thats a med "side-effect" called "extrapyradimal",roughly chemically unsuitable
Anyhow- Thats "twice already" against? children there!!!
1. DeJarnette Sanitorium
2. Britains Virginian Commonwealth of Uganda Center for Children and Adolescents
They should go break the fingers and the teeth in one side of there faces of everyone allowing those two names associate with children.
Youtube "Morrisset assylum for the criminally insane"
nicephotog 1 year ago
@dannygringo
It definitely had a creepy vibe to it though. Like something out of the old horror movies I grew up watching...
dannygringo 1 year ago
@dannygringo My step son was acting out and taking medications that were not prescribed to him. On his last episode (got a hold of Xanax) we decided it was time for drastic measures. We put him in the Commonwealth Center in Staunton. How long did it take him to "see the light?" ONE WEEK. The staff said he was the best kid there and I think he learned a lot. He told me "There are kids in here 12 and 14 who have killed people!" That was three years ago and he hasn't acted out since.
meddetect10 1 year ago