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  • thanks for taking me back to unit 28. I haven't been there since 1985. I was a psychiatric technician at Cam State and when I was in school I trained on unit 28. Not my favorite place. I liked the developmental disabled side of the facility better. People were very sick. I'm sure not everyone that was a patient there was in the right place.  however, so many now are homeless on the streets with no treatment or place to sleep. There were good Staff at Cam State. Not all, but many were.

  • after such a long time and reading from other posting about a life i won't ever forget,being a former patient n camarillo don't really like not having personal answers ti how people can talk about other people's lives and hide behind the damn truth. It has been sometime ago that I have found one person that was doing a documentary or something about the history of my life, and that person couldn't even be nice enough to show me her pic, now I'm wondering if they are just out for their own fun.

  • Gives Me The Chills Just Looking At This. Ive been In Here So Many Times, And I Always Feel Like Somethings Going To Pop Up. ts A Very Eerie Place To Be And Lots Of Negative Energy..It Smells In There, And Once You Go In, Some Of The Things You See Will Never Leave Your Mind. Very Scary. And If You Plan On Going There, I Would Reccomend Going During The Weekend When There Arent Many People There. If You Are Seen by A Gaurd , They Will Call the Police. But yet the doors are unlocked.

  • i went here today. June 13, 2011 .its really bad. theres a crematorium underground that has ashes all over the floor, and it smells like carcases rotting all over the place. theres alot of blood on the walls upstairs., oil and dirt all over the ground . we had to break windows to get in. most of the doors are locked. and you can hear voices or feel a prescence anywhere you go. the negative energy is very strong,.. for your own sake, i would not recomend going there just for the hell of it.

  • @KristenLuvsYou4ever - Nonsense. You are either lying, or severely misguided and misinformed. No crematorium at the hospital. The only furnaces provided steam for heat and power There was probably an incinerator there somewhere though I don't recall it. Your obvious inference is that the area you claim to have seen was where bodies were disposed of. Actually the portion of the building that housed the morgue was destroyed by the CSUCI which then built the Broome Library precisely on that site.

  • @adhndrsn Thank you for making more sense to me now.

    i went into unit 4 , i think it was ? right next to the Broome Library. the underground section was ASHES. i know what they look like, and it couldnt have been mistaken for anything else.

  • @adhndrsn I know from personal experience about the shock therapy, the outstanding restraints from not wanting to take their meds, docs and nurses had their turns on force feeding their patients, knocking them around, i have also seen the crematorium and this is true, you cannot call me a liar or misguided on this due to the fact that I WAS A PATIENT HERE!!! If I am so misguided, why is it that the last 20+ years I have nightmares about my past at Camarillo State Hospital.I was lucky I got out

  • We use to go out ther in the 80's at nite and have bon fires out at the old dairy barn.

  • @tchester71 Thats Called Scary Dairy Nowdays.

    Lots Of Paranormal Activity There As Well.

  • where is this located at?

  • @Love2Ride622 Camarillo, CA inbetween Los Angeles and San Francisco along the 101 freeway

  • @Love2Ride622 1882 lewis road, camarillo, california, 93012.

    i live right by here.

  • check out my video piece about the fame Jazz artist Charlie Parker being there in 1946-47.....It;s called "A Bird in Camarillo".......enjoy

  • Actually to me it seems like a better alternative then to simply turn people in need out into the streets to sleep under bridges, river bottoms and re-label them criminals rather then sick who need help.

    I remember the hospital as a child being my aunts mother in law was a nurse there.

    I remember people walking around, siting on the lawn.

    I would imagine lobotomies and shock treatments went out in the 40's.

    This was Ronald Reagan's finest achievement along with smaller care facilities.

  • @darlene1029  LOBOTOMIES AND SHOCK TREATMENT DID NOT GET REMOVED FROM TREATMENTS IN THE 40s I WAS A PATIENT IN THE 70s AND RECIEVED THIS TYPE OF TREATMENTS. I CAN ANSWER ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO ASK ABOUT THIS HOSPITAL'S PREVIOUS TREATMENTS!!! they tried shutting me up by being tranquilized.

  • @darlene1029 actually darlene. shock treatment or ECT did not go out in the 40's. While I worked there in the 80's I witnessed an episode of ECT. It was on a man who was severely depressed. So depressed that he was in a catatonic state. After the shock treatment he actually became "normal" again. He conversed with patients and staff. He was very bright. He did well and was getting "better". Unfortunately shock treatment doesn't always last and he relapsed. ECT is actually still done.

  • wow whats that heavy breathing noise?

  • yeah that place was creepy before they converted it to a university...haven't been there since it was converted.....

  • And now the nickname of the university is "cal state looney bin"

  • I was living in So. California in 1975 and married to an alcoholic, who, because of the severity of his problem, was temporarily confined to Camarillo. I went to visit him and there was a patient standing under a tree who looked at me and in this incredibly gorgeous voice started walking toward me singing "My Eyes Adored you" by Frankie Valli. I will NEVER forget that. My husband told me some horror stories after his release. Those I won't share.

  • @barbar2223

    You'll hear the same stories from old age or nursing facilities. Mental issues is the key word.

  • This is "The Hotel California" The song was about Camarillo State Hospital.

  • Seriously??????? That was like my favorite song when i was like 7, 8 or 9! No wonder i loved it so much i love abandoned asylums!

  • I graduated from CSUCI but I also got to check this place out when it was not being used. We went to check out the scary dairy at night and a cop car pulled up behind us. We told him what we were doing and the girls in our group asked if he could take us to the hospital. He said yes so we followed him through the buildings and heard some pretty cool stories and saw the autopsy table with stadium seating and the electrotherapy tub, pretty creepy. 10 years later I regret not writing down his name.

  • My dad used to patrol there. He said he seen things that would blow ur mind! I Would never visit there unless i had a bunch of ppl. :)

  • You know, what strange. I didn't want to leave the place.. crazy isn't it?

  • You know, people think you had to be mental to be put there. untrue. I ran away from a foster home. and I was put there. they even said, there was nothing wrong with me . except I was immuture at the time.

  • @dorfliedot

    reminds me of a story of a young girl who could not sit still or concentrate. Upon being viewed through a one way glass, turning on music, her mother asked, "what's wrong with her"?

    The evaluator said, "she's a dancer"

  • oh, yeah kevin seely.. he was a social worker i had a crush on . he was thirty years old at the time. beside, another person who live there monice holt. if I am saying her name right.

  • I lived there I think, i was 12 years old. I saw somethings when I was younger. I saw a ghost that was soppose to be a house parent I had at hillside children home who dead. and I remember, a guy name mike wilson who lived there too.

  • When were you there? I had a few clients that basically grew up at the hospital, but they were developmentally disabled. I think they were their during the 50's, 60's and late 70's.

  • @TheMymaJane I was a patient here in the 90s and need to know how to get my medical records... any suggestions? If i had my choice, the university wouldn't have been built there for safety reasons due to the severity of this place.

  • To you students attending CSUCI.. enjoy your asbestos, lead paint and hours of nothing to do if you dont have a car and can't get off campus.

  • i built the condos and houses out their, under the hospital was the morgue and autopsy area. went down there 5 maybe 6 times, to weird,lots of energy and some unexplainable feelings,made the hair on my neck stand up. i wonder if this was ever checked into.took pictures down there and found orbs in them. have been told by subcontractors,that they had wittnessed strange round lites that moved irradically in the early a.m. also heard talk of a ghost named margerat. not a mean one,

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  • umm...i have been attending the university for 3 years now and have taken many night classes and have never seen anything happen...

  • I know. The only things there ever were to be afraid of at that place were....

    The patients, if you were staff or...

    The staff, if you were a patient.

  • @SepherStar you didn't have to be afraid of the patients just the staff enforcing God knows what types of abuse on the patients, still wish I could sue, it's no joke.

  • You need to be careful of the restless ones.

    That place has had too much inhumanity happen to be blessed/cleansed. People need to say their peace and burn it to the ground. Take caution paranormal investigators...Their energy is strong enough to follow you out of the building.

  • your a dip shit. i go to this school and have been in there soooo many times and there is nothing in there but broken glass.

  • @JacquieRobinson555 One of the energies come from Steven Jesse Bernstein, a GREAT underground poet and musician, who apparently is dead now.

  • I was a patient here from 1973 to '75 in Unit 69

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  • @travelstarz any idea how to get our medical records now that it is closed? please let me know. thanks

  • The new library on campus is the old mortuary--some of the outside walls still exist in and around the new building.

  • we were there last night i put my hand throught one of the of the windows and it felt about like 90 degrees , we went inside something was like pulling my leg this shit is real

  • stop being a republican- join the team and come in for the big win

  • Fucking pussy. Go at night time. Its way better.

  • can you still get in at night?

  • yea they locked one of the doors but there is a staircase that leads to an open door on the second floor

  • Shoulda seen the place right after the state left and before CSU took over.....going here to explore was like venturing into the belly of a great sleeping beast.....and at night it was quite spooky. The heating system was acting up (or something like that) and some of the sounds nearly made me jump out of my skin!!

  • thanks for the upload

  • i was a patient there throughout my child hood -teenage untill adult status and for them to not acknowledge that it was a mental hospital is very wrong i was 11 yrs old when i got went there i got out when i was 24 yrs old from CSH/CYA and i have very fond memories of all the staff and the cantine/restaurant/the fashion store where we the patients had the best name brand clothes i also loved the baseball diamond we used to play against other units and we used to see the farm where the cows were

  • i don't know what planet you were living on to be having fond memories of that torture chamber they called a hospital!! i was on the adolesant unit in the 80's. i never thought i would have to see that place again!! then i saw this. and i realized that i never left.i am still haunted by the scream's that echoed in those hall's, some of them my own.they stole a big piece of my soul, and it will forever be locked up at camarillo state hospital.I will never forgive them!

  • im just saying that i grew up there and for them to not mention every bad thing that the staff did to us is very wrong u were on uint 29? so was i do u remember barbra cox the staff lady or the art teacher or i forgot his name or the guy named oatmeal who worked there as security

  • "FoR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS TO GOD"(1 CON 3:19) THE ENEMY SATAN RUNS THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE HE CAN DRAG WITH HIM TO HELL AND HE IS USING EVOLUTION TO GET IT DONE SO THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT HEAR THE TRUTH AND BE SAVED DO NOT BE DECIEVED JESUS LOVES YOU AND HE IS CALLING ALL OF US TO REPENT AND TO TURN TO HIM AND TO TRUST HIM FOR OUR SALVATION AND ENTERANCE INTO HEAVEN "REPENT! FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND"! (MATTHEW 3:2)

  • What Happend Here?

  • I worked at CSH from March, 1966 through Septmber, 1969 as an 18-21 year old (when I joined the Port Hueneme Police Department). Watching this video brings back rather fond memories ("Units" were then numbered as C, C-1, etc.). Actually, nothing scary then with 100-150 mentally ill patients, most seriouly mentally ill, and a staff of 2-4 on any given shift. Maybe I was too young to be concerned! I certainly grew up at CSH! It was an eye-opener! It was a good place to work!

  • CSUCI attendee here.

    The "courthouse" is easily one of the creepiest locales to explore at night. Protip: A big wool coat, Dr. Martens and a 6-cell Maglite make it a lot more comforting to check out.

    I made a video of the 21 dormitory in 2005 before it was converted into the modern freshman dorms that exist today; I need to find it and terrorize the poor kids over there. They need to see what their homes away from home used to look like, heh heh.

  • I worked unit 28 from '84 to '86. I still know several co-workers from that time. As the video ends it it going up the stairs to unit 29. I worked there from '87 to '91. I never missed that place, although this video sure brings back great memories of my 20's.

  • @stush61 you must have been there on 28 when i was in psych tech school in 85. I worked at Cam from 85-89. I was on Unit 41 and then Unit 86.

  • Your series of videos are remarkable. I worked at an institution years ago and these videos sum it up rather well. Videos of the infermaries, and the "intensive" care units would also be an eye opener. Somewhere on that campus will be a storage area where all of the restraints were eventually stored.

  • I got to sneak into this building today. It definitely had a creepy-ness to it. I'm sure I would've been scared outta my mind if I went at night. All the rooms look the same for the most part. Some doors are locked and some aren't.

  • hehehe ive been in there once lol

  • Was it difficult for you to gain access onto the hospital grounds for a walkthrough? Is it possible to gain the same kind of access today or is it prohibited (as mentioned in a previous comment)?

  • @nickygirl695 the main section of the hospitaks gate is open. you can go in and out as you please, but not the best idea. some gates /doors are locked. and some arent. depends where you go to.

  • @KristenLuvsYou4ever u can park there?

  • wow. that place is kinda creepy.

  • Did u find any Ghost

  • Soory,

    This placed closed by the wonderful Republican Governor

    PWilson,etc.

    All clients dumped on the street

    or sent to Board and care??

  • and now it is a wonderful university that I attend.

  • No.when we closed down (thank ya Wilson! NOT), we actually transferred most of our patients to Metropolitan State Hospital, Fairview developmental Center *costa mesa*, Porterville Developmental Center, Lanterman developmental Center, Atascadero State Hospital etc...I don't recall anyone being forced out into the street. There were group homes,board and cares utilized as well. It was a hard space in time for the staff and the patients.

  • Here we join Darth Vader as he marches through Unit 28 of Camarillo State Hospital in search of a working loo.

  • LUKE... IM YOUR CRAZY FATHER

  • NNNOOOOOooooooo!

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