Inside Fairfield Hills Asylum

Fairfield Hills once held over 4,000 mentally unstable patients. The building's original beauty is only masked by the scars of mother nature and recent vandalism. The asylum lost its accreditation in 1994 and slowly closed down its over 25 campus-style buildings.

Today, much of the site is under construction and renovation to create municipal town buildings. The area is patrolled by one security guard in a blue truck - who really doesn't do much.

A few friends of mine and myself walked around the property and became very curious as to what was inside. So without hesitation, someone else and I entered Litchfield House. It was amazing. However, when we entered the maximum security floor, we began to hear banging, rattling, and rumbling which got louder as we continued our stay. Needless to say, we hurried out of there.

Next, that same person and I entered Canaan House - another patient treatment facility. We entered through a door that was mysteriously left ajar. Upon going onto the second floor we were greeted with beautiful murals painted on the wall along with several children drawings. The hallway lead to office spaces connected to a massive lobby-like room which had signs that read "Newtown Board of Ed." Strangely, there were still desks and papers everywhere, including an entire section of file cabinets with emptied contents. My guess is that this area was used briefly as a transition while the elementary school was being built.

Fairfield Hills is an incredible location. I suggest anyone who is interested in this sort of thing have a visit there.

The camera I used for this was my digital, so please forgive the quality.
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The poem at 3:31


"The Road Not Taken"
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;




Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,




And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.




I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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[limitless920]

i love your work!

the music in this is perfect!

what song is it?

its kind of eire!

great job!

[rickyperson]

Coldplay's "42"

Check out the video response. =)

[Titasxproductions]

For people who been there how it like? Just asking

[jenaliza]

A lot of teens were also institutionalized for depression as I was /verses just misbehavior.The things that went on in the hospital were not always pleasant nor ethical. What made it survivable was being with other teens stuck in the same situation.We became a very close knit family We experienced great happiness and terrible pain there.I believe if it werent for peer support a lot of us would not have made it though this ordeal, some didnt make it. For me it was the worst and best of times.

[jenaliza]

Back in the 80's it was common practice to institutionalize teenagers whose behavior was deemed unacceptable to society's norms then. A lot of teens were put in the hospital for normal missbehavior and /of bad grades. It was unbelievable the reasons kids would be put in psch wards for months at a time.

[giathecat]

@jenaliza Oh wow! Do you mind me asking why you were there? That must have been some expeirience! Were patients treated well?

[AlxUnderPR]

I was also there back in 85 tho, good n bad memories, but more bad than good

[jenaliza]

I was actually there in the summer of 1986 at the adolescent unit. anybody else there that summer? These youtube videos of the hospital bring back a lot of memories. some really good ,some really bad. of course the buildings were really much nicer looking in 86

[MrDanielj123]

Whenever I see this I always think of Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Metallica...

anyone agree? :D

[MrLiljap]

this place reminds me of middle school at shuksan middle in b'ham washington!!! holly shit the inside looks exactly the same!!! haha, now but we were all treated pretty insanely over there...

[emochick5210]

@twinsru kk

[twinsru]

@emochick5210 yeah now that i think about it when the gate is open not one cop is around i even see people right up by windows taking photos if you watch your back you could probably just walk right in through the doors just don't try it at night and not on a week day the main gate is right by a public school