Inside Old Bryce State Mental Hospital

A few friends and I decided to take a trip this Friday night into the old and dilapidated annex of Bryce State Mental Hospital near the Tuscaloosa Airport off of Highway 82.
There isn't much information on the web on the history of the annex but I found a good compilation of the rumors and what is known about the place on the al.com ghost stories forum:
"Actually, what everyone calls "Old Bryce" appears to have been a mental institution built as the sister to Bryce Hospital. Bryce is located in Tuscaloosa next to the University of Alabama.
'Old Bryce' was the mental hospital for black patients during segregation, from what I understand. There has indeed been a fire, and the building may be structurally unsound. During wetter seasons of the year, the basement floods, and is impossible to navigate around.
It is not advisable to enter Bryce, as it is constantly under surveillance by the local police, trying to keep trespassers away. It is owned by the state of Alabama, as is the S.D. Allen nursing home that sits on the land adjacent to "Old Bryce."
Old Bryce was actually called either The Colony or the Boy's Colony. As for the reason that it closed down, there is speculation that experiments were performed on the patients that may have been inhumane (lobotomies, for instance). But at the time, these procedures were considered legitimate medicine.
Personally, I think the institution was shut down because of desegregation, but I don't know why Bryce would not use it as additional facilities if that were the case... the buildings were built nearly identically to each other, and they are both owned by the state."
Since there isn't a lot of information or video of the inside of this place I decided to post a video of our adventure inside.
Enjoy.

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• Bryce
• Mental
• Hospital
• Institution
• Tuscaloosa
• Alabama
• Haunted
• Paranormal

[dhca37]

Interesting. I would like to see the place as my great grandmother died there Apr. 24, 1905. Cause of death was listed as Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis. She is buried in the hospital cemetery. I have her stone number and would like to visit her grave site someday. This makes me very SAD!

[penuth]

Check it out at 9:00 !!!!!! There is a man that looks to be hanging from the ceiling between the pillars. >.> I wonder if they even caught that?

[360dylon]

How do I get there? I live in priceville..pls tell I wanna go

[bamafanxiMI22]

my cousin that went to Bama said she always used to go to this place.....although illegal. lol

[tiburongirl22]

@astralman77 It's not fenced off.... and you would have to sneak in.

[penuth]

@astralman77 wtf.. dude i did not write this. fuck you person who got on my account.

[astralman77]

@penuth i don't see it

[astralman77]

hey can anyone go there? is it fenced off? did you have to get permission or what?

[Princesslayea]

I have one comment, i was admited to Bryce Mental insatute back in the early 1990's, it is haunted, but there is a catch in being admited to a place like this, once you hit your 18th birthday, your stuck there for the rest of your life. I was 13 years old. I saw a girl down Block C which is the girls block, however she was wear a bra and underwear, and she walked into one of the rooms down the hall, but there is one way in and one way out, but she wasnt in the room when some one looked

[SizmicFisher]

@MegaDyneSystemsExe That would be the shit, Sam kicked ass and was taken way too early.

[StitchesVoodooPanda7]

Yoou guys need to take my friend Blade with you. so much stuff goes down when he is there.