Ohhhh this is getting Wierd. No wonder this place keeps showing up as haunted. You be careful.........
Gene did you know they used to keep brains in that there hospital ?
Check this out.
http://brainmuseum.org/location-use/nmhm/nmhm-collections.html The Yakovlev-Haleem Collection 1930-present
1,570 specimens.
Finding aid available, arranged, active, restricted.
Primarily whole-brain serial sections mounted on slides; also included are tissue blocks of fetal and neonatal organs. Each specimen has a case record. In addition to normative controls, specimens include examples of cerebrovascular disease, pathomorphic cerebra, neurosurgery for behavioral diseases, miscellaneous neuropathology, and experimental animals. The collection was built by Dr. Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894-1983), a neurologist at several hospitals and Harvard Medical School. Yakovlev began the collection in 1930 at Monson State Hospital. In 1974 he transferred the collection from Harvard to the AFIP, where it was managed by curator Mohamad Haleem until its transfer to the museum. In 1994 it was renamed the Yakovlev-Haleem Collection. Also associated with the collection is a reference library and computer imaging technology. Recent development has included computer image analysis of the collection.
Also: The original two buildings of the sanitarium were built in the late 1700's and have not been used since the early 1950's. They were originally used to house the criminally insane. These two buildings, long abandoned, stand on the back of the property and still contain apparatus used to restrain former patients, as they are bolted to floors and walls, such as chairs used to restrain violent patients, bathtubs equipped with wrist and neck shackles, shackles bolted into walls, and the like.
