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When I was growing up we had a mental hospital nearby--well maybe aobut 5 miles away. Medfield State Hospital.
the site opened in 1918 or so, and closed down in 2003.
I drove by the building today, and it is creepy looking. there are a handful of other buildings scattered around on the property, all of them are broken down, boarded up. generally poor/beat up looking.
The Clark Building is the main building. Red bricked and 4 stories tall it is. bars on all the windows, all the way up.

just a few years back they put a sign off the main road that says, "Medfield State Hospital Cemetary 1918-1988." which was basically at the bottom of some hills we use to sled on in the winter time.

I wonder what ghosts roam those trees...

the building isn't much to look at on the outside, admittedly, but what's creepy about it to me is due to growning up near it. Often you would read police reports of "prisoners" escaping. We would be warned to keep an eye on small children playing in the nearby neighborhoods.

We were always told that it was just a mental institution, but with the weird warnings every once in awhile we always had the thought that it was something worse--even sinister. I'm sure there were more than a few prisoners in there...

up until 1916, Massachusetts had a "State Board of Insanity."