Exploring the Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center

In this episode we explore the infamous Kings Park Psychiatric Center. As one of the most well known asylums in the New York area, there was lots of graffiti and vandalism, but we still managed to find some cool things left inside. We were also shocked by the sheer number of other people inside the building with us who were also exploring.

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[richardbarry]

I will never understand why in the hell people feel the need to vandalize every single abandoned structure and trash everything

[Orangesunshine]

When I was in college I met my future wife. It was 1977 when we met. She worked for Kings Park and lived on the grounds in a staff building. It was an amazing place. I spent many nights there before we finally got an apartment. Those were good times. Many stories to share.
41 years we are still together

[TheClarkChannel]

I grew up here. This was basically my backyard. They wanted to bulldoze all of the buildings but realized that there was too much asbestos and therefore didn't have the proper budget. So instead, they built a few bike and walking paths around the buildings so people could still enjoy it. They seem to slowly be tearing down the buildings one by one, and I'm not sure what their plan is for the future.

EDIT: Back when the hospital was still running, patients would escape every now and then. It is located right across from a school. My history teacher once told a story that a patient found his way into their classroom when he attended school there, and it took the teacher a little bit of time to realize that there was an extra person sitting in the classroom. I don't know how often patients escaped, but due to his deliverance of the story, I'm going to say pretty often.

[SamSam-pkww]

Am I the only person curious about what it looked like before it was abandoned

[sivolt]

i was a patient there in 1974 it was a living hell the nurses would hurt the patient and you couldnt do nothing about it.. The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was pretty accurate.. there's a whole under ground series of hallways that connect some building to each other

[Comrade_Marius]

I work at this state park, the park cops are not allowed to go into the buildings there cause of the asbestos. There was this one incident where they arrested a kid from a building and he was covered with asbestos, and contaminated the cop car, the cleaning costed over 10, 000$.
You guys really should all be wearing asbestos mask at all buildings, probably even need to throw your clothes away afterwards since they’ll get contaminated. Seeing these people with zero protection gives me anxiety.

Edit: Yes exposure time matters, but there’s a reason why workers who temporary work in asbestos areas need full protection.

[wendyg]

My Grandparents, some Aunts and Uncles, and my Mother worked there. I remember dropping off and picking up my Mother for work. She was only 5ft tall and about 100lbs soaking wet, and worked in a ward with mostly teenagers.
My father made her quit when she was beaten by a 16 year old patient with a phone reciever.

[crystalsmith]

When he said "stop walking. Listen" I stopped chewing my food and sat still... Smh 🤦🤦

[CattyMcMeow]

Man, it's like they went out of their way to make aslyums as evil as possible. I mean look at that architecture.

[vidm]

This place has more visitors than most of the malls Dan Bell visits.

[MrKenny]

It's amazing how quickly these buildings deteriorate once they are vacated and left empty. It is almost like the building loses its beating heart and dies.

[zippienippi]

"iPhones go 4K. How come you're using those?"
Of course a kid unironically wearing an Obey shirt is going to compare an iPhone to a kitted SLR.
4K doesn't make a great video. Proper glass, sound, lighting, storytelling, compositioning and editing does.

[richardnunez]

My mother stayed many years in this hospital. i visited her here many times. Creepy then and creepy now. RIP momma!

[GrowingDank]

Every teenager that lives in suffolk county, long island has been to this place. Great for photo shoots and exploration. I know local bands that take their album pictures here. Last time I went was like 8 years ago at night and got chased out by guards with dogs. Its cool but probably 100k or more exploring teenagers have been to every inch of this place already.

[OldTooly]

As a former patient there I can assure you it was WAY creepier when it was in operation. Just for starters, my doctor was arrested a few years after my release for being a Nazi war criminal. I devised a way to leave the building for short periods by jamming a door latch that we passed on our way to and from the cafeteria. This was years before camera type security. I saw things and worse yet, HEARD things that were like your worst nightmares. I have no idea what was going on. Shock treatments were common as well as drug experimentation. This experience took me from being a brat ass teenager who never needed for anything to a mental survivalist. And after I was released it wasn't long before the man in me began to emerge with compassion and concern for others and a belief in God. I gave thanks for everything I had and began making amends for the abuse I put my parents through. Now some 50 years later they are long dead and I'm trying to deal with the loss of so many friends and family and am still using the strength I gained by the experience here. If you have a moment give just a short prayer for all who were not so lucky as I .

[cj-qnou]

Just a correction about why asylums have been shut down. In the 1980's the abuse in these facilities started coming out. The physical abuse, sexual abuse, patient on patient violence, patient on medical personnel violence and unexplained deaths. Places like Fairview Training Center in Oregon have videos on YouTube documenting things that happened.

[natekenny]

"What are you guys filming?"
"A video"
Lmao

[cjckilla]

My girlfriend and I plus a couple other people came here on July 4th. I don't know the number of the building we were on top of but we could see for miles. The whole horizon was filled with fireworks exploding. I've never seen anything like it. I recommend anyone to check it out one year.
But the story doesn't end that well. As we're leaving we were walking outside the building and about 100 yards down the road a truck flips his headlights on and hauls ass coming straight for us screaming "get the fuck out of here!" We try to hastily run away and then another truck comes from around the corner this one with a spotlight on the roof shining it in all the brush. We immediately fell to the floor just laying dead still. The truck was about 50 feet away from us. I don't know how he didn't see us. He finally drives off and we run. I don't think I've ever ran that fast. My adrenaline was through the roof.
My girlfriend says "I think I cut my foot." She was wearing sandals (worst possible footwear.) We sneak back in the building and we finally inspect her foot. Holy shit there was blood everywhere. A small trail behind her. We finally make our escape to the main road. Get to the hospital and 7 stitches later we were on our way.
Needless to say. I'd never forget that night.

[DarkExploration]

idk why that guy told u theres no view on top of the green ladder in 93. Literally probably the best view there, someone kicked out the boards on the roof and u can see from miles including all of buildings 7, 21 and 22.

[mrsmasterchief]

Am I the only one who always finds the crunching of their shoes oddly satisfying?