The Norwich State Hospital, located in Preston, Connecticut and Norwich, Connecticut, was a mental health facility for almost a century, from October 1905 to its closure on October 10. 1996.
It goes with the number of people who want to venture onto the landscape and discover its hidden live of spookiness as you can see from the map. There are many local stories of things that happened there. It is in a very convenient spot being right next to a commuter parking lot near the entrance to main high route 372 and route 12. Just venturing onto the land will get you kicked off by security.

Norwich State Hospital or Asylum has a
history
up until 1972. This history covers nothing concerning the haunting. People talk. It is part of the talk of Creepy Connecticut. This home for among the criminally insane, where you figure from stories that the patients were tested upon with the doctors experiments. Here is where the violent patients were placed. When this place closed, their patients were sent to the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. It hit the Shadowlands as a place of veritable creep ability.

There are plans to demolish the buildings. Here are articles on these buildings and a very old picture of the site. The land and the building areas will need to be cleaned up of all its waste. Here is an article from someone who had visited the place while it was open.

The number of buildings on the site and the fact that it was opened in 1904 can only mean it has a lot of mysterious and perhaps deadly stories attached. If a place can close and stories are still being told can only mean this place has a lot of supernatural history.

As the last of formal proposals was removed in October 2008 citing financial instability after 3 years of similar failures, the township (pop 5000) of Preston, Connecticut has until the first of 2009 to review, audit, and approve (including sale) a transaction to retain any authority prior to final transfer to the state.

Previously, Connecticut tried to pawn the entire facility to Mohegan Sun casino, and though challenged by Preston (which seeks massive tax profit), the tribe was not interested in the related cleanup expense and overhead for a hazardous medical waste tainted century-old medical complex.









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