>MA is home to some defunct mental institutions

I grew up on the North Shore and "Danvers" (we all just called it that) was a Victorian-era state mental institution still being used into at least the 70s. As children just the word "Danvers" was enough to be deeply scary.

They finally shuttered it and while the asbestos removal was going on, they allowed an indy film crew in to shoot a low budget movie. Watching that was how I finally saw the inside.

:: shudder ::

Rooms in the basement for shock treatment and lobotomies and other unimaginable horrors