Ok, well another shitty day in NJ. Rain, rain and more rain. When is it gonna stop? Rented 'Orange County' not realizing that I've already seen it so I decided to go out and what a journey that was.
I decided to go to the abondoned Skillman Mental Institute by Princeton in NJ. The ride there was very long and creepy. The institute is on a long narrow road with no houses in sight. There were trees lingering over the road---you couldnt even see the sky. When we got close we decided it would be best to park at a church nearby and walk to avoid getting caught.
We parked and walked across a long field towards the buildings. As we were walking across the field we felt something beneath our feet we moved the grass a little with our shoes and saw a whole bunch of tombstones. It was scary. All the tombstones looked exactly alike flat to the ground the only thing to tell them apart was the names on them. There was a sign nearby that said something about the patients of the institute---I'm guessing thats who was buried there.
We finally past the field and to our amazement it wasn't just one building, but a whole abandoned town! It was so cool we didnt even know where to start. Apparently the people who worked there also lived there, there were these small houses surrounding the larger buildings where the patients stayed. We checked out a couple of the houses but there was nothing too exciting in them, just empty houses with boarded up windows.
We moved on to the larger buildings. We entered one and as sone as we walked in we heard a noise.....it was just a bird trapped inside, but it was still creepy. All the rooms were very dark and had paint falling off the walls. One room had a chalk board in it and we weren't the only ones who had visited...there were names of people and things that there had wrote when they were there, so we added our names and wrote somethings as well. The building had about 100 rooms in it, and it was 3 stories tall. We searched all the rooms upstairs and decided to go down.
We went down a stairwell that led to the basement. All the buildings are joined together at these basements...there are tunnels linking them together---it was pretty cool. As we were walking thru these tunnels to each of the buildings we heard a noise. It sounded like a car horn, and it was.
Thats when all of our fun ended. We left the tunnel and walked all the way to the top of the building onto the roof. We looked down and saw a security car and the guy in the car was beeping the horn. We were hesitant at first to go down, but we eventually did because he knew we were in there and he wasn't going to leave until we came out.
So we went out and talked to him. He wasnt that mad that we were there, but he said we couldnt stay. Apparently he had worked at the place when it was open and he told us some of the things that he saw there. He said he witnessed a woman getting electric shock treatment, and he sounded pretty horrified by the whole incident. He was kinda creepy himself though. He asked us if we made it to the morgue and we said we didn't---we didnt even know there was one. We asked him if he would point us the way and he said no. Oh well we"ll just have to check it out next time. He said he saw our flashlights through the windows and thats how he knew we were in there.He also said good thing you came out when you did cause he was going to call the cops. He said that he wasn't about to go in there after us, but the cops would. Then he told us that we better leave, so we did.
Well that was my exiting night and there is still more to be explored there. I can't wait to go back.
Oh, by the way, we found out about this place in the WEIRD NEW JERSEY magazine. So if anyone lives in New Jersey or even close stop by your local Barnes and Nobles or newstand and pick one up, or check out there website at http://www.WeirdNewJersey.com. In the magazine they tell you about weird, cool, and scary places to visit in New Jersey. Well thats all.
I decided to go to the abondoned Skillman Mental Institute by Princeton in NJ. The ride there was very long and creepy. The institute is on a long narrow road with no houses in sight. There were trees lingering over the road---you couldnt even see the sky. When we got close we decided it would be best to park at a church nearby and walk to avoid getting caught.
We parked and walked across a long field towards the buildings. As we were walking across the field we felt something beneath our feet we moved the grass a little with our shoes and saw a whole bunch of tombstones. It was scary. All the tombstones looked exactly alike flat to the ground the only thing to tell them apart was the names on them. There was a sign nearby that said something about the patients of the institute---I'm guessing thats who was buried there.
We finally past the field and to our amazement it wasn't just one building, but a whole abandoned town! It was so cool we didnt even know where to start. Apparently the people who worked there also lived there, there were these small houses surrounding the larger buildings where the patients stayed. We checked out a couple of the houses but there was nothing too exciting in them, just empty houses with boarded up windows.
We moved on to the larger buildings. We entered one and as sone as we walked in we heard a noise.....it was just a bird trapped inside, but it was still creepy. All the rooms were very dark and had paint falling off the walls. One room had a chalk board in it and we weren't the only ones who had visited...there were names of people and things that there had wrote when they were there, so we added our names and wrote somethings as well. The building had about 100 rooms in it, and it was 3 stories tall. We searched all the rooms upstairs and decided to go down.
We went down a stairwell that led to the basement. All the buildings are joined together at these basements...there are tunnels linking them together---it was pretty cool. As we were walking thru these tunnels to each of the buildings we heard a noise. It sounded like a car horn, and it was.
Thats when all of our fun ended. We left the tunnel and walked all the way to the top of the building onto the roof. We looked down and saw a security car and the guy in the car was beeping the horn. We were hesitant at first to go down, but we eventually did because he knew we were in there and he wasn't going to leave until we came out.
So we went out and talked to him. He wasnt that mad that we were there, but he said we couldnt stay. Apparently he had worked at the place when it was open and he told us some of the things that he saw there. He said he witnessed a woman getting electric shock treatment, and he sounded pretty horrified by the whole incident. He was kinda creepy himself though. He asked us if we made it to the morgue and we said we didn't---we didnt even know there was one. We asked him if he would point us the way and he said no. Oh well we"ll just have to check it out next time. He said he saw our flashlights through the windows and thats how he knew we were in there.He also said good thing you came out when you did cause he was going to call the cops. He said that he wasn't about to go in there after us, but the cops would. Then he told us that we better leave, so we did.
Well that was my exiting night and there is still more to be explored there. I can't wait to go back.
Oh, by the way, we found out about this place in the WEIRD NEW JERSEY magazine. So if anyone lives in New Jersey or even close stop by your local Barnes and Nobles or newstand and pick one up, or check out there website at http://www.WeirdNewJersey.com. In the magazine they tell you about weird, cool, and scary places to visit in New Jersey. Well thats all.
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