Old Camarillo State Hospital

California · United States · Execution site

The 1920s California asylum became a university campus in the mid 1990s. Students in the converted buildings report an old woman asking the way to the.

The buildings at Camarillo, California went up in the 1920s as a state mental hospital and are now the campus of a university, having changed use in the mid 1990s. Patients lived and died here across seven decades, and the accounts collected on the site cover most of that span.

Some of the buildings have been converted into student accommodation, and it is the residents of those who report the most. Children's voices are described at what was the children's centre. Near the bell tower, students report an elderly woman walking and asking for directions to the chapel, and another elderly woman in white moving about the grounds.

What is unusual about Camarillo is the continuity of use. Most closed asylums stand empty for decades and are reported by people who broke in. Here the corridors were never abandoned. They were repainted and filled with eighteen year olds, and the reports have carried straight across the change without much altering in character.

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Old Camarillo State Hospital is in California, United States.

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