Puget Sound Mental Hospital

Washington · United States · Hospital

Half of this eight storey complex lies in darkness, used for storage or closed off as unsafe. The other half still treats patients.

The psychiatric hospital at Tacoma, Washington is an enormous institution that also treats addiction, and only part of it is in use.

The rest of the eight storey complex is dark. Some of it is storage. Some is shut off as unsafe.

Every building on the site produces reports, and they come from staff as much as from anyone else.

This entry asks for care. State psychiatric hospitals in the United States held tens of thousands of people for decades under conditions that were frequently degrading and sometimes worse, and the treatments applied in the middle of the twentieth century did lasting harm to people who had no say in them. Many died in these institutions and were buried on the grounds under numbers rather than names.

That is the history behind what people report here, and the people it happened to were patients rather than characters.

The hospital is active and closed to visitors.

FAQ

Where is Puget Sound Mental Hospital located?

Puget Sound Mental Hospital is in Washington, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.