OMG! I've wanted to get in Carraway for a while. My mom worked in the lab there, my grandfather, great aunt and father all passed away there. In fact, you walked right past the ICU room my grandfather died in! You were right about the hotel. It was there for families of long term patients to use at a deep discounted rate. This hospital was always the "one" you wanted to be taken to in critical situations. They were staffed with the finest doctors and nurses straight from a major medical school right across town (UAB). Therefore, it was a great teaching hospital too. The neighborhood is and pretty much always was, really bad. Such a loss for our city. Thanks for an awesome trip down memory lane, guys. Stay safe!
My grandma was operated on there. She survived. I was a kid when I went to see her there...I can barely remember it. It was so nice before. There are so many abandoned houses and buildings in Birmingham.
I live 10 minutes from this hospital and I must say those guys are pretty brave. This hospital is located in a rough part of town where crime is really high. I am very surprised they did not see a person or body in there. Very Interesting stuff. This place has no security, so who ever wants to walk in can without any problems.
I appreciate the Epilepsy warning, most people don't take the time to do that. Thank you so much for that, it's extremely important to me because I suffer from epilepsy.
There's definitely a morgue. My buddy found it and just uploaded it on his Urbex Channel. Search "THE LOST MORGUE of Carraway Hospital" the channel is "Condition Orange" enjoy.
If I was a "scrapper" and I hit that place that MRI machine would be the first thing I would have been going for. While it isn't scrap, it has an actual large value if given the right buyer, which generally is other , usually lesser countries that don't have that kind of equipment at their disposal. It really sickens me that they would just leave that to rot away with that extremely large building
The blue star was a beacon for decade's in Birmingham. Caraway was known as the best head trauma hospital to be helecoptopered to. So sad to see it as it is now.
The nasty colored stuff is from fire sprinkler water. Someone went into the building and stole all of the sprinkler heads because they're brass. at 5:36 your looking at a stand pipe for 2-1/2" hose valves for fire hoses and the entire valve is basically brass. Someone unthreaded it and there was still pressure in the pipe, thus making a huge mess.
Zack Jandreau you beat me to it, lol I stopped the video five mins in to post about the sprinkler pipe water ect. you must be in the business or some sort of contractor im guessing. I own a general contracting company, I am a carpenter and have run some big hospital jobs in the past.
Ryan Anderson yep! Been in it for a few years now and I'm am currently moving back down to Florida to do it there. Make a decent paycheck working in fire protection. I've done my fair share of install and service but now I do inspections and hopefully soon design
At 4:56: The books with "Cancer" and years on their spines are actually all of the issues of the medical journal called "Cancer" for that year. The journal Cancer is still in publication today and costs a few hundred dollars a year for a subscription. Content consists of peer-reviewed articles about clinical research in oncology. Obviously, if you've got a bunch of doctors and health practitioners interested in this field, it's usually less expensive/less hassle for the institution to buy and maintain a subscription to the journal rather than all of the doctors owning and storing their own copies. Today, hospital libraries most likely would have an online subscription to this journal. Even this old stuff is online.
Since having a family I don't do URBEX anymore and omg this lets me live the joy and trill so vicariously with no risk of a tresspass charge or falling through a roof!!! THank you soooo much
@@dieterv.g1025 scrapers, yeah. but there are alos vandals, who just trash things for fun. Like for ex what's the point of breaking windows in the hallways?
First I love this video that hospital is huge... Second Thank You for putting the flashing light warning, my husband us Epileptic but loves your videos so he knew to look away, so again a huge Thank You
I have drove past this building hundreds of times and always wanted to go in. So awesome to see someone go and do a good quality video of the place. Thanks Guys!
So excited to see this posted!! And yes, most hospitals have a gift shop for those who are sick. You can usually get flowers, candy, stuffed animals, cards, and balloons. Whenever we went to our local hospital when I was little, it's gift shop had a whole bunch of TY beanie babies. I was that annoying kid that would "hint" to their parents about toys they wanted. "Oh mom, look of soft that beanie baby is...and it's blue! I've always wanted one like that....oh it's so pretty mom" Good ole mom would usually just agree and pull me along lol.
lol I don't blame you. I hate kids that hint at things. Especially when they are at your house and want food. "Oh wow, I'm so thirsty. I wish there was something I could drink...I doubt you have anything, though" That's right kid, I don't.
+Chelsea Kay Ah okay that makes sense. I was initially thinking along the lines of a theme park gift shop, grab a souvenir to remember the time you were sick haha.
There were homeless people in the hospital they had encountered from their first video, so if it wasn't mirrors at least there's a reasonable explanation! ^_^
Damn, this hospital is MASSIVE. Was the maintenance costs the most likely reason it closed? I don't understand why so many hospitals keep getting shut down. I could watch hospital videos one after another for two days and I won't see even half of them. I'm blown away how much stuff gets thrown out too. Next time a politician demands support for a new hospital, I'll ask: "Then why did they close down five of them last year?"
Hospitals are a business, not federal, so over years Carraway put it's patients before money (which is quite honestly a very thoughtful thing) however, it sadly closed because bankruptcy which is very sad. I have never seen the hospital in its glory days for i am only 19 and have only lived in alabama the past 4 years, but i go to see Carraway often with a group of friends i made at UA as a freshman. Very sad story and a even sadder look on how the years have treated this abandoned beaut since closing in 2008
11:45 - That is a ceiling supply unit used to connect to an anesthesia machine (green - oxygen, blue - nitrous oxide, vacuum, compresses air, and waste gas scavenging system).
Props to you guys! This remains my favorite channel on UA-cam. I love how you guys are so respectful to the places y'all go. Keep it up! Y'all are also very professional; I feel like I'm watching a TV show! Thanks!
I'm sure you guys were fighting the urge for a part III. I can't even believe how large this property was. Amazing job, keep up the amazing work, guys!!
Excellent video as usual, nice to see you Blokes visit these places and not damage anything even though its pre stuffed by people before you. Fascinating to see such a fairly modern Hospital has been abandoned, it would cost a fortune to build and equip such a place.
You guys are really awesome. You come into these places, you don't go out of your way to mess with anything that's in these buildings, you don't take anything. You go in, explore and document, then leave. Major props to you guys, love your channel.
I just really hope that a responsible authority removed all the radiological materials. If you`ve ever read any of the NRC lists of nuclear incidents, a disturbing number of them involve people taking radioactive materials from closed hospitals, clinics, and labs.
We use bolus to bring the dose delivered by the linac closer to the skins surface for more superficial treatment, or for even dose distribution if there's gaps in your patient you want filling.
I know this video is a few years old but i just saw it and couldnt keep ftom commenting. --12:44 Dirty elevator is where the case carts of used instruments from each surgery goes to to be sent down to Decontamination area in Central Sterile Processing for decontamination cleaning assembly and resterilization. (Assuming its on a different floor, hospitals vary) --Sterile inst room or The Core, is where all sterile trays and single items are kept after sterilization and cooling --9:58 that is a sterilizer but ones that size used to only be used as “flashers” for an instrument to be used immediatly with the very minimum sterilization time for an instrument needed immediatly if contsminated. Practise is no longer allowed in most places and the machines are used for full cycle for sealed items needing turned over quickly due to limited supply or contaminated items needed ASAP although must go through washing first. --many ORs have windows, but not mainly for being watched. I know i wrote alot. I wish you guys had gotten to go into the Sterile Processing area which alot of times is in the basement. Hospitals do have gift shops for gifts, snacks etc much like a convenience store in a hospital. Thanks >; )
18:12 gift shops usually have some stuffed toys and things like that for kids that were staying at the hospital, something to try to cheer up the patients during rough times. It makes sense to have a store for that purpose.
Another suggestion for you guys, I would get yourselves a device called a rat alert, or personal radiation dosimeter device, that has a programmable threshold. We're on the strap with your pack, so that should you accidentally wander into a facility that still has a leftover radiation source, which there are tens of thousands of them still out there. You could walk into a fatal amount of radiation and not even know it. While most modern radiation therapy equipment used high-voltage electricity to generate radiation, some of the older devices did use a continuous static Source or a very large chunk of radioactive material that was held Shield inside the device and a small window would open to allow the radiation to beam out to the patient. Numerous times these devices have been found my people trying to salvage scrap and exploring. Without realizing it just standing next to one of these sources unshielded for a minute could be deadly. If you're going into rooms that have heavy doors that leads along corridors with sharp turns on the end oh, that was designed to prevent the radiation from escaping. As radiation goes in a straight line it doesn't like to bend. The equipment you're seeing on the floor in there and the binders, had nothing to do with directing or reflecting the radiation for the patient. Those are stabilization AIDS you would put on the patient keep them in the right position so you can have a more accurate focus of the beam going through their body. Some of those binders are probably usage logs, those logs for patients General operations manuals that have to be capped and operators logs.
"In the 1980s, the facility added the area's only Level 1 Trauma Center, 3 LifeSaver Helicopters, a hyperbaric oxygen therapy department, a wound care center, the laser center, the area's first Sleep Center, among many other groundbreaking additions." Maybe those "hotel" rooms (or some of them) might have been the sleep clinic. Especially those with windows into their room. I wish you guys came across the hyperbaric chamber, but amazing stuff as always. Your creepy music has me holding my breath, amazing.
Hospital Gift shops are normal! When I was born my father bought a set of stuffed animals from the Hospital Gift shop to give me and my mother. We still have them!
So, I know a small amount about those Radiation Therapy rooms as my group at work supports them. There is a huge amount of safety involved with them, one interesting example being that the patient has a special necklace that verifies that the correct patient is in the room and that they are receiving the correct treatment plan. That and many other safety techniques all stem from the early days of these machines. Many patients have suffered radiation burns and died as a result of a lack of safety checks built into the machine itself. The console would tell the machine to do one thing, and there was nothing that went from the machine to the console to confirm the instructions, so a patient who was only supposed to receive a small amount of radiation, received a beam of radiation "wide open" and would get fried. This was an early version of the Varian machine.
Those gel pads are for positioning the patient. The treatment area has to be placed precisely into the beam. Those pads are soft against the skin, but stable enough to hold the body part in place.
Allan Foster it’s not for positioning, it’s used as a tissue equivalent to provide a build up of dose to the skin surface or to even out contours for optimum dose distribution
I worked in a hospital, in the Radiology department. Hospitals do have gift shops. The reason for all those rooms, is probably because this hospital provided more advanced treatment, for more types of disease issues. This hospital looks massive. What gets me, is why, all the places you go to, don't get torn down. They pose a hazard. You guys really do a great job. Thanks.
What's weird about the tiled hallway part of the video is the fact that it gave me kind of a Penumbra: Black Plague vibe. (If you don't know what Penumbra: Black Plague is, it's an old horror game where you wake up in a tiled hospital, and some diseased-ridden creature is hunting you down in the first part. Good game. If you like problem-solving horror then I'd recommend it.)
It always boggles my mind how these massive, multi-million dollar structures are just left to rot. Such an incredible waste of resources. The time spent designing the hospital blueprints. The labor and material it took building it. The wiring and duct work. The furnishings, medical books, and supplies. All that equipment left there too must be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Did they really have to leave it there?
Yes. Contrary to what the person above me said, they most likely didn't have the funds to move anything, plus why pay to move it, then pay to store it, when it's already being stored? The average security guard in Alabama get's paid $30k a year, and you'd probably need at least 4 (Two night shift, two day shift), for a total of $120,000/year to guard a building that is not only not generating money, it's actually LOSING money since they'd also have to pay: Electric, gas, water, and custodial services, plus the repairs of any damage outside of the scope of any insurance on the building. Honestly, I'm more surprised they don't just knock 'em down right off the bat.
@@Helladamnleet they don't just knock it down because some real estate development company will come in and buy it for pennies, shut off all the utilities, pay the depreciated property tax (if at all) to try and develop it at a later date. Demolition is expensive and requires city approval etc. They'll sit on it until the city council gets sick of it, gives them some subsidy to redevelop the land and be done with it. It's actually exactly what's happening to this property now actually (they gave the developer $4.1 million in subsidy that was released in may 2022). I work in real estate and have seen it a bunch of times before, albeit on a much smaller scale. Each situation is very different though
I think this is the most eerie/poignant vid you guys have done, and with your comment at 13:46 I think you guys felt it as well. I know several people with cancer and my mother and father had their lives cut short due to cancer, and seeing the radiation room with table, the overbearing machine, and the body gels that I have never seen nor heard of before, really hit home. Then seeing the empty ER waiting cells, and you guys pausing at the "open" ambulance entrance, and I'll bet you guys were also thinking, well, the entrance may be open, but there will be no one there to help if an ambulance with an injured person comes to THIS entrance. If there is such things as ghosts, then this place is full of 'em. Great job in covering this. Also you guys keep hearing things go "bump" ("in the night" Ha!)and my guess is that you are hearing the result of thermal expansion in the construction that otherwise would be masked by human or mechanical background noise.
cmans79tr7 hospitals always seem to have a certain creepiness to them. You always wonder who suffered there, who died there, who's life ended there. I've lost several family members to cancer as well. Horrible disease, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Really nice sequel on the Hospital you guys! I would have brought my geiger counter into the radiation parts though. Just in case... I enjoyed it! Keep up the great videos :D
*Been around before 50,000 Subscribers and I must say nothing has changed and thats a good thing. Keep up the good work!!!* Also I'm 48th view, and nice epilepsy warning.
I know this is an old video. At around 21:18 as you guys are going up another level to rap things up as you say at the far end of the corridor looks like a Dore opens up and lights up the dark space at the far end of the corridor. love your work stay safe.
The Radiotherapy machine is missing a lot of hardware on both the table and the overhead arm, both of which make the machine much more intimidating. Also, both the overhead arm and the table are able to tilt and sway to target cancer cells on all 3 axis. To make things scarier you have to basically are locked to the machine. And yes your guess is right about the gel, they use it to keep from hurting the skin near the treatment area. If they don't use the gel it feels like a bad sunburn the next day.
Bigger Hospitals normally have gift shops. Its so the family can buy like flowers or balloons for whoever is sick. They also sell novelty stuff like plush toys and stuff.
The sign that said dirty elevator, is used to move equipment Linens surgical tools anything that's considered contaminated, that could be just from dirt and dust or because it was used in surgery or whatever but it's a separate elevator that's essentially always kept and just a septic state which means it's sprayed with sanitizer but it's not scrubbed to a surgically clean level. It would be almost impossible to maintain. That's why you see the autoclave sterilizers are usually adjacent to the operating room. So that the tools are not moved along distance even in with the older packing that used to keep the tools sterile. Especially for large or long surgeries where they're going to be using possibly hundreds of tools. You need to be able to have them processed as close to you as possible with the least number of people handling them the dirty elevator was used to remove soiled Linens tools or anything that had become contaminated.
What is it with abandoned hospitals in the US? Many of them filled with all their equipment etc. Why isn't that shit auctioned off when the business closes down? Makes no sense.
Because usually someone keeps it intact for a bit, expecting to sell the whole thing off to a new buyer...then time goes by, the owner can't afford even trickle maintenance anymore, negotiations drag out or fall through, and then you're trying to sell a building that's been abandoned 18 months, the air & water systems have all gone to hell, and now it requires too much to make it viable so it goes even worse until no $$ come in at all to maintain it.
This hospital went down with the 08 recession. I’m sure they tried to auction off all the medical equipment they could, but most was probably outdated or too expensive to move. Sad to see a building go to waste.
That's just a bunch of nonsense. It doesn't even make sense - it doesn't make anybody money to leave a bunch of equipment to rot. This is what happens when an orderly liquidation is not conducted. Typically when a for-profit organization shuts down, it is liquidated, with all the equipment auctioned off and the property either sold or stripped of anything of value before being abandoned. This way, the owners or shareholders minimize their losses as much as possible and the valuable equipment ends up in the hands of someone who has a use for it. But in the case especially of nonprofit organizations, there is great reluctance to liquidate because everyone wants someone else to take over the whole operation and keep it going, and there is no pressure from shareholders to minimize losses. In the best case they succeed and someone takes over and keeps the operation going, but in the worst case negotiations and redevelopment plans get stuck in limbo, or nobody at all is willing to take it over, and without security and maintenance the equipment quickly loses any value.
Bill Williams You do realize that makes no sense as no one makes any $$ at all from letting expensive medical equipment sit abandon in a building, right? If it were only about money/greed, every bit of equipment would have been sold through liquidation sales as soon as the hospital closed. The most common reason you see medical equipment left in hospital buildings is for the simple fact that when the hospital is closing it’s basically the hope of investors that the building will be bought out, medical equipment included. To put it in simpler terms, they hope for possibly a larger management medical group to take over & continue running the hospital. Sometimes when the hospital is about to close there’s already negotiations underway that involve keeping all medical equipment & at the last second when the deal is almost finished it ends up falling through for whatever reason. These negotiations can be long & drawn out, they may be dropped & picked up many different times by various investors/medical groups... by the time they continue to fall through repeatedly & the building sits empty the medical equipment is already out of date/hasn’t been serviced for some time... it becomes obsolete quickly especially with no maintenance being performed. Eventually it becomes obvious they aren’t going to be able to sell the building, the medical equipment is useless at that point & wouldn’t legally be used by any other medical organizations in the US anyways (there are regulations for certain medical equipment as well), everything gets written off as a loss. It’s not necessarily intended to let it sit & waste, sometimes unforeseen circumstances happen
Love your abandoned videos guys! You inspired me to make abandoned videos too :) thanks for keeping us all informed and entertained with your excellent content!
Kez I love the outro music in this video if every building they explored had a main music theme this would be the theme for the The hospital they explored in this video
In radiation therapy, they put bolus over the area being treated to more precisely regulate the dosage being given. It has qualities very similar to human tissue. Awesome vid as always.
I stay in Huntsville Al and drive by all the time and have always wanted to check it out. I was going to mention in a different video if you 2 have been here.
When you guys walk through those hallways, don't you ever get worried that there might be a homeless person or maybe a group of people staying there maybe doing drugs and attack you guys and steal your gear? I know I would!! I enjoy watching your amazing unbelievable videos. Be careful and stay safe out there!!
Don't companies use such places for film shoots/backdrops? Just send a couple cleaners/surveyors in, and you've got a perfect creepy, abandoned hospital! :D
18:05 not usually but some hospitals have gift shops so families can buy gifts for their patients. The hospital my mom was in for her surgery had a gift shop and we bought her some chocolate and get well cards from there.
I am really enjoying your abandoned building videos. A request, when you are in tall buildings such as the one in this video that has lots of lifts/elevators, is there any chance you could venture into the machine rooms of said lifts/elevators? I guess access can sometimes be a problem, but those rooms are of great interest to me and eerie in their own way! Thanks
I still can't get over that 21 years ago I was there and it was a beautiful hospital full of wonderful staff. This is just bizarre
It was a U.S. Hospital in Birmingham Alabama.
It's probably sad to see I study sciences and medicine histology pathology histopathology. Ect I know alot about it any questions ask me
Carraway Methodist Medical Center
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OMG! I've wanted to get in Carraway for a while. My mom worked in the lab there, my grandfather, great aunt and father all passed away there. In fact, you walked right past the ICU room my grandfather died in! You were right about the hotel. It was there for families of long term patients to use at a deep discounted rate. This hospital was always the "one" you wanted to be taken to in critical situations. They were staffed with the finest doctors and nurses straight from a major medical school right across town (UAB). Therefore, it was a great teaching hospital too. The neighborhood is and pretty much always was, really bad. Such a loss for our city. Thanks for an awesome trip down memory lane, guys. Stay safe!
My grandma was operated on there. She survived. I was a kid when I went to see her there...I can barely remember it. It was so nice before. There are so many abandoned houses and buildings in Birmingham.
I feel like I have to say. Your guys' intro music, so perfectly fits your videos. Please never change it.
What's the name of the intro music? 👍🏻👍🏻
@@seamusc508 soundcloud.com/theproperpeople/equinox
This would make a good ringtone
murkinstock I love it as well. And how the words zap in and out of reception.
Dudes, that was incredibly responsible of you to put that epilepsy warning in there. Thank you!
Goth Empress Water? Yes.....
Much appreciated
I live 10 minutes from this hospital and I must say those guys are pretty brave. This hospital is located in a rough part of town where crime is really high. I am very surprised they did not see a person or body in there. Very Interesting stuff. This place has no security, so who ever wants to walk in can without any problems.
I appreciate the Epilepsy warning, most people don't take the time to do that. Thank you so much for that, it's extremely important to me because I suffer from epilepsy.
Winter Marie Kaulitz just like me.
Same here going on 28 year's since my childhood.
These are great to binge watch at night or In bed just to chill
Did you try searching for the morgue? that would have been neat to see.
No morgue I used to work there
cman9601
Wow cool
The morgue is the friends we made a long the way?
There's definitely a morgue. My buddy found it and just uploaded it on his Urbex Channel. Search "THE LOST MORGUE of Carraway Hospital" the channel is "Condition Orange" enjoy.
@@cman9601 That's so weird. You'd think for a hospital that big, there would be a morgue.
Can't believe how so many thousands of dollars worth of equipment is just left behind.
I would imagine it's millions
Its just wrote off as a loss. I am sure they wrote off the deprecated items on thier taxes.
If I was a "scrapper" and I hit that place that MRI machine would be the first thing I would have been going for. While it isn't scrap, it has an actual large value if given the right buyer, which generally is other , usually lesser countries that don't have that kind of equipment at their disposal. It really sickens me that they would just leave that to rot away with that extremely large building
Medical gear is like computers , give it 15 years and its wothless
Most of it is very costly to disassemble and move. I’m sure they tried to sell everything they could.
The blue star was a beacon for decade's in Birmingham. Caraway was known as the best head trauma hospital to be helecoptopered to. So sad to see it as it is now.
The nasty colored stuff is from fire sprinkler water. Someone went into the building and stole all of the sprinkler heads because they're brass. at 5:36 your looking at a stand pipe for 2-1/2" hose valves for fire hoses and the entire valve is basically brass. Someone unthreaded it and there was still pressure in the pipe, thus making a huge mess.
Zack Jandreau you beat me to it, lol I stopped the video five mins in to post about the sprinkler pipe water ect. you must be in the business or some sort of contractor im guessing. I own a general contracting company, I am a carpenter and have run some big hospital jobs in the past.
Ryan Anderson yep! Been in it for a few years now and I'm am currently moving back down to Florida to do it there. Make a decent paycheck working in fire protection. I've done my fair share of install and service but now I do inspections and hopefully soon design
That's what they get. :)
Billy Batts lol you're a child aren't you?
Billy Batts Is the product of sister and brother making a child
I would watch the full, uncut videos! Anyone else?!😍
At 4:56: The books with "Cancer" and years on their spines are actually all of the issues of the medical journal called "Cancer" for that year. The journal Cancer is still in publication today and costs a few hundred dollars a year for a subscription. Content consists of peer-reviewed articles about clinical research in oncology. Obviously, if you've got a bunch of doctors and health practitioners interested in this field, it's usually less expensive/less hassle for the institution to buy and maintain a subscription to the journal rather than all of the doctors owning and storing their own copies. Today, hospital libraries most likely would have an online subscription to this journal. Even this old stuff is online.
Am I the only one who love abandoned hospitals and find them more entertaining than other buildings? 😍💚
whyYUbee nope
To each their own. I like factories and warehouses
Nope
i agree
When I saw that "Jews inside" on the door, I had to remember, "This is in Alabama, so, I understand why someone would put that." lol.
Since having a family I don't do URBEX anymore and omg this lets me live the joy and trill so vicariously with no risk of a tresspass charge or falling through a roof!!! THank you soooo much
today sucked..seeing this in my sub box made it hella good.. time to break out the blankets and turn of the lights
VBuj Modz doing the same right now
VBuj Modz SAME SAME SAME
Hope you have a better day tomorrow!!
Chelsea Kay I just wanted to comment on how you have such an amazing fan base +The Proper People love your videos
+Chelsea Kay haha thank you! just had a hard day working today and was stressed, its nice to lay back..relax and enjoy some of these vids
I'll never understand why people feel the need to trash places. :(
Some people have no respect for themselves or others or the world they live in.
They took metals and other tradeable items to sell them on.
@@dieterv.g1025 scrapers, yeah. but there are alos vandals, who just trash things for fun.
Like for ex what's the point of breaking windows in the hallways?
@@qwer55555555 There is no reason at all, besides the illegality.
Marla Harmon It’s a symbol of a dying culture.
First I love this video that hospital is huge...
Second Thank You for putting the flashing light warning, my husband us Epileptic but loves your videos so he knew to look away, so again a huge Thank You
I have drove past this building hundreds of times and always wanted to go in. So awesome to see someone go and do a good quality video of the place. Thanks Guys!
New or old, abandoned or occupied, hospitals are just creepy.
Josh Rinker yep
So excited to see this posted!! And yes, most hospitals have a gift shop for those who are sick. You can usually get flowers, candy, stuffed animals, cards, and balloons. Whenever we went to our local hospital when I was little, it's gift shop had a whole bunch of TY beanie babies. I was that annoying kid that would "hint" to their parents about toys they wanted. "Oh mom, look of soft that beanie baby is...and it's blue! I've always wanted one like that....oh it's so pretty mom" Good ole mom would usually just agree and pull me along lol.
Chelsea Kay just your comment annoyed me. When I took a glance at your profile picture I want to slap that annoying smirk off you.
lol I don't blame you. I hate kids that hint at things. Especially when they are at your house and want food. "Oh wow, I'm so thirsty. I wish there was something I could drink...I doubt you have anything, though" That's right kid, I don't.
+Chelsea Kay Ah okay that makes sense. I was initially thinking along the lines of a theme park gift shop, grab a souvenir to remember the time you were sick haha.
you stupid fuck, haha
Hakim Mohamad oh yeah, I remember that, ceasium bomb is the name of the first machine in the video. Thanks for the link
That as always was amazing!!! It looked like there was movement down the hall at 21:20. Kinda like someone moved out of a doorway letting light in.
Brian usriflecal30m1garand Yeah I saw that too. Could have been a mirror.
There were homeless people in the hospital they had encountered from their first video, so if it wasn't mirrors at least there's a reasonable explanation! ^_^
Brian usriflecal30m1garand I
Oml
Damn, this hospital is MASSIVE. Was the maintenance costs the most likely reason it closed? I don't understand why so many hospitals keep getting shut down. I could watch hospital videos one after another for two days and I won't see even half of them.
I'm blown away how much stuff gets thrown out too. Next time a politician demands support for a new hospital, I'll ask: "Then why did they close down five of them last year?"
They went bankrupt
Hospitals are a business, not federal, so over years Carraway put it's patients before money (which is quite honestly a very thoughtful thing) however, it sadly closed because bankruptcy which is very sad. I have never seen the hospital in its glory days for i am only 19 and have only lived in alabama the past 4 years, but i go to see Carraway often with a group of friends i made at UA as a freshman. Very sad story and a even sadder look on how the years have treated this abandoned beaut since closing in 2008
11:45 - That is a ceiling supply unit used to connect to an anesthesia machine (green - oxygen, blue - nitrous oxide, vacuum, compresses air, and waste gas scavenging system).
Props to you guys! This remains my favorite channel on UA-cam. I love how you guys are so respectful to the places y'all go. Keep it up! Y'all are also very professional; I feel like I'm watching a TV show! Thanks!
I'm sure you guys were fighting the urge for a part III. I can't even believe how large this property was. Amazing job, keep up the amazing work, guys!!
I totally love the sunset gleaming through the ruins in the last few minutes :) the yellow-orange glow is so beautiful! Another awesome video
Every time I see one of these videos I get the overwhelming urge to go to these places with a broom and just clean the floors up.
Every footstep is so crunchy! Yuck 😂
Cookiejay clear the place out and let the homeless use it.
I've often wondered if that's considered disrespectful to urbexers or not and don't know if it's the kind of question to get me black balled.
Most people don’t really care to use epilepsy warnings thank you for using it I suffer from seizures and I’m so happy you said that😊
Excellent video as usual, nice to see you Blokes visit these places and not damage anything even though its pre stuffed by people before you. Fascinating to see such a fairly modern Hospital has been abandoned, it would cost a fortune to build and equip such a place.
I work in Radiology. The bolus gels you found help reduce radiation to unwanted areas! cool find! (:
This place is insane would love to explore. Great work guys.
Very good made video, Bryan and Michael, in a great location that just fits in. The amazing view from the buildings roof with the sunset is awesome.
Hey Bryan and Michael I just wanted to say that I have been watching your videos for over 5 years now and I can't wait for more episodes in the future
You guys are really awesome. You come into these places, you don't go out of your way to mess with anything that's in these buildings, you don't take anything. You go in, explore and document, then leave. Major props to you guys, love your channel.
The google street view of this place has pictures from when it was still open. Pretty interesting.
With all that glass and sludge, have you guys ever thought about wearing tougher shoes?
Another awesome video guys. Funny how when I watch a proper people urbex video 30 minutes seems like five! Now I sit and await the next video!
I just really hope that a responsible authority removed all the radiological materials. If you`ve ever read any of the NRC lists of nuclear incidents, a disturbing number of them involve people taking radioactive materials from closed hospitals, clinics, and labs.
Cesium 137 accident, loses to Chernobyl and Fukushima only.
We use bolus to bring the dose delivered by the linac closer to the skins surface for more superficial treatment, or for even dose distribution if there's gaps in your patient you want filling.
I know this video is a few years old but i just saw it and couldnt keep ftom commenting.
--12:44 Dirty elevator is where the case carts of used instruments from each surgery goes to to be sent down to Decontamination area in Central Sterile Processing for decontamination cleaning assembly and resterilization. (Assuming its on a different floor, hospitals vary)
--Sterile inst room or The Core, is where all sterile trays and single items are kept after sterilization and cooling
--9:58 that is a sterilizer but ones that size used to only be used as “flashers” for an instrument to be used immediatly with the very minimum sterilization time for an instrument needed immediatly if contsminated. Practise is no longer allowed in most places and the machines are used for full cycle for sealed items needing turned over quickly due to limited supply or contaminated items needed ASAP although must go through washing first.
--many ORs have windows, but not mainly for being watched.
I know i wrote alot. I wish you guys had gotten to go into the Sterile Processing area which alot of times is in the basement.
Hospitals do have gift shops for gifts, snacks etc much like a convenience store in a hospital.
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18:12 gift shops usually have some stuffed toys and things like that for kids that were staying at the hospital, something to try to cheer up the patients during rough times. It makes sense to have a store for that purpose.
you guys have no idea how much you made my day!! I love watching you both!!!! the wait is such a killer 😭😭
You guys really set the atmosphere with this one! Great job!
Another suggestion for you guys, I would get yourselves a device called a rat alert, or personal radiation dosimeter device, that has a programmable threshold. We're on the strap with your pack, so that should you accidentally wander into a facility that still has a leftover radiation source, which there are tens of thousands of them still out there. You could walk into a fatal amount of radiation and not even know it. While most modern radiation therapy equipment used high-voltage electricity to generate radiation, some of the older devices did use a continuous static Source or a very large chunk of radioactive material that was held Shield inside the device and a small window would open to allow the radiation to beam out to the patient. Numerous times these devices have been found my people trying to salvage scrap and exploring. Without realizing it just standing next to one of these sources unshielded for a minute could be deadly. If you're going into rooms that have heavy doors that leads along corridors with sharp turns on the end oh, that was designed to prevent the radiation from escaping. As radiation goes in a straight line it doesn't like to bend. The equipment you're seeing on the floor in there and the binders, had nothing to do with directing or reflecting the radiation for the patient. Those are stabilization AIDS you would put on the patient keep them in the right position so you can have a more accurate focus of the beam going through their body. Some of those binders are probably usage logs, those logs for patients General operations manuals that have to be capped and operators logs.
soooo happy to see this upload!! by far you guys are my favorite youtube channel!!
"In the 1980s, the facility added the area's only Level 1 Trauma Center, 3 LifeSaver Helicopters, a hyperbaric oxygen therapy department, a wound care center, the laser center, the area's first Sleep Center, among many other groundbreaking additions."
Maybe those "hotel" rooms (or some of them) might have been the sleep clinic. Especially those with windows into their room. I wish you guys came across the hyperbaric chamber, but amazing stuff as always. Your creepy music has me holding my breath, amazing.
Hospital Gift shops are normal! When I was born my father bought a set of stuffed animals from the Hospital Gift shop to give me and my mother. We still have them!
So, I know a small amount about those Radiation Therapy rooms as my group at work supports them. There is a huge amount of safety involved with them, one interesting example being that the patient has a special necklace that verifies that the correct patient is in the room and that they are receiving the correct treatment plan. That and many other safety techniques all stem from the early days of these machines. Many patients have suffered radiation burns and died as a result of a lack of safety checks built into the machine itself. The console would tell the machine to do one thing, and there was nothing that went from the machine to the console to confirm the instructions, so a patient who was only supposed to receive a small amount of radiation, received a beam of radiation "wide open" and would get fried. This was an early version of the Varian machine.
plainly difficult did a vid about exactly that. computer glitch killed a few people.
Congrats on 400k (Bit late sorry)
Your channel has grown so much since I subscribed!
Those gel pads are for positioning the patient. The treatment area has to be placed precisely into the beam. Those pads are soft against the skin, but stable enough to hold the body part in place.
Allan Foster it’s not for positioning, it’s used as a tissue equivalent to provide a build up of dose to the skin surface or to even out contours for optimum dose distribution
I worked in a hospital, in the Radiology department. Hospitals do have gift shops. The reason for all those rooms, is probably because this hospital provided more advanced treatment, for more types of disease issues. This hospital looks massive. What gets me, is why, all the places you go to, don't get torn down. They pose a hazard. You guys really do a great job. Thanks.
What's weird about the tiled hallway part of the video is the fact that it gave me kind of a Penumbra: Black Plague vibe.
(If you don't know what Penumbra: Black Plague is, it's an old horror game where you wake up in a tiled hospital, and some diseased-ridden creature is hunting you down in the first part. Good game. If you like problem-solving horror then I'd recommend it.)
It always boggles my mind how these massive, multi-million dollar structures are just left to rot. Such an incredible waste of resources. The time spent designing the hospital blueprints. The labor and material it took building it. The wiring and duct work. The furnishings, medical books, and supplies. All that equipment left there too must be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Did they really have to leave it there?
E100Omega123 Idiot owners, execs, managers.
Yes. Contrary to what the person above me said, they most likely didn't have the funds to move anything, plus why pay to move it, then pay to store it, when it's already being stored? The average security guard in Alabama get's paid $30k a year, and you'd probably need at least 4 (Two night shift, two day shift), for a total of $120,000/year to guard a building that is not only not generating money, it's actually LOSING money since they'd also have to pay: Electric, gas, water, and custodial services, plus the repairs of any damage outside of the scope of any insurance on the building.
Honestly, I'm more surprised they don't just knock 'em down right off the bat.
@@Helladamnleet they don't just knock it down because some real estate development company will come in and buy it for pennies, shut off all the utilities, pay the depreciated property tax (if at all) to try and develop it at a later date. Demolition is expensive and requires city approval etc. They'll sit on it until the city council gets sick of it, gives them some subsidy to redevelop the land and be done with it. It's actually exactly what's happening to this property now actually (they gave the developer $4.1 million in subsidy that was released in may 2022). I work in real estate and have seen it a bunch of times before, albeit on a much smaller scale. Each situation is very different though
Amazing Videos Guys. So Cool 😎 & I Love The Way You Ended It...! ("It was the only Awesome way")...! Keep up the great work. Nick.
I think this is the most eerie/poignant vid you guys have done, and with your comment at 13:46 I think you guys felt it as well. I know several people with cancer and my mother and father had their lives cut short due to cancer, and seeing the radiation room with table, the overbearing machine, and the body gels that I have never seen nor heard of before, really hit home. Then seeing the empty ER waiting cells, and you guys pausing at the "open" ambulance entrance, and I'll bet you guys were also thinking, well, the entrance may be open, but there will be no one there to help if an ambulance with an injured person comes to THIS entrance. If there is such things as ghosts, then this place is full of 'em.
Great job in covering this.
Also you guys keep hearing things go "bump" ("in the night" Ha!)and my guess is that you are hearing the result of thermal expansion in the construction that otherwise would be masked by human or mechanical background noise.
cmans79tr7 hospitals always seem to have a certain creepiness to them. You always wonder who suffered there, who died there, who's life ended there. I've lost several family members to cancer as well. Horrible disease, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
"Someone had explosive diarrhea"
This made my day lmao
Really nice sequel on the Hospital you guys! I would have brought my geiger counter into the radiation parts though. Just in case... I enjoyed it! Keep up the great videos :D
He’s so right, that deafening silence can only be experienced in places like this and it’s so intense
*Been around before 50,000 Subscribers and I must say nothing has changed and thats a good thing. Keep up the good work!!!*
Also I'm 48th view, and nice epilepsy warning.
I know this is an old video. At around 21:18 as you guys are going up another level to rap things up as you say at the far end of the corridor looks like a Dore opens up and lights up the dark space at the far end of the corridor. love your work stay safe.
Always killer footage. Nice job guys.
I know this was filmed years ago but please make merchandise that says “there’s always Christmas decorations”
The Radiotherapy machine is missing a lot of hardware on both the table and the overhead arm, both of which make the machine much more intimidating. Also, both the overhead arm and the table are able to tilt and sway to target cancer cells on all 3 axis. To make things scarier you have to basically are locked to the machine. And yes your guess is right about the gel, they use it to keep from hurting the skin near the treatment area. If they don't use the gel it feels like a bad sunburn the next day.
Idk why I’m so addicted to your videos but they are well made and honestly I have an inner child that wants to be an urban explorer lol 🙌🏻🙌🏻
im always happy when you guys upload a video. i come on everyday in hope of something. quality work friends
Bigger Hospitals normally have gift shops. Its so the family can buy like flowers or balloons for whoever is sick. They also sell novelty stuff like plush toys and stuff.
The sign that said dirty elevator, is used to move equipment Linens surgical tools anything that's considered contaminated, that could be just from dirt and dust or because it was used in surgery or whatever but it's a separate elevator that's essentially always kept and just a septic state which means it's sprayed with sanitizer but it's not scrubbed to a surgically clean level. It would be almost impossible to maintain. That's why you see the autoclave sterilizers are usually adjacent to the operating room. So that the tools are not moved along distance even in with the older packing that used to keep the tools sterile. Especially for large or long surgeries where they're going to be using possibly hundreds of tools. You need to be able to have them processed as close to you as possible with the least number of people handling them the dirty elevator was used to remove soiled Linens tools or anything that had become contaminated.
What is it with abandoned hospitals in the US? Many of them filled with all their equipment etc. Why isn't that shit auctioned off when the business closes down? Makes no sense.
Because usually someone keeps it intact for a bit, expecting to sell the whole thing off to a new buyer...then time goes by, the owner can't afford even trickle maintenance anymore, negotiations drag out or fall through, and then you're trying to sell a building that's been abandoned 18 months, the air & water systems have all gone to hell, and now it requires too much to make it viable so it goes even worse until no $$ come in at all to maintain it.
This hospital went down with the 08 recession. I’m sure they tried to auction off all the medical equipment they could, but most was probably outdated or too expensive to move. Sad to see a building go to waste.
That's just a bunch of nonsense. It doesn't even make sense - it doesn't make anybody money to leave a bunch of equipment to rot. This is what happens when an orderly liquidation is not conducted. Typically when a for-profit organization shuts down, it is liquidated, with all the equipment auctioned off and the property either sold or stripped of anything of value before being abandoned. This way, the owners or shareholders minimize their losses as much as possible and the valuable equipment ends up in the hands of someone who has a use for it. But in the case especially of nonprofit organizations, there is great reluctance to liquidate because everyone wants someone else to take over the whole operation and keep it going, and there is no pressure from shareholders to minimize losses. In the best case they succeed and someone takes over and keeps the operation going, but in the worst case negotiations and redevelopment plans get stuck in limbo, or nobody at all is willing to take it over, and without security and maintenance the equipment quickly loses any value.
Bill Williams You do realize that makes no sense as no one makes any $$ at all from letting expensive medical equipment sit abandon in a building, right? If it were only about money/greed, every bit of equipment would have been sold through liquidation sales as soon as the hospital closed. The most common reason you see medical equipment left in hospital buildings is for the simple fact that when the hospital is closing it’s basically the hope of investors that the building will be bought out, medical equipment included. To put it in simpler terms, they hope for possibly a larger management medical group to take over & continue running the hospital. Sometimes when the hospital is about to close there’s already negotiations underway that involve keeping all medical equipment & at the last second when the deal is almost finished it ends up falling through for whatever reason. These negotiations can be long & drawn out, they may be dropped & picked up many different times by various investors/medical groups... by the time they continue to fall through repeatedly & the building sits empty the medical equipment is already out of date/hasn’t been serviced for some time... it becomes obsolete quickly especially with no maintenance being performed. Eventually it becomes obvious they aren’t going to be able to sell the building, the medical equipment is useless at that point & wouldn’t legally be used by any other medical organizations in the US anyways (there are regulations for certain medical equipment as well), everything gets written off as a loss. It’s not necessarily intended to let it sit & waste, sometimes unforeseen circumstances happen
wrongwayup Moron MBAs.
Thanks for the strobe warning -- I really enjoy your videos, your honesty and the creativity behind them.
Love your content. Just discovered ya'll. Subscribed. Beats the hell out of Josh whats his name. Dont change a thing.
Watching this while sitting in a hospital room chained to a prisoner is the weirdest feeling, love your work guys keep it up!
Why were you chained to a prisoner?
I am just binge watching all your vids I love the intro music. Be safe out there love you 2.
Thanks guys, that's a huge place to cover!!!! Can't wait for the next one!!! Stay safe!!😀
Have y'all ever gotten sick after exploring somewhere
I'm guessing if they did they would likely let people know so that others don't go to certain places to explore.
Some tilers made a killing on that place
Love your abandoned videos guys! You inspired me to make abandoned videos too :) thanks for keeping us all informed and entertained with your excellent content!
Kez I love your videos man, keep it up :)
Retro Burger-Chef okay where u live? since u gonna come all the way where I live to do that. u keep talking smack but yet u won't do anything
Kez I agree
Kez I love the outro music in this video if every building they explored had a main music theme this would be the theme for the The hospital they explored in this video
saw you on filthy franks channel too
I wonder if the emergency generators are still down in the bowels of this thing.
Wasteland Seven good point
@Proper People thank you for making video about Carraway Hospital. I was born in that very hospital in 1992.
In radiation therapy, they put bolus over the area being treated to more precisely regulate the dosage being given. It has qualities very similar to human tissue. Awesome vid as always.
Wonder just how many people it took to create that level of destruction! Loved those roof shots with that cool spinning star!
That radiation machine looks utterly terrifying, I would hate to think how the little children would've felt being in that room.
I liked this soo hard even before watching..i think I'm just overly excited that there is finally another prop peeps vid!
I stay in Huntsville Al and drive by all the time and have always wanted to check it out. I was going to mention in a different video if you 2 have been here.
Just went from Huntsville to Birmingham last night to check the place out. Had a friend send me this vid this morning. I missed a lot of areas
great job on the ending, what a way to send off with a lil spin
The stains remind me of Bob Saget going berserk from Dumb and Dumberer. "THERE'S SHIT EVERYWHERE!!! MY HOUSE IS FULL OF SHIT!!!"
When you guys walk through those hallways, don't you ever get worried that there might be a homeless person or maybe a group of people staying there maybe doing drugs and attack you guys and steal your gear? I know I would!! I enjoy watching your amazing unbelievable videos. Be careful and stay safe out there!!
I would be very surprised of at least one of them isn't packing. They would be stupid not to be.
@@hgbugalou if it was me walking there I would pack atleast an ak or couple rpgs lol
Cops clear out abandoned places all the time. Someone not paying rent is their worst fear 🤣
I went to an open day in the radiology department at my hospital the other day. Seeing that bashed up linear accelerator now is weird lol
At 21:12 watch the light (assuming it’s a door) at the end of the hall on the left, then at 21:18 it OPENS quickly
As a Birmingham native it is so strange to see Caraway abandoned. It was a very well respected hospital.
That moment when you go up to the top floor to check the doors and you come back down and all of the doors are wide open...
Don't companies use such places for film shoots/backdrops? Just send a couple cleaners/surveyors in, and you've got a perfect creepy, abandoned hospital! :D
Awesome Job Guys ! Love everything about these videos 👍🏼
Excellent video as usual guys! Can't believe they left all that expensive medical equipment to waste away.
Its crazy to now see that this place is going to get rebuild spring of 2020 !! 😍
Chocolate Curlz they are demolishing the existing structures though due to the extent of the vandalism. They are only keeping the parking structures.
It’s still up. Was exploring last night for my self
still up, went last night!
haven't watch y'all in a while, but congrats on 400k
Awesome guys.... Totally enjoyed the video...
Have a good one..
18:05 not usually but some hospitals have gift shops so families can buy gifts for their patients. The hospital my mom was in for her surgery had a gift shop and we bought her some chocolate and get well cards from there.
Love you're work guys. Keep safe out there.
I am really enjoying your abandoned building videos. A request, when you are in tall buildings such as the one in this video that has lots of lifts/elevators, is there any chance you could venture into the machine rooms of said lifts/elevators? I guess access can sometimes be a problem, but those rooms are of great interest to me and eerie in their own way! Thanks