My mother suffered from schizophrenia and depression and would have to be brought here for treatment in the 1960's. I was a young child and was not allowed past the lobby, but my aunt and grandmother would come and visit her. They'd take turns sitting with me and visiting. It was a gloomy place, even though I was never inside the actual area where patients were. I remember my aunt mentioning there was a separte ward for the violent patients. That was scary. I always worried they'd get out. My aunt always parked at the back, and we went in through an entrance back there. There were no houses behind the building then, that I can recall. My mother would be in for treatment, sometimes 6 months to a year before she could be released. It was a sad place, but imo it was preferable to letting people wander the streets, like they're doing now, getting zero help. 😢
That’s a very interesting story. I’m sorry you went through that. It’s hard growing up with a parent in treatment. My mom was hospitalized for psychosis’ for much of the 2000s. I was allowed in but, just like you I was terrified of many of the patients . In retrospect, aside from seeing my mom in some ways I wish I didn’t go in as I saw some weird behavior.
@srirachaaaa I'm sorry your mother was desling with those issues. It's hard for a child to deal with having a parent who has a mental illness. And I think kids think they're the only ones going through it, and it's very hard to talk about it.
You’re insane coming here by urself knowing how creepy this place is. I went here 2 summers ago with a group of my friends and we winded up meeting two other groups of people, one from Brantford and one from Mississauga, who were also trying to explore the place. The chances of this encounter were extremely rare but we ended up having a group of about 15 teenagers, who all met on a random summer night. We got in by smashing the plywood off the front entrance with a pickaxe and breaking in. Was definitely a fun experience I will always remember but even with such a large group, I was still terrified by the old place and it’s creepiness. The night ended with security pulling up and everyone running away to never see each other again. Cool vid bro, this definitely brought back some memories lol.
I’ve wanted to see inside that building for over a decade. Thx for sharing. I’m surprised it’s remained standing. I can’t see how it would ever be rehabilitated and restored. Cheers. I appreciated this.
Is it the one on top of the escarpment? I was always under the impression they tore it down a few years ago. Maybe this is a different one, cuz I’m still convinced that they did lol
I went inside and explored with a bunch of friends back in high school in 2014 and again in 2016 it was a lot easier to get inside back then there was lots of stuff still in there paper work and other stuff really interesting definitely felt like we were being watched at times
I live in Hamilton and totally agree ! Just take a walk downtown anytime of the year and you will see about fifty people with mental disorders. They all live in tents now and steal anything that is not bolted down.
Been in here twice and the surrounding buildings multiple times. Going in the eerie feeling never goes away and the one time me and my friend pulled up we both got this nauseating pit in our stomachs. You have massive balls of steels for doing this solo
My grandmother worked as the main receptionist for decades in the other building you referred to at the beginning. The one torn down. My mother would bring me up to visit her when I was a young boy, and I remember the weird yelling coming from the patients where she worked. As a child I never felt comfortable there even though my mom and Nanna were right there... Thanks for the video, I never got to walk through the building in this video.
I used to work security with a guy who actually did a security job here In around 2008, he told me once about the tunnels below and how one time he was down below and that there is a room in the basement along or in tunnel that he entered one time because he thought he heard someone talking and walked into two women sitting at a table dressed in what he said looked like 1940s nurse attire because of the type of headdress they were wearing,but he essentially opened the door saw them and closed the door practically straight away thinking he is interrupting them for a second before opening and they were gone, always remembered that story lol
Different place, but my dad used to work as security in an old school building turned into a dance school in Toronto. It still has the original school building with tunnels and everything. In the basement girls had hung themselves and my dad heard girls talking and screaming in the basement. On the upper levels what ever was there didn’t want the lights turned off and would turn them back on. As soon as you hit the third step down, all electrical was checked and everything was perfectly fine. He had many more stories but that stuck out to me.
I live in Hamilton and worked as a mental health RN at St. Joe's West 5th campus from 2000 to 2017. It was always our hope that Century Manor could be saved. If you want to know more, visit the Museum at the new West 5th Campus hospital.
Went to Mohawk. Was thrown into that ward for whatever stupid reason and we all got along and made ice caps together. Even the staff were on drugs. Picked up a chick while inside and actually got laid when both got out. But look at me today! A properly adjusted young man! Thank you Hamilton! We have to give McMaster students some credit in the degree of things that some may do well. I have actually been thrown in three facilities over time and so far. West 5th, St. Joe's down the mountain, and the new Hospital in St. Catharines, which I escaped and hiked 26 hours in socks during winter like a Ranger, to back to heartland Hamilton! And still positive, and smiling, and proud of me for everything I do. And drug free!
I live like 15 minutes from this place and can confirm with great confidence that this place is very haunted. Overheard very loud screams from inside when the building was not this accessible.
I walked through this building in 2012 as a contractor to look at repairing some piping. I have never been more freaked after doing that walk through, and was not interested in that work. It is like a time capsule in there, it is very eerie, the examination rooms, patient rooms, one could just imagine what went on there all those years ago.
Worked in here early 1990s when it was a community group office for day programs. It was old then but functional. Lots of history- the basement was the dungeon for the criminally insane in the beginning of the asylum. Weird things would happen - keys would go missing and end up on 3rd floor when no one ever went up there.
Security routinely checks the building for openings, if someone makes an opening, it doesn't stay open very long. If you ever get caught in this place they will assume you were the one that made the opening and you will get charged with trespassing and property damage. That criminal charge is called Diversion in the courts system and yes it will show up on a employee back-round check. If you really want to check this place out be prepared and physically fit enough to run into the forest behind the hospital, there's a trail that goes down the mountain over a road, into another forest and into a park.
@@sebastianclark2139It’s for peoples safety. There’s debris everywhere, people can easily trip and injure themselves. Getting paramedics and someone carried out on a board in here would be incredibly difficult as you can imagine. And really it’s just old rooms and graffiti.
Best/clearest video tour available for this place. For years, I've been wondering about what the inside looks like but I was always too chicken to check it out myself. Cheers!!
At around 2:40 “…so creepy. What is this machine? I have no idea.” That would be a commercial dishwasher.😉 In actual fact, I’m extremely jealous that you got inside. I’ve been curious about that building’s insides for a decade. Nicely done!
I don't think gutting it inside is going to make it less haunted. There's just so much energy in that place. You get a chill down your spine just seeing it from the outside. There was this one time even from my house down the escarpment that I could see a light in the window, consistent stream, at night. This isn't new; people have absolutely reported seeing lights flick on despite the place not having working electricity for years. I could never get up the nerve to go inside.
@@_Rinalya Oh dont worry my friend ... supportive housing with preserved architecture with the occasional lights turning on and off is a good bargain in todays residential market in my opinion 😁... According to most paranormal documentaries... most spirits n ghosts usually just politely turn the lights on n off and leave the doors and cabinets etc open... i can live with that 😊 ... actually i do live with that already... my younger brother does all these things to me lol. Although yes i agree with you, the place has quite the historical baggage 😥 and it will always be a little creepy... for as long as we remain mindful to the struggles of all the patients n the staff that populated those walls.
I'm disappointed but not surprised at this comment. A heartless comment on Christmas and if you "celebrated" it, you did it wrong. Blame the Liberal and Conservative governments, both provincial and federal for our current situation over the decades. Dehumanizing the poor and wanting to lock them up puts a burden on the tax payers and the system, and instead we should be getting them healthy and housed so that they can restart their lives
@robbob1866 i think you're confusing the difference between poor and mentally ill. There are people who are down on their luck and lost their homes and there are people that are not mentally capable of keeping a roof over their heads. Idk how much time u spend in downtown Hamilton but you definetely see both of those things. I don't think anyone is suggesting we return to 1940s style institutionalization. But the current approach which is to get mentally ill people into privately owned properties who many of which terrorize the owners and others they live amongst is not a viable solution. People who cannot be members of society should have a way to be reintegrated into it and that is a huge gap in our system right now.
Located in a beautiful area of Hamilton along the escarpment. Rode my bike often around the building back in the day. Also thank you for showing the place, especially the basement, that must have been crazy scary.
Thank you for enduring lead paint and asbestos to take us into this building with you. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I recognized the place as a place I photographed a couple of year ago. My visit was daytime and outside only. Great video!
Half the houses down the mountain are built in 1880s, lots of lead paint. Asbestos was initially used as insulation in the late 1930s-40s tho these buildings aren't insulated
@debbie6921 I was incarcerated in a modern-day facility like this, and yes the food was great and I even lost weight, I believe that was from the medications that they were saying that I needed....
I think Dave had the right idea going inside during the daytime! It seems so much creepier at night, and honestly i think there would be bad energy in there along with all the toxic substances, so a good idea to keep the visit short. The basement had so many hiding places... could you imagine back in the day if one of the inmates got free and you had to find them in there? 👀😱 Thanks for braving the space!
@@michaelbressette2599 Lets be real, the people admitted there have been dead for many years. I think my grandma said it best once when I asked her where she'd gotten a letter I found written to her in the 90s, she said "who cares? Whoever wrote it is dead now."
Thanks for sharing this video with me about Exploring the ABANDONED Hamilton INSANE ASYLUM **WHAT HAPPENED HERE??** it was a good Explore i really enjoyed it and i gave you a thumbs up and shared you out on my community tab and God Bless.
A buddy of mine mom worked there and remember about her talking about shock treatments. My uncle worked there as a young man around the grounds and would get cat calls from women inside to come up and visit them.
i remember coming here and seen a lady hanging out by there, i asked her if she knows anything about the building and she told me that she heard there’s tunnels that connect from west 5 to the old asylum. one night she said the security was told there was people in the tunnel under this place and when he went there he seen people in the tunnel playing with something on the floor and yelled “hey you can’t be here “ and the lights flickered and they were gone. apparently he quit the same night ….
@dailybrother9180 IT was very scary at times. Most wards were locked wards. You carried keys with you for most doors. All the buildings were connected with an underground tunnel. I only used this to transfer those that passed, to the morgue. Thankfully only twice for me . Each building was used for different degrees of mental vulnerability patients. There was a room for ECT (Shock) treatment. A certain day would be used for ECT, and patients would have the procedure completed in assembly line fashion. Sorry, I could go on forever, but way to much for here.
New subscriber ☺❤ it's good to see more UA-cam channels on Canadian abandoned places/homes, there are a lot of fascinating, hunted and historic buildings that need's to be showcased and told for us history lovers. Thank you from one Canadian to another 🍁forgot to mention, you are so brave to go in and explore this place at night, not many would. I already felt a certain way just watching it and I can imagine how it must have felt for you being in there and the energy of all these abandoned places. Just amazing, all respect to you but yes safety first.
This was phenomenal yet spooky. One of your top 10-15 scary exploring adventures! Side note: the way society is headed, perhaps there needs to be more of these built again.
Hamilton is old city with some culture. Born and lived here my whole life. Still learning new stuff about this town. Very unique city. Has the poor, middle class, rich and everything in between here. From the mountain to downtown. Yes I grew up on the west mountain. So yes everything down the hill is still downtown to me. Outsider wouldn’t understand! KEEP THE HISTORY ALIVE… good video
The hallways on the 3rd floor are ridiculously small, and the first floor is super wide! I wish I knew what they used the larger rooms for. The Individual rooms are quite small! I will have to do some research to see what I can learn about it. I wonder if a floor plan could be found. Imagine what interviewing someone who lived there would be like! Thanks for the video, I have now joined your channel.
100% no. You do not realize the history this place has, including with sketchy work done there. I've lived in this city all my life. It needs to be gone forever.
As much as I love the idea of recycling it, and I don't like people destroying literal history, this building should just be demolished and a new structure built in it's place. The condition of the building is in pretty rough shape, the history of the building is sketchy and horrifying, the pipes in the basement are made out of asbestos, tons of issues with it that make it more sensible to get rid of it. If anything, it could just be re-purposed into a hospital or another asylum/rehab centre one day.
This place needs reopening. There is so much mental health neglect in Hamilton, and the poof is everywhere in this city. Without these places functioning people that need mental health care end up in jails, or ultimately, eventually dead
I'd love to see you check out the Mountain Sanatorium Nurses' Residence (828 Sanatorium Rd, Hamilton, ON L9C 7W7) next! I've wandered around that building, but never been brave enough to go in. It's pretty close to Century Manor.
I went through this building 10 years ago. I got in through the front right staircase. Was so fun in there. I wished you looked at the fire panel that was in the basement. Neat place
Besides being a mental institution, it was also a prison for the criminally insane at one time. All kinds of torture would happen to these patients including electric shock therapy submerging patients in freezing water on and on. I live in Hamilton. When I was a teenager we used to sneak into this building all the time through the underground tunnel system from the other small buildings in the back
I've always been curious what it looks like. 👍 "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did."
I was in there about 8 years ago. It was a pretty cool experience. My biggest worry was the mold and asbestos that’s probably all over that place. Didn’t even know people still went there to go explore. Last I heard they had security outside of it
Uberx Ontario, I'm living in Toronto, Ontario I'm so happy to see a Canadian like yourself doing exploring abandoned haunted locations. I have yet to experience paranormal with my own 2 eyes. I'm not scared of anything there is a lot of things I have seen I cannot explain lol. I love your videos keep it up & safely too!
Awesome explore! I can understand why you would not want to stay in there too long with the condition of the place, and yep I don’t understand the vandalism and graffiti thing either, no respect sadly! Great job Owen! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!
The saddest thing is that the building has been sitting empty and decaying for so long it won't be worth keeping soon. Too bad they tore all the other buildings down as well. I used to work with clients that would be admitted there from group homes. The tunnels under them were very spooky. There was a similar group home that I was visiting during my education journey and it was exactly like a scene from one flew over the cuckoo's nest, infact worse. People were still living there.
@2:41 this is part of what used to be the kitchen. This was the dishwasher. Clean dishes and and other items would then be sent to the dumbwaiter elevator to different floors a staff member on that floor would then take the items from the dumbwaiter then send it back down
I remember a guy that lived there and would come into the Dundas Owls Roost for a few beers. I said to him one day why you live there , are you crazy? To which he replied , I've got papers to prove I'm not crazy. Do you? Well he had a point hehehe!
The west fifth facility, I have never been there but know it well. Many times I have passed these buildings but never chose to visit to see it. Its apart of the old Chedoke Mental health services & i remember it well as a kid & it scared the hell out of me. The Evil experimentations that went on in those places to me should be considered as act of evil & terrorism on people with mental health issues. Its torture. That machine you have no idea about is a dishwasher sterilizer unit. I remember using them in restaurants back in the 70's. I am assuming they washed & sterilized their surgical equipment or dishes, but that looks like a kitchen. I will never understand WHY the city of Hamilton leaves vital structures such as this to decay like this when they can be restored & repurposed. The west fifth facility can & should be using this building as a museum of past Psychiatric care. I guess they feel there is no need for the future generations to experience the atrocities that went on in those facilities. This building surprises me at its condition. I remember back then the Chedoke hospital located on the west mountain, it was dedicated from what I remember to Psychiatric care. It had other services as well & operated as a typical hospital however what I remember was mostly Psychiatric. You can check it out here: freaktography.com/abandoned-chedoke-hospital-hamilton/?srsltid=AfmBOoqvZZsWp48oxe6hHIiUHaqiI9C4BAbRD61aIeuUATfDNhZg1ihC I will never want to venture back into those properties.
So nice to see a local building explored even creepy ones. I lived not far from there (mohawk residence) when I was a student at mohawk for nursing 15 years ago. Always felt uneasy going by that building. Thanks for being so brave for us.
Wow! I have wanted to see inside of this building for so long! Definitely creepy but also, I can see now how hazardous it is. If I ever get the chance to explore, I for sure will come with a mask and thicker clothes. I wouldn't want to get any cuts while in there!!! Thank you so much for this.
If you go all the way down to the basement & to the end of the building, not sure which end but you come to a fair size room. Enter the room & close the door you are suppose to hear women talking, moaning & screaming in there. The security guard from 80’s & 90’s heard all of this according to Dundurn Castle & haunted tours of Hamilton.
Thanks for this video. Nice architecture from the outside. Inside is still asbestos plaster walls from the way it's decaying from the leaking roof. And your right a lot of people must have died in that old building. Frontal lobotomies, the removal of the frontal neocortex brain was common. As was overdose from insulin injections to sedate people who went berserks. Insulin causes sedation and coma. Some people never come out of comas. Electro shock therapy was common back then too. Where a anode and cathode is attached to each side of the neck's jugular and electricity is applied. People would choke on their foaming mouth. It was done to shock the person for behaviour modification so they would not have negative depressing thoughts. Unfortunatley people would die in the process. It reminds me of 'The one who flew over the coocoo's nest' with Jack Nicholson.
I had my eyes covered through this whole video! How did you do that yourself?! hahaha I've driven by that building a handful of times and every time it freaks me out... and that is during the day! I didn't think I could get through the video-ESPECIALLY when you went to the basement- but I did! That's the extent of my nerves! Thanks, I've always wondered what it was like!
Upstanding walk through. I live down the street, and get to see this beautiful relic along with the family heritage soght across the street. Im also sad at the amount of graffiti in this old relic. If those walls could talk, Im sure they'd have a lot to say.
S/O to the UA-cam algorithm! lol that’s how I came across you? Thanks originally from the soo! Living in Ottawa do you have any videos of stuff from northern Ontario? Sault Ste. Marie ?…new here
Wait a fluffing minute. I am in Hamilton for 25 years and had dreams of an asylum and wonder if this is the one of 2 that visited my dream. Oh I am psychic and here there is history so rich and I love soaking it up. 😊❤ Dundurn Castle is one of the most haunted places.
Omg the number of times i have blazed there back in the 2010s when i used to live in hamilton... just outside its boundary... people always said it was haunted but being an immigrant i just liked to go there to get a sense of its historic value and the architecture. Very Intense Place!
I’ve always wanted to see inside, have creeped around the building countless times looking for an in 😂 thanks for sharing. You took one for the team with all that asbestos and dead animal mold.
Went here back in the day when I was a teenager. couldn’t get in through the tunnels or windows. Always wanted to explore this place u lucky asf for getting in!
I remember when I visited here I went in alone and fell so hard climbing through the window, then my phone died for my flashlight unexpectedly (when the battery was practically full) so I had to get my friends to marco-polo me back out in pitch black. Pretty spooky experience.
Hey man, new sub, good video! I'm out in Durham region. If you ever need someone to go with you on these buildings, id love to tag along. I love this sort of thing. Its kinda dangerous to do this alone, you never know if theres homeless peeps or crackheads.
Me and my friends were skipping school exploring the mountain brow and we came up one the paths behind here and 2 of my friends started freaking out saying they seen a ghost. Also my wife's aunt spent time in there before they closed.
Ugh I'm so jealous. Went walking around there this fall, and everything was sealed up. I live only 15 minutes away, but like you said they probably already patched that way in. Need to find people to go with
“Obviously I’m not gonna break into a place. I’m gonna wait till there’s a point of entry.” That is, I’m going to wait until someone else has broken in then I’ll go through that broken door or window. I don’t see the ethical point of departure there but then again I’ve pried my way into abandoned buildings before just to look around. Vandalism is senseless but occasionally you encounter real art in these places.
I used to work at mohawk, and there is a Restaurant/bar called the cellar that is located in the basement that has like nooks , kind of like how a wine cellar would look like which is where people would eat. I heard that one of that walls has a tunnel that leads to the asylum but was blocked off for obvious reasons.
The Cellar really isn't all that underground. Certainly not deep enough for a tunnel unless it went deeper. Also quite the distance if there was one. I imagine it was a wine cellar at some point in history, given the name. Never did look into it though. Lot of good times there while going to the school.
That was a commercial dishwasher in the first area. If you need someone to do paranormal investigations, cleansing and ghost hunting I’m in Cambridge. I have a lot of equipment I just hate going in these places alone lol. Reach out if you want a partner for this. You needed some rem pods and a spirit box. And a digital recorder.
If you guys are interested in these sorts of places, few years ago I was a location scout for Amazon while they were filming the second season of The Boys. There's an abandoned asylum in London, Ontario that they used for filming :) If you watch the second season when The Boys go to the insane asylum and MM has his first run-in with Love Sausage, its that place :)
It could easily be fixed up to room homeless with old offices being used for housing workers, addiction services, services for adult continuing education(high school credits for those who never graduated) , trades, etc. grow a garden on the property that residents tend to that can help sustain meals and residents can pay a very tiny room and board once they are helped to get welfare or odsp. The government has nothing for low cost housing for disabled,sick, elderly, yet lets buildings and land like this go to waste and has put disabled people out on the streets to give their longtime homes to immigrants.
Easy? Place is full of asbestos homie. It would be cheaper to build a new one than to gut this place from floor tiles to pipe insulation to roof tiles and everything else after the asbestos covered it while removing. 😂
My mother suffered from schizophrenia and depression and would have to be brought here for treatment in the 1960's. I was a young child and was not allowed past the lobby, but my aunt and grandmother would come and visit her. They'd take turns sitting with me and visiting. It was a gloomy place, even though I was never inside the actual area where patients were. I remember my aunt mentioning there was a separte ward for the violent patients. That was scary. I always worried they'd get out. My aunt always parked at the back, and we went in through an entrance back there. There were no houses behind the building then, that I can recall. My mother would be in for treatment, sometimes 6 months to a year before she could be released. It was a sad place, but imo it was preferable to letting people wander the streets, like they're doing now, getting zero help. 😢
That’s a very interesting story. I’m sorry you went through that. It’s hard growing up with a parent in treatment. My mom was hospitalized for psychosis’ for much of the 2000s. I was allowed in but, just like you I was terrified of many of the patients . In retrospect, aside from seeing my mom in some ways I wish I didn’t go in as I saw some weird behavior.
@srirachaaaa I'm sorry your mother was desling with those issues. It's hard for a child to deal with having a parent who has a mental illness. And I think kids think they're the only ones going through it, and it's very hard to talk about it.
Treatment back then was likely straitjacket, electroshock therapy and ice baths.
hope your mother found the peace she deserved
You’re insane coming here by urself knowing how creepy this place is. I went here 2 summers ago with a group of my friends and we winded up meeting two other groups of people, one from Brantford and one from Mississauga, who were also trying to explore the place. The chances of this encounter were extremely rare but we ended up having a group of about 15 teenagers, who all met on a random summer night. We got in by smashing the plywood off the front entrance with a pickaxe and breaking in. Was definitely a fun experience I will always remember but even with such a large group, I was still terrified by the old place and it’s creepiness. The night ended with security pulling up and everyone running away to never see each other again.
Cool vid bro, this definitely brought back some memories lol.
I once made it half way into the basement window and changed my mind and left. Pitch black in the basement can’t see anything
What are you talking about? Only creepy thing would be the teenagers
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I would be more concerned about getting injured with no one there to back you up.
Nah 15 people deep shouldn't be scary at all. It's not like you're going into a gunfight. But anyhow thanks for sharing that story, it does sound fun
This place would be super busy these days.
we let the crazy people in half way homes now
In America, it is sorely needed...
Government can't afford to keep them open... but will keep feeding the problem to only benefit them and line there pockets.
@@susanfaulkner2304in Canada it is needed more than America
I’ve wanted to see inside that building for over a decade. Thx for sharing. I’m surprised it’s remained standing. I can’t see how it would ever be rehabilitated and restored. Cheers. I appreciated this.
Is it the one on top of the escarpment? I was always under the impression they tore it down a few years ago. Maybe this is a different one, cuz I’m still convinced that they did lol
@@j.p.6228The one up here is long gone, yeah. This is a different one.
I went inside and explored with a bunch of friends back in high school in 2014 and again in 2016 it was a lot easier to get inside back then there was lots of stuff still in there paper work and other stuff really interesting definitely felt like we were being watched at times
The bones don't seem that bad, actually!
Asylum is abandoned, yet the insanity is abundant outside
I really thought that was the strongest comment I ever heard about these places... Yes the insanity is more prevalent on the outside...
I live in Hamilton and totally agree ! Just take a walk downtown anytime of the year and you will see about fifty people with mental disorders. They all live in tents now and steal anything that is not bolted down.
Been in here twice and the surrounding buildings multiple times. Going in the eerie feeling never goes away and the one time me and my friend pulled up we both got this nauseating pit in our stomachs. You have massive balls of steels for doing this solo
My grandmother worked as the main receptionist for decades in the other building you referred to at the beginning. The one torn down. My mother would bring me up to visit her when I was a young boy, and I remember the weird yelling coming from the patients where she worked. As a child I never felt comfortable there even though my mom and Nanna were right there... Thanks for the video, I never got to walk through the building in this video.
I used to work security with a guy who actually did a security job here In around 2008, he told me once about the tunnels below and how one time he was down below and that there is a room in the basement along or in tunnel that he entered one time because he thought he heard someone talking and walked into two women sitting at a table dressed in what he said looked like 1940s nurse attire because of the type of headdress they were wearing,but he essentially opened the door saw them and closed the door practically straight away thinking he is interrupting them for a second before opening and they were gone, always remembered that story lol
Different place, but my dad used to work as security in an old school building turned into a dance school in Toronto. It still has the original school building with tunnels and everything. In the basement girls had hung themselves and my dad heard girls talking and screaming in the basement. On the upper levels what ever was there didn’t want the lights turned off and would turn them back on. As soon as you hit the third step down, all electrical was checked and everything was perfectly fine. He had many more stories but that stuck out to me.
I went down there and all me and my buddies found was a tweaking 40-50 year old women sleeping down there missing all her teeth😂
@@rentalcar1712no way
@@rentalcar1712I'm surprised more unhoused people don't try to live there!
i heard a story similar to this one …. that’s scary
I live in Hamilton and worked as a mental health RN at St. Joe's West 5th campus from 2000 to 2017. It was always our hope that Century Manor could be saved. If you want to know more, visit the Museum at the new West 5th Campus hospital.
I was born at St Joes ❤
Went to Mohawk. Was thrown into that ward for whatever stupid reason and we all got along and made ice caps together. Even the staff were on drugs. Picked up a chick while inside and actually got laid when both got out. But look at me today! A properly adjusted young man! Thank you Hamilton! We have to give McMaster students some credit in the degree of things that some may do well. I have actually been thrown in three facilities over time and so far. West 5th, St. Joe's down the mountain, and the new Hospital in St. Catharines, which I escaped and hiked 26 hours in socks during winter like a Ranger, to back to heartland Hamilton! And still positive, and smiling, and proud of me for everything I do. And drug free!
Sicko
Is this the one on the brow near Mohawk college?
The whole world is an insane asylum in ways.
I live like 15 minutes from this place and can confirm with great confidence that this place is very haunted. Overheard very loud screams from inside when the building was not this accessible.
I walked through this building in 2012 as a contractor to look at repairing some piping. I have never been more freaked after doing that walk through, and was not interested in that work. It is like a time capsule in there, it is very eerie, the examination rooms, patient rooms, one could just imagine what went on there all those years ago.
Worked in here early 1990s when it was a community group office for day programs. It was old then but functional. Lots of history- the basement was the dungeon for the criminally insane in the beginning of the asylum. Weird things would happen - keys would go missing and end up on 3rd floor when no one ever went up there.
Security routinely checks the building for openings, if someone makes an opening, it doesn't stay open very long. If you ever get caught in this place they will assume you were the one that made the opening and you will get charged with trespassing and property damage. That criminal charge is called Diversion in the courts system and yes it will show up on a employee back-round check. If you really want to check this place out be prepared and physically fit enough to run into the forest behind the hospital, there's a trail that goes down the mountain over a road, into another forest and into a park.
That’s crazyyy yoooo😭
Wild how serious they handle that versus people breaking into homes to steal cars wow...
@@sebastianclark2139It’s for peoples safety. There’s debris everywhere, people can easily trip and injure themselves. Getting paramedics and someone carried out on a board in here would be incredibly difficult as you can imagine. And really it’s just old rooms and graffiti.
Best/clearest video tour available for this place. For years, I've been wondering about what the inside looks like but I was always too chicken to check it out myself. Cheers!!
At around 2:40
“…so creepy. What is this machine? I have no idea.”
That would be a commercial dishwasher.😉
In actual fact, I’m extremely jealous that you got inside. I’ve been curious about that building’s insides for a decade.
Nicely done!
The building was purchased recently by Indwell and it will be turned into supportive housing units while preserving the architectural facade.
Excellent !
Good to know ... thanks for posting!
I don't think gutting it inside is going to make it less haunted. There's just so much energy in that place. You get a chill down your spine just seeing it from the outside.
There was this one time even from my house down the escarpment that I could see a light in the window, consistent stream, at night. This isn't new; people have absolutely reported seeing lights flick on despite the place not having working electricity for years. I could never get up the nerve to go inside.
@@_Rinalya Oh dont worry my friend ... supportive housing with preserved architecture with the occasional lights turning on and off is a good bargain in todays residential market in my opinion 😁...
According to most paranormal documentaries... most spirits n ghosts usually just politely turn the lights on n off and leave the doors and cabinets etc open... i can live with that 😊 ... actually i do live with that already... my younger brother does all these things to me lol.
Although yes i agree with you, the place has quite the historical baggage 😥 and it will always be a little creepy... for as long as we remain mindful to the struggles of all the patients n the staff that populated those walls.
Hamilton could use another asylum. Downtown has become extremely dangerous
Downtown kind of is an asylum on its own :P Don't worry, LRT is gonna fix that right? :facepalm:
Town council belongs in an asylum.
I worked in the city center from 2019 to 2023. Downtown is not safe.
I'm disappointed but not surprised at this comment. A heartless comment on Christmas and if you "celebrated" it, you did it wrong. Blame the Liberal and Conservative governments, both provincial and federal for our current situation over the decades. Dehumanizing the poor and wanting to lock them up puts a burden on the tax payers and the system, and instead we should be getting them healthy and housed so that they can restart their lives
@robbob1866 i think you're confusing the difference between poor and mentally ill. There are people who are down on their luck and lost their homes and there are people that are not mentally capable of keeping a roof over their heads. Idk how much time u spend in downtown Hamilton but you definetely see both of those things. I don't think anyone is suggesting we return to 1940s style institutionalization. But the current approach which is to get mentally ill people into privately owned properties who many of which terrorize the owners and others they live amongst is not a viable solution. People who cannot be members of society should have a way to be reintegrated into it and that is a huge gap in our system right now.
Located in a beautiful area of Hamilton along the escarpment. Rode my bike often around the building back in the day.
Also thank you for showing the place, especially the basement, that must have been crazy scary.
Thank you for enduring lead paint and asbestos to take us into this building with you. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I recognized the place as a place I photographed a couple of year ago. My visit was daytime and outside only. Great video!
It was a pretty wild place to explore, thanks for watching!
Half the houses down the mountain are built in 1880s, lots of lead paint. Asbestos was initially used as insulation in the late 1930s-40s tho these buildings aren't insulated
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2:41 it's a dishwasher that you see in restaurants. A tray of dishes goes in and lever down to close all sides and wash
yes, you rinse the dish in a tray and then you bring it to the washing Main washer it sprays very hot water
I can tell that you must have worked in the hospital or restaurant kitchens too....Lol
@@michaelhance8402 Yeah, I did a lot of volunteer work at the legion down at stoney creek in my cadet day's.
They had fantastic meals . Cooks did an excellent job.
@debbie6921 I was incarcerated in a modern-day facility like this, and yes the food was great and I even lost weight, I believe that was from the medications that they were saying that I needed....
I think Dave had the right idea going inside during the daytime! It seems so much creepier at night, and honestly i think there would be bad energy in there along with all the toxic substances, so a good idea to keep the visit short. The basement had so many hiding places... could you imagine back in the day if one of the inmates got free and you had to find them in there? 👀😱 Thanks for braving the space!
Inmates suggests a prison & in some ways it was. Anyway those unfortunate souls that had to be there would be correctly called PATIENTS.
@@michaelbressette2599 Lets be real, the people admitted there have been dead for many years. I think my grandma said it best once when I asked her where she'd gotten a letter I found written to her in the 90s, she said "who cares? Whoever wrote it is dead now."
@@koolaid33Its always important to remember our history!
Thanks for sharing this video with me about Exploring the ABANDONED Hamilton INSANE ASYLUM **WHAT HAPPENED HERE??** it was a good Explore i really enjoyed it and i gave you a thumbs up and shared you out on my community tab and God Bless.
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you kindly for the tour. I really appreciate your time. You sir, have balls of steel 👏
This is incredible. Kudos to you for having the guts to explore this place at night by yourself!
A buddy of mine mom worked there and remember about her talking about shock treatments. My uncle worked there as a young man around the grounds and would get cat calls from women inside to come up and visit them.
I have never been there but I remember, as a student nurse, having to witness shock treatments in Joseph Brant Hospital in the 1980s.
A lot of people don't realize, but shock treatments are still done to this day.
i remember coming here and seen a lady hanging out by there, i asked her if she knows anything about the building and she told me that she heard there’s tunnels that connect from west 5 to the old asylum. one night she said the security was told there was people in the tunnel under this place and when he went there he seen people in the tunnel playing with something on the floor and yelled “hey you can’t be here “ and the lights flickered and they were gone. apparently he quit the same night ….
Worked there for 7 years. 1969-1975. As a new young nurse, it was one wild learning curve.
Tell us more :
im curious what was your experience like?
@dailybrother9180 IT was very scary at times. Most wards were locked wards. You carried keys with you for most doors. All the buildings were connected with an underground tunnel. I only used this to transfer those that passed, to the morgue. Thankfully only twice for me . Each building was used for different degrees of mental vulnerability patients. There was a room for ECT (Shock) treatment. A certain day would be used for ECT, and patients would have the procedure completed in assembly line fashion. Sorry, I could go on forever, but way to much for here.
New subscriber ☺❤ it's good to see more UA-cam channels on Canadian abandoned places/homes, there are a lot of fascinating, hunted and historic buildings that need's to be showcased and told for us history lovers. Thank you from one Canadian to another 🍁forgot to mention, you are so brave to go in and explore this place at night, not many would. I already felt a certain way just watching it and I can imagine how it must have felt for you being in there and the energy of all these abandoned places. Just amazing, all respect to you but yes safety first.
This was phenomenal yet spooky. One of your top 10-15 scary exploring adventures! Side note: the way society is headed, perhaps there needs to be more of these built again.
Hamilton is old city with some culture. Born and lived here my whole life. Still learning new stuff about this town. Very unique city. Has the poor, middle class, rich and everything in between here. From the mountain to downtown. Yes I grew up on the west mountain. So yes everything down the hill is still downtown to me. Outsider wouldn’t understand! KEEP THE HISTORY ALIVE… good video
The hallways on the 3rd floor are ridiculously small, and the first floor is super wide! I wish I knew what they used the larger rooms for. The Individual rooms are quite small! I will have to do some research to see what I can learn about it. I wonder if a floor plan could be found. Imagine what interviewing someone who lived there would be like! Thanks for the video, I have now joined your channel.
Driven past this building many times before, even contemplated going to check it out for the fun of it, but I'm no urban explorer. Very cool!
This would make a great apartment complex.
A cheapie for new renters, or even a place for
housing the homeless. Everyone needs a home.
They need to reopen it as an asylum
The great thing about Asylum being converted into Apartments is that there’s a decent chance you’re never alone 👻
I'd say it just needs to be torn down . Asbestos, lead paints. That would be a hazard to even work to try and remove.
100% no. You do not realize the history this place has, including with sketchy work done there. I've lived in this city all my life. It needs to be gone forever.
As much as I love the idea of recycling it, and I don't like people destroying literal history, this building should just be demolished and a new structure built in it's place. The condition of the building is in pretty rough shape, the history of the building is sketchy and horrifying, the pipes in the basement are made out of asbestos, tons of issues with it that make it more sensible to get rid of it. If anything, it could just be re-purposed into a hospital or another asylum/rehab centre one day.
This place needs reopening. There is so much mental health neglect in Hamilton,
and the poof is everywhere in this city. Without these places functioning people that need mental health care
end up in jails, or ultimately, eventually dead
Thanks for making one in Hamilton, Ontario.
I would have needed a map for sure, or I would have gotten lost for sure.
Great job
I'd love to see you check out the Mountain Sanatorium Nurses' Residence (828 Sanatorium Rd, Hamilton, ON L9C 7W7) next! I've wandered around that building, but never been brave enough to go in. It's pretty close to Century Manor.
I went through this building 10 years ago. I got in through the front right staircase. Was so fun in there. I wished you looked at the fire panel that was in the basement. Neat place
Besides being a mental institution, it was also a prison for the criminally insane at one time. All kinds of torture would happen to these patients including electric shock therapy submerging patients in freezing water on and on. I live in Hamilton. When I was a teenager we used to sneak into this building all the time through the underground tunnel system from the other small buildings in the back
Yup did the same in 2014 and 2015 you could take the tunnel or go in through one of the windows as they used to take to boards off all the time
Have always wondered what mysteries laid in store in the old building and now I know, thanks for taking us along.
That first machine is an industrial dish washer...
I scared
I've always been curious what it looks like. 👍 "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did."
Wow this place is really creepy! Awesome video as usual! 👍👍❤️✊🤘
Asylums are scary to see. They look nice on the outside, but are prisons, on the inside.
I was in there about 8 years ago. It was a pretty cool experience. My biggest worry was the mold and asbestos that’s probably all over that place. Didn’t even know people still went there to go explore. Last I heard they had security outside of it
Drop ceilings might have been added to make the rooms smaller, easier to heat.
Uberx Ontario, I'm living in Toronto, Ontario I'm so happy to see a Canadian like yourself doing exploring abandoned haunted locations. I have yet to experience paranormal with my own 2 eyes. I'm not scared of anything there is a lot of things I have seen I cannot explain lol. I love your videos keep it up & safely too!
Awesome explore! I can understand why you would not want to stay in there too long with the condition of the place, and yep I don’t understand the vandalism and graffiti thing either, no respect sadly! Great job Owen! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!
My goodness you are so brave, sounds like you're alone. I'm freaked out just watching this from my bed.
I always get chills just driving by.
Great little explore . Didn't hear any paranormal sounds. Yeah, that spray is a big out there. I'm not sure why they do it in abandoned buildings .
The saddest thing is that the building has been sitting empty and decaying for so long it won't be worth keeping soon. Too bad they tore all the other buildings down as well. I used to work with clients that would be admitted there from group homes. The tunnels under them were very spooky. There was a similar group home that I was visiting during my education journey and it was exactly like a scene from one flew over the cuckoo's nest, infact worse. People were still living there.
I drive by this building just about every day and always wondered what it looked like inside. Thanks for the video. Very interesting.
Subbed as I’m in Ontario to lol see some stuff I don’t know about ❤ please stay safe in those old buildings!!!
@2:41 this is part of what used to be the kitchen. This was the dishwasher. Clean dishes and and other items would then be sent to the dumbwaiter elevator to different floors a staff member on that floor would then take the items from the dumbwaiter then send it back down
We need a modernized version of this back
lol yes
immediately
I remember a guy that lived there and would come into the Dundas Owls Roost for a few beers. I said to him one day why you live there , are you crazy? To which he replied , I've got papers to prove I'm not crazy. Do you? Well he had a point hehehe!
The west fifth facility, I have never been there but know it well.
Many times I have passed these buildings but never chose to visit to see it. Its apart of the old Chedoke Mental health services & i remember it well as a kid & it scared the hell out of me.
The Evil experimentations that went on in those places to me should be considered as act of evil & terrorism on people with mental health issues. Its torture.
That machine you have no idea about is a dishwasher sterilizer unit. I remember using them in restaurants back in the 70's. I am assuming they washed & sterilized their surgical equipment or dishes, but that looks like a kitchen.
I will never understand WHY the city of Hamilton leaves vital structures such as this to decay like this when they can be restored & repurposed. The west fifth facility can & should be using this building as a museum of past Psychiatric care. I guess they feel there is no need for the future generations to experience the atrocities that went on in those facilities.
This building surprises me at its condition.
I remember back then the Chedoke hospital located on the west mountain, it was dedicated from what I remember to Psychiatric care. It had other services as well & operated as a typical hospital however what I remember was mostly Psychiatric. You can check it out here: freaktography.com/abandoned-chedoke-hospital-hamilton/?srsltid=AfmBOoqvZZsWp48oxe6hHIiUHaqiI9C4BAbRD61aIeuUATfDNhZg1ihC
I will never want to venture back into those properties.
Ty for this
my great aunt worked here. I’ve always wanted to see inside! Great video
So nice to see a local building explored even creepy ones. I lived not far from there (mohawk residence) when I was a student at mohawk for nursing 15 years ago. Always felt uneasy going by that building. Thanks for being so brave for us.
Wow! I have wanted to see inside of this building for so long! Definitely creepy but also, I can see now how hazardous it is. If I ever get the chance to explore, I for sure will come with a mask and thicker clothes. I wouldn't want to get any cuts while in there!!! Thank you so much for this.
If you go all the way down to the basement & to the end of the building, not sure which end but you come to a fair size room. Enter the room & close the door you are suppose to hear women talking, moaning & screaming in there. The security guard from 80’s & 90’s heard all of this according to Dundurn Castle & haunted tours of Hamilton.
Thanks for this video. Nice architecture from the outside. Inside is still asbestos plaster walls from the way it's decaying from the leaking roof.
And your right a lot of people must have died in that old building. Frontal lobotomies, the removal of the frontal neocortex brain was common. As was overdose from insulin injections to sedate people who went berserks. Insulin causes sedation and coma. Some people never come out of comas. Electro shock therapy was common back then too. Where a anode and cathode is attached to each side of the neck's jugular and electricity is applied. People would choke on their foaming mouth. It was done to shock the person for behaviour modification so they would not have negative depressing thoughts. Unfortunatley people would die in the process.
It reminds me of 'The one who flew over the coocoo's nest' with Jack Nicholson.
You absolutely don't know what you are talking about! Death from lobotonies? Nonsense.. Insulin overdoses -- where is your proof?
I had my eyes covered through this whole video! How did you do that yourself?! hahaha I've driven by that building a handful of times and every time it freaks me out... and that is during the day! I didn't think I could get through the video-ESPECIALLY when you went to the basement- but I did! That's the extent of my nerves! Thanks, I've always wondered what it was like!
Great video, no bullshit. Nice tour around a Hamilton landmark. Good work.
"What's this machine, I have no idea ?" I think that is a restaurant /cafeteria type of dish washer. I worked one back in the 1980's.
Upstanding walk through. I live down the street, and get to see this beautiful relic along with the family heritage soght across the street. Im also sad at the amount of graffiti in this old relic. If those walls could talk, Im sure they'd have a lot to say.
Thank you for sharing this very interesting and informative video. You are a great narrator.
S/O to the UA-cam algorithm! lol that’s how I came across you? Thanks originally from the soo! Living in Ottawa do you have any videos of stuff from northern Ontario? Sault Ste. Marie ?…new here
Not yet!
15 minutes away from this area .I always wondered 🤔 if they would ever do anything with it.Homeless should be aloud to live in there
Wait a fluffing minute. I am in Hamilton for 25 years and had dreams of an asylum and wonder if this is the one of 2 that visited my dream. Oh I am psychic and here there is history so rich and I love soaking it up. 😊❤ Dundurn Castle is one of the most haunted places.
Omg the number of times i have blazed there back in the 2010s when i used to live in hamilton... just outside its boundary... people always said it was haunted but being an immigrant i just liked to go there to get a sense of its historic value and the architecture. Very Intense Place!
I’ve always wanted to see inside, have creeped around the building countless times looking for an in 😂 thanks for sharing. You took one for the team with all that asbestos and dead animal mold.
Went here back in the day when I was a teenager. couldn’t get in through the tunnels or windows. Always wanted to explore this place u lucky asf for getting in!
I'm in Hamilton and love this kind of stuff Ty brother for the video 🙏
The government needs to fix these buildings and use them. They're waisting our money
I remember when I visited here I went in alone and fell so hard climbing through the window, then my phone died for my flashlight unexpectedly (when the battery was practically full) so I had to get my friends to marco-polo me back out in pitch black. Pretty spooky experience.
The rooms are so small you could probably only fit a bed in there
me and a few friends drove a bout an hour to come here really late at night but unfortunatly couldnt get in how did you find a way in?
Hey man, new sub, good video! I'm out in Durham region. If you ever need someone to go with you on these buildings, id love to tag along. I love this sort of thing. Its kinda dangerous to do this alone, you never know if theres homeless peeps or crackheads.
I work at St. Joes. I’ve always wondered what it looks like in there. I like to eat on the front steps sometimes. I wanna see the tunnels!!
the building you pointed to when you said they aren't very interesting actually has an underground tunnel in it. it's pretty cool too.
The tunnel has collapsed farther down.
@@urbexontario73 that's unfortunate. I remember touring college students around when I was in highschool haha
There’s a very similar one like this in Kingston but even bigger, very very difficult to enter.
I live 2 minutes away, and I still haven’t gone too close to this building. You’re a brave one! ✅
That is a gorgeous building. Pls be safe and careful. I hate the fact that your by yourself. Next time take a friend inside with you!
Hey what day did you go? There always seems to be security there 24-7 everyone I drive by I see them but I really want to go inside one evening
2:51 that machine is a commercial dish washer machine. I used one of them in a soup kitchen. That I use to work at.😮
That machine is a dishwasher, and you're right it's a dumb waiter. And you're brave. I'm going through anxiety watching you in there.😱
Really creepy! I would have gotten lost lol. Great explore though. Curious as to why your friends went to the location and didn't want to explore it.
Me and my friends were skipping school exploring the mountain brow and we came up one the paths behind here and 2 of my friends started freaking out saying they seen a ghost. Also my wife's aunt spent time in there before they closed.
Excellent video. I always wondered what was in there. 👍
Ugh I'm so jealous. Went walking around there this fall, and everything was sealed up.
I live only 15 minutes away, but like you said they probably already patched that way in. Need to find people to go with
“Obviously I’m not gonna break into a place. I’m gonna wait till there’s a point of entry.” That is, I’m going to wait until someone else has broken in then I’ll go through that broken door or window. I don’t see the ethical point of departure there but then again I’ve pried my way into abandoned buildings before just to look around. Vandalism is senseless but occasionally you encounter real art in these places.
I drove around this place one time at night and it was extremely creepy just being near it.
I used to work at mohawk, and there is a Restaurant/bar called the cellar that is located in the basement that has like nooks , kind of like how a wine cellar would look like which is where people would eat. I heard that one of that walls has a tunnel that leads to the asylum but was blocked off for obvious reasons.
The Cellar really isn't all that underground. Certainly not deep enough for a tunnel unless it went deeper. Also quite the distance if there was one. I imagine it was a wine cellar at some point in history, given the name. Never did look into it though. Lot of good times there while going to the school.
That was a commercial dishwasher in the first area. If you need someone to do paranormal investigations, cleansing and ghost hunting I’m in Cambridge. I have a lot of equipment I just hate going in these places alone lol. Reach out if you want a partner for this. You needed some rem pods and a spirit box. And a digital recorder.
If you guys are interested in these sorts of places, few years ago I was a location scout for Amazon while they were filming the second season of The Boys. There's an abandoned asylum in London, Ontario that they used for filming :) If you watch the second season when The Boys go to the insane asylum and MM has his first run-in with Love Sausage, its that place :)
That’s so cool, how do you get a job like that??
Crikey, that was just round the corner from where i lived in kirkendall south when i was over there. Never knew it was there. Damn
Not a bad video. But heck if I would in there alone. You’re a braver person than me.
I've wanted to explore for years thanks for saving me the trouble
Lol
It could easily be fixed up to room homeless with old offices being used for housing workers, addiction services, services for adult continuing education(high school credits for those who never graduated) , trades, etc. grow a garden on the property that residents tend to that can help sustain meals and residents can pay a very tiny room and board once they are helped to get welfare or odsp. The government has nothing for low cost housing for disabled,sick, elderly, yet lets buildings and land like this go to waste and has put disabled people out on the streets to give their longtime homes to immigrants.
Easy? Place is full of asbestos homie. It would be cheaper to build a new one than to gut this place from floor tiles to pipe insulation to roof tiles and everything else after the asbestos covered it while removing. 😂