Historic and Eerie: Learn the Secrets of CT's Seaside Sanatorium

There was a time in America when medicine looked very different from today. From the 1800s to the 1990s, if you had a rare medical condition, were developmentally disabled, or were mentally ill, you might have found yourself living in a facility far from your family and out of sight of those who loved you most.

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The country was once filled with sanatoriums, asylums, and so-called hospitals that operated more like prisons. Today, these abandoned structures are crumbling, and towns across the country are grappling with how to deal with these relics, including the Seaside Sanatorium right here in Connecticut.

Historic and Eerie: Exploring the Secrets of Connecticut’s Seaside Sanatorium

Connecticut's Seaside Sanatorium is one of many historic structures in America that once housed the ill but are now fading into obscurity. While there are plans to save the building, years of litigation and disagreement have delayed progress. For now, it stands as a haunting reminder of a darker period in American medicine. Some may refer to it as a less enlightened era. Here’s a glimpse inside the walls of Seaside and a brief history from its beginnings to the present day.

Gallery Credit: Louis Milano

If I didn't have a job I'm pretty sure I would spend my days breaking into shuttered structures that were left for dead a long time ago. There is something so appealing about walking into these places and letting them tell you a story in their own words. That's right, I just suggested that buildings talk to me. Let me make it worse, I listen! HAHA! Lock me up, throw away the key!!!!

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Gallery Credit: Sean Humphrey

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Gallery Credit: Lou Milano

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In this day and age, mental health treatment is serious business and in most cases, patients are treated with care and respect. This was not always the case in the U.S. and hospitals dedicated to the "mentally ill" became prisons that regularly conducted torture. America is now littered with shuttered hospitals decaying from the inside and the outside. Many believe these places still contain the dark energy left behind by the gruesome acts of the past. One of these places in Norwich State Hospital.

Gallery Credit: Lou Milano

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