Talk:Danvers State Hospital

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[edit] Sounds like hearsay?

Great article thus far; could you please provide a citation or other substantiation for the text below? As-is it has the hallmarks of hearsay and urban legend, and will likely be removed.

there have been stories of former patients returning to the hospital in hopes of residency [...] teenagers have broken into the hospital and have found themselves attacked by the patients

Thanks!

[edit] Removed offending text (for now)

No response to above request to clarify unattributed material.

Please avoid weasel words like "there have been stories of..." If indeed "teenagers have broken into the hospital and have found themselves attacked by the patients," then please indulge the Wikipedia Policy of verifiability by citing your sources.

Thanks!

[edit] Stories of hauntings and other general badness

I live in Middleton, and my house is a two minute drive from the hospital. I find it odd this page doesn't mention the supposed ghosts and patient abuse that may have occurred at the hospital GreatGatsby 04:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. If ghosts or patient abuse are part of the mystique of Danvers State Hospital it must be documented somewhere. Please find reliable sources and add it yourself, citing them as you go. So go ahead and be bold - without contributing to urban legend in the process. Thanks! 139.76.128.71 15:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weird New England

I have done a little bit of cleaning up in light of information from both the aforementioned book as well as an article from the linked Globe article about the fire. The book mentions a figure in of "up to 2,600" in the 1940s and 1950s; therefore, I have removed the fact tag on that figure.

As for the "official" name of "State Lunatic Asylum at Danvers," the Globe article mentions the name; however, it never states that it was the official name. I will leave that fact tag in place. ToddC4176 00:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Registered Historic Places in Mass.?

This was recently added to the category for List of Historic Places in Massachusetts... considering it's been demolished, is that possible? Is part of it still standing? It seems unclear to me. -Midnightdreary 05:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Egon Spangler?

No one caught the final bullet under "Trivia" that mentioned that 2 people caught a ghost and it was being researched at Harvard by Egon from The Ghostbusters? I deleted it, so it's not there anymore, but I hope the mods are wary of it, should it come back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.138.43.151 (talk) 00:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)