Talk:Tewksbury Hospital
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"There are tunnels under Tewksbury which use to be used by the staff to travel underground. Some people say that a long time ago, they use to experiment with the patients. Such as taking a brain out of one patient and putting it in another persons body. Also sewing body parts together such as sewing an arm to their head and see how they would react or other horrible things. Then they use to use the tunnels underground to transport them around without people seeing them. When the mentally ill died, word has it that they buried them in the corn fields right next to the hospital without a grave stone or anything but a little marker because they believed they were not real human beings. The fact that there are tunnels under Tewksbury is a known fact and that they used them for transportation is a known fact. But weither they tortured the people who went to the hospital is most likely true but no one is 100% sure. Also, that they use the tunnels for people they tortured is something that has some evidence but no one is 100% sure and probably never will be. Many people who live in Tewksbury and have visited it claim that it is haunted. There is a cemetery next to the cornfields that has recently added white markers on all the graves but no names.
Many people are trying to close it down because it is a danger to the town. There is a library with children in it and many schools surrounding it. There have been many cases where mentally ill people have escaped from the hospital and some of them were found but there has been some instances where people have not been found. One died in the woods behind one of the schools. Most people want it shut down because there are rapists and other very dangerous people (some the worst in the state of Massachusetts) in that hospital and obviously from other experiences, it is possible for them to escape and harm the places around it which have many people, homes and children."
This edit was really unencyclopedic. Although most of this is worth mentioning, in its current state and uncited, it's not easily repairable to stand up in what is supposed to be an encyclopedia. A better way of doing this would be, say, citing the Lowell Sun and their many articles about the hospital. The stuff about brains and transplants? That's a waaay out there claim. Cite that with something or that has no place here since it amounts to an embellished ghost story like all hospitals must have. CSZero (talk) 18:51, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- Example - I have a citation from the 1920s describing the death rate at Tewksbury versus a similar institution that existed at the time at Lowell. Plus, I am well aware of the escapes from the hospital, etc. It would be incorrect for me to say "Tewksbury State Kills Babies and lets the nuts out!" but I could say "In the 1920s, the death rate of newborns born in Tewksbury was surprisingly high compared to other local institutions (cite), and recently, the now much more developed town of Tewksbury feels somewhat threatened by the potential escape of dangerous patients, like that which happened on (this day) (cite)." By the way, I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that patient was out and about because he was minimal risk. He probably just wasn't supposed to leave the grounds. I'd have to check though. CSZero (talk) 18:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
