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0:00 - Introduction to Abandoned Hospitals
1:25 - Brestovac Sanatorium, Croatia
3:13 - Denbigh Asylum, Wales
4:38 - Caramulo Sanatorium, Portugal
6:17 - Hospitals of Trauma and Refuge
9:02 - Other European Spa and Sanatorium Sites
11:35 - Psychiatric Centers and Their Hauntings
14:13 - Poveglia Island and Closing Thoughts
👉 This channel was created in collaboration with https://www.youtube.com/@noelpolotv
0:00 - Introduction to Abandoned Hospitals
1:25 - Brestovac Sanatorium, Croatia
3:13 - Denbigh Asylum, Wales
4:38 - Caramulo Sanatorium, Portugal
6:17 - Hospitals of Trauma and Refuge
9:02 - Other European Spa and Sanatorium Sites
11:35 - Psychiatric Centers and Their Hauntings
14:13 - Poveglia Island and Closing Thoughts
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00:00There are abandoned buildings that, even now, seem to have life still hidden inside.
00:07Rusty beds, damp hallways, broken windows, and rooms where for decades, footsteps have been heard.
00:15The breathing and voices of patients who never made it out.
00:20In this video, we will visit 10 abandoned hospitals that seem to have been left behind in a dark era.
00:27Some of these started as sanatoriums for patients with tuberculosis.
00:33Others are psychiatric institutions that were deliberately isolated from the world.
00:39And others still bear traces of war.
00:42Epidemics, local legends, and stories that to this day are hard to separate.
00:48What is truth and what is myth?
00:51From forbidden islands to sprawling medical complexes that are off-limits.
00:57Hidden deep within the forest.
00:59These places reveal the quieter, yet more unsettling side of abandonment.
01:06This is the story of buildings that were built to heal, but over time became places of fear, decay, and
01:12memories.
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01:26Brestovak Sanatorium, Croatia
01:27On the slopes of Mount Medvednika, just outside Zagreb, stands the Brestovak Sanatorium, which was built in 1909 because of
01:36love.
01:36It was championed by the doctor and writer, Millie Deshmann, who tried to save Jerka Shram, an actress loved by
01:45the whole city and his great love since their youth.
01:49He convinced the wealthy people of Zagreb to fund the construction of the sanatorium and dedicated the rest of his
01:56life to it.
01:57Of his life to fighting tuberculosis, which was slowly destroying her health.
02:02But it was not enough.
02:04In 1913, Deshmann found Jerka covered in blood after suffering a lung injury.
02:10Not long after, she died in his arms.
02:14Since then, some locals say that a blood-soaked figure roams the area.
02:20It is said to be seen in the hallways and in the nearby forest, as well as in the underground
02:26tunnels where patients in more serious condition are taken and buried.
02:32The sanatorium grew and became a small, almost self-sufficient community with its own bakery, cinema, and radio station.
02:41But everything changed when it was turned into a military hospital during the Second World War.
02:47When Zagreb was liberated, the Yugoslav partisans killed the wounded soldiers they found lying in their beds, while only saving
02:56the medical personnel.
02:58The hospital closed in 1968.
03:02Today, its ruins, slowly being swallowed by the forest, continue to strengthen the same legend that Jerka's shadow never left
03:11that place.
03:13Denby Asylum, Wales
03:15In the county of Denbyshire, in North Wales, you can find the Old Denby Asylum, which was built in 1848,
03:24to address a particular problem.
03:27Welsh patients ended up in hospitals in England where no one spoke their language, so they became even more isolated
03:34while going through a crisis.
03:36It was designed for 200 people, but eventually, it housed up to 1,000 patients, with beds crammed into the
03:44hallways.
03:45So some of the patients had to get into their beds feet first.
03:49It closed in 1995, and now, it's one of the most investigated places by ghost hunters in the United Kingdom.
03:59Several groups have recorded electronic voices repeatedly saying,
04:04Help me, or get out, especially in the isolation cells.
04:08In 2008, a television program recorded several episodes there.
04:15The presenters wore straitjackets while searching for spirits.
04:19And even live on air, they said that the town of Denby was cursed by witches.
04:25This caused intense outrage, so a mental health association filed a formal complaint because of the mockery of the real
04:33struggles of people who once lived and were treated there.
04:38Sanatorio Dr. C. A. Caramulo, Portugal, in the mountains of Caramulo, at an altitude of 800 meters in central Portugal,
04:46stood the largest sanatorium resort in the entire Iberian Peninsula.
04:50It was made up of up to 19 buildings and could treat more than 2,500 tuberculosis patients at the
04:57same time.
04:59It all started in 1922, when Dr. Geronimo de la Cerda opened a hotel for recovering patients.
05:07After just six years, it became a large sanatorium, and an entire village formed around it.
05:14The first method of treatment was based on rest, complete silence for many hours, and eating a lot so that
05:22the patients would gain weight.
05:23But when that was not enough, they used more extreme surgical methods.
05:28One of these was the removal of ribs to collapse and shrink the affected lung.
05:35A French surgeon traveled there specifically to introduce this technique to Caramulo, but he passed away while on his way
05:41there.
05:43Because of this, the local doctors had to learn the operation through trial and error.
05:49At that time, almost all the patients who underwent surgery died on the operating table.
05:54When tuberculosis was finally controlled in 1970, people almost suddenly disappeared from the village.
06:02Today, only six sanatoriums remain completely abandoned, including the surgery pavilion.
06:08There, you can still see a rusty stretcher in front of the room where operations used to be performed.
06:15Island Centre, Australia
06:27The most feared part of it was what they called Ward 4, which a doctor who worked there described as
06:34a real prison inside the hospital itself.
06:38According to records, at least 300 people died and were buried in unmarked graves.
06:46In 1940, an 8-year-old boy was found drowned after being locked in a cage as punishment.
06:55Ten years later, another child died from suffocation inside a metal laundry container.
07:01The staff said it happened while he was supposedly playing hide-and-seek.
07:06In 1981, a teenager was picked up by his parents and siblings.
07:12A journalist called this place the Hospital of Forgotten Children.
07:17Since 2010, it has been completely empty.
07:21Medea Sanatorium, Georgia
07:23In the Georgian town of Tiskaltubo, which was once a famous thermal spa destination of the Soviet Union, you can
07:29find the Medea Sanatorium.
07:31It was named after the sorceress from Greek mythology, Medea,
07:35who was said to have ruled over the healing waters of the same region, the ancient land of Colchis.
07:41It was built in 1950 with large colonnades and halls made of marble.
07:48Even Stalin personally came here to treat his arthritis using the radon-rich waters.
07:55When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the patients in the sanatoriums suddenly disappeared.
08:02But, just a year later, the war in Abkhazia displaced more than 200,000 Georgians.
08:10And thousands of refugees found shelter in the vacant buildings of Tiskaltubo.
08:15What was supposed to be temporary housing became the permanent home of entire families.
08:21Here they were born, grew up, and grew old inside the former Soviet treatment rooms,
08:27because the government never fulfilled its promise of permanent housing for them.
08:32Today, most of them have been relocated elsewhere,
08:36but there are still some families living among the faded frescoes and cracked marble staircases of the Medea Sanatorium.
08:44This is not a haunted building in the usual sense.
08:47It's a place that never truly lost its people.
08:52A place that, for three decades, has been home to people who fled a war they still haven't fully forgotten.
09:02Sanatorium du Basile, Belgium in the middle of the Belgian Ardennes Forest.
09:07On a hill 420 meters high near the village of Borgamont, stands the Basile Sanatorium.
09:13It was built in 1900 by the director of a bacteriological laboratory.
09:19The curved, southern-facing facade of the building was designed to get the most sunlight,
09:25which at that time was considered essential in the treatment of tuberculosis.
09:31When the disease was no longer considered a death sentence, the building did not disappear completely.
09:37Instead, its use simply changed.
09:40In 1978, it was turned into a psychiatric center,
09:46and from 2010 to 2013, it served as a residence for asylum seekers fleeing unrest and war in other countries.
09:55For more than a century, the same building became home to people with severe infectious diseases,
10:02then to patients with mental health problems, and finally to people fleeing from violence.
10:08Despite its eventual abandonment, the power remained on in some parts of the building for many years.
10:17Because of this, some neighbors heard stories about presences wandering the empty hallways at night.
10:24Jansky Kopele.
10:26Czech Republic.
10:28Hidden in a clearing in the middle of the forest near Opava.
10:31Czech Republic.
10:33You can find Jansky Kopele, a spa town founded in 1810 around three springs with mineral water,
10:41for more than a century.
10:43It served as a water spa with hotels and a bathhouse that attracted people from all over the region.
10:50After the Second World War, the government of Czechoslovakia took over the entire complex
10:56and turned it into a sanatorium for children.
10:59Its goal was to treat and help children recover from various illnesses.
11:04This was under the health care system of the communist regime.
11:08There were also plans to expand it using funds from the Marshall Plan.
11:13But when the communist coup happened in February 1948,
11:17the project, which was only half finished, was cancelled.
11:21The sanatorium continued its operations until it finally closed in 1994.
11:26Since then, no one has lived here again.
11:30The buildings remain intact, but they are slowly being consumed by time and the forest.
11:35It's as if an entire village was suddenly abandoned without anyone being able to say what happened.
11:41Harastollen Sanatorium, Norway.
11:43500 meters above the Sognefjord in western Norway stands Harastollen, the former Lister sanatorium.
11:51It was built in 1912 specifically to be a secluded facility.
11:56In the past, the only way to get here was by cable car,
12:00because patients with tuberculosis needed to be completely isolated from the rest of the population.
12:06At its peak, the facility became the largest sanatorium in Norway with a capacity of 150 patients.
12:13In 1958, it was converted into a psychiatric hospital.
12:18In the early 1990s, it changed its purpose once again.
12:22For a short period, it served as a shelter for refugees from the Balkan War,
12:26before it finally closed in 1944.
12:30Since then, it could only be reached by a road with 13 sharp curves.
12:35Because of its remote location, it became a regular destination for Norwegians,
12:41seeking what they believed to be ghosts.
12:43One of the most famous stories is about the woman they call the Linen Warehouse Girl,
12:49a presence said to be felt inside the building.
12:53In 2015, the place was also used as the setting for the horror film
12:57Vilmark 2 Kings Park Psychiatric Center, United States.
13:01On Long Island, New York, lies Kings Park Psychiatric Center,
13:07a massive complex made up of more than 150 buildings.
13:11In 1954, it had more than 9,300 patients,
13:16making it one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the entire country.
13:21When lobotomy and electroshock therapy became common methods of treatment,
13:25the institution that was originally built to provide care and rest
13:31became a place feared by the very people it was supposed to help.
13:36It was permanently closed in 1996.
13:40Since then, one of its most well-known buildings,
13:44Building 93, has become one of the places on Long Island believed to be haunted.
13:50There are neighbors and visitors who say they hear screams in the early morning.
13:57The sound of chains being dragged through empty hallways
14:01and a female figure that suddenly appears and disappears in a bar near the former facility.
14:07According to some employees and customers, they said they saw the woman standing near the bar.
14:15If you've been following this channel for a long time,
14:18you might already be familiar with the silhouette of this place.
14:22Povella Island has appeared several times in previous videos,
14:25and there's a very simple reason why we're revisiting it again.
14:29There's no other place in the world that holds so many true horror stories in such a small area.
14:35It's only about 345 meters long and 335 meters wide,
14:42right in the middle of the Venice Lagoon.
14:45It all started in the 14th century, when the city was severely hit by the Black Death.
14:51Anyone who showed even the slightest symptoms was immediately sent to the island,
14:57even if it wasn't certain that they were really sick.
15:00For many centuries, Povella served as a lazaretto,
15:04or a place where people with contagious diseases were kept and isolated.
15:09It is estimated that between 100,000 and 160,000 people died there during successive outbreaks of the plague.
15:17Many of them were burned in large bonfires when there was no longer enough space for their burial.
15:23According to local legend,
15:25a large part of the land on the island is said to be made up of the ashes of those
15:29who perished.
15:30In 1922, the Italian government built a psychiatric hospital on top of the old ruins.
15:37There are stories that a doctor there performed experiments and lobotomies on patients without anesthesia.
15:44According to legend, the doctor eventually lost his mind because of the voices of his patients.
15:50In the end, he reportedly jumped from the top of the bell tower.
15:55The bell was removed decades ago, but some visitors still claim they hear it ringing every night.
16:03In 2014, a businessman won a public auction to lease the island for 99 years.
16:11He planned to build a luxury resort there, but the project never materialized.
16:17Today, Povella remains almost empty and it is one of the places in Europe with strict prohibitions on permanent residence.
16:26Ten hospitals, ten different stories, but only one thing they all fear.
16:32The fear of places that were once built to heal people, but in many cases the opposite happened.
16:39From the love that led to the construction of Brestovac,
16:42to the bureaucracy that forced thousands of refugees to live inside a former Soviet sanatorium,
16:49to the operating rooms where surgeries caused more deaths than the diseases themselves.
16:57What all these places have in common is not just being abandoned,
17:02but the fact that at one point in their history, people entered these places.
17:08It is expected that the people who enter these buildings would come out in better condition than when they went
17:15in.
17:16But that didn't always happen, and that's the feeling that still seems to linger in the air.
17:22Sometimes, their empty hallways are even scarier than anything that could be inside.
17:27Of all these abandoned hospitals, which one do you find the most disturbing?
17:31Let me know in the comments.
17:33And if you want to explore more strange and mysterious places in our world,
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17:41We will keep looking for places like these here.
17:51We will keep going.
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