Northern State Hospital

1. #1Barns

   Keys: barn, farm, silo, outbuilding, dairy

   Northern State's campus is home to several barns and silos, as well as old dairy buildings. Patients of the asylum with relatively minor conditions were forced to work the farm and dairy to help produce food. Barns are missing sections of roof, have holes in the walls, and are littered with rusty farm equipment and tools.

2. #2Crematorium

   Keys: Crematorium, cremate, bury, remains, corpse, body, bones, coffee can, cans, canned food, explore, spooky

   The Crematorium is behind the main building, and an estimated 2000 patients were cremated there, though the true number is likely much higher. Over 200 food and coffee cans have been recovered that were filled with human remains and labeled only with patient ID numbers. There are potentially hundreds more throughout the grounds. Nessa, Erik, and {{user}} might stumble across cans while exploring.

3. #3Main Building

   Keys: Hospital, reception, main, kitchen

   The main building of the hospital was once a grand building constructed in Spanish Colonial architecture. Reception was on the ground floor, with visiting rooms for families. It was constructed to give the impression that a high level of care was being given to patients, though that was far from the truth. Additional facilities in the building included large kitchens, boiler rooms, and a sprawling underground laboratory.

4. #4Laboratory

   Keys: basement, tests, testing, experiment, ghost, ghosts, laboratory, lab

   In a basement of the main building, a large underground lab with leaded doors and thick walls houses equipment that was once used to perform tests on inmates. Tests included radiation exposure, experimental medicine, and surgery. Nessa, Erik, and {{user}} would not know about the lab unless they found it while exploring.

5. #5Female Ward

   Keys: women, female, ward, dormitory, dorm, spooky

   The female ward is the largest of the patient buildings with two large wings. It was designed to hold up to 200 patients, though it at one time was rumored to have held as many as 500.

6. #6Patient Wings

   Keys: wing, wings, patient, dorm, dormitory, spooky

   Patient 'wings' are individual dormitory buildings spread throughout the campus designed to hold anywhere from 100 to 200 patients each. Each has a nurse's station, treatment rooms, and attendant rooms on the ground floor, with locked dormitories on the other floors. By 1950, each wing held as many as triple the amount of patients they were designed to.

7. #7Tunnels

   Keys: tunnels, tunnel, travel, trail, trails, road, roads

   Deep underground, service tunnels connect the network of patient dormitories, the central building, the crematorium, and even several farmsteads and a pump building. they are about 8 feet wide, enough to push a gurney with an attendant on either side of it, only 7 feet tall, and musty from disuse. Conduit and pipe lines one wall.

8. #8Utilities

   Keys: electricity, water, light, lights, power, plumbing, ghost, paranormal, spooky

   All utilities to Northern State have been shut off since the 80's. There is no running water, no electricity, and no flushing toilets. Allegedly, people passing by the property on the highway say they see it lit up as if operational once in a blue moon.

9. #9Spooky Facts

   Keys: spooky, fact, facts, podcast

   Spooky Facts that Nessa may tell to the camera when in podcast mode:

   • In 1981, a small intestine and human head, rumored to belong to a patient, were found dumped at a chemical site on Mosquito Lake Road, deep in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. The victim was never identified.

   • At maximum capacity in the 50's, the staff to patient ratio was rumored to be as high as 40 to 1.

   • Supposedly, the hospital regularly fed rotten food to the patients, with the worst food going to the most insane patients.

   • Multiple murders occured in the hospital, including those of a doctor, several patients, and allegedly a guard brutally stomped a patient to death, though it was covered up and called an epilepsy attack.

   • There are still patient remains that are unclaimed and unknown beyond a patient ID number.

10. #10Cemetery

    Keys: cemetery, grave, graveyard

    The cemetery officially houses 1487 sets of human remains in largely unmarked graves. the grave markers that do exist are sparse, only containing initials or a patient number. Grave sites and dump sites have been found elsewhere on the property, calling to question the true number who died in the hospital.

11. #11Violent deaths

    Keys: murder, murders, ghost, ghosts, spirit, spirits, spooky, sleep

    In 1921, a hospital attendant named James was murdered by a patient with a razor. A spirit with deep lacerations on its forearms and throat is rumored to walk the halls of the dorm buildings.

    In 1928, a patient named John was brutally beaten to death, though his death was covered up. Multiple broken bones, including ribs and skull, were the result of the beating. Allegedly, a violent and wrathful spirit roams the grounds, physically pushing and striking at the living.

    In 1922, a patient was murdered in bed with a razor by another patient. Supposedly, a spirit preys on those who spend the night in the hospital, leaving deep scratches and gashes in people's sleep if no one is awake and on watch.

    This is not an exhaustive list of murders or restless spirits that may appear.

12. #12Food

    Keys: food, hungry, night, time

    No food is present on the hospital grounds, meaning that whatever {{user}}, Nessa, and Erik brought with them needs to last them and be rationed.

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