History Main / AbandonedHospital

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Starting in Season 10, [[OverarchingVillain Crowley]] starts using an abandoned mental hospital as his palace on Earth.

* One appears in ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'', which has since been relisted as a photo studio location. Gojo and Marin scope it out with Sajuna Inui and her sister, which incidentally matches up with the anime they're preparing a cosplay for had a scene set in one.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' featured one of these when Frank and Lara went to investigate a killer nurse. The nurse would get his supplies from an abandoned hospital to avoid detection. To make things worse, the morgue actually contained a body that was forgotten and was used by the killer to test his skills and sate his morbid curiosity about death.

* In the second chapter of ''VisualNovel/GSenjouNoMaou'', Maou hides in an abandoned hospital, along with [[spoiler:the kidnapped Hiroaki]]. Haru and Kyousuke manage to locate the hospital, but not before [[spoiler:Hiroaki is safely returned to Tsubaki's family]].

Even without all these things, hospitals are pretty creepy to begin with. Maybe because hospitals are associated with illness and death, as well as being places that should be clean. Or perhaps it's because most people are afraid of hospitals for several reasons: germs; the stale, blaring white atmosphere; doctors poking and prodding you with weird and often painful instruments... not to mention the [[AfraidOfNeedles needles...]] There's also the fact that, despite every attempt to prevent it by the staff, a good amount of [[FinalDeath death]] inevitably happens at a hospital, which doesn't help to assuage any creepiness. On top of all that, a hospital is likely one of the last places to be abandoned in a crisis, since you would need to treat the wounded and sick even more during an emergency. If even the hospitals have been abandoned, things may have ''really'' [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone]] [[FromBadToWorse south]].

* Though barely recognizable as such, the Abandoned Smallpox Hospital on [[BigApplesauce New York City's]] Roosevelt Island has appeared several times in movies. It was the site of Spider-Man and Green Goblin's final showdown in ''Film/SpiderMan1'', and "Snow Storm", a level from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''.

** And to [[UpToEleven worsen the karma even more]], it seems it was one of the first places in America where lobotomy as we know it was practised.

* The remains of the [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Weapon X]] bunker and the [[Comicbook/AllNewWolverine Facility]] can evoke this, with their partially empty and destroyed labs.

* ''The Blackstone Chronicles'' computer game was set a few years after the stories and has the main character, Oliver, hunting through the abandoned mental institution his father used to run in order to find his son.

* ''VideoGame/ClockTower II: The Struggle Within'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation had a scenario set in a mostly abandoned hospital. The only people left were you and a few others. Oh, and the occasional zombie.

* The sequel to ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'', ''Dead Patient,'' is set in one these.
* In VideoGame/TheCouncilOfHanwell, one level of the game takes place in Hanwell General Hospital. While much of the town has slightly out of date buildings, most locations like the hospital are relatively modern.
* The sequel to the flash game {{VideoGame/Darkness}} takes place in an abandoned hospital, with the protagonist still haunted/chased by the ghost from the first game.

* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame 4'' is ENTIRELY set in an abandoned hospital. [[spoiler:Some of the {{player character}}s]] are former patients of it.

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' features a hospital room puzzle, and a large portion of the ship was converted into one during its stint in WWI in the British Royal Navy.

* ''{{VideoGame/Outlast}}'' is set in the Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane, a hospital that was shut down and abandoned in the seventies, then reopened in present day, then all the patients went nuts and killed the staff and each other.
** It's not really abandoned per se, but you'll wish it was, as there are dozens of dangerous patients still alive and prowling the place.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''

* The PC game ''Sacra Terra: Angelic Night'' takes place in a massive complex that is part hospital, part cathedral, part mansion. The player character was a patient at the hospital, the specialty of which seems to have been extracting the SevenDeadlySins from patients, but he has no memory of being admitted and he's the only living thing left in the compound. [[spoiler:There are plenty of evil spirits, though...]]

* ''Franchise/SilentHill''

* The visual novel ''Night at the Hospital'', in which the protagonist goes to save his friend (a ghost hunter) from an abandoned hospital. [[MultipleEndings One of the endings]] reveals the reason why the hospital was abandoned: [[spoiler: many of the patients died as a result of illegal medical experiments, and Luka murdered everyone involved in his death.]]

* ''Death Tunnel'', which was based on the RealLife example of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hills_Sanatorium Waverly Hills Sanatorium]]. A group of young women must escape a haunted hospital.

* The Polish movie ''The Hourglass Sanatorium'' (1973), takes place in a crumbling, [[CobwebOfDisuse cobweb-filled]] yet beautifully ornate sanatorium where only a nurse and a doctor work.

* ''film/BlackAngelVol1'': After capturing Ikko, Nogi holds her prisoner and tortures her in a hospital that is undergoing refurbishment.

* In the horror-documentary ''Cropsey'', the search for information about the child killer leads to the abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution. The footage of abuse in the institution is one of the most disturbing aspects of the film.

* The movie ''Boo''. Long story short, a psycho burned it down years ago, killing lots of people, some rather stupid teenagers sneak in to do whatever it is stupid horror movie teenagers do, and lots of them end up possessed and dead.

* The first Map Pack of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: World at War'' contains a VideoGame/NaziZombies map called Verrückt, which takes place in the abandoned Wittenau Sanatorium.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Vista_Community_Hospital Linda Vista Community Hospital]] Rundown for years, abandoned in 1991, this is THE go-to location for Hollywood when they need a creepy hospital or asylum. The owners do a large scale haunted house on property around Halloween, in addition to renting it out as a filming location. Not all of its spookiness is fictional either, it is rumored to be haunted, and the surrounding neighborhood is (as of 2012) a rundown high crime area. And they're going to make it into apartments.

* Most of ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' takes place in an abandoned psychiatric hospital.
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', it looks like Mello's mafia hideout is set up in one of these. The room where he has the confrontation with Soichiro looks like it was once an operating room, complete with tiles and a surgical lamp.

* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Arkadin's mansion was used as a hospital during WWII, and the west wing has remained untouched since then, and is still equipped with operating theatres. Arkardin and his three murder groupies hold the four actors hostage there and torment them.

* ''VideoGame/NightmareHouse 2'' occurs entirely in Never Lose Hope Hospital.
* The entire story of ''VideoGame/TheDarkMeadow'' takes place in one of these. Notorious for lobotomies and sub-standard treatment, the hospital was abandoned long before the main character arrives there. And when the player gets there, he has to fight off hordes of demonic monsters led by [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the White Witch]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Outbreak}}'' is set in an abandoned hospital in the middle of a zombie outbreak.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has one of its most terrifying sections take place in an abandoned hospital -- the player follows a reality TV crew inside and watches them get torn to bits offscreen [[spoiler: by what turns out to be a member of a very rare vampire bloodline that has to eat all of the humans, not just drink its blood. You have to return to her several times as part of a series of quests]]. It's a refreshing subversion when you get to [[spoiler:pal around with the monster]] for once.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has the last leg of the game played in a fairly creepy abandoned mental hospital, which grew so big because the nearby GreenRocks emitted radiation that drove everyone in the nearby town of Shaky Claim insane until more than half the town's population lived in the mental hospital.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' has the Raccoon City hospital, that served as a front for Umbrella research and BOW development; the first Hunters Gamma are encountered there when Carlos is developing a vaccine for Jill. In the end, the building is demolished by Nikolai to cover up evidence of Umbrella's misdeeds.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' features a level in another part of the same Raccoon City hospital, filled with leeches. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak 2'' has a different abandoned hospital, overrun by mutated plants and plant-zombies.
* ''Franchise/SilentHill''
** In the classic trilogy, there are Alchemilla Hospital in [[VideoGame/SilentHill1 the first game]] and Brookhaven in the VideoGame/{{s|ilentHill2}}econd. In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', you visit Brookhaven for a while, and in the church basement at the end of the game, things take a turn for the surreal, with parts of it being transformed into Alchemilla's interiors, due to [[spoiler:Heather's memories as Alessa returning]]. Alchemilla is a regular hospital, while Brookhaven is a mental unit.
** [[VideoGame/SilentHill4 The fourth game]] involves a bizarre abstraction of a hospital seen through the lens of a terrified child. The rooms on the second floor are random in each playthrough.
** ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'' takes this a step further and makes a massive abandoned mental asylum, Cedar Grove Sanitarium, into the second "dungeon". If the rotting motif or floating harnesses didn't creep you out, then the pill puzzle did. And if it wasn't the pill puzzle, it was the final boss.
** The TutorialLevel of ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'' is finding your way out of Alchemilla Hospital once more, and this time serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that will go completely over your head until TheReveal that [[spoiler:Alex was never in the army but is merely a delusional escaped mental patient]].
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode 1'' features an abandoned hospital. Though it isn't really used for horror, it's pretty creepy, especially once the headcrab zombies turn up. Valve have said that the hospital was based partly on UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}.
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' has a normal functioning hospital. However, in the [[spoiler:"red world"]], it looks very abandoned, but it's still inhabited by [[spoiler:the shadows]].
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame 4'' is ENTIRELY set in an abandoned hospital. [[spoiler:Some of the {{player character}}s]] are former patients of it.
* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'' had a multiplayer map in some kind of Hospital/Chapel hybrid. Naturally, the default bot set was made of zombies.
* ''Videogame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' has a positively terrifying level set in the "Shalebridge Cradle," an abandoned insane asylum (as the name suggests, it was formerly an orphanage, and for a short while, it was ''both''). The treatment methods, described by expository letters, included lobotomies (often by untrained surgeons), the "water cure" (immobilization with wet bandages?), or branding with a hot iron.
* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' features a hospital room puzzle, and a large portion of the ship was converted into one during its stint in WWI in the British Royal Navy.
* ''VideoGame/ClockTower II: The Struggle Within'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation had a scenario set in a mostly abandoned hospital. The only people left were you and a few others. Oh, and the occasional zombie.

* ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'' featured a level that took place in an abandoned asylum. The enemies consisted of guys wrapped in straitjackets constantly being electrocuted and undead amputees who you could also find waiting for you on the ceiling. This level is even more tense if the player opts to play it with the optional level condition - that is, only being able to use the game's melee weapon, the eponymous Painkiller.
** Fun fact: Part of the exterior facade of the Asylum level is based on an actual asylum, the Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts as mentioned in the Real Life folder on this page.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' has plenty of this, even outside of the actual infirmaries and medical installations. There are several instances of 'medical specimens' in vats of liquid held up in the Delta Labs, and a portion of the place has an office wing converted to hold people that gradually became zombified, as explained in PDA logs; the feel of the location owes nothing to a bad sanitarium.
* The first mission in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' involves the players seeking out a hospital with a helipad on the roof in order to get a lift out of the city. The only people left in the hospital are the Infected. Played with in that it's a very modern hospital that was only recently abandoned.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has you visit the Ishimura's Medical Deck. Twice. It's grisly the first time, and even more sinister in the second thanks to [[spoiler:the Unitologist motif]].
* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'' features one of these levels as part of its nearly exhaustive tour of HorrorTropes.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' has the Medical Pavilion, which isn't ''[[MadDoctor quite]]'' [[DeadlyDoctor abandoned]].
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Siren}} Siren: Blood Curse]]'' has a very frightening segment where you play a defenseless little girl in the Sagai Hospital where everyone else is a Shibito.

* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'' - After receiving a brick to the head from a [[EvilSoundsDeep gravel-voiced]] hobo with [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing eyes]], protagonist Ethan Thomas enters a [[AlternateUniverse spooky evil world]]. As you proceed through this other world, you find yourself entering a decayed asylum, which slowly turns into a black sludge nightmare complete with black slime monsters popping out of the ceiling and walls to come and get you.

* ''VideoGame/UrbanDead'' is full of abandoned hospitals which survivors try to hold onto for the first aid kits and the zombies try to raid for the brains.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' starts out in one of these, but it's weird because you have two friends with you and there's lots of sunlight coming through the windows. Perhaps the creepy factor is increased by the fact that [[spoiler:the hospital is home to an apocalyptic cult who sort of destroy the world within the first 5 minutes, that the hospital is empty except for you and your friends, who wait in the lobby and make you investigate the basement for them, and that after the pseudo-end of the world it turns into a flipped-around blue-tinted ghost-and-demon-filled alternate version of itself. Oh, and later on you have to return. Not so scary anymore, is it? [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Till you meet the resident boss]]]].
** ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment'''s hospital is a tea party by comparison, but still unsettling. Following a lead on a serial killer, the party journeys to a mental hospital only to find the inmate they sought to question has escaped, leaving hacked & slashed bodies in his wake. The blood trail ends at the killer's cell, which has been turned into a RoomFullOfCrazy.
** The second half of ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'''s third dungeon takes place in a haunted hospital.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has one called Our Lady of Hope Hospital located in Downtown DC. The place is swarming with Super Mutants, Centaurs and skeletons. Plenty of other hospitals, both permanent and temporary, abandoned and manned, can be found throughout the series. Many hold records/offer glimpses of the horrors of the period just before and immediately after the war.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein|2009}}'' features a mission set in a hospital that, while not ''quite'' abandoned, fits the look quite well. See, it's been commandeered by the Nazis, and by the time you get there, the place has been ransacked, and most of the patients and staff have been either abducted to serve as test subjects for their sick medical experiments or eviscerated by the invisible, AxCrazy assassins that prowl the hallways.
* The first Map Pack of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: World at War'' contains a VideoGame/NaziZombies map called Verrückt, which takes place in the abandoned Wittenau Sanatorium.
* One of the locations in ''VideoGame/ZorkNemesis'' is an abandoned insane asylum, which manages to place rusty brown and creepy right next to clinical white and creepy. Being a ''Zork'' game, it has its moments of hilarity, but with ''Nemesis'' being the DarkerAndEdgier installment of the series, it also has plenty of nightmare-inducing qualities as well.
* Episode two of ''Film/JuOn: The Grudge Haunted House Simulator'' uses the trope name, although it would be more aptly called a deserted hospital. Still, some scares courtesy of [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Kayako]] and [[CreepyChild Toshio]] are on-hand.

* Chapter 8 of ''VideoGame/DarkSector'' takes place in one.
* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'' has many levels designed to play on Alice's awareness that she is locked in a mental institution, especially the Mad Hatter's asylum where he carries out experiments on his patients.
* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'' has two levels inside a sanitarium filled with genetically modified mutants in straight jackets.
* The ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' mod ''Korsakovia'' starts in a hospital of insane nightmare architecture.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has a few abandoned hospital wards, but by the time of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', Arkham as a whole became this.

* ''VideoGame/TheHangedMan'' takes place in an asylum-turned-homeless-shelter, which was abandoned after a murderous incident.
* ''VideoGame/{{Saw}}'', the video game based on [[Franchise/{{Saw}} the eponymous horror film series]], takes place entirely within Whitehurst Asylum, an abandoned insane asylum.

* ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'' has an abandoned hospital...because of bribery. The only people left inside are Don Corleone, a wounded mafia soldier and your love interest. And the window in the next room has just shattered...
* ''VideoGame/DeadNation'' has Marrow Hospital as a level. You only get to see a brief glimpse inside of the hospital (as in, one room in a comic book style cutscene), but it is definitely abandoned (well, except for the zombies), and the parking lots/roof are definitely swarming in crazed barely-human monsters consumed by bloodlust and bioweapons that came as a result of government genetic experiments.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin's loyalty mission takes place in an abandoned krogan hospital. Complete with a MadScientist who is PlayingWithSyringes in order to [[spoiler: try and cure the genophage]]. The krogan being a warrior race with a built-in berserker mode, it's built more like an especially sturdy bomb shelter, but the effect is there.
* Chapter 2 of ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'' takes place in one.
* The PC game ''Sacra Terra: Angelic Night'' takes place in a massive complex that is part hospital, part cathedral, part mansion. The player character was a patient at the hospital, the specialty of which seems to have been extracting the SevenDeadlySins from patients, but he has no memory of being admitted and he's the only living thing left in the compound. [[spoiler:There are plenty of evil spirits, though...]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}'' begins in a creepy almost-empty asylum where some of the few inmates left are banging their head on the wall.
* ''VideoGame/DotFlow'' seems to have a theme based around these.
* The sequel to ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'', ''Dead Patient,'' is set in one these.
* ''VideoGame/Die2Nite'' often has a few of these scattered around the map. They are a great place to find bandages and medicine.
* The sequel to the flash game {{VideoGame/Darkness}} takes place in an abandoned hospital, with the protagonist still haunted/chased by the ghost from the first game.

* ''VideoGame/ISeeYou'': The entire game takes place inside a hospital(or perhaps a mental asylum). The player never encounters another person throughout the game.
* In ''VideoGame/WhiteDayALabyrinthNamedSchool'', Seong-Ah, one of the only students you'll encounter in the game, tells you that the school was originally an abandoned hospital from an older wartime.

* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' begins in Beacon Mental Hospital, after an incident that has left the majority of patients and staff dead. The Asylum (where you can save your progress and purchase upgrades) looks like the nursing station at Beacon but is blurry and monochromatic.
* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'': The New Hope facility and the multiplayer level "Blood Drive".
* In ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', the San Cristobal Medical Faculty is where the game truly picks up, as it's the first time the alien begins actively hunting Amanda. [[spoiler:It's also where the woman who had the first chest-burster in her come out, causing the events of the game to happen.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has [[spoiler:the True Lab]]. Though it's an ad-hoc research facility rather than an established hospital, it still remains as the abandoned site of medical experiments GoneHorriblyWrong.
* The ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion'' DLC ''Karamari Hospital'' (later integrated into the HD UpdatedRerelease) is set in one of these. It's got quite a few [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid]] and not-so-humanoid monsters roaming the empty halls.
* ''Melt Downs'' in ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'' is exactly this, or at least when you first start playing it. The place is an absolute mess, with all sorts of debris and wrecked machinery being littered ''everywhere''. Considering its placement right next to a power plant, it was probably inevitable that something would go horribly wrong, despite all of the previous owner's claims saying [[BlatantLies everything was fine]]. After a research experiment [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfired]], they just left and abandoned it altogether, and you are the one to take over its remains and redesign it into a fully functioning hospital.
* In VideoGame/TheCouncilOfHanwell, one level of the game takes place in Hanwell General Hospital. While much of the town has slightly out of date buildings, most locations like the hospital are relatively modern.
* ''VideoGame/TheTownOfLight'' is an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame that explores an asylum almost forty years after it was closed down in 1978. [[SceneryGorn The decay is beautifully captured]].

* Website/{{Everything2}} has [[http://everything2.com/title/The+Blacke+Asylum "The Blacke Asylum"]].

* LetsPlay/WilliamStrife ends up trawling through a few as part of his ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' playthrough, admitting that playing ''Franchise/SilentHill'' has given him a fear of hospitals.

Many older, real life 'abandoned hospitals' in the U.S were properly called "sanitariums," and have probably contributed to the trope imagery. Their abandonment was sometimes related to loss of funding or new prohibitively expensive fixing due to new government regulations. Often the places were created to treat specific diseases at the time that were eventually locally eradicated (TB clinics in particular) without any later re-purposing of the structures. In popular fiction, san'''a'''t'''o'''riums also tend to get mixed up with san'''i'''t'''a'''riums, which can lead to conflation of physical and mental illnesses. As for the mental sanitariums, the enduring image of the ominous, Arkham-esque Gothic building sprawled out on a hill was in large part due to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkbride_Plan Dr. Thomas Kirkbride]] (1809-1883), who spearheaded a revolution in ethical treatment of mental patients. He insisted that mental institutions should be restful places, with large and rambling rooms and corridors, airy high ceilings and windows, and large outside grounds for the patients to roam and get their exercise (he probably did not insist on Gothic architecture, but that was how most buildings were built back then). Unfortunately, most of the Kirkbride buildings turned out to be much too expensive to maintain and renovate to be compatible with new medical technology, which resulted in a lot of them being abandoned.

* ''Anime/GhostHound'' features an abandoned hospital that was where Tarou and Mizuka were found when they were kidnapped. It is also the place Hideo and the others investigated in their youth and later became cursed from. It scores extra points for having been submerged under water since the area was dammed decades before.

* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Shinji and Asuka find and explore an abandoned hospital as they are scavenging the ruins of post-Apocalypse Tokyo-3 in the second chapter. Later on they [[spoiler:make use of its facilities to deliver their daughter]].

* In the horror-documentary ''Cropsey'', the search for information about the child killer leads to the abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution. The footage of abuse in the institution is one of the most disturbing aspect of the film.

* ''Film/GraveEncounters'' is about a reality TV film crew locked in an abandoned insane asylum. The asylum was described by a caretaker (in movie) that apparently was less about mental health and more a dumping ground for unwanted or embarrassing family members with lobotomies liberally performed in the hundreds by the head doctor of the facility. When the crew get locked in at night, the buildings layout is impossible, ghosts appear everywhere, and they are trapped in nonstop darkness since it seems like they're locked in a totally different dimension.

* A part of the movie ''Film/JacobsLadder'' happens in what is supposed to be an hospital which isn't closed; the hero is dragged to the surgeons through dark and dirty rooms full of mad people, blood, and severed organs.

* ''Film/{{Session 9}}'' takes place entirely in a haunted, abandoned mental hospital being stripped of asbestos. The eponymous Sessions are audio recordings of the memory retrieval therapy of a former patient of the hospital who suffers from Split Personality disorder. In each session the psychiatrist speaks to two characters, both of whom refer in terrified tones to the 3rd personality, [[spoiler:a demonic entity]] named Simon, [[spoiler:whose presence is revealed in the ninth therapy session (as is her repressed memory)]]. The movie eventually reveals that [[spoiler:the main character -- who has memory repression and dissociative identity problems similar to the woman on the tapes -- killed the rest of the demolition crew ''and'' his family (including his wife, newborn child, and even his ''dog'') in brutal ways]]. The movie ends with an aerial shot of the months-later condemned hospital as the final session tape plays.

* ''Literature/{{Asylum}}''. A partial instance in this book. Daniel Crawford enrolls in a boarding school that used to be a mental asylum . He and his new friends explore some undiscovered corners of the building where they find some mementos had been left behind from the building's days as an asylum.

* The majority of the action in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' takes place at Briarcliff mental institution in the 1960s. It's creepy enough while it's still open but in the present day Briarcliff has long since been abandoned and is explored by horror junkies curious about the legend of serial killer Bloodyface.

* Happens in the first season of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', where the title character finds Tony Tucci. Initially a suspect in the case, Tony had been kidnapped by the Ice Truck Killer, and was near death.

* The example appearing on ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' is ''close'' to normal hospital and [[spoiler: becomes one again in the end of the story]]. This is largely because it's the office of resident BackalleyDoctor, Taiga Hanaya and his [[MoralityPet de facto]] assistant, Nico Saiba. It's not haunted. If it was he would have [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes never]] settled down there.

* ''Series/TheOriginals'': One episode in Season one takes place in an abandoned hospital [[spoiler:when Genevive kidnaps both Klaus and Rebeka, and tells Klaus how Rebeka and Marcel betrayed him back on the 20's when they plotted to bring back Mikael, with the intention of getting Klaus to kill his sister.]]

* ''Series/{{Scream|TVSeries}}'' has Lakewood General, which features in the fourth episode of the first season. Back in the day, when it was open, it was where the late SerialKiller Brandon James was treated for his deformities. Now, it's where the current killer has set up their lair... or rather, a mock up of one they intend for the main characters to find as part of the overall game they're playing.

** Played for laughs in one episode. Budget cuts forced the hospital administators to close a wing of Sacred Heart until they had the funds to open it up again. Turk and J.D. go surfing on gurneys in the emptied section of the hospital.

* Featured in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E3ToTheLastMan To the Last Man]]". It was the location of a time shift meaning people from the past appeared momentarily in the hospital corridors, giving a very spooky 'haunted' feel to the place. Meanwhile the Torchwood team were also appearing to people from the past, scaring ''them''.

** The building's boiler room was apperently used to shoot a scene from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984''; they included it in the video, again for no reason.

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has one of its most terrifying sections take place in an abandoned hospital -- the player follows a reality TV crew inside and watches them get torn to bits offscreen [[spoiler: by what turns out to be a member of a very rare vampire bloodline that has to eat all of the human, not just drink its blood. You have to return to her several times as part of a series of quests]]. It's a refreshing subversion when you get to [[spoiler:pal around with the monster]] for once.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has the last leg of the game played in a fairly creepy abandoned mental hospital, which grew so big because the nearby GreenRocks emitted radiation that drove everyone in the nearby town of Shaky Claim insane, until more than half the town's population lived in the mental hospital.

* ''Videogame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' has a positively terrifying level set in the "Shalebridge Cradle," an abandoned insane asylum (as the name suggests, it was formerly an orphanage, and for a short while it was ''both''). The treatment methods, described by expository letters, included lobotomies (often by untrained surgeons), the "water cure" (immobilization with wet bandages?), or branding with a hot iron.

* ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'' featured a level that took place in an abandoned asylum. The enemies consisted of guys wrapped in strait jackets constantly being electrocuted and undead amputees who you could also find waiting for you on the ceiling. This level is even more tense if the player opts to play it with the optional level condition - that is, only being able to use the game's melee weapon, the eponymous Painkiller.

* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' has two of these, one of which apparently used to be a mental asylum. Like the rest of the game you find that most of the residents died suddenly and violently, leaving only battle damage and blood. It also turns out that [[spoiler:the very first area you explore in the game was one of these, and was the place where [[PlayerCharacter the Point Man]] was born.]] In the second game, the hospital isn't so much abandoned as it is very recently evacuated, with the recently-slain corpses of a lot of the staff and many patients lying around the halls, and the ones who killed them are still roaming the halls and looking for survivors.

* ''[[http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/legacy-the-realm-of-terror/ Legacy : The Realm of Terror]]'' features an insane asylum on the 3rd floor. Unfortunately, while abandoned by any semblance of normal people (if insane people can really be called normal), it is now happily inhabited by zombies and other mutant freaks.

* ''{{VideoGame/Outlast}}'' is set in the Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane, an hospital that was shut down and abandoned in the seventies, then reopened in present day, then all the patients went nuts and killed the staff and each other.

* In ''VideoGame/WhiteDayALabyrinthNamedSchool'', Seong-Ah, one of the only students you'll encounter in the game, tells you that the school was originally an abandon hospital from an older wartime.

* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' begins in Beacon Mental Hospital, after an incident that has left the majority of patients and staff dead. The Asylum (where you can save your progress and purchase upgrades) looks like the nursing station at Beacon, but is blurry and monochromatic.

* In ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', the San Cristobal Medical Faculty is where the game truly picks up, as it's the first time the alien begins actively hunting Amanda. [[spoiler:It's also where the woman who had the first chest burster in her come out, causing the events of the game to happen.]]

** Many small impromptu monster ridden infirmaries have been encountered during the exploration of the silent world, including one emergency ward full of corpses and a letter from the nursing and medical staff for the former patients saying they are just going to get supplies and will return...written ninety years ago.

* An Abandoned Hospital is the focus of this flash game/photo essay: ''[[http://hospital.apoka.com/hospital.html Stay awhile... stay forever.]]''.

** In "Heat Signature", the back drop for a big part of the episode appears to be an abandoned and delapidated old hospital building with a helicopter plate.

* The Sunbury Lunatic Asylum in Victoria, Australia. it was originally opened in 1864 as 'The Sunbury Industrial School' which was developed to educate and house destitute children. Orphans were sent there and boys were expected to learn a trade and girls were forced to to housework. In 1879, it became the Sunbury Lunatic Asylum, which stayed open until 1985. It was unoccupied until 1999, when it was purchased by Victoria University. The campus closed in 2011. Parts of the massive property are still used as a primary and specialist school, a radio station and a theater company, but the rest of the former hospital remains abandoned.
** Larundel Asylum is another abandoned hospital in Australia, in this case Melbourne.
* The old Alexandra Hospital in Singapore was the site of a massacre of doctors and their patients by the Japanese during World War II, and has a reputation for being haunted.

* The Saint Louis City Hospital was built in 1845, and was shut down in July of 1985. It was not demolished however. Parts were in 2002, but the remaining buildings are being retrofitted into Condos.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Center_for_Children_and_Adolescents Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents]] in Staunton, Virginia, commonly known by its former name as the [=DeJarnette=] State Sanitorium, has stood abandoned since 1996. The doors and windows were [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/DeJarnette_Center_full_view_2011.jpg plastered over]] some time in the late 2000's, which does not help its creepy factor. Also not helping is the fact that the [=DeJarnette=] State Sanitorium is named after Dr. Joseph [=DeJarnette=], who was a major supporter of eugenics.

* The Chicago State Hospital, now known as the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in the community of Dunning on the Northwest Side. An insane asylum, sanitarium, and poor village was built there back in the 1860's and it eventually changed hands to the city. Many were taken there, to the point where it got horribly overcrowded in the 1910's. Eventually sections got closed down, including a small school and one of the hospitals, a rather big facility. Both of them lay abandoned for years, but the big hospital was eventually torn down for condos a few years back.

* The Hugh Gallen State Office Park in Concord, New Hampshire, is comprised of a variety of re-purposed old buildings that were originally collectively known as the New Hampshire Asylum until being renamed to the less threatening "New Hampshire Hospital." Some buildings on the campus - the Acute Psychiatric Services building (APS, 1989), the Anna Philbrook Center (1960), and a few others -- continue to provide care and housing to New Hampshire's mentally ill adults and children, and halfway housing for rehabilitated patients transitioning back into society. The other buildings on the site -- which date from 1842 to 1941 -- have been converted into office space for state government workers. The oldest building in the complex, called the "Main Building," was erected in 1842 as a medical facility specifically designed for the housing and treatment of the insane, and was the 17th such hospital established in the United States.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Dale_Hospital Glenn Dale Hospital]] in Maryland was not a place that people visited to get better. As a sanitarium for tuberculosis, anyone who wound up here could only hope to die in the most dignified way possible. And yes, there is a children's compound. Features include the incinerator(used for waste products, not human remains), refridgerated morgues, the flooded underground hallways, and the elevator shaft that "breathed". The sad thing is that it really was a beautiful place in its prime, and probably could be again if any restoration were put into it. Budget shortfalls and copious amounts of lead paint make this unlikely, however.
* Due to a combination of budget cuts and a report about the absolutely deplorable conditions by Geraldo Rivera, The Willowbrook State School was closed in 1987 and the patients were turned out on their own. Shortly after this it was discovered that several people were living in the tunnels under the facility. It was speculated that the residents might be former patients. Short after that, the body of a recently missing girl was found in a shallow grave on the property...

* The hospital portion of Ellis Island in New York was this until the entire site was revitalized into the tourist center it is today. Those who spearheaded the renovation spoke of finding various abandoned equipment and the like. Another abandoned hospital on the grounds of the island, and other quarantine wards, are fenced off from the main tourist sections and are off limit to the public.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Vista_Community_Hospital Linda Vista Community Hospital]] Run down for years, abandoned in 1991, this is THE go to location for Hollywood when they need a creepy hospital or asylum. The owners do a large scale haunted house on property around Halloween, in addition to renting it out as a filming location. Not all of its spookiness is fictional either, it is rumored to be haunted, and the surrounding neighborhood is (as of 2012) a rundown high crime area. And they're going to make it into apartments.
* Probably the least creepy abandoned hospital ever: the Granada Hills Surgical Center, a part of the demolished Granada Hills Community Hospital. The GHCH was once quite well-known in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, but since it was community-funded, the hospital went bankrupt in 2003 and the property was bought by the Los Angeles School District. After waiting for a very long time, the District demolished the large main building and completed an unfinished expansion of the hospital (which had languished as a steel frame since the late 1990s) as the main classroom hall for a new high school, which was finished early in 2012. The Surgical Center, on the other hand, still stands at the inner corner of a strip mall, next to the former hospital parking structure, now used by students and teachers of the high school. However, despite the hospital's lack of a creepy factor, it's still quite mysterious-the original glass doors have been replaced with opaque solid steel doors which are locked tight and its multistory bulk, which is especially ominous at night, looms over the two-story high strip mall. The building itself, although it has been almost a decade since its abandonment, is still intact, which arguably adds to its mystery. Who knows what goes on inside the building?
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Brother_Island,_East_River North Brother Island]], right in the middle of East River. Opened in 1885 as the new location of the Riverside Hospital, itself founded in the 1850s to treat smallpox and being expanded to other quarentinable diseases. In 1904, the steamship ''General Slocum'' ran aground and burned, resulting in the death of over 1,000 immigrants. It was also the hosptial that held and released Typhoid Mary, then confined her until her death in 1938, then closed. It opened after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to house veterans attending local colleges, then switched to treating teenage drug addicts, which, at the time, was usually the 'hardcore' method of locking the addict in a room for a week, many of whom, as [[RoomFullOfCrazy one wrote on the wall]], felt they were held against their will. It was closed in the '60s after rampant corruption and recidivism, and has since been turned into a bird sanctuary for the Black-crowned Night Heron, though all the birds left in 2011 for reasons unknown. Fortunately, though, aside from an episode of ''Series/LifeAfterPeople'' and [[http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/09/04/a_30photo_tour_of_the_abandoned_north_brother_island.php a photographer given special permission]], the entire island is closed to the public and patrolled by NYPD (although partly because of its proximity to Riker's Island Correctional Facility).
* The [[http://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2013/07/photos-from-inside-rochester-terrence-tower/#more-6299 Terrence Building]] in Rochester, New York was a large 16-story state-run mental hospital. It was built for the Rochester Psychiatric Center in the 1950's as part of a state-wide program to build bigger mental hospitals to replace older, smaller ones that were over crowded. The Terrence Building operated until it was shut down in 1995 and was abandoned. Remaining patients at the time were sent to a newer and smaller facility in the campus. Today the tower is in a state of decay due to having little maintenance or protection from the elements and vandals and is a popular destination for urban explorers. However, the tower is still on the campus of an operating mental institution and there's still security guards that patrol near the building.

* The North Wales Hospital (known locally as Denbigh Asylum, or Denbigh Mental) [[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/eerie-abandoned-victorian-asylum-sale-11337812 which is currently for sale for £2.25 million]] is a [[http://totallyhaunted.co.uk/denbigh-mental-asylum.php popular site for ghost hunts and urbex]], which opened after 1848. It was closed in 1995, and has passed between many developers, none of which has been able to demolish it due to its status as a Grade II listed building. It has been subject to many arson attacks, the latest of which occurred in [[http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/live-huge-fire-denbighs-north-12565875 February 2017]]. It has a [[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dark-history-wales-abandoned-asylums-8838993 controversial history]] which is to be expected, considering mental health treatment during its time open. It has also been the subject of at least one Creepypasta, one featuring Jeff the Killer.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has an abandoned hospital ward, which happens to be home to your first encounter with Scarecrow. It's easily the scariest building on the island. By the time of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', Arkham as a whole became this.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has an abandoned hospital ward, which happens to be home to your first encounter with Scarecrow. It's easily the scariest building on the island.

* Featured in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "To the Last Man". It was the location of a time shift meaning people from the past appeared momentarily in the hospital corridors, giving a very spooky 'haunted' feel to the place. Meanwhile the Torchwood team were also appearing to people from the past, scaring ''them''.

* Though barely recognizable as such, the Abandoned Smallpox Hospital on [[BigApplesauce New York City's]] Roosevelt Island has appeared several times in movies. It was the site of Spider-Man and Green Goblin's final showdown in ''Film/SpiderMan1'', and "Snow Storm", a [[ScrappyLevel particularly difficult level]] from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''.

* Pripyat Hospital in UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} took in the first radiation casualties after the accident. It was abandoned when the entire town was evacuated to get people away from the radiation and even today the [[CreepyBasement basement]] where the first responders' uniforms were dumped is so radioactive that simply walking into it without proper protection will significantly increase your chances of developing cancer.