History Main / AbandonedHospital

-->-- ''Series/TheStand'', spray-painted hospital sign

* Nocturne Hospital in ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' is a four-story abandoned hospital where many {{Youkai}} reside, including the BigBoss of the hospital, Dr. Maddiman.

* Nocturne Hospital in ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' is a four-story abandoned hospital where many yokai reside, including the big boss, Dr. Maddiman.

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

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Arsonist-turned-killer Leonard Brooks takes one of his victims to the now abandoned hospital where his mother, who worked in the burn unit, used to take him with her when she couldn't find a sitter.

* Japanese horror film ''Film/ChakushinAri'' features one towards the end, populated by only one green corpse in a wooden crate.
* In the film ''Film/{{Creep 2004}}'' the heroine finds an abandoned lab/maternity ward/surgical theatre deep underground, which appears to be where the creature comes from.

* The remake of ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999'' is set in an abandoned mental institution. (The original merely took place in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed haunted house.)

* ''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.

* Weston State Hospital in central West Virginia.

* 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 1950s as part of a state-wide program to build bigger mental hospitals to replace older, smaller ones that were overcrowded. 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 on 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 Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV.

* The climax of ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'' takes place in an abandoned hospital. Abandoned except a bunch of xenomorphs.

* The Finnish movie ''Film/DarkFloors''. A wheelchair-bound autistic girl is being treated at a hospital, gets her father and some other people trapped in a parallel-universe abandoned hospital somehow, then defeats some kind of demon. It's not wholly clear what was going on, but it looked cool.
** Well, since the movie is essentially a long advertisement for the monster-metal band Music/{{Lordi}}, and the monsters of the film are the members of the band...

* ''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 building's 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.
** The sequel also is set in the same hospital [[spoiler:[[GeniusLoci and the building may be in on the horror after all]].]]

** Moreover, the movie was filmed in and around the notorious ''real-life'' abandoned State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers in Massachusetts -- the one Creator/HPLovecraft used as a model for Arkham Sanitarium (which, in turn, inspired [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Arkham Asylum]]). In a truly bizarre postscript, nine years after the movie was filmed, the crumbling remains of the hospital were renovated into a [[https://www.hgliving.com/bradlee-danvers-apartments-danvers-ma?LHAdSourceId=27124&gclid=Cj0KCQjwnfLVBRCxARIsAPvl82G2tjVGR5kXvgdcLm2PLfJmHkl5Ft9h0ep0TsJBFp5v-q3pQVnsMzoaAmCaEALw_wcB luxury apartment complex.]]
*** And just in case things weren't creepy enough -- you know what else happened in Danvers when it had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials another name?]]

* ''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.

* ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' is set in one of these.
** And it plays with how abandoned "abandoned" really is. Sure, no one's using it as a hospital ''right this exact second'', but it's implied that Ruby is doing-slash-discovering some of these things for the second or third time, raising the question, "How, exactly, does she end up back at the start with no memory of doing this stuff if the hospital isn't operating on some rudimentary level?"

* 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 do 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.

* 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.

** They've done the same thing to an old asylum in Melbourne, Australia, that was rumored to be haunted. Now it's an apartment building.
*** That would be Willsmere, Kew. Enormous Second Empire building (think arches and towers), formerly Kew Lunatic Asylum. Nice apartment building, actually. And, yes, reportedly haunted.

* 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.
** After it failed to meet the minimum bid in 2016, it was eventually purchased by Denbighshire Council, with plans to demolish about half the original structures and build 300 houses.

* ''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/NotDyingToday'' have a stage in a zombie-infested hospital. The zombified nurses can attack you with syringes filled with sedatives that inflicts an InterfactScrew on you.

* In ''Literature/TheDaevabadTrilogy'', Nahri finds a ruined hospital that was once run by her now-deposed family and decides to rebuild it as a charity hospital. She's shocked to encounter local resistance from the part-human shafit, because her family used their healing powers [[GoodPowersBadPeople to conduct hideous experiments]] on them. Ali has to step in and be the savvy one for a change, as he has a greater understanding both of the shafit community and of all the logistics involved in a huge building project. They find some of the greusome evidence of her family's activities in the process.

* In the novella ''Magic City'', Nelson S. Bond's Meg the Priestess enters one of these, the Place of Stlukes, well known to the locals as a temple of HIM (Death).

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Much of the action of "The Silent Land" centres around a supposedly haunted abandoned TB hospital.

* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'': The episode "Skintight" takes place in a RealLife one, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Military_Hospital Cambridge Military Hospital]], where a team of ghost-hunters go to investigate an alleged haunting (whose rumours are indeed old and well documented in RealLife) but find...something else.

* ''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.

** They've done the same thing to an old asylum in Melbourne, Australia, that was rumoured to be haunted. Now it's an apartment building.

* One which is far creepier in reality than any fictional Hospital is in the island of Guernsey, and yes it is ''in'' as in built underground. Constructed by ThoseWackyNazis in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII during the island's occupation it was used as hospital, mortuary, ammunition store, and ''[[{{Ghostapo}} research centre]]'' on Slavic Labourers. See a video of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acd-IuMRL8 here]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]], Albion Hospital isn't ''technically'' abandoned, but has that feel because all of its patients and staff have been converted into [[OurZombiesAreDifferent gas-mask zombies]] by TheVirus.