KILGORE BUILDING

I used to work a job that required me to inspect old/abandoned buildings in the area. One of which was the appropriately named Killgore building, near the Pavillion/NWTH. Anyhow, it was late one day and me and my partner were finishing up our inspections for the day. And this is the last place on the list.

Let me go ahead and preface the story. It used to be a children's psychiatric center. That in and of itself already creeps me the fuck out. It has been abandoned and left standing due to the fact that NWTH is too fucking cheap to pay the for the asbestos abatement that would be required before they could demo the place.

So there it sits, locked.

There are several ways into the building if you can't get access to a 'legit' way in. One is to hike a fence into the courtyard in the center of it all, and from there most of the doors are open. The outdoors are chained, padlocked and have their regular locks in place too. There is no security system as the place has been over run with a bunch of foxes and cats, and they would set the fucker off every 2 minutes of the night.

Now, I am not a believer in the paranormal, but some weird shit happened in that building. Not to mention all of the creepy stuff laying around.

From where we entered, it was near the 'back' of the location, near where the old play ground equipment was (to the left, in the picture). Most people who do work at this site (mostly maintenance and inspectors of various types) enter through there. This enters into a general play area. To the right is a closet and to the left was a room.

Fuck. This. Room.

The door was locked (not supposed to have locked interior doors in abandoned buildings, all sorts of legal whatnot - also it makes it impossible for me to check what I was there to check). Not a normal looking lock at all. Think the kind of locks you see on cell doors. There is a small window about 2"x3" that looked inward. It was tempered shit that you'd have a hard time breaking without a large hammer. There were scratches covering the entire surface of the window. The weird part was that the scratches were on the inside surface.

So my buddy and I take a hammer and a screw driver and pull this bastard off the hinges. It's a small room about 3'x4'. The walls were painted a cerulean blue. You could see markings on the walls. Some were with crayons, some were scratched in crudely. It was creepy as shit. But all of this wasn't the weirdest part.

My buddy says what we're both thinking, "Quiet room..." and goes to take a picture of the carvings and drawings on the wall. His iPhone 4 would take a picture, but the flash didn't work. In a pitch black room, his flash didn't work. "Force the flash to on instead of automatic." I tell him. He did. It still did not fucking flash. At this point I wasn't really creeped out. Being a hardcore Android fan, I took it as another chance to rib him for having an iPhone. I go and take a picture. Takes it the first time, flash and all. There was, at the top of the picture, a wavy distortion to the picture. It wasn't a particular shape, and it wasn't shadows. I went through older pictures to see if it was a problem with the camera and it wasn't. I took 2 more pictures, both times the freaking distortion is there.

At this point I finally get my first sense of "NOPE" and am no longer fond of this place.

Going forward into the building you run into the rooms where the children were kept. More wall drawings. More "NOPE".

Another thing the fuckers at NWTH forgot to tell us was that about a week beforehand some asshat got wasted on bathsalts and after being brought to the hospital tried to escape. Part of his plan being to bust into this creepy god damned place through a window, leaving a large gash in his thigh (dude was pantsless, according to the person informing me of the story) and then proceeded to run around this fucking place bleeding all over shit. I mean puddles 3" in diameter near most doors. Trails you could easily follow and see where he went in the building. This just put me further on edge.

We go through the rest of the building, flashlights in hand since the sun has well since set, finishing up the inspection. In the halls there are dozens and dozens of old and I assume broken hospital beds. You can guess the rooms as you go through. Kitchen here, bathroom there, the usual stuff. There were also two rooms that I have to assume were used for observation and recording. One-way glass between them. One had equipment that seemed obviously used to record whatever happened in the other room. There was a large box that had at least 40 VHS tapes, all of the tapes labeled with last names. I am not a thief so I didn't steal any, but a part of me really wanted to.

The rest of the building is weird, but had a less menacing feeling to it. On the second floor, one of the windows had been busted out for some time, and there were birds nests in the room. Another room had a rather large hornets nest that had been obviously torn down and rebuilt several times. There was fox shit in quite a few places. You could see cats and foxes hanging out in the center court yard area.

That was the creepiest I can remember. There have been some other ones that are memorable as well. Definitely creepy and definitely worth the urban adventure if you're into the sort of thing.

TL;DR - Fuck abandoned childrens psychiatric units.

Not at all. I'll see if I still have the old phone with the photos I took.

Another fucking weird building is the old BSA off Amarillo Boulevard.

A the same partner of mine was inspecting that building a few years back. He's pretty hardy when it comes to mental constitution, doesn't scare easily.

Anyhow, when he made it to the morgue, he opened the door and was looking around. The old body freezers had a door that swung upward and then had a locking arm to hold them open temporarily. I guess they did this to help seal the doors shut way back when.

I guess him opening the door or something created enough air disturbance (this is the way he rationalizes it, anyhow) that one of the 3 doors in there slammed shut.

According to him, had he not recently dropped a deuce, he would have literally shit his pants.

Even if he didn't shit his pants, he said he played the worst game of human pong ever. Said he hit every single wall in that fucking place trying to haul ass out of it.