Maryland Uncharted
Rosewood Institute - Baltimore County
It was established in 1888 as the Asylum and Training School for the Feeble Minded. From 1912 to 1961, it was known as the Rosewood State Training School. In 1961, the facility was renamed as the Rosewood State Hospital.
After the state departments of health and mental hygiene merged in 1969, the facility was renamed the Rosewood Center. The antiquated facility has been threatened with closing in recent years.
The old and new facilities stand directly across a field from each other, the newer facility still active housing over half of the people with developmental disabilities who reside in Maryland's four state-run institutions. The old grounds have been known for ghost sightings and have been well traveled through. The main building was burnt in a 2006 case of arson and the site is now under security monitoring.
Glendale - Prince Georges County
Glenn Dale Hospital was a tuberculosis sanitarium in Prince Georges County, Maryland in the United States. Although the complex is located in Maryland, it is owned by the government of Washington, D.C.. It is a large facility, consisting of 23 buildings on 210 acres, that was built in 1934 and closed in 1982 due to asbestos. Though it is now closed and will be eventually demolished, for decades it was an important public health institution near Washington, D.C.. Park Police patrol the hospital grounds regularly. A local police officer, Howard Johnson, also resides on the premises. His most recent "busts" were three Annapolis-area teenagers at 10:10 PM on October 10th 2007.
It is said that Glenn Dale is a haunted institution and many teenagers and young adults sneak in to see if ghosts and other paranormal things actually exist. It has been confirmed by Howard Johnson that gang members from the MS13 and other gangs, have taken up residency on the premises. Also, Howard Johnson reported that there is a fugitive, wanted for assault, that they have been trying to find on the 210 acres of the hospital. Satanic cults also are rumored to hold various rituals on the hospital property. These rituals may or may not involve the sacrificing of animals.
Despite popular belief, the large incinerator present on the hospital grounds was not used for the destruction of human remains. Instead, hospital waste was burned.
The hospital grounds consist of several buildings:
1. Children's Nurses Home
2. Children's Hospital Building
3. Residence "D" Dormitory
4. Building "C" Nurses Home
5. Building "F" Duplex House
6. Building "D" Doctor's House
7. Building "G" Duplex House(Superintendent's Residence)
8. Building "E" Doctor's House
9. Adult Hospital Building
10. Warehouse and Garage
11. Heating Plant
12. Sludge Bed Enclosure
13. Sedimentation and Control Building
14. Water Softener House
15. Pump House
16. Employee Building
17. Laundry
18. Residence "C" Dormitory
19. Hot House
20. Four Apartment Building No.1
21. Four Apartment Building No.2
22. Paint Shop
23. Incinerator
The buildings are characterized by broken glass and overgrown vines. Several of the buildings also have collapsed roofs.
The children's hospital building and adult hospital building are the most widely explored structures by local trespassers. This is primarily due to their close distance to Glenn Dale Road, a local street that bisects the hospital grounds.
Both the children's and adult's buildings are connected underground by a series of underground walkways. These walkways join the basements of both buildings together. The basements of the hospital buildings are extremely dangerous. Large pieces of rusty, sharp, metal and debris hang from the ceiling. Also, the buildings contain large amounts of asbestos. Each hospital basement has its own morgue. Today, these walkways are littered with garbage, broken glass, and graffiti. In addition, parts of the walkways are flooded with nearly 3 feet of water.
Henryton Sanitarium - Howard County
Henryton Sanitarium is located on Henryton Road near Patapsco State Park. (Zip Code 21784) This huge facility closed in 1985 and has been abandoned ever since. Originally opened in 1920. First the facility treated tuberculosis patients then treated mentally retarded children. Many people have visited this place. You must park down the rail road tracks and walk up behind it. Never enter the front gate. It is to dangerous. Witnesses saw shadows in an old theatre inside the hospital, a women’s dress hanging at the end of one of the long hallways. When they went back, it was gone. There are hundreds of rooms and doors. Outside of one of the buildings on a hill, they saw a rocking chair on a porch (above) still rocking as if the patients were still there. As with all the other closed Maryland Hospitals, It's as if all history of the place was wiped off the map.
Spring Grove Hospital - Howard County
On the property there is an abandoned mansion closed to the public and at times when people pull up to it and stop in front if it there are whispers heard and mysterious tapping or banging heard from the inside. There are also people seen walking and as a person approaches the person walking disappears.
Patapsco Female Institute - Howard County
The Patapsco Female Institute is found high above Ellicott City on Church Road. The view from the front lawn of the ruins, once a girl's school, is a commanding one and looks out small town, the hills and the river beyond. It is hard to imagine the place as it once looked, although valiant efforts in recent years have erased the signs of time and vandals and have restored at least a portion of the old building. It is not hard to imagine that this scenic and beautiful spot may become a little bit spookier once darkness comes to Ellicott City.... or that it is home to at least one ghost!
The school had the distinction of being one of the first female institutes in the south when it was officially opened in 1839. The walls were constructed of yellow granite and huge columns supported the magnificent porch. The west wing was given over to an immense ballroom and the floors were made from a fine hardwood. The house was decorated with fine tapestries and imported furnishing and fabrics and needless to say, attracted daughters from the cream of southern society.
Despite the opulent surroundings, life at the institute could be rigid, especially for wealthy girls who were used to be waited on at home. The building was made of stone and could be bitterly cold in the winter. There were no sanitary facilities at the school and so chamber pots were used. Colds and sickness spread among the girls during the wet and cool months and a number of girls even died from influenza and croup.
The Institute today is made up of partially restored ruins which are said to harbor the ghost of a former student.
