a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them and it s important to remember that this is still an active hospital. it s very disrespectful to them and to their treatment to try to come out here and either break into the buildings or quote unquote hunt for ghosts . beyond the working hospital, most of the estate is now in disrepair and in recent years, dark tourism has attracted an influx of urban explorers keen to record milledgeville s sinister legacy.
and derelict, these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them
of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them and it s important to remember that this is still an active hospital. it s very disrespectful to them and to their treatment to try to come out here and either break into the buildings or q
these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them and it s important to remember that this is still an active hospital.
next up, we are crossing to the us and the city of milledgeville in georgia, which is to be home to one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals in the world. in recent times, the half abandoned site has become a honeypot for urban explorers. william lee roberts, who is from the state, has been there to take a look. sprawling overbearing and derelict, these 200 buildings or once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century, as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brittle treatments and at