The Metropolitan State Hospital
photo taken from noreast1.com
The Metropolitan State Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1928 and closed its doors in 1992. This was due to the states cost-cutting policy of the state, because now people with mental illnesses were being moved into private care rather than being institutionalized. Since 2005, the buildings of the grounds have now begun the process of demolition by the state.
The hospital is probably most-famous for the murder scandal that developed in 1978. Patient Melvin Wilson murdered another patient by the name of Anne Marie Davee. Wilson allegedly cut Davee’s body to pieces, and kept seven of her teeth in his possession until they were discovered by workers in the hospital. No action was taken against Wilson until Massachusetts Senator Jack Backman led a full investigation.
In 1980, Wilson led the investigators to several spots that held evidence of the murder. This included a hut in the woods where the two supposedly met, as well as areas dug in the ground with Davee’s clothes and belongings. This included a hatchet that is believed to be the weapon which Wilson committed the murder with. It is also believed that there are over two-dozen bodies of kids who are buried in the grounds.
People believe kids are buried in the ground because there was also a children’s ward along with a hospital. When the children died, they would be buried right outside the property. The grounds of the hospital are believed to be haunted by all the tormented spirits who once called the place home. The place is common for people in the area to go in at night to seek ghosts, even though it is barracked off to the public. It has become so popular that it was even featured on the television show World’s Scariest Places.
Works Cited/ Further Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_State_Hospital_(Massachusetts)
I only came on this Web site to read about the Houghton Mansion, but then i came across this and i am amazed at all these haunted places. I wish i could visit this Hospital!
hi im just wondering is this the same metropolitan state hospital that was filmed in the movie The Ring in 2002?
My grandmother was a DaVee. She’s passed on now, but I wonder if I could be a relation to this murder victim. I’m going to have to do some genealogy investigating to find out. How sad if she was:( How sad regardless. May she rest in peace with the Lord now.
hi this place is haunted i walk the path everyday i live in Lexington ma when you walk by it it gives you a Erie feeling its really an eye sour they should tear it down it it butts really upscale apt complex avalon at lexington hills but when you walk down from the apt complex you run into this building waltham mass tearit down and end the reminder of what realy happend at that site
This place is pretty haunted. As I live on the apartment community property in the original building where the pscyhiatric patients useto live even though it was gutted out I still feel the effects of the hosptital, the cemetary is especially the worst feeling. Its very historical every day me and my friends from the apartment complex go and like hang out there and I’ve taken alot of pictures there. The good thing about it is that you can tell them you live there and they won’t bother you.