Abandoned William Hall Psychiatric Institute in Columbia, South Carolina

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  • čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
  • This is the William Hall Psychiatric Institute which is located in Columbia, South Carolina. It looks like it is part research labs, hospital residential wings and a large administration building.
    This is a large modern type hospital that has been abandoned for some years now. It is more sleek looking than other abandoned places yet still has a touch of vandalism and creepiness.
    Thanks for Explore NC for taking me here and please subscribe to him here: / myagent9
    Thank you for watching!

Komentáře • 95

  • @KitschyTravels
    @KitschyTravels  Před 6 lety +5

    Hello thank you for watching ❤️

  • @brittanyg6570
    @brittanyg6570 Před 2 lety +3

    As a person who stayed here in my early teens, this brings back lots of not so fond memories.

    • @brittanyg6570
      @brittanyg6570 Před 2 lety +1

      I also never got to enjoy the open courtyard. I had to spend my 1 hour of outside time in the caged courtyard. It was such a horrible place. A lot of those "offices" were used as classrooms. I shared a room with a girl that was in there for lynching. I remember being so hungry bc I was terrified to eat the food there. I would go days without eating until family could bring me stuff. We were always told how horrible we were and would never be productive members of society. I remember one kid was suicidal. He was such a nice guy but was always zeroed out and would be thrown into the padded room just for giving a look. I remember a girl got a shot almost everyday just for speaking at a volume that wasn't a whisper. On my last day there I was accused of stealing when this wasn't true. They wanted me to stay longer. All in all, this place was horrible for teenagers and kids.

    • @savageking-247
      @savageking-247 Před rokem

      😢 you can say that again I was on the co-ed unit for awhile

  • @TheFailroaders
    @TheFailroaders Před 5 lety +7

    I lived here for 2 years of my teenage life on ward 156.
    It was an interesting way to grow up

  • @melinapointon2788
    @melinapointon2788 Před 5 lety +7

    I spent a lot of time at the children's unit in my adolescent years. Definitely could be a scary place.

    • @franceshoelzel8051
      @franceshoelzel8051 Před 4 lety +1

      I spent time there too look at my comment

    • @plaguedoctor3806
      @plaguedoctor3806 Před 3 lety +2

      I remember Mr Spencer he was my buddy

    • @savageking-247
      @savageking-247 Před rokem +1

      Me too I was there for years age 7 to 17 years old

    • @savageking-247
      @savageking-247 Před rokem

      ​@@plaguedoctor3806 Mr Spencer he had me laughing everyday he came to work

  • @susan5301
    @susan5301 Před 6 lety

    Wow! That place is massive! Such a cool explore! Thanks for sharing! Hope your move went smoothly!

  • @owen4248
    @owen4248 Před 6 lety

    Wow Awesome place quite an amount of shattered glass around really cool mural in the children's section loved the piano still there surprised it was still intact great explore glad to see you with someone......

  • @RayRayTheExplorer
    @RayRayTheExplorer Před 6 lety +1

    A very cool spot my friend 😲😍

  • @elizabethgatewood8465
    @elizabethgatewood8465 Před 5 lety +6

    I was here ... years ago , around age 14 it was so awful . I was out there for a bad home situation . Not because I was crazy .. however by the time I left there I went crazy .. my roommate hung herself and I walked in and found her , one girl tried to kill herself and ended up in a coma . The violence was awful . The staff were abusive . The nurses caused me to overdosed so I eventually was able to leave . I’m still learning to get over the things I went through there . This is what happens when the state gets a hold of young children .

    • @georgiahouston8163
      @georgiahouston8163 Před 5 lety

      My Aunt used too place young children in the 70s in the Blanding Building., they were removed by the state.. Most adolescents here, and Blanding weren't crazy. it was family issues. How long ago was you there? Damn.. Blanding had a lot of nice staff. that I met through my aunt. that place used too scare me when we entered the front gate, with armed staff. they would send the patients clothes to the administration building near babcock, and they would stamp your name onto the clothes. I felt bad for a lot of people that were my age at the time...

    • @joshuamcdowell7646
      @joshuamcdowell7646 Před 5 lety

      I know what you mean. I was there the same time and seen alot of shit.

    • @franceshoelzel8051
      @franceshoelzel8051 Před 4 lety

      I was there on the top floor childrens ward first room on the left the first time around last room on the right the second time they covered both butt cheeks with needle holes bigger doses each time in the seclusion room they were horrible there

    • @anonymoustryagain
      @anonymoustryagain Před 3 lety

      Oh goodness.. were you there December 2014? I had a roommate named Elizabeth.

    • @vonkarolinas
      @vonkarolinas Před 2 lety

      Your roommate never hung herself and no girls from this hospital ever ended up in a coma. We live in a world where the media, like vultures, would have been all over those incidents, and there is simply no evidence published or reported anywhere of this happening. Good story, though.

  • @bowstarchannel
    @bowstarchannel Před 6 lety +1

    Wow this is some video, old ghosts around I would think, well done

  • @Interp66
    @Interp66 Před 6 lety

    Another really cool location!

  • @ExploringWithCF
    @ExploringWithCF Před 6 lety

    Totally badass Explore, great feel to it and crazy amount to see. EFF can refer to them possibly not allowing electronic devices like smart phones, cameras etc, kinda like medical privacy stuff.

  • @justinknight1209
    @justinknight1209 Před 6 lety +3

    I was locked up there sent from DJJ to do a program in 2010 and it looks so crazy now compared to then. It was not a research lab or morgue there was a building that was a morgue for the mental health grounds years back in the old days hut it has been turned into a restaurant now I think.

    • @TheFailroaders
      @TheFailroaders Před 5 lety

      I was also there, on 156, basically one of the last units that were active until they shut down, I remember it all vividly but before now I hadn't seen 156 sense I was 16

    • @franceshoelzel8051
      @franceshoelzel8051 Před 4 lety

      I was there also in 2010 i believe twice Ward C the top floor the first room on the left the first time and the last room on the right the second time they covered both butt cheeks with needle holes in the seclusion room due to a outburst i had they wiggled the needles around and left them uncovered to where i bled through my panties and on the floor was blood everywhere i sat in there

    • @thefireman5643
      @thefireman5643 Před 4 lety

      Justin Knight they used as a locker room. 154 top floor i beileve. 2014 August and Sept.

  • @jasongalloway7859
    @jasongalloway7859 Před 3 lety +6

    I use to work there. EFF stands for Escape From Facility.

    • @KitschyTravels
      @KitschyTravels  Před 3 lety +1

      Jason Galloway Thank you!

    • @jasongalloway7859
      @jasongalloway7859 Před 3 lety

      Kitschy Travels No doubt!!

    • @sinisternuggetz9450
      @sinisternuggetz9450 Před 3 lety +2

      Damn man, I never thought I'd see you again lol. Playing PS2 and kicking ass in Midnight club was the shit. Thanks for the memories.

    • @jasongalloway7859
      @jasongalloway7859 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sinisternuggetz9450 woah!!! Who are you?! Got a FB?

    • @ishadow6044
      @ishadow6044 Před 3 lety +1

      I remember you Jason,I taught you how to shuffle cards in a rainbow wow and gave you one of my decks to practice with.

  • @caitlinlanaghan7659
    @caitlinlanaghan7659 Před 6 měsíci

    I was there back in 2013 for 2 weeks. Met my current best friend there on the adolesent unit. They never really let tou leave the unit with all of the creepy stuff that use to happen.

  • @GriffinOutdoorsandAdventures

    Hey looking for places around south carolina any good way to message you?

  • @kelby1249
    @kelby1249 Před 3 lety +1

    I was there between 2008-2009 on 156 and 154. The unit you explore with the courtyard where that circular brick thing with the dead plants in it was where I was. It faced across the courtyard into the gym with the glass garage doors and up those stairs above was a laboratory.
    It's really creepy to see this place abandoned now. Was there still a caged in courtyard on 154?

  • @grigorirasputin5020
    @grigorirasputin5020 Před 5 lety +1

    EFF was something to do with escapes, or what was commonly known as LWP (Leave Without Permission). The exact words behind EFF escape me at the moment (pun unintentional), but that was the meaning.

  • @GmaAlice
    @GmaAlice Před 6 lety +1

    That place was disturbing.

    • @plaguedoctor3806
      @plaguedoctor3806 Před 5 lety

      I was a patient there it wasn't that bad maybe a fight evey now and then but yeah pretty calm I liked it

  • @denzelparker5139
    @denzelparker5139 Před 11 měsíci

    I use to live there for a year and 9 months it was krazy i was on risbradul. I use to leave there alot of memories on the unit i live in had the windows blocked where you couldn't tell if it was day or night. The cafeteria food was alright. Spent alot of days in timeout. And alot of time off the unit getting alregy shots.

  • @elyselandsiedel9140
    @elyselandsiedel9140 Před 3 lety

    Does anyone know where this is??? I can’t find any addresses at all about it.

    • @ishadow6044
      @ishadow6044 Před 3 lety

      1800 colonial Dr Columbia sc ibb.co/tBCzsdJ here's a picture of it on maps

  • @prestonharrison8764
    @prestonharrison8764 Před 6 lety

    How did you get past security?

  • @georgiahouston8163
    @georgiahouston8163 Před 5 lety

    this building here on the first floor was all administration.. Most of the adolescents came from the Blanding Building.. there are one in one... per se: I remember coming out too this place with my Aunt whom was a Charleston county social worker in the late 70s... A lot of the children from that era were placed by DSS into a safe haven environment. there used too be a big snack room with Soda Machine, and Candy Machines. They used to have Diet Mr. Pibb..The Children from their plus Blanding would walk behind those main too building to walk up Per Se: a hill, there used too be doublewide trailers out back for them too attend school. they used too do arts/crafts. etc. the school building is still behind blanding building.. so much history.. My husband, and I visited the area this past weekend. spoke too a mental health police officer.. Very nice. The babcock building was moved across town. according too DMH.. still Blanding sent the kids to Babcock for classes.. never knew the history of Badcock until recently.

  • @Ghost29303
    @Ghost29303 Před 8 měsíci

    I'm surprised nobody's stole the piano

  • @antwaunejordan6512
    @antwaunejordan6512 Před 4 lety

    I used to be there in 90's

  • @Godsincharge
    @Godsincharge Před 2 měsíci

    Location?

  • @liammotes2825
    @liammotes2825 Před 5 lety +2

    I actually was here for 3 weeks when I was 15 I'm 20 now. There were only a few buildings still in use when I went but now their all abandoned. I was transported from greenville memorial in a police car. I also knew a girl who I knew previously to being admitted that was sexually and physically abused as well as her brother at this place. There's a lot of horror stories, the staff was pretty much a bunch of ghetto pieces of shit who took their frustration out on the kids and I was witness to some pretty fucked up things in their. A girl who cut herself so much she had bandages everywhere and she would dig in with her nails when she couldn't find anything to cut with. This place was literally hell and I definitely think its haunted. I never in my life felt crazier than when I went there, plexi glass windows, dry air. I got nosebleeds the first few days I was there too and I never get them, had bad dreams and always felt I was being watched which we were but the few times we went outside were shit there was a blacktop for basketball with huge fences just surrounding us. I hate that place with everything in me. I left out a lot of shit. I suck at typing a story especially since its late.

    • @missingbicycle1033
      @missingbicycle1033 Před 4 lety +1

      Liam Motes we might know each other.

    • @missingbicycle1033
      @missingbicycle1033 Před 4 lety +1

      You just described a girl that was there when I was there.

    • @franceshoelzel8051
      @franceshoelzel8051 Před 4 lety +1

      I was there also Ward C the top floor the first room on the left the first time and the second time the last room on the right that time they covered both butt cheeks with needle holes because they kept doses me in the seclusion room due to me having a out burst they also wiggled the needles to where the entire floor was covered in blood they didnt put a bandaid on it

    • @thefireman5643
      @thefireman5643 Před 4 lety +1

      Liam Motes was a member of 154

    • @liammotes2825
      @liammotes2825 Před 4 lety

      @@missingbicycle1033 what is your name? What unit? Year, season?

  • @jacquelinereville30
    @jacquelinereville30 Před 6 lety +1

    Eff risk means a security risk

  • @TampaJay
    @TampaJay Před 6 lety

    Whoa this is amazing cool Kitschy

  • @plaguedoctor3806
    @plaguedoctor3806 Před 5 lety +2

    Hey I need to leave another comment I'd like to see if you would like to make a part 2 video if this because I would like to team up so I can give the history of the place for you and it would be great to see it again and have great memories of it I know were the Cafeteria is as well please reply I would love to do this for you

    • @KitschyTravels
      @KitschyTravels  Před 5 lety +1

      I don't travel much to Columbia SC but next time I do I will let you know

    • @plaguedoctor3806
      @plaguedoctor3806 Před 5 lety +1

      Kitschy Travels Cool just let me know I'm a Photographer so I might bring my camera

  • @dr.emilschaffhausen4683
    @dr.emilschaffhausen4683 Před 4 lety +1

    Any issues with security guards? Where's the best entrance?

  • @KentuckyRanger
    @KentuckyRanger Před 6 lety +1

    Kitschy breaks the rules?
    Kitschy Finds a a turlet!
    Kitschy plays the pianer...
    Kitschy hears a noise!
    Kitschy tries to figure out what EFF stands for... (Looked, couldn't figure it out...)
    Kitschy plays basketball!
    Kitschy finds the theater!
    Kitschy runs out of time...

    • @jamieb9556
      @jamieb9556 Před 5 lety

      What a shame that place is destroyed EFF means elope from facility

    • @plaguedoctor3806
      @plaguedoctor3806 Před 5 lety

      @@jamieb9556 I was a patient there Hell I practically lived there 😂😂😂

  • @thefireman5643
    @thefireman5643 Před 5 lety +2

    Was there 2014.

  • @ishadow6044
    @ishadow6044 Před 3 lety

    I almost couldn't watch this because this was where I was at 2010-2011 for 10 months untill a judge signed me out shaking his head saying I only should've been there for 3 months. They were corrupt when I was there since I threw a cup with water in it into a trashcan staff wrote it up as property destruction which was the worst writeup that you could get and that kept me there alot longer,staff didn't follow rules and used their phones,one staff his name was me hanna he drove a Lexus and an Acura punched my friend in the face then put him in a headlock and slammed him on the bed in the middle bedroom in the kids unit and it was never reported he would've went to jail for a assault on a minor,his face was so swollen. I was standing in the same room as them when that happened a few feet away and told my friend i would be a witness if he wanted to press charges but he didn't. The unit also flooded up to your ankles the entire unit was flooded when a sink broke and the water was so hot it set off the fire alarms.After I came home I had 40+ nightmares/ptsd from being locked up. They should be investigated and I wish I could bring a lawsuit against them for holding me there longer than I should've been for false writeups but idk if that's possible.

    • @KitschyTravels
      @KitschyTravels  Před 3 lety +1

      Oh man, what horrendous place. I am sorry that happened to you.

  • @johnfarnsworth3524
    @johnfarnsworth3524 Před 6 lety +3

    Kitschy your awsome person
    And like you're video's
    Eff meaning extended funds facility
    This only one can find
    To that sign

  • @BlindViews
    @BlindViews Před 6 lety

    Cool place, and yeah, that would have been my hint to go too.

  • @ravenkolenda5434
    @ravenkolenda5434 Před 5 lety +2

    i went to the new one at 220 Faison Drive Columbia SC 29202, the new one is much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @itsj5349
      @itsj5349 Před 4 lety +1

      Raven Kolenda Do you happen to know where the old one was located? The one in the video?

  • @IHateFurries222
    @IHateFurries222 Před 9 měsíci

    for anyone curious, the place is demolished :(

  • @ravenkolenda5434
    @ravenkolenda5434 Před 5 lety +1

    EFF stands for Escape From Facility

  • @clownehbowl2810
    @clownehbowl2810 Před 3 lety +3

    Well they got it back up and running Because I was just discharged-

    • @rachelgilbert1577
      @rachelgilbert1577 Před rokem

      Is it this location? Or another? Just wondering bc I would like to explore but not if people are trying to get the treatment they need

    • @hut95
      @hut95 Před 3 měsíci

      ⁠@@rachelgilbert1577this build is tore down I went here in 2013

  • @caitlinlanaghan7659
    @caitlinlanaghan7659 Před 6 měsíci

    EFF they were runaways

  • @franceshoelzel8051
    @franceshoelzel8051 Před 4 lety

    Kitschy travels i was here top floor childrens ward 2009 or 2010 one of the two first room on the left the first time i was there the last room on the right the second time i was there i used to play in the gym and court yard the first room in the video was the game room it had a pool table air hockey table and a weird pool table ward c was the ward i was on