Hellingly

O.k. back to ghosts

I decided that there's no interest out there in anything but ghosts.

Please readers let me know!...

 

So i'll return to haunted Sussex

Hellingly is amongst those places i visited.

It used to be a big mental health hospital, 

Even apparently had a railway station.

There's a scene in an old British B movie called "Smokescreen,"

Which is good by the way.. look out for it..l

Where the investigator is standing on a cliff road looking 

down over the railway running through the valley,

and there is  a small local station... 

I went to Hellingly out of interest, as i was working not so far away  

in the business.. it closed in 1994.

So a little before my time....

At its prime....

I

At the end...

 

There must be a general feeling of ugliness in the air,

as, after all, patients were treated as subhuman 

and subjected to treatment worse than prisoners.

I know the environment of a mental health hospital

could be almost considered outside of the law.

A patient could have their teeth removed so that they couldn't bite!

Or a woman could be raped by another client, and 

this would be just brushed away, in what was a closed community

exempt from outside law,

So it is small wonder that footsteps can be heard in the dark corridors,

Or a feeling of malaise strike at any moment,

Or strange mists begin to form...

Or voices be heard yelling, crying screaming for help in empty wards.

It's gone now, and a housing estate built i believe..

I wonder if the dwellers experience former inmates'

 restless spirits

in their bedrooms?