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| Author | Topic: swingle hospital?? |
| bush |
posted 11/21/05 11:01 AM
we went to the hospital tonight and didn't really see anything very interesting. what's this talk of a cellar door as an entrance or whatever? we saw no cellar door let alone any kind of entrance into the house at all. the strangest thing we encountered was in the front we kept hearing weird bangin type noises from the roof or up above like on the second floor. maybe it was just because the house is really old, i dunno. we also didn't see any cars around back like people are saying. somebody give us some insight on how we can get in that house or at least where some weird stuff is |
| Jessica |
posted 12/2/05 3:50 PM
The hospital is boarded up for a reason. Cops Search that place all the time. It is not a hospital anymore, so no one should be acting like it is one . However, I found ou that someone filmed and made a document about Swingle Hospital on PBS. If anyone knows if this "Scary Hospital" is haunted or wahtever please let me know. Thanks. |
| John |
posted 1/13/06 8:54 PM
I am a old fart (44) that now works out of state for IBM. With that said I graduated from SHHS in 1979 and do have some experience with the Hospital. Did not know until now it was called Swingle. I actually went into the building in 1978 with 4 other friends. What we found was not paranormal but very interesting. The place DID look like it was abondonded and locked up. I could not believe it but there are (WERE) medical books, instruments, manuals, beds, etc that was unbeliveable. Went back about a week later and was told to leave by a neighbor. Yes indeed the building sould be opened by the local Medical school as it is awesom. I went in before they boarded up the doors and windows so there was plenty of light. I would not reccomend breaking into the place now because of the darkness and structural rot. Regards.... |
| Rob |
posted 5/9/07 12:42 AM
I’ve been in the old hospital. It was in the late ‘70’s when you could still get in through the morgue in the basement. It was a really freaky place!!! It looked as if everyone just “vanished”! all the furniture was still there “50 years later”!! Even all the linen was still on the beds & in the closets, books still in the library, and his office was intact, also in the operating room the looked as it they stopped in the middle of surgery and no one even cleaned up. There were bloody scalpels and blood in little stainless steel pans & blood on the sheets!!! I swear I’m not making this up!! It was REAL SPOOKY!! I haven’t been back since. Rob Bowman, Johnson City Tn. |
| Terry |
posted 8/4/07 0:09 AM
Broke in w/ some friends in 1981 or 1982 and It is just as has been described: looks like someone just walked out after an operation. Heard the intimations of it being an abortion clinic, but I doubt it. I remember the stainless instrument trays being caked w/ dried blood and I think I got a coupla pics, but they are long-lost if I did. I wanted to co me back w/ a Super-8 movie camera and get some footage, but never did. It was fascinating and creepy, to say the least. Why anyone would let it just go to pot? It's a nice house in need of much repair, but in real estate---it's got a local reputation. |
| William |
posted 8/4/07 4:04 PM
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| Brian |
posted 10/12/07 0:46 AM
In reply to Terry, i was in their in 1985 and i saw no blood or anything like this, i did see what looked like old metal operating tables, no furniture. We scoped out the place several times and didnt see anything resembling an entrance to the basement, that i can remember, or morgue as you called it. There was no blood or dried blood on anything, although i dont know why there would be because my understanding it that it was a hospital where babies are born, as a matter of fact my father was born there in 1938. There was not sheets or actual beds. The reason it was left to rot from what ive read is that there was a fire and alot of water damage from putting it out. I do know the ceiling is colapsed in the upstairs part. The scariest thing i saw that night was inside a closet, the door was locked or something and i couldnt get it open but the bottem of the door was kicked in or had a panel missing so i kneeled down to look in and saw a face looking back at me, scared the hell outa me, almost knocked down two of my friends getting away, then i thought, that looked familuar, looked again and it was my face in a mirror, lol. In relpy to bush, the banging noise you heard was probably one of the "doors" that covers the windows upstairs as they are on hinges, probably one of the got left open because thats how we got in, one was open in back so we hoisted each other up to the second floor and went in the |
| Brian |
posted 10/12/07 0:54 AM
Actually there was one more thing we saw that was pretty unnerving, when we went back where we got in at to leave, there were lights shinging all over the back of the hospitol, it was the cops and they were looking to bust us for breaking and entering. Ever the quick thinker, lol, we ran to the front of the house and went out the window door over the front porch and jumped off and ran down to the sidewalk, where we saw more cop cars headed to the hospital, and walked as casual as we could back to where we had parked our cars, whats now nashville sound, back then it was howerds, sorta like k-mart. |
| Brian |
posted 10/12/07 1:02 AM
One last post, i may be wrong about it being just a place for babies to be born, but other than that, everything else i said is accurate. |
| kat |
posted 10/29/07 10:25 PM
Hey.. since the place has been borded up has anyone been able to get in? |
| Jason |
posted 11/18/07 7:30 AM
Here's the true story, the rumors are more fun. I did go in a few times in high school & college. It's pretty tore up. "The New Hospital" In the early 1940s Dr. Edward Thurston Brading came back to Johnson City after tiring of the work in the far west. He established his practice in Johnson City, as the only internist in East Tennessee, and began to solicit cooperation from other physicians who might be interested in a Mayo Clinic-style clinical operation in this area. Dr. Carroll H. Long, Dr. Hugh F. Swingle, and Dr. Jack Gordon associated themselves with Dr. Brading in establishing such a clinic. Great help was lent to the organization of physicians by Mr. L. E. Gordon, Dr. Gordon's father, who at that time was the principal owner of the Empire Chair Company in Johnson City. With Mr. Gordon's help, the group purchased the Adam Crouch property on North Roan Street and established there a clinic and began to plan a hospital on the same ground The group practice existed for a period of approximately two years and at one time was enhanced by the addition of Dr. Owen Ravenel of Charleston, South Carolina, who was also a pediatrician. After two years, however, the group arrangement came apart, the immediate cause being the necessity of Dr. Long's going to Bowman Gray School of Medicine to complete preparation for his board certification. Dr. Owen Ravenel left and Dr. Brading and Dr. Swingle, after a brief attempt to go it alone, gave up and dissolved their partnership. Dr. Swingle continued the clinic under the name of "Swingle Hospital" for a few years. He did not attract another partnership and finally dissolved his business in order to join the Veterans Association, working in a number of institutions both in North Carolina and at Mountain Home, Tennessee. Dr. Swingle died prematurely of colon cancer. I hear that the son Swingle lives in a house on the property. So you won't see any ghosts, and if your unlucky enough, you get to go to jail. |
| Cathy |
posted 1/16/08 6:06 AM
How do I post photos? I have 5-8 of the hospital |
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