ABANDONED St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital Reveals What They Left Behind [4K Video]

This is the abandoned St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital in central Elgin, Ontario. That car isn't part of the tour. It's site security, still patrolling this property regularly, checking doors and windows for trespassers. This place has been sitting empty since 2013. Let's go inside. Abandoned psychiatric hospital that I've been to many, many, many times. And here we are again. It's been a long time since I've been in here. So I'm seeing so much changes. There's so much that's different between now and my last time I was here. Like, it's crazy. So you guys will probably recognize this one. And so we're gonna do a nice big tour and I hope you guys like it. So let's go. Okay, so this here, guys, is the long, long hallway in between pavilions. So the building has one, two, three, four, five, six, I think it's got like nine different pavilions and the big main center building. And every pavilion is connected by one of these hallways. So there's a picture outside and you can see there. So we're gonna go to the far back pavilion right now since we're here on the main floor. And we'll just do the main floors of both and then we'll head upstairs. We make our way here to the end of the hallway. This hospital opened in 1939, built across nine connected pavilions plus a central building, a design meant to feel less like an institution and more like a small community. By its first summer open, over 1,100 patients already lived here. At its peak, this hospital held more than 2,400 people at once. So here, you got elevator and a utility room and then there's the stairs. Patients here work the hospital's own 460 acre farm, part of their care, not just labor. Every building, every wing, every floor has these. Windows here, back to the hallway. This room here. Let's say we go all the way to the end. Okay, I'll just show you guys the kitchen here. From this side, which is in pretty good condition, to what you're about to see on the other side. Small privileges like a designated smoking room were part of daily structure in institutional life like this. It's a mess, it's crazy, right? Right here, this is the designated smoking room. Care here wasn't always gentle. Records confirm physical and sexual abuse of patients over the decades. People who were labeled with words we'd never use today and often forgotten by the families who placed them here. The clean, what there is to see on the first level of this building here. There is some pretty cool stuff to see. So let's go see. It's not as colorful because you have lots of really nice bay. Hey guys, tub, tub, rubber dub. Is this somebody's shaver? It's in like really good shape too. That's gonna still work. Wow. Hey guys, so we're gonna take a walk down this whole corridor here. Okay, the closer we get to that part, you'll see that the water damage is much, much worse. See? But it will get better guys, so stick with us. And then you go on this side. Bathing wards like this were common across mid-century asylums, often used for hydrotherapy, a standard treatment of the era. See what's going on in here. Tub two, okay? Here you go. Tub, and then, wow. And then I think we've got a bathroom here. Nasty. This room's done. The odorant right there. And got rid of them right over there somewhere. I just saw him. He disappeared. Big windows. Those oversize windows weren't accidental. Big windows. Speaking of big windows, that doesn't make any sense as a rhythm rider. That's pretty awesome, eh? Wonder who wrote that third floor. Excuse me. 1930s asylum design believed natural light itself was therapeutic. Every pavilion, every wing, was built around that same idea. Okay, okay. So now we're gonna go back down the hallway to the chair here. This building's days are numbered. Ontario has approved demolishing it to make way for housing. So let's keep going. Really stinks out here, like rotten eggs. This is pretty awesome, obviously. Somebody has set this up. But it looks pretty cool. I'm not gonna mess with it. I'm just gonna leave it, because it looks cool, and other people can shoot it and have fun with it. These windows are, like, probably one of the coolest parts of this hospital. Every floor, every wing, every pavilion has them. It's really cool. Back and see what there is to see. Here's the stairwell. All right. Again, for another epic adventure? All right. Look at these guys. Teddy bears. Wow. In here is a little moose. Right here, guys. All right, another room here. This must be, like, the video room. Right? Because they got all the videotapes in here and stuff. All kinds of stuff going on here, guys. Okay, so we got a very special surprise for you guys right now, as we go over here. Ready for this, guys? Watch this. Holy cow, guys, look at this. It's Christmas time in the psych hospital. Check it out, guys. Isn't this, look, we have three Christmas trees. This is a very sketchy-looking Christmas tree. Then we have a hospital bed with no mattress, but we have Legos, and we have Santa, and we have stockings, and we even have gifts under the tree, guys. Look, gifts under the tree. That is very special. This is a very special Urbex Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody. We have a Polaroid camera, and we have all kinds of random, mysterious boxes of gifts. And then here we have ornaments on the table. Candy cane. There's even a star, guys. We even have a star on the tree. We don't have an angel, but we have a star. Oh, this is so nice. Look at these. Hey, look at, wow. Stockings. I wonder if there's any presents in the stockings, hey? This is very special, guys. A very special Urbex Christmas this year. Wow. Hope all you little Urbexers have been good and saying your prayers, eating your vitamins, hey? Being good boys and good Urbex boys and good Urbex girls to get all the Urbex presents and camera gear and good vandal locations to check out as gifts from the Urbex Santa Claus. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah? Cool. All right, guys, so here we are. Still in the psych hospital, but now we're in a different side, and we're gonna go and we're gonna check out the morgue. Let's go. All right, got a long hallway here. In the tunnels in the basement. Wonder what this was. Oh, camera club. Oh, cool, okay. Got my camera, guys. Hey, look, he's in the camera club. Like this. There we go. Okay, we're looking for the morgue. There's a very specific set of yellow doors that you're looking for down here, and it's right here. The double doors with the windows that you can't see through. Go on in, and here we are. So this is a two-sided morgue, guys, and I'll show you why in a minute. So this is the autopsy side. You can see here where I'm guessing that this is where the slabs would have been, that they've removed them, and so if they were going to do an autopsy, there would have been two autopsy tables right here, and then you've got all of your stuff that they would have put up here, your knees, and then you have your door, your fridge, your morgue fridge, and you can crack it open here, and get a look inside there. Open the other one here, there you go, right? And now I'll show you the other side. So this is where if someone passed away in the psych hospital, they would do the autopsy, they would prep the bodies. We don't know for sure, but our guess is that if you would come over as a family member, that maybe this is where they would take the family to see their deceased loved ones. So you pull this open here, and then you can pull it across like this. There you go. I might be wrong though, this is just my best guess as to what this side, why this side is so much nicer than the other side. This is where we had the ******* duck. I don't see him, I'm just gonna duck and go. Yeah, this is what we were talking about earlier. Yes. This is it, yeah, this is it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go. Okay guys, so yeah, so here we are in the forensic unit where they have the cells. And for the worst of the worst, just stay back here. I can't use my lights because the security guard is right outside somewhere. So just fix this right here. But I think we can also go up. I believe that there's more. Yeah, I can't see ----. Yeah, this is definitely where we stayed. Yeah, yeah. I say this is good because there's no window here. There's a window, look at the door right there. Okay. So we just gotta, okay. Okay, lights. Yeah, they're off. Okay guys, we're leaving now. So we're just gonna go through the tunnels. I've got a film about going through the tunnels.