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Marduk
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 		Cambridge Mental Hospital
http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com

Yeah, this thing is pretty freaky. I've signed up for interaction already, and in one of the records pictures, for ward b, well... my name is on it. It could always be a freak coincidence, but those of you who've registered already should check also and see if your names have made it there.

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Emericana
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 		My name isn't.

Anyone want to check the drawings for steg? Stegdetect picked up something on patientpicture42.jpg, but I don't know where to go from there...

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jclabe
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 		Suzy & Greg = Susan G?
"Your Money or Your Wife" involves a couple with the names of Suzy and Greg . . .

and on the Cambridge Site, Chris tried to send an e-mail (returned) to a Susan G, from Wichita, KS . . .

could there be any significance in either the reason the mail was returned, or in Middleton or Norwich CT (a survivor of Dread House? the location of whomever is invesitgating via dreadhouse.com?)?

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StercusMaximus
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 		Re: Cambridge Mental Hospital
Marduk wrote:


. I've signed up for interaction already.


What do you mean by that?

SM
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Varin
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 		Re: Cambridge Mental Hospital
StercusMaximus wrote:
Marduk wrote:


. I've signed up for interaction already.


What do you mean by that?

SM


*I* wrote an email to Charles and got an autoresponder so I'm guessing I'll be on his mailiing list now.


[edited because it was Charles, not Chris that I emailed.]
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Marduk
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 		I mean I've emailed people and put my contact information into Dream Project.

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docvego
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 		For some more information you can check out this 'out of game' website too:

http://www.actionsquad.org/mental.html

Who's up for a field trip?

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charming_ant
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 		According to this out-of-game website, most of the buildings were demolished in 2003 - 2004.

http://www.kentandersonphoto.com/hospital/history/timeline.html

http://www.kentandersonphoto.com/hospital/exteriors/index.html

I was all set to tell my sister to take a road trip. Sad

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dishboy
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charming_ant wrote:
According to this out-of-game website, most of the buildings were demolished in 2003 - 2004.

http://www.kentandersonphoto.com/hospital/history/timeline.html

http://www.kentandersonphoto.com/hospital/exteriors/index.html

I was all set to tell my sister to take a road trip. Sad



I could always go check out the area just in-case... it's 5 minutes away from my apartment.... Wink
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konamouse
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 		Cambridge Hospital Website Info
"Remembering the Forgotten"
Cambridge, Minnesota, near Hwy 65.

Appears to be a memory site created by "Charles", a former head caretaker in 1963 (he followed in his father's footsteps).
Charle's History

Updates started Feb 24, 2004
Updates

He posted the address for possible patient records:
The Minnesota Department of Human Services
444 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155

On June 6, 2004 he specifically leaves an email message for Susan G:
Quote:
My email is being returned and I want to let you know that I did find Todd on my visit yesterday, or rather he found me. He does recall a Fletcher Livingstone who worked in Administration in the early 50's, and said if he recalls correctly, he was offered a more prestigious position in an institution in CT. I would start with Middletown and then possibly try Norwich.


Email: charlesSPLATcambridgementalhospital.com

WHOIS info:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160 PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: CAMBRIDGEMENTALHOSPITAL.COM
Created on: 31-Jan-04
Expires on: 31-Jan-05
Last Updated on: 11-Feb-04
Administrative Contact: Private, Registration CAMBRIDGEMENTALHOSPITAL.COMSPLATdomainsbyproxy.com
Domain servers in listed order:
WSC1.JOMAX.NET
WSC2.JOMAX.NET

(website found from the information at Urbanmythology.net about a reality tv show "Dread House" that was supposedly filmed at the Cambridge Mental Hospital).
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konamouse
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 		Cambridge Records
Possible puzzles and clues in these pages.

http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/records.html

1. /notice.html: Notice from Dr. House about mental patients waundering the halls.

2. /wardb.html: Ward B Patient List from June 7, 192_ (maybe a 3 or a 5)

3. /testimony1.html: Testimony from an employee, Miss Kane, an Attendant regarding the treatment of patients by another attendant, Mrs Slater. Miss Kane also testified that Mrs Slater almost killed a patient, Miss Craven, by holding her underwater in the cold bath. No date.
(this was testimony1.html, I tried 2 and 3 but did not find more pages)

4. /letter1.html: Dated March 7, 1928. It's very small and hard to read.

5. /judgement.html: Judgement: Authority to Restrain the Insane in the matter of Thomas Best, in January 1935. Mr. Best was 63 years old and beguiled with a young woman (Sarah Parker) shortly after his wife's death. He had been committed to the hospital November 16 1934. Testifying for the hospital was Dr. John Levy.
B.D. Hollock and George Smythe, for the petitioner.
R.E. Butler, of East Cambridge, against the petitioner.
H.J. Shank gave the opinion of the court.

5b. /judgement2.html: a continued page 4 of the case of Mr. Best. Including Dr. Levy's opinion that Mr. Best is insane.

6. /pir.html: Patient intake record for July 12, 1927. 12 new patients, their names (or John Doe), involuntary commitment or judicial confinement, and their Patient #.

7. /record8.html: some listing of patients, age, reason for admission, length of stay, disposition, curable, ?? Very blurry, hard to read.
(Tried record2.html, and other numbers w/o results)
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konamouse
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 		Patient Effects Page
Here are samples of patient artwork.
http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/patients.html

Spec is possible hidden messages in the pictures.

/patients2.html is "Hands" by patient Jim Doe
/patients6.html looks like a radio with "KILL" on the front (artist unknown)
/patients5.html looks like a pencil rendition of a bunch of people grouped together (artist unknown)
/patients.4.html looks like a watercolor & pen drawing of a moon over a castle with twin wolves looking upward (artist unknown)
/patients1.html is "Crude art by CMH patient Beatrice Doe, circa 1938".
/patients3.html looks like a windmill with moons on each blade, with an xray finger on the right and a shadowy grim reaper at the end of a trail. It appears to have been signed "Patient 9 9" (artist unknown)
/patient7.html looks like a pencil drawing of a girl with her mouth covered with an X (like tape), she appears to be in a straightjacket and has a tear under her left eye (artist unknown).
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asmyth
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 		patient 7
If I may spec for a moment here....
The drawing by patient 7 of the girl with tape over her mouth reminded me instantly of the story of the attendant who disappeared without a trace. The story, http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/stories2.html, mentions a patient who:

"claimed to communicate with the dead through dreams, and went through no pains to conceal it. It was this open declaration that eventually saw her incarcerated in Cambridge, and made those whose duty it was to care for her, extremely nervous. It was there that she stopped speaking, finally understanding that the price of her seemingly innocuous admissions was her freedom."

The disappearance could be a possible explanation for what happened to the Dread house group.
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Marduk
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/patients6.html looks like a radio with "KILL" on the front (artist unknown)


That's not a radio, it's the ECT machine with the electrodes coming out of it. <shudder>

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The Minnesota Department of Human Services
444 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155



Since this is an accurate address, I wonder if at some point it will be necessary to actually call and inquire about certain very real records.

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