Abandoned Hospital With a Bad Past | Hospital in the Forest | Destination Adventure

i was in isolation i don't know why and then they moved an older guy next to me and when he coughed all that blood stuck to the ceiling [Applause] [Music] originally the hospital was built by the rcaaf the air force during world war ii they were expecting a lot of casualties from the aleutians they thought there'd be a japanese invasion they had built this this quite big hospital along with staff residences and everything when the war was over tb was quite a major problem especially in the remote areas where where they maybe didn't get much medical or health care there was a move to to build some kind of hospital for first nations people because of the way the health system worked and actually still does there there's two parallel systems uh one for non-native people and one for first nations people they realized that miller bay was open and there it had everything basically you know all the basic structures that they needed it lacked a lot too but it was it was there so they spent about a year getting it ready and then they opened it in september of 1946 there was all the buildings the residences and and then individual houses that's that they use for like families of um of some of the staff the um the hospital itself had several different wings it was like a long structure with wings coming out the sides [Music] the earliest patients had a very miserable time like they often spent their entire childhood there or they'd been in some other facility and then were moved to miller bay and you know stayed for years more and a lot of the patience you know the majority were young they um transported the x-ray machines up to the school and all the ants and we were all there taking extras lining up for x-rays and that is when they they tested me actually showed that i had had a spot in my lungs i must have been 12 it is a time away heartbreaking time away from my parents i don't even remember the year you had people in sort of the prime of your life stuck in this hospital and i mean some of them were very ill but others sometimes with tb you don't you don't feel that bad you know so it was hard for them to to be confined like that i don't even know if i was sick i was pretty healthy and um because um how quickly you know people don't usually recover within eight months someone was saying they were just testing stuff on me while i was in there [Music] it was scary and i was always looking forward to therapy we used to make handbags and belts and knife sheaths and we used to make two or three actress so they could sell them and get more supplies back right away they instituted a lot of occupational therapy to keep people busy and they had like a little shop where they could sell things that people made the other thing was because they came to all from all different places they spoke different languages and they had different cultural practices and and in some ways i've i've heard from some people this was good you know they met all these other people and learned different things for others it was it was very lonely you know made friends with people i never met before i've never known different language i spoke niska right up until i was about nine or ten years old and never knew much english yes and no and maybe i don't know they started doing a lot of really painful procedures like collapsing a lung if it was the idea was that would give rest to the lung and um and then let it heal but the procedure itself was really painful and it had to be repeated over and over like every few weeks [Music] it was pretty challenging at times for me because at one point where i was in isolation i don't know why and then they moved an older guy in next to me [Music] and when he coughed all that blood stuck to the ceiling from the throat they usually hide under the bed and the nurses would look around for me because it's just like rain it had turned into an extended care unit and so they had a very few people that were you know that needed custodial sort of care and at least that's what they would have done at those at that time and um eventually they were transferred to other places 71 i think was the was when it officially closed it was used in several different ways over the next few decades and it was a fish farm for a while it was a residence for people working on the pulp mill when it was being built there was a number of a petting zoo i think for a while and then eventually there was a fire and they they had removed some of the buildings already but then this fire kind of ended it i need to be totally honest with you guys when i heard there was an abandoned hospital facility here i was pretty excited to check it out after doing some thorough research i'm going into this with a little bit more apprehension than i had at first nevertheless i think it is a story that needs to be told so we're gonna do it we're almost there you can see the uh smokestack in the background there this area here is very overgrown but it's all flat this used to be where a large percentage of the hospital was it's all been demolished now unfortunately there's very little left of what used to be quite a large facility but uh we'll go and check out what's what's left here here we are uh just empty deadly little stove wow that's cool [Music] she's hmm i wonder if this was for hanging things i'm not sure because it's too low to be a ceiling and you can see that's the line where the ceiling would have been burnt though [Music] so the amount of calcium or whatever it is building up on this place is crazy see that in a lot of abandoned buildings you guys are probably going to jump in the comments and tell me it was asbestos and i was just poking it this would have had another wall going up here i wonder how much higher it would have went that's it huh pretty interesting how this thing ends on uh like ground level it doesn't have a back wall just ends back here that's off to the power line there i don't know what's under here it's not a super far drop it's all good [Applause] that's uh that's actually all that's really left of this place if you really put some miles on you can find foundations and stuff in the woods but that's the only building left but this facility was right on the ocean so let's go take a look at the beach wow beautiful spot holy was that when i was interviewing david he was telling me that he used to enjoy going on hikes here and berry picking and walking on the beach i asked him if he'd ever go back and he says he's wanted to go back and see this place for years and come see the beach again because he hasn't been back since he left as a child so david there's your beach hope that's the view you're looking for amigo i was planning on ending this video with another episode of the moho cooking show with some fun stuff but this location i don't know i just don't really feel like ending it on a fun note so i'm gonna stop the video here but i hope you guys enjoyed it still and i hope you learned something as always take nothing but pictures leave nothing but footprints i'll catch you on the next one [Music] you

Channel: Destination Adventure

Views: 17,698

Keywords: urban, urban exploring, abandoned, explore, adventure, lost, forgotten, found, discovered, discovery, history, past, indian, native, Native American, hospital, TB, abandoned hospital, hidden, secret, government

Id: 8YF7lARzPPY

Length: 14min 26sec (866 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 16 2021