:17:02
Hey guys! I have the keys
for the gate.
:17:07
Thanks, man.
:17:09
What do you think? Fifteen years
really does a number on a place.
:17:13
There used to be over 2, 400
patients here at one point.
:17:18
Why'd they close this place down?
:17:21
Nearly all these places closed down
in the Eighties. The budgets cuts.
:17:25
The Feds called it
Deinstitutionalization.
:17:29
They just dumped the people
on the street?
:17:31
Some. Some went to home care type
programs.
:17:35
The loonies are out in the real world
and we've the keys to the loony bin.
:17:42
It wasn't just the budget cuts.
:17:45
What was it then, Mike?
:17:47
Patricia Willard scandal, 1984.
:17:51
I don't recall that.
:17:54
Patricia Willard was committed here
in the 1970's by her parents.
:17:58
Maniac depression, that sort
of thing. Typical adolescent crap.
:18:03
But in the 1980's this Repressed
Memory Therapy took off.
:18:08
The shrinks figured these
new techniques would release
:18:13
hidden memories of traumatic events
like rape, incest.
:18:18
So Patricia,
with the help of her doctors,
:18:22
recalls that when she was ten,
her father raped her.
:18:27
But not once, right?
No. Three times a week.
:18:33
And he didn't just rape her.
:18:35
He came into her room at night
wearing a black robe.
:18:41
He drove her to a wooded area where
her grandparents and mother were.
:18:47
They wore black robes. When they
took them off, orgies ensued.
:18:53
And then they brought out
the newborn.
:18:57
She was forced to watch as her
mother
:18:59
cut a baby's heart out
with a stone dagger.