I live on Staten Island and theres a few places here that are supposedly haunted, one of which is the old Seaview Hospital buildings. Seaview is still open, right across the street. But on the other side, completely fenced in are several buildings (I’m guessing about 6, i might be wrong) that are now closed off, most of which are completely identical. I’ve been there a few times during the day just checking it out, and it is kinda creepy during the day.
Around 11 o’clock p.m. me and three friends decided (in part because of this very thread) decided to go check out Seaview. The history of Seaview isn’t really scary, it was a hospital mainly for TB a while back. It closed maybe twenty, thirty years ago. But a lot of people died there, and since then it has been a place for homeless people, junkies, and “Satan-worshippers” to hang out in. The best way to describe exactly what this place looks like is probably the hospital in the Silent Hill games only with alot of graffiti. That kind of brings the atmosphere down a little because you know the place has quite a few visitors. But walking around there tonight definitely scared us enough.

EDIT: The front door is right on the bottom of the diagram, where the two side wings meet the back wing. Theres sort of a foyer next to the staircase, and the front door opens out from that foyer.

Armed with three flashlights and a camera, we snuck through a hole in the fence and found ourselves on the road that leads from each building to the next. We went into the first building we came upon and walked into the back door. A staircase was immediately in front of us, slightly to the left was a patient wing, and to our sides were patient wings. Those are definitely creepy. Its a long, wide hallway with dividers about 6 feet up from the ground every 8 feet or so, separating the individual patient areas. Occasionally you’ll find the remains of a bed or a wheelchair. For anyone whos played Silent Hill 3 and knows that scene with the wheelchair on its side, we saw something identical to that tonight. As we walked past a wheelchair turned on its side, the wheel on top was spinning slowly. As soon as we passed, it stopped turning. Scared the crap out of us.
Every now and then there will be a wall with a doorway leading to the next hallway. Most of them are simple hinged doors, but we happened to come upon huge, steel sliding doors. They were open about 2 feet, wide enough for us to fit through. My three friends walked though first, one at a time. As soon as I was about to walk through, the doors slammed shut, almost catching my arm. These things were ridiculously heavy and hard to open, so I’d imagine it could have broken my arm if I didn’t pull away fast enough. But we managed to open them, I slipped through the door as fast as I could, and we continued on. At the end of the hall, there was another staircase and the front door. Theres four stories, each one the same until you get to the fourth. The two patient wings on the left and right are there, but the one going down the center isn’t. Instead, a door opens up to the roof. We were on the first floor, so we headed up the stairs to the fourth floor so we could check out the roof. Now, this whole time we had been hearing strange noises and thinking we might have seen something, but this is in the middle of the woods so im sure racoons or squirrels hang out in places like this.

JUST SO YOU KNOW: The next part has something kind of nasty in it, I guess I just wanna cover my ass in case anyone takes offense.

But as I shined my flashlight at the top of the steps on the fourth floor, I saw a dog. It was dead, and had probably been there for months. At first I didn’t realize it was dead because its leash was still on it, and tied to the banister on the stairs. But as we got closer, we could see that it was dead and practically mummified. It had no eyes, its skin was pulled tight over its body, and the smell was terrible. We could see holes where insects had probably dug through it. It’s head was dangling off the edge of the stair and turned in a really grotesque way. This didn’t really scare us, it was just really sad to think someone tied a dog to a banister on the top floor of an abandoned building and left it there to die. I had been snapping pictures the whole time and I guess on impulse I took one of the dog (I know it was kind of a gross thing to do, I mean, its a dead dog, but something about the way it looked was so odd that I felt compelled to).

As I took the picture and the flash went off, me and my friend Mike both noticed a figure walk past the doorway on the left. This wasn’t like a shadow from the flash, because after the flash was gone it continued to walk past the doorway. It was a big black figure, kind of blurry, and it moved in a sort of stop and go animation, like it didn’t take regular steps. It was like watching an old silent movie, the way the motion was jerky and didn’t flow. Me and Mike told the other two what we had seen, and we all ran down the stairs, out the front door, and straight to the hole in the fence.

Not anything super scary, but I’m definitely not sleeping tonight. I’m hopefully getting the pictures developed tomorrow so I’ll put some up. Its a very creepy place.