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 Zakolus
 
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Gender: Male
I am the loner, with out a trace
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< on 11/21/2005 7:22 PM >
|  | | | I would like to make a new location on Swingle Hospital, in Johnson City, TN, I am sure the place is abandoned and I think it would be an interesting UE
[last edit 11/21/2005 7:24 PM by Zakolus - edited 1 times]
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Zakolus
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Gender: Male
I am the loner, with out a trace
| | | | | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 1 on 11/21/2005 7:24 PM >
| | | | Here is another Forum topic on Swingle Hospital http://discuss.dow...?f=1&i=8497&t=8497
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Dowcet
   
Location: Middletown, ct
| | | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 2 on 11/21/2005 8:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by Zakolus
I would like to make a new location on Swingle Hospital, in Johnson City, TN
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Go out and take some pics, research some info, post it to the forum!
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camarochic007
Location: Tennessee
Gender: Female
Suck it, Trebeck.
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 3 on 11/25/2005 5:04 AM >
| | | | I've been there. Thick planks of wood cover all the windows and doorways. Crowbar markings were on the wood covering the front doorway, but it doesn't look like the perpetrator had any luck budging the board. It's been boarded up for at least 30 years, I've heard from locals. The people that live behind the place apparently watch it very closely. It's definitely worth taking a look at.
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xrahy
 
Noble Donor
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 4 on 11/25/2005 3:43 PM >
| | | | Posted by camarochic007
.....It's been boarded up for at least 30 years.....
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oh man, that's sounds really promising! imagine what kind of artifacts could be found in there...next time I'm passing through Tenn. (about twice a year) I'll have to check it out!
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camarochic007
Location: Tennessee
Gender: Female
Suck it, Trebeck.
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 5 on 11/25/2005 10:50 PM >
| | | | I lived in Johnson City for a long time before I even noticed it. The hedges and lawn are kept up regularly. Apparently relatives of Dr. Swingle live in the homes behind it and next door. I have heard different stories about how they confront "trespassers", but if they do approach you, I'd just simply ask if you could have a look inside. I moved from Johnson City soon after discovering the Swingle house, and I regret that I never just knocked on the relatives door and asking if they'd let me go in and take some pictures, because, let me tell you, you can't get in without a sledgehammer and TNT!
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robofuture
Location: Norfolk
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 6 on 12/4/2005 11:46 PM >
| | | | I read about this hospital the rumours about Dr. Swingles botched surgeries are all over. But I have yet to talk to any one who has been in.
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newvalgal
Location: Northern Virginia
Gender: Female
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 7 on 12/22/2005 4:13 AM >
|  | | | Here's the history. I went in a few times in 79 & 80. We (DCHS) went through a back door or window, can't remember. Very messy from others. Too bad too! I hate destruction! Saw a stretcher and some papers thrown around the floor. Because of all the rumors, we were TERRIFIED! It was VERY dark of course, and we panicked & ran back down to where Nashville Sound is now (it was some department store then).
I believe it would be a wonderful home again! I hate it when buildings are left to "die".
"The New Hospital"
In the early 1940s Dr. Edward Thurston Brading came back to Johnson City after tiring of the work in the far west. He established his practice in Johnson City, as the only internist in East Tennessee, and began to solicit cooperation from other physicians who might be interested in a Mayo Clinic-style clinical operation in this area. Dr. Carroll H. Long, Dr. Hugh F. Swingle, and Dr. Jack Gordon associated themselves with Dr. Brading in establishing such a clinic. Great help was lent to the organization of physicians by Mr. L. E. Gordon, Dr. Gordon's father, who at that time was the principal owner of the Empire Chair Company in Johnson City. With Mr. Gordon's help, the group purchased the Adam Crouch property on North Roan Street and established there a clinic and began to plan a hospital on the same ground The group practice existed for a period of approximately two years and at one time was enhanced by the addition of Dr. Owen Ravenel of Charleston, South Carolina, who was also a pediatrician. After two years, however, the group arrangement came apart, the immediate cause being the necessity of Dr. Long's going to Bowman Gray School of Medicine to complete preparation for his board certification. Dr. Owen Ravenel left and Dr. Brading and Dr. Swingle, after a brief attempt to go it alone, gave up and dissolved their partnership.
Dr. Swingle continued the clinic under the name of "Swingle Hospital" for a few years. He did not attract another partnership and finally dissolved his business in order to join the Veterans Association, working in a number of institutions both in North Carolina and at Mountain Home, Tennessee. Dr. Swingle died prematurely of colon cancer.
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dundertits
Location: at the beginning
Cave Cave Deus Videt
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 8 on 12/22/2005 11:21 PM >
| | | | How big is the place??? How do you contact the owners??
Matto
Kabbalah is an undramatic tradition that requires great patience and stability. One of the reasons for this tempo is that everyone has to mature his potential gradually and thoroughly at his natural pace. In this way his life's work unfolds at the right moment in his own and the cosmos's time.
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camarochic007
Location: Tennessee
Gender: Female
Suck it, Trebeck.
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 9 on 12/23/2005 5:13 PM >
| | | | It's an old Victorian house with a large addition on the back. The owners live in one of the neighboring houses.
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jmrader
| | Re: Swingle Hospital, Johnson City, TN
<Reply # 10 on 1/13/2006 9:02 PM >
|  | | | I am a old fart (44) that now works out of state for IBM. With that said I
graduated from SHHS in 1979 and do have some experience with the Hospital. Did
not know until now it was called Swingle.
I actually went into the building in 1978 with 4 other friends. What we found
was not paranormal but very interesting. The place DID look like it was
abondonded and locked up. I could not believe it but there are (WERE) medical
books, instruments, manuals, beds, etc that was unbeliveable. Went back about a
week later and was told to leave by a neighbor. Yes indeed the building sould be
opened by the local Medical school as it is awesom.
I went in before they boarded up the doors and windows so there was plenty of
light. I would not reccomend breaking into the place now because of the darkness
and structural rot.
Regards....
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