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 chucknorrisfw
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< on 10/15/2011 1:29 AM >
|  | | | Another exploration/ghost hunting excursion this time in Yorktown Texas. Great old building built in the 50's, shut down in the 80's. It reopened temporarily in the early 90's as a rehab unit, but quickly closed its doors for good. Traveled down and met with the caretaker Mike who gave us a tour of the place and gave us a chance to roam around by ourselves at night. As you might also see from the pictures the town seem to use the place as a major storage unit from holding local police records to city electrical equipment etc. We walked into the room that had the towns original jail cell reconstructed in the basement with a maniquin sitting in it. Armed with only a flash light I have to admit the set up caught me completely off guard.
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 1 on 10/15/2011 5:52 AM >
| | | | Looks like a nice location. Thanks for the post.
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MIM-14
Location: Texas
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 2 on 10/15/2011 11:36 PM >
| | | | Nice, thanks for the pictures. This looks like a cool place. Didn't the show "Ghost Adventures" film an episode here last season?
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chucknorrisfw
| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 3 on 10/15/2011 11:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by MIM-14
Nice, thanks for the pictures. This looks like a cool place. Didn't the show "Ghost Adventures" film an episode here last season?
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Ha, yes they did, thats how we heard about this place...
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SilentSearch
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 4 on 10/16/2011 11:57 PM >
| | | | Is that a Geiger Counter in pic 20?
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chucknorrisfw
| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 5 on 10/17/2011 12:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by SilentSearch
Is that a Geiger Counter in pic 20?
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Yeah, and not really sure as to why a hospital would have one, there was actually two of them.
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| |  | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 6 on 10/24/2011 8:55 PM >
| | | | It looks like one of the more rare varieties of Civil Defense Geiger counters from the 50's. Hence the Fallout Shelter sign. Interesting place.
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Mchelem
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 7 on 10/24/2011 9:53 PM >
| | | | I have a dining room table and chairs like in #19. They were my grandmothers and I got them when she passed away (In much better condition of course)
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Ghostofthelens
Location: Pearland, Tx.
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 8 on 10/24/2011 10:12 PM >
| | | | Posted by chucknorrisfw
Yeah, and not really sure as to why a hospital would have one, there was actually two of them.
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Sometimes the older hospitals used them to make checks on their machines that used radio isotopes for checking for leakage. I think they have built in equipment now in these machines that check it for them much safer now.
The only thing I saw, was your flash did affect your shots a lot. Here are a couple of suggestions for that, set your camera on background lighting, the flash will fire at the end of you shutter time, reducing the flash glare and making the light more even though your shots. Second would be to use a defuser on your flash, I usually use a softbox which only cost $11.00 for.
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chucknorrisfw
| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 10 on 10/27/2011 12:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ghostofthelens
Sometimes the older hospitals used them to make checks on their machines that used radio isotopes for checking for leakage. I think they have built in equipment now in these machines that check it for them much safer now.
The only thing I saw, was your flash did affect your shots a lot. Here are a couple of suggestions for that, set your camera on background lighting, the flash will fire at the end of you shutter time, reducing the flash glare and making the light more even though your shots. Second would be to use a defuser on your flash, I usually use a softbox which only cost $11.00 for.
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Yeah, I wasnt too pleased with my shots because of the flash, some were taken from my cell phone and others were taken from a low end camera, but I mainly wanted to capture certain points of the hospital. Starting to consider getting a little better quality camera so I have more options.
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Ghostofthelens
Location: Pearland, Tx.
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 11 on 10/27/2011 3:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by chucknorrisfw
Yeah, I wasnt too pleased with my shots because of the flash, some were taken from my cell phone and others were taken from a low end camera, but I mainly wanted to capture certain points of the hospital. Starting to consider getting a little better quality camera so I have more options.
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Hey NP. They make the defusers for the P&S's also. Was just trying to offer a little help there.
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W8712
Location: San Antonio
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| | | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 12 on 11/10/2011 2:44 AM >
| | | | Sweet. I went to Yorktown Hospital a few weeks back and took some photos in the daytime. then did the overnight ghost tour there.
The room with the dolls was my favorite
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W8712
Location: San Antonio
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| | | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 13 on 11/10/2011 2:58 AM >
| | | | I was gonna share a photo on here from the place, but I'm getting a pop-up saying I'm going over the Maximum size allowed..yet I resized it. hmm..
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yeya
Location: La La Land, TX
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 14 on 11/10/2011 4:50 AM >
| | | | Awesome spot. Looks really creepy but cool at the same time. Love the piano, I wonder how old it is. Sorry, but I gotta ask, what's a Geiger Counter?
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cdevon
Location: west county
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 15 on 11/10/2011 5:46 AM >
| | | | Posted by W8712
I was gonna share a photo on here from the place, but I'm getting a pop-up saying I'm going over the Maximum size allowed..yet I resized it. hmm..
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transfer them to photobucket.com soooooo much easier!
and yeya,"what's a Geiger Counter? " its like granite countertops, only made out of u-238
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| | | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 16 on 11/20/2011 12:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by yeya21
Awesome spot. Looks really creepy but cool at the same time. Love the piano, I wonder how old it is. Sorry, but I gotta ask, what's a Geiger Counter?
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W8712
Location: San Antonio
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| | | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 17 on 11/25/2011 9:00 PM >
| | | | 
I have more photos but just thought I post just a few from the place.
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Jack Strathmore
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<Reply # 18 on 11/25/2011 9:25 PM >
| | | | W8712........those dolls are fucking creeping me out!
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| | Re: Yorktown Memorial Hospital
<Reply # 19 on 11/25/2011 10:01 PM >
| | | | What are the film canister looking circular things on the shelves in pic 2 of the OP?
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