In the summer before my junior year in college I worked as an intern at the MA Dept of Mental Health main office in downtown Boston. While it was largely geared toward administration, there were some areas where treatment was administered to patients and there were also areas where more serious treatment had been given to patients but were since abandoned. Picture an entire inpatient floor of a hospital completely devoid of people, but everything else was pretty much there. Well....as an IT intern I was the one who had to fetch things for everyone, and we used those abandoned areas to store IT hardware. Going up there to grab anything....monitors, keyboards, etc......was incredibly anxiety-inducing because not only were we convinced it was haunted, but that abandoned area was right next to the treatment area still in use and you could hear A LOT of screaming from patients. I ran very fast, very often, that entire summer.
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Matt McNamara
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