America's 10 Scariest Abandoned Asylums & Hospitals

3. Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital - Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey

Greystone opened in 1876, and immediately put to service in relieving overcrowding at the original state asylum, Trenton, by take some of it's patients. Quickly, the new asylum itself became overcrowded. It was built to accommodate 600, but had 2, 412 by 1914. Extra building took place to house the patients. It was needed, as following WW2 it held 7,674, thanks to the large number of soldiers suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The hospital was threatened with closure in 2000, due to tales of sexual assault, female patients falling pregnant and a dangerous rapist escaping twice. In 2005 when a new hospital was opened. The original hospital is scheduled for demolition.

Woody Guthrie, the folk singer was held at Greystone in 1956. Urban explorers looking around the old buildings found patient records lying around, including photographs, and old equipment left rotting where it stood.