September 22, 2004
Camarillo State Mental Hospital "Pipes"
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Maryanne and Bill Barrett, Camarillo State
Mental Hospital, Camarillo, California, May 2004,
info@ghostvillage.com
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This is one of the places rumored to have inspired
the song "Hotel California" by the Eagles. Camarillo State Mental
Hospital, which was closed during the Reagan years, is now used for
location filming. My brother, Bill, while on a location shoot, was
working out of this building at the asylum just last May 2004. He's
a set builder. While there, little things like the hammers,
wrenches, etc. would disappear and then reappear in other rooms.
Windows would shut, microwaves thrown on the floor, the walls would
knock, and cold spots happened. They would hear children laughing,
but no kids were there. A couple of the crew quit -- it was too
close to the other side for them. My brother took this picture at
the start of a work day about 5:00 AM and this is what he got. The
crew nick named this ghost "Pipes" as it loved rapping on the pipes
to the point where the walls would move. I guess this is a picture
of "Pipes."
