10 Abandoned Morgues on Earth

Some creepiest morgues can be seen under:-

No one wants to visit morgues at the best of times, but perhaps the ultimate in creepiness are morgues that still remain long after their time – abandoned, with nothing left but decaying interiors and the ghosts of the deceased people who passed through them.

 

Mortuarium Schoonselhof, Antwerp, Belgium 

Exploring the morgue and autopsy room gave us a bit of a morbid feeling,” says the photographer who took these pictures. “This morgue was abandoned some years ago; they left all tools and chemicals in its place. We found autopsy instruments untouched for years (we hope). There were some needles and sewing materials, a strainer scooper and some electric bone saws. In the window was a chalkboard for recording examination data.”

Mortuarium Schoonselhof, Antwerp, Belgium 

Beelitz-Heilstätten Morgue, near Berlin, Germany

Once the morgue of a lung and respiratory sanatorium, this next site was built in 1898 and abandoned in 1994. Since its abandonment, decay has set in, and the open windows probably don’t help. The building has quite a history: it was one of the biggest hospital sites in Germany, and during the First World War it was converted into a military hospital, in which more than 12,500 soldiers were nursed. Its most infamous patient was Adolf Hitler, who recovered here in 1916.

 

These were cold storage lockers for bodies. After WWII, in 1945, the hospital was turned over to the Russian military, who kept it until 1994 before leaving it to wrack and ruin. The site is currently being redeveloped.  

St. Mary’s Hospital Morgue, UK

This particular hospital was an asylum. As you can see, it is boarded up now, but it seems hospital green really was the color scheme used everywhere, including in the morgue! With its drainage pipe, the table looks as if it awaits its next cadaver.

 

Harold Wood Hospital Morgue, Essex, UK

In this unsettling image of a morgue it looks as if the medical examiners just walked out after cutting somebody open. The stains on the floor might be a mixture of organ juices, formaldehyde and other chemicals, and the water that was used to wash the body down.

 

St. Peter’s Hospital Mortuary, Surrey, UK

In this dark and dreary image, you can see not only the table that the cadaver would have been laid on but also the counter where autopsies were carried out (for example on the brain) and other necessary procedures such as the weighing of organs.

Morgue at Cambridge Military Hospital, UK

This morgue is incredibly decayed and seems to be returning to nature, with leaves covering the autopsy table and floor. Yet there is also something of the absurd here, with a telephone left on the table as if waiting for someone to answer it.

Unknown Morgue, UK

These are not bakery ovens! Rather, they are the body lockers or refrigerators that the bodies waiting to be identified or autopsied were kept in. We asked the photographer if he ever felt morbid or sensed the eeriness of such places but he answered that he is one of those people who don’t pick up such atmospherics easily.

 

Unknown Sanatorium Morgue, Germany

The urban explorer and photographer who took this creepiest of shots spoke about his experiences of photographing morgues and mortuaries: “I have been to quite a few morgues around the world and have to say they are really creepy places. It’s always in the back of your mind – the things that have happened in them – and some places have a few old instruments left around like toe tags and bone saws.”