Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital
Marlboro, NJ 07746
Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors in 1931 and remained active for nearly 70 years by the State of New Jersey. Between its cottages and building, it accommodated about 800 patients of all ages. By 1978, the hospital only treated adults and adolescents. Many patients died while at the hospital, prompting the designation of a cemetery on campus grounds for bodies that went unclaimed by family; 924 marked graves are still open for visitation from the public.
In the 1970s, there were patients who suffered from food poisoning, causing some deaths. Investigations in the 1980s and ‘90s exposed rampant patient abuse, much of which was responsible for some of the patient deaths. Other troubling tales of the hospital's history included patients going missing, patients choked to death, and patients dying from untreated ailments, according to reporting from Gothamist. Finally, in 1998 the hospital was officially closed.
Prior to closing, the hospital was staffed with more than 1,400 employees, serving over 700 patients per day, according to reporting from NJ.com. Many of the patients moved to other state psychiatric hospitals or group homes, while some went on to live on their own with a stipend and professional help to keep them healthy and safe without having to rely on living in an institution for the mentally ill, according to reporting from the New York Times.
As for future plans for the property, the New Jersey Economic Commission initially put up the hospital for sale only to later hand it off to the Monmouth County Park System to turn it into an open space for recreational use. Before the park system could do anything with the property, it required massive demolishing and clean up massing from what was originally planned for as an estimated $27 million project, according to State of NJ, Governor Chris Christie’s Office, to a $75 million project.
Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital wasn't something that could be turned around into the open recreational land quickly, so after closing the hospital became the stuff of local legend. An abandoned slaughterhouse is said to have been host to a murderous farmer who would lure victims down “death row” and kill them. Shadow people were often reported around the slaughterhouse before it was razed as well.
Given the history as well as mysteries around Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, ghost hunters and other individuals daring enough would step onto the grounds and discover experiences for themselves even though signage clearly indicated 'No Trespassing' and that the grounds were filled with asbestos and wild animals. With the rising problems surrounding the void space demolition of some of its buildings were started in 2014. Even the hospital was demolished and all demolition officially completed in early 2015, but that does not mean its spirits don't continue to exists there!
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Building was for criminal insane .i never told any one of my experiences
February 2026
| Would Recommend | No |
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful
a couple of my boys went there to explore, still crazy amount of fenses, barb wire, and security but the place has been demolished, explored the area for hours and couldn't find it, don't waste your time.
February 2024
| Would Recommend | No |
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
me and my friends wanted to see if it was really haunted and sheesh were we in for a treat. we all walked in from a side road and instantly saw weird stuff. there was flashing little lights by our feet and my friend got pushed into me so hard (im 6 ft3 and he was 5ft 7 maybe), it felt like someone my size ran into me at full speed. then we saw a line of what seemed to be probably 15 people lined up walking in uniform down one of the roads all wearing all white. Security use to patrol back then and we ran from them multiple times hiding in the buildings when they would drive by and heard some weird stuff in a couple of the building while hiding from security. Got back to our car and cops were sittin by it. Luckily no tickets but was a crazy experience.
September 2023
| Would Recommend | Unsure |
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Went to the Grave yard across the road from where the Hospital stood very sad to see all the tiny Head stones only with numbers on them but there is a stone feature there with all the names of the he people and their number.
May 2023
| Would Recommend | Yes |
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
I lived in the employee quaters above mens receiving my room was at the front.
I never felt or saw a ghost.
I worked in the laundry truck picking dirty laundry and delivering fresh laundry.
I worked with George the driver and Mr Banks they were cool people,will always stop at the Jigger Shop for coffe.
The main kitchen had the best food.
I worked together with some inmates from across the road never had a problem inmate alled Smally always told me to who to watch for.
Learned a lot about people not every thing is as it appears.
Yes,I was there when a patient killed an employee.
October 2022
| Would Recommend | Yes |
6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
n the late 70's , My late friends mother, sadly had to go there to recover from depression and alcohol addiction. A group of about 6 of us around 15 or 16 yrs old went with my friend to see her mother. She was in a large room with many other people. After our visit, we being young were curious and wandered around the property and buildings. There wasn't any supervision or guards that I remember. So eventually somehow we all made our way into a basement of cement tunnels with water puddles. Creepy rooms off the path with those little scary windows , chains. There was electricity, lights on the ceiling, just light bulbs hanging, water dripping. We spent some time just being afraid, yet wanting to venture through this maze of bizarre pathways and rooms. It was not right, it was not a good place. I feel bad to anyone that had to be in that sad abandoned hollow ,damp place. Haunted for sure.
July 2022
| Would Recommend | No |
5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
While investigating the campus I placed a static video camera in one of the patient dorms. After review one could hear a man screaming as if he was in pain in the distance. What a awesome catch. They eventually tore down the entire campus back in 2015 to make way for an open park.
April 2022
| Would Recommend | No |
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
So there used to be a fallout shelter when you get up the path a little ways from the cottages. A group of us were walking past and I looked up to the second story of the shelter and I swear to God there was someone or something standing in the giant broken window up there. Spooky af...
March 2022
| Would Recommend | Yes |
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
In late 2010, a group of friends of mine wanted me to go here but I was hesitant for fear of getting the $600 trespassing ticket other friends of mine had. they told me we were goin to the devils tree in NJ instead. when we got to the couldesac, we walked along the reservoir of water in that neighborhood (you can see it on google earth) and there was a hole in the fence we walked through. we walked through this field and I began to notice even though all was overground, I was walking on pavement. I looked down and saw parking lot lines and realized I was standing on an overgrown parking lot. my friend shines the flashlight on a building that looks abandoned. they tell me it's a school and we go inside. everything felt uneasy and as we were walking through one friend says - hey if this is a school why does this say linen closet? they turn around and go 'this aint no school mfer, welcome to Marlboro insane asylum!" and we all were stunned and couldn't believe I got tricked into going here along with a few others. walked in every building we could. we attempted to go through the underground tunnels but they were completely flooded. the scariest part of the place was a building with Half walls seperating patients. its a big open room with all half wall dividers. You couldn't see what was behind each wall until you walked past it. we also went into the barns and that was ultimately the creepiest part. were were there for a good 4 hours easy. I was in shock the entire time and just felt absolutely scared out of my mind. Once we left I read that the farmer haunted those barns and it made sense to me now because it felt wrong. everything about that place was creepy. being such a big property that was abandoned, it felt like you were in this ghost town. street names overgrown with grass. a fully functionally place that one day everyone left from and literally just didn't come back. that made it even more eerie. that was an experience for me that I will never ever forget and I am still scared to this day thinking about that place.
February 2022
| Would Recommend | Yes |
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
I lived next to the Hospital my whole childhood from 0-15. Once I had to go to my older brothers baseball game and it was right next to the hospital, and by this time it was still open. And so I decided to go look around the Hospital for at least 20 minutes and then when I got to the back of the Hospital building I decided to stop and take a look around. But out of no where I heard screaming, like very loud screaming. And so I ran back to my parents and told them everything. A couple years later I started hearing stories about the Hospital, so I dicided to share mine. Until I heard that the exact night I went looking around was the exact second one of the nurses were killed by one of the patients. And by that time I couldn’t help myself so I ran off and never talked about it again. But when I got married and had 3 little girls, we started living really close to the place. And so we driven by so many times, I dicided to tell them about my story, and we went looking around it again. And that it!
May 2021
| Would Recommend | Unsure |
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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