Baptist Regional Medical Center - AKA Southeast Kentucky Baptist Hospital -
The Old Corbin Hospital
Posted - Summer, 2003

Both of my daughters were born here. A few years later, it was closed, I'd
heard, because it was full of asbestos. I don't know why it's still standing,
but I heard that they're going to be tearing it down soon and I wanted to
go get some pictures of it before they did.

High on a hill in Corbin, when we first drove up to it, it looked forlorn and
just lost. Trees have taken over the front of it and vandals have broken most
of the glass in the windows. It made me sad to see. Time just isn't
very kind to much of anything.

There are stories that the hospital is haunted, and I did get a few
pictures of things that looked like someone looking out at us, but
I know there was no one there.

Added Jan. 4, 2004 - 11:00 p.m.:
The following is a .wav file I made of a recording we took from the parking lot
of the hospital entrance last night (January 4, 2004). Just after the train whistle
blows, you can hear what sounds like a young woman saying, "I'm hurtin' - I'M HURTIN'!".

You can hear the murmering of someone answering her but I can't really understand
what he's saying. We didn't go into the building, it was after midnight, and to be
honest, I'm too big a chicken to go in there in the daylight! We left the recorder
on record and went back for it an hour later. When we got home this was what we found
on the tape. Maybe it was just someone in there after midnight goofing off, but I really
don't think so. In any case, I thought someone might get a kick out of it.
I'm Hurtin'!

This sigh is on the same tape, and came from the hospital as well.
A Sigh

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For those of you who have emailed me to ask directions to the old hospital,
go into downtown Corbin, take a right on 4th. street, and follow it
all the way up the hill. The hospital sits up there on the left. You
can't miss it. :)

4th. Street is a one way street, so remember, when you leave, follow and watch
the signs carefully. You have to leave going down Fifth Street, and that's a one
way street as well!

I didn't see any "No Tresspassing" signs up there, but common sense tells me
that we shouldn't do it. Don't go inside without proper permission! (No, I can't
tell you who can give you that permission, maybe you can try phoning Corbin City
Hall.)

Be Safe!

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Added April 4, 2004:
On Saturday, April 3, 2004, we went back to the old Corbin Hospital. I got some more pictures...a
few of which were pretty eerie in that it looked like someone standing inside. (See Ghost Page)

If you'd like to see the photos we took yesterday, just click on the thumbnails below.

In one lower level section (Bonnie kept calling this the morgue, but I don't know if it is, or
know how she would know where the morgue is here, so don't put much stock in that! :) ...anyway...
Lisa and Bonnie were there before I got there, and they'd found this cold spot. They'd been playing
there for 20 minutes before I showed up, and all excitedly told me that they could lean over and exhale,
and see their breaths. I leaned over and tried it and nothing. Then suddenly a waft of icy air
came out of there and we all could see our breaths. It was about 65 out side, and a very sunny day,
as you can see from the photos. There's no way it was cold enough for us to see what we were seeing.
No where else in the hospital was cold like this. On the other side of the hospital was another
opening to another lower level, but it was completely flooded. There were no icy blasts of air
coming out from there. Lisa and Bonnie said that before I got there, they could hear dishes and
pots and pans clanking around, as if someone was busy cleaning up a big kitchen mess. I didn't
hear those things, and they didn't get the sounds on tape.

On the tape, we got the sound of a siren and a cart, if you'd like to listen,
click the link below:
Siren and Cart Wav

Click the link below to send a Hospital greeting card: