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Hissom Memorial Center closed its doors in 1993 as an institution for the mentally retarded.
A small, black sign points the way to the 37-building facility on the outskirts of Sand Springs. The sign seems like a trivial marker for a center that has caused such considerable controversy. Many of the buildings that were once home to hundreds of mentally retarded citizens now sit vacant or act as storage facilities.
A 1987 court order to close the facility was the culmination of a 1985 lawsuit brought by parents who wanted better care for their children who lived at Hissom . Originally, DHS fought the order but later agreed to a 1989 consent decree that set out the terms of the shutdown. The center is located in Sand Springs off of Hwy. 51.
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mandy please send to me too i would love too see ive been a couple times.. dunbarj34@yahoo.com
Dont judge if you werent there. Thousands of people have worked there and many worked in community programs after the closing. Many of the former residents grieve for the place. It was not what it was painted to be by the media and the money hungry Bullocks and there crooked judge Ellison. There were 6 parents, bitter angry people involved out of 100 or more against the closing. It was politics at its corrupt worse.
i dissagree with the comment about how the residents grive for this place i work ith people that were living in there and the stroies that i have herad for them was that is was a living hell i couldnt imagin what they went through
check out the pictures of orbs in the pool room. also we have recordings of voices in Hissom and other locales.
If anyone wants to go back, please let me know. I’ve only been to the gate. I would like to go with someone who knows the place.
My Uncle was born with Downs Syndrome and the Doctors at the time he was born told my grandmother to put him in an institution because he would be a “vegetable” My grandma kept him at home with the family for several years but, after hearing about how “great” Hissom was for people like my Uncle she thought they would give it a shot… he was not there very long. The first time my grandmother went to go visit him and he had lost so much weight, he was filthy, wouldn’t talk and a bunch of other unmentionable things. SO, she pulled him out of there immediately!
I also at one time worked with individuals that were long term residents of Hissom and the stories that we were told directly from the families and the agency I worked for about the individuals literally made me sick to my stomach. One male client in particular could walk, talk, dress himself and had about the mind of a 10 year old. When he got out of Hissom he couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk, and was pretty much a vegetable. There were also rapes and lots of deaths. The ONLY people that were fighting to keep Hissom open were the selfish idiot parents who locked their “unperfect” children away because they “couldn’t” deal with them. One of the supporters of Hissom used to be my Mom’s hairdresser and when she found out where my Mom & I were working (both for an agency assisiting mentally disabled) she said to my Mom “They shouldn’t let those people out in the public, they should lock them away!” It took all my Mom had not to slap her.. and my Mom told her “My brother is one of THEM people” and walked out!
Sorry for the long story but, I have ALOT of anger towards anybody that would even think about mistreating an innocent defenseless person..its SICK! Only the weak prey on the weaker.
A word of advice to any intrepid, would-be paranormal investigators about Hissom. There are officers and caretakers on premises and they take trespassing there very seriously. It is an accessible site, but to do it legitimately, you have to go through city channels and get permission. Just a little CYA for your own good.
all of you people who published these pictures should post that they were taken after closing. not every one knows why the place closed butt every one wants a piece of it now but not then. a lot of the old residents of hissom would reather go back home to hissom then be were they are now.
So today I went with a friend not truely knowing what hissom used to be. (I thought that it was an insane asylum) So we got in during plan day and started to search the grounds. We went to the hospital, play ground, school, nurses office ect… About thirty minuets of looking around through a broken window i saw a truck pull up. We started to leave through the back of the facility. As soon as we reached the edge of the grounds a black truck pulled up and a dog got out and began to chase us. We ran like hell and spilt up, it chased after me for awhile but we successfully got out alright. I didn’t see the trespassing sing or anything… would’ve been really good to know that there is security and people that watch the place. This is just to warn anyone who thinks that it would be “fun” to go and explore a abandoned mental institution. If you do (I’m not just saying this to embelish the outcome of what could happen to you) there is a pretty good chance that somebody will catch you and you could get hurt, it’s private property….
*facepalm* There is clearly a fence around the property dude. For future reference, if its someones property and they havent allowed you to be there, its trespassing. The place is watched and they will send half of the Sand Springs police force after you, I should know, I was also chased by them. I highly suggest you read the numerous other comments by clicking “older comments” at the bottom of the comments.
We would like to do an Investigation there but we never go in without permission. Does anyone know who we could contact?
You just have to get a permit from the Sand Springs PD.
i will be soooo GLAD to see this place getting bulldozed someday. its a place of evil, hate and torture. i live with a man that lived there for 11 years. his life now is PERFECT. i can’t even stand to drive past the place without feeling sick knowing what all kinds of hell he lived through being there. may the place and those staff members who were mean, burn in hell
this matt that knows jack?
when me and my friends went we were walking in the front of the build and all 4 of us could smell blood coming from the build and then walked to the back were the marry go round was and the swing set we could swear we saw one of the swings moving wich creeped us out!!!
what is that bloody tray looking thing?
I have a picture of an orb that u can clearly see a face in sitting in the auditorium. Is there a way I could get this to ghost hunters or anybody like that??