About This Location
Kings Park Psychiatric Center opened in 1885 as the Kings County Asylum to relieve overcrowded Brooklyn institutions. At its peak, the campus housed thousands of patients across dozens of buildings. Building 93, a 13-story neoclassical structure built in 1939, became infamous for housing over 1,200 patients, many receiving treatments now considered inhumane including electroshock therapy and lobotomies. The center closed in 1996 after 111 years.
The Ghost Story
Building 93 is considered one of the most haunted locations on Long Island. Visitors report apparitions of former patients wandering the halls, disembodied voices and screams from within the abandoned structure, and shadowy figures moving across windows. One visitor heard whispering directly in front of them on the seventh floor though no one was speaking. Another investigator heard banging so loud she thought the building might collapse. At nearby D.S. Shanahan's bar, a female apparition appears and vanishes when approached. Police warn about the structural dangers, but the site remains a magnet for ghost hunters. The concentration of suffering over 111 years created what many believe is a permanently haunted location.