In popular fiction, san at oriums also tend to get mixed up with san it ariums, which makes people think of sick and crazed as being one and the same. Often the places were created to treat specific diseases at the time that were eventually locally eradicated (TB clinics in particular) without any later re-purposing of the structures.

Their abandonment was sometimes related to loss of funding or new prohibitively expensive fixing due to new government regulations. Many older, real life 'abandoned hospitals' in the U.S were properly called sanatoriums, and have probably contributed to the trope imagery. Or perhaps it's because most people are afraid of hospitals for several reasons: germs the stale, blaring white atmosphere doctors poking and prodding you with weird and often painful instruments. Maybe because hospitals are associated with illness and death, as well as being places that should be clean. Other themes include grisly medical experiments and deformed, inhuman monsters shambling about, as well as using medical equipment as torture devices.Įven without all these things hospitals are pretty creepy to begin with.

Dirty tiles, broken cabinets, corpses in bloodstained lab coats/nurse uniforms, and rusted metal bed frames are all common themes. The creepy abandoned hospital/ mental institution is a common setting in horror. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.

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