Sunland Hospital Site
Orlando, FL 32808
“Sunland Hospital” was demolished nearly two decades ago, but locals still know the story well. It was a treatment center for those with severe mental handicaps, and for many years it was a poorly-kept secret that the children there weren’t treated with the very best of care. Finally it was shut down in the early 1980s.
From that point on, people claimed to see weird lights and sounds emanating from the abandoned building, and it didn’t take long for it to become the #1 spot in Orlando for bored kids and ghost hunters to check out at night, looking for a good scare. Some got just that – apparitions of little boys and girls appeared at various spots throughout the building.
The abandoned hospital remained a popular night-time diversion for Orlando’s youth until the mid-1990s, when one unfortunate kid fell through an elevator shaft and was seriously injured. That incident led to the building being demolished soon after. Today the site is a playground, and some claim that swings can be seen moving entirely on their own, as if being ridden by the spirits of long-dead children.
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Reviews
Hell I used to live across the street from there on Bon Aire Dr
We used to ride our bikes around back an see patients in a screened in area an would pop wheelies an entertain the patients
We never thought it was haunted an when I returned to the neighborhood some 20 yrs ago it was gone
I was born in 1961 an moved away 15 yrs later to college park
I now live in Tennessee
February 2021
| Would Recommend | Yes |
0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
After clubbing very close to Halloween...Some friends and I went to the abandoned hospital...around 1993 or 94....there was stuff spray painted on the wall like "sweets to sweets" just like in the movie Candyman...also various stuff saying..." don't go this way or you'll die if you go that way..."...there were old hospital papers strewn everywhere ...wheel chairs ...embalming tables....all sorts of medical equipment...the children's ward had creepy old Disney characters on the walls ...like the original Mickey Mouse....we heard lots of noises and saw a wheelchair moving g toward us down a hall way ...also when we ran outside we looked up and saw a black shadow figure ...in an upstairs room that mysteriously had a light on....when there was clearly no electricity....also in the back of the building was yellow crime scene tape...from who knows what...we all ended up screaming and running out of the place
..I ran so fast I tripped and fell and tore my shirt and skinned my entire shoulder on the road...you could definitely feel evil there...and that thede sould or people were tortured there before death...
September 2020
| Would Recommend | Yes |
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
After clubbing very close to Halloween...Some friends and I went to the abandoned hospital...around 1993 or 94....there was stuff spray painted on the wall like "sweets to sweets" just like in the movie Candyman...also various stuff saying..." don't go this way or you'll die if you go that way..."...there were old hospital papers strewn everywhere ...wheel chairs ...embalming tables....all sorts of medical equipment...the children's ward had creepy old Disney characters on the walls ...like the original Mickey Mouse....we heard lots of noises and saw a wheelchair moving g toward us down a hall way ...also when we ran outside we looked up and saw a black shadow figure ...in an upstairs room that mysteriously had a light on....when there was clearly no electricity....also in the back of the building was yellow crime scene tape...from who knows what...we all ended up screaming and running out of the place
..I ran so fast I tripped and fell and tore my shirt and skinned my entire shoulder on the road...you could definitely feel evil there...and that thede sould or people were tortured there before death...
September 2020
| Would Recommend | Yes |
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
I thank that thats tarble of what happened to that little boy
April 2018
| Would Recommend | Unsure |
1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
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