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Tunnels - The Lost Asylum


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On the surface, Fairfield Hills resembled a well kept college campus of colonial style brick buildings connected by a circular network of roads. The roads were nicely lit at night by soft white globes of light, set atop of decoratively styled street poles. But underground, a vast network of sparsely lit concrete tunnels, ran throughout the entire facility.

All of the patient buildings were connected via tunnels. The tunnels were most heavily used to move groups of patients between the buildings, especially during the winter months and on bad weather days. Movement of patient groups through the tunnels had to be coordinated, as the tunnels were very long, sparsely lit, and not very wide. At least one attendant led a patient group, while one followed behind.

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