r/creepy • u/Adventure__Bound • 1d ago

Abandoned Juvenile Detention Center

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One of the many buildings on this abandoned juvenile detention center’s campus that I explored

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u/LocalItchy1136 1d ago

This feels like the start of a horror movie or Outlast spinoff in the best way

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u/DaStampede 1d ago

I would pay money for either

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u/Adventure__Bound 1d ago

Ooh I love outlast. The video footage from this place remind me of outlast

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u/vegasgal 1d ago

Where is this located? My guess is it’s the Dozier School (not a school at all even if there were classes) for Boys. Juvenile Detention Center between Marianna Florida and Panama City Florida, off of I-10? It was a house of horrors

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u/nosmelc 1d ago

Looks like the Hilltop from The Walking Dead.

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u/ZoNeS_v2 1d ago

Jill! Head for that mansion!

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u/conanmagnuson 1d ago

Good. These systems were deeply flawed.

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u/CletusCanuck 1d ago

The one in my neck of the woods had a notorious, profligate pedofile working there who allegedly pimped out boys to influential people, including the then-premier.

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u/conanmagnuson 1d ago

Yeah New Hampshire is currently working through a backlog of 1300 SA claims with the first one just paid out at around $1m. These places turned into a nightmare world after dark.

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u/bishop491 1d ago

North Carolina? If so, I’ve been there.

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u/PlasticISMeaning 1d ago

Where at in NC?

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u/bishop491 1d ago

Near Charlotte, I forgot the name of the town. Was the Stonewall Jackson school. When I went, there were no fences at the grounds were not grown over.

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u/bearwithmeimamerican 1d ago

If only there were a way we could like….look shit up.

It’s in Concord, NC

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u/bishop491 1d ago

I was less sure of the name of the school as well, so I wasn’t going to venture a town guess based on two unknowns.

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u/BadFortuneCookie17 1d ago

I swear I went there in RDR2

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u/b00kstorebabe 1d ago

I used to explore this place in high school and have lots of photos, including a room filled with church pews and pianos. very spooky place that committed horrible atrocities including sterilization of minors.

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u/vegasgal 1d ago

Dozier School for Boys. “The Nickle Boys,” by Colson Whitehead is also the novelization of the Dozier School for Boys. It was a real juvenile detention center where mass graves were discovered by USF anthropology students who wanted to see if they could learn the truth about the atrocities committed at the detention center. They learned more than the bargained for. I lived about 50 miles from there.

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u/ElricDarkPrince 1d ago

Star squatting there and it’s yours for free

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u/frodopgriffyndor 1d ago

That fence looks rather recent...

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u/shrimpcreole 1d ago

Concord, NC?

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u/stuckonpost 23h ago

That is the former Stonewall Jackson Juvenile Detention Center in Concord, NC, just outside of Charlotte. The new facility is behind it, Cabbarus Youth Development Center.

Please don’t go in there; it’s contaminated with asbestos.

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u/Machine0fLight 17h ago

Stonewall Jackson? I live right near there. Drive past it a lot. Super creepy looking with lots of buildings like this.

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u/E_tuck 5h ago

Bestie and I enjoyed this location too

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u/mokti 1d ago

Looks like one of our new immigrants detention centers.