🕯️🏚️ Paranormal Lens Podcast – Season 3, Episode 33 🏚️🕯️
“Where Silence Screams: Kings Park Psychiatric Facility”

This week on Paranormal Lens, we travel into the quiet ruins of one of America’s most infamous abandoned institutions. Chad Thomas hosts as we investigate the unsettling history and reported paranormal activity surrounding the Kings Park Psychiatric Center in New York.

Joining Chad are Kirstin Truccano and Jamie Widener as co-hosts, as the team examines the real history behind the towering brick buildings, the patients who once lived within them, and the stories that continue to circulate long after the facility closed.

At its height, Kings Park was one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the United States. Thousands of patients passed through its wards during an era when mental health treatment was often overcrowded, underfunded, and controversial. Massive buildings, underground tunnels, and isolation wards became part of daily life inside the sprawling complex. When the hospital shut its doors, time seemed to freeze—leaving behind empty corridors, rusting equipment, and a heavy atmosphere that many visitors say feels impossible to ignore.

Over the years, urban explorers, historians, and paranormal investigators have all reported strange experiences inside the abandoned structures. Stories include shadow figures moving through broken hallways, distant voices echoing where no one should be, sudden drops in temperature, and the overwhelming sense of being watched. Some claim the tunnels beneath the property are among the most unnerving places on the grounds.

But are these encounters evidence of something paranormal, or the natural psychological impact of exploring a place filled with tragic history?

In this episode, the Paranormal Lens team looks at:

• The real history of the facility and how it operated

• Patient life inside massive early-20th-century psychiatric hospitals

• Reports from explorers and investigators who have entered the ruins

• Theories about why abandoned hospitals so often become paranormal hotspots

Places like this rarely fade quietly into history. Sometimes the buildings crumble—but the stories stay behind.

✨ Stay alert, stay respectful, and stay curious.