Essex Mountain Sanatorium opened 1907. Initially a Tuberculosis facility consisting of 20 buildings, it covered 200 acres on top of Second Mountain in Verona, New Jersey.
The eradication of T.B. meant the end of a need for the sanatorium. By the 1970s its vacant wards were used to care for the overflow of mental patients from the nearby Overbrook psychiatric hospital.
In 1977, the last patient was released and the sanatorium officially closed its doors and ceased all operations. On December 1, 1982 the county locked the gates to the hilltop property and abandoned the complex, then in August 1993, the main complex of the sanatorium was demolished and the final buildings in 2002.
Beds, patient files and hospital equipment were left still in place in the wards in 1977, sparking mystery and rumour about the sudden abandonment. Since 1982 accounts of strange occurrences added to its notoriety.
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