Chestnut Lodge was a C_A mental health facility. Phillip Graham, owner of the Washington Post was a patient their before he suicided.

Apparently there some residual energy about the place which was sold several times

>"Chestnut Lodge is NOT abandoned and it is dangerous to go onsite during the construction and building process. Demolition of the majority of the buildings has occurred and development has commenced on the property. A Security Company is assigned to Chestnut Lodge and a Neighborhood Watch is in place. It is incumbent upon you as a responsible internet website to advise your readers that we have, and will continue to, prosecute trespassers to the fullest extent of the law."

>So, keep that in mind people: it's not nice to trespass, it's not right, and they will prosecute you if you're caught.

Chestnut Lodge Insane Asylum, 500 West Montgomery Ave., in the heart of Rockville, Maryland. A sanitarium for the "profoundly regressed" psychotic, "hopelessly schizophrenic," borderline personality disorder (BPD), and other seriously afflicted psychiatric and "mental" patients.

"...I live nearby...we used to hear screams...my son calls it Hannibal's House...we just want it gone..."
An historical DC suburban resort hotel turned mental hospital. Built in 1886. Closed in 2001. Historical. Off-limits. Eery. Taboo. Haunted? Unforgettable. Irresistable.

"...you shouldn't imagine what was going on in there... it's better if you don't know, if no one knows..." --local resident, retired researcher
Owned and run for almost a century by three generations of psychiatrists in the Bullard family. Internationally renowned. Over tweny buildings and 125 chestnut trees on over twenty acres, including patient lodgings and various buildings of historic/famous architecture. Notable staff included Frieda Fromme-Reichmann, psychoanalyst (c.1957), Harry Stack Sullivan, Alfred H. Stanton (The Mental Hospital), Ann Alaoglu, David Rioch, Harold Searles & Robert Morris (Menninger Clinic), Robert Cohen (NIH), Ann-Loiuse S. Silver, Wayne S. Fenton, M.D. (CNL Director of Research), Jan Foudraine (Swami Deva Amrito) (Not Made of Wood), Johnathan D. Tuerk, and Clara Thompson.

"...one wonders if it would be possible–indeed, if it would even be permitted–for people like Sullivan and Fromm-Reichmann to work with patients the way they did 50 years ago..." --psychiatry today