"Mysterious abandoned hospital" Ooh interesting "Short drive outside Johannesburg" ...it's corruption isn't it.

“Haunted” is a weird way to spell “robbed by the corrupt South African government”

"Were they lying?" - let's see, they were politicians, their lips were moving, and there was money involved - tough answer.

I was expecting ghosts and I found corruption instead...

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I love how Barely Sociable just ignores the BS ghost stuff and jumps straight to the real creepy stuff like a Doc with no real training.

That doctor is literally using "Trust me, i am a Doctor" as his medical professional license.

How could they have a staffing issue when a person doesn't even need qualifications to work there?

I still believe that Andre deserved more than eighteen years. Man was responsible for the deaths of several _infants_ , and countless injuries to other patients that could have been prevented.

For everyone’s benefit: “lumbar punch” is referring to a procedure known as a lumbar puncture. This procedure is performed to draw spinal fluid for testing - but most doctors avoid it if they can. This is because it’s one of the most painful such procedures which a doctor can subject a patient to. It involves the use of an extremely long needle, which is pushed between your vertebrae and into the spinal cord to draw fluid out of it. I’m no doctor, and I might be butchering how this works... but I do know how painful it is. It can also be incredibly dangerous, especially on young or old patients. I mean, hell - it's poking your spine cord with a great big needle. Of course it's painful, of course it's liable to do some damage if the doctor messes up. This dude preformed this on babies. Multiple times. For no reason. He’s a fucking sadist.

mother: "doctor! my baby's nose is running!" "doctor": "okay lets apply a few lumbar punctures"

I reside in Kempton Park, and have been living here for 52 years. I worked at this hospital as a volunteer for a few weeks during the winter of 1987 (while I was still at school). {Southern hemisphere= winter from Jun - Aug.} There is no way this hospital can ever be used again due to the damage to the infrastructure. If it is demolished the site might be of use. But with the whole country in a state of disrepair, I don't see that ever happening. The hospital is surrounded by a small but very densely overgrown "garden"... You can hardly see the buildings from the roads running around it. The town developed due to the airport (currently known as O.R. Thambo International Airport; once upon a time the biggest airport in Southern Africa) being built. The whole story around this hospital (and the whole country ) can be summed up in 1 word: CORRUPTION

This guys been here for 3 months and has content like hes been here for 2 years

nothing about this hospital makes sense, its kind of irritating

I'm from south Africa and I can tell you the legal liability is dogshit!

As a South African, I thank you for this deep-dive! I've always wondered about this Hospital as well, the strangest part about it is the way they left it - as if to get out immediately. South Africa went through A LOT of changes during the time of it's shut down, it's not impossible to imagine this as some sort of unfortunate "collateral damage" accumulated during massive government & healthcare restructuring.

As a South African, I want to thank you for covering this mystery. Our government is an absolute mess. They lie at the drop of a hat. Plus money that is _supposed_ to be allocated to projects like this often gets siphoned off by the parties involved to the point where the funds run dry. Very, _very_ quickly. Not to say that the previous regime was any better, mind you. Our country deserves so much better. Also, I noticed you used the theme from _Candyman_ for a section of the video. As a big fan of that film, it felt good to hear it in this context. Bittersweet. Excellent investigation, guys. Much respect.

4:42 Whoever decided to spell "lumbar puncture" as "lumber punch" should have their eyes looked at.

Cannot believe this monster was ever released from prison. What a flawed system that even let him into that hospital in the first place

Guateng Department of Health: Shit we broke, lets close that expensive ass hospital. Let's keep it on the low, dont need our people to know how much we're stealing from them Barely Sociable:

*Nurse:* oh there you are wh- *Doctor:* hospital’s haunted *Nurse:* what? *Doctor, loading gun:* Hospital is haunted

"Hi, are you guys hiring?" -"Yep." "Great, I'm a doctor." -"Welcome aboard!"

I love how you can cover this without going into ghosts.

I am from South African myself and i really appreciate you going into this!

“You don’t need medically trained professionals to put paper in a shredder” Best quote from this video

I was like "quarantined and left? must be some nasty contamination" then I was like "oh it is in South Africa? Corruption or neglect then."

This reminds me of the Goiânia accident. A guarded and abandoned medical facility full of medical equipment left behind. Someone got in to find some salvage to sell, ended up stealing and breaking open some radioactive material from some equipment. They also spread it around everywhere, like 4 people died, houses had to be burned down, and they stopped them just in time before throwing it in a river. Maybe some radioactive equipment had been mishandled in the hospital, it was found to be bad. Maybe the hospital management pays the inspectors off with embezzled money. As they continue inspecting, assessing the extent of the exposure, they have to start quietly evacuating floors at a time. When it turns out that the exposure is too great, and/or the danger of radiation contamination is to high/expensive to fix, they get the hell out of there. Maybe to cut their losses, maybe to prevent radiation exposure to the whole city, maybe to keep it a secret. But that might explain why it was done so quickly and why so much was left behind in the hospital, as it could be contaminated.

I truly can't say enough how much I love your videos. They're so well made, and incredibly compelling. You really know how to draw someone into a mystery, and as a mystery lover, I really appreciate that! Please never stop being you & making awesome content! ♡

Dang, we bigfoots don't even have any hospitals out here in the woods but these humans are just abandoning theirs like it's nothing

There’s a hospital here in New Orleans, Charity Hospital, that was abandoned after hurricane Katrina even though the hospital wasn’t damaged enough to warrant the closure. Only the basement flooded and citizens gathered to clean it, and it was medical ready within weeks - only for it to be shuttered permanently. And the reason was Louisiana officials and LSU money-grubbing monsters conspired to close it and block its reopening. Charity hospital was a public hospital that was essential for African Americans in the city because it was the only really good public hospital. it was a large and extremely successful hospital, state of the art. It was operated by LSU, who in investigations were determined to have intentionally sabotaged the hospital, to make the damage worse than it was in order to get insurance and FEMA compensation. Then they took the opportunity to close it and build a new hospital in the city with citizens tax money so that they could build a private hospital and make a lot more money for them. Things like this aren’t abandoned for creepy spooky reasons. They’re abandoned for money, and often corruption.

Everything about this channel is excellent, from the sound design to the video. Keep up the good work!

I heard another channel report on this story and they added an important detail that was omitted. Due to this occurring in South Africa when they were struggling to deal with transitioning from apartheid, there was a lot of racial inequality and corruption as a result. The hospital was originally built to serve the overcrowded hospital system, but administrators found that the people using the facility weren't deemed "profitable" enough even though it is a state sponsored hospital and was used near capacity. There was also a power struggle going on with hospital administrators who are suspected of corruption, which caused the closure of the hospital in order to redirect public funding back to another one of the other hospitals in the area as they said the new hospital was not needed at that point. Basically a bunch of racially-fueled bureaucratic abuse and government corruption which the South African government has never publicly acknowledged and apologized but instead ignores and hopes will be forgotten.

"Let's do four lumber punches on this baby" "Doctor, do you mean lumbar punctures?" "JUST DO IT"

South African here. You're shocked by the state of things: corruption, incompetence, ineffective administration etc. I had a nice chuckle.

I was born in Kempton Park hospital in 1988. Andre Estherhuisen was the "doctor" who delivered my cousin in 1986, Fortunately he survived. I have been there afew times, all it took to bribe the guards to let us in was 2 x 2lt coca colas and 2 packets of lays potato chips. The amount of furniture and equipment left in ruins is quite shocking. Defribulators, drips, beds, massive hardwood desks and 100s of chairs. I pass often and absolutely nothing has changed in years. Great documentary!!

As a person from Cameroon, I have to say it's truly sad. I hope things change in Africa soon.

Lumbar Punch* When you said and spelled "Lumber Punch," I thought the dude was doing lumberjack-tier strikes on the child to test his own strength.

"If it was about saving money why leave all the equipment?" I think we're vastly underestimating the short sightedness of government bureaucracy.

Really good video! Keep up the great work!

i’ve actually watched this video like 8 times and now i listen to it while i fall asleep. it’s such a great vid and i wanna get it more views AND it puts me to sleep so it’s a win win

what sets your channel apart from the rest lies in the very fact that you didn't go into the "paranormal" activity concerning the hospital and went to it's mysterious roots, which made the video a lot more interesting compared to the usual paranormal bait that we're fed. anyways, thanks for yet another amazing upload!

"But I'm not interested in that side of things" my boi, youre a good one.

Fascinating, my state has over 5 abandoned mental hospitals (a few which I've visited inside), love content like this

"Yohannesburg." "Howteng." "Khedani Maylangu." I'm hollering!

Hey Barely Sociable, I was born in Kempton Park Hospital in 1991 and to this day still stay in Kempton Park. Something to concider: the department of health changed after 1994 as Apartheid ended. So there were 2 different governments involved here which makes this situation even more mysterious. Great video btw.

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One of my favorite KZfaq channels! Thanks for the great uploads....

I love how in the video he was inquisitive as to how this happened and here in South Africa we're like "duh... Corruption"

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Mysterious? This is South African government run institution. What would have been spooky is if this hospital was successful and well run with very little corruption. Corruption, waste, and mismanagement is the norm and all of this went just as expected. That doesn't make it any less sad, however..

Love this channel !!! Keep it up bro 🤟👊👍

Just found and love your channel! And love that you used the Candyman theme!

Aaaahhh! So this video makes me want to cry and scream and just be emotional! Okay okay, lemme calm down for a second... I'm from South Africa, raised in Kempton Park... I wasn't born in Kempton hospital seeing as it closed in 1996 and I was only born in 1998, but still! Growing up there everyone had their own "ghost stories" to tell about the hospital and why it closed and what not, at one point when I was around about in 4th or 5th grade a few of my friends and myself decided to go there at night to just... I dno, creep ourselves out... as young children all too often like to do, anyway! We didnt make it incredibly far before bailing because of reasons I'll get into in a bit, but I first wanna explain just how eerie everything is inside... we went at a time before it was mass looted, there was still a fair amount of stuff scattered about and it looked as though one day everyone was working without a hitch and someone just came in and told everyone to just drop what they were doing and leave... nothing seemed to be packed away, nothing was handled with care really to place anything back where it should be, not that I'd really know where hospital items should be but I'm sure you get the picture... it's like everything just was dropped and everyone left... I gotta say, when you say "it was quarantined" I think people would get the wrong idea from it, it wasnt quarantined to keep a virus in or something of that nature, it was actually just seeing an influx of squatters housing there, homeless people taking refuge in the abandoned hospital... anyway, back to the creepy shit The fans were still on inside some of the rooms which is so terrifying because the electricity bill shouldn't have been paid from 1996 onward, and there were parts of the lower floor that had a prominent buzzing sound, kind of like a chest freezer if you've ever had one. One of the operating rooms had a dried pool of blood on an operating table, with parts of the table broken off... this wasnt enough to make me and my friends flee, but as we were making our way up the floors, down one of the hallways a bed was pushed rather violently out of one of the rooms and myself and my friends booked it after that... I dont think it was anything paranormal though, I believe it was a homeless person giving us a good scare and boy did it work! Never went back there ever again, security only got more strict and increased over time I'm living in the UK now though, so I suppose it's none of my concern anymore anyway... oh well, either way, thanks for humouring me if you've read this whole comment

One of the SCP Foundations less subtle containment zones

Dude, you hit the nail on the head there. Its corruption. Corruption is rather quickly tearing my beautiful country apart- now even more. Thank you for the fantastic video. Really enjoyed it as a local South African.

Wow, this was a blast from the past. When I saw the first images I recognized the hospital immediate. Did not expect to see that.I was admitted there as a child and my grandmother passed away in the hospital after long illness. It used to have huge lawns where we would play as kids, there was an old man with a stick who would chase us, but you could see him approaching from far. It was a fun game for us, I'm sure he did not see as such. But I moved away long before. Regarding the closure, it most definitely has to do with mismanagement and corruption. Although...there were rumors of UFOs in 1996 in the Kempton Park region.

The most mysterious part to me was the fact they quarantined it.

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At first I was going to blow thru this one,,,,five seconds at a time.BUT your story intrigued me.Very interesting.Keep finding the stories,,,,,well done,,,and thanx.

I’ve had a lumbar puncture- I had to have another one when they didn’t numb me up enough, I freaked out. I can only imagine how those babies felt.

im in the middle of a family celebration lol i will come back later

Esterhuizen: "Uh...I am...baby doctor." Kempton Park Doctors: "Aaaaah, Dr. Nussbaum!!! We've been expecting you!!"

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I love your stories. Too short and not enough uploads. Come on man I am addicted

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I feel like you've maybe missed an important bit of historical context here. This was all going on with the backdrop of the end of Apartheid in 1994 and a drastic change in government. That might have played in at least somewhat.

I found this channel around 4pm today. I had to go back and start from the first video, I’m surprised this channel is pretty new. Dope content though

If this had been a hospital in the US or Japan or somewhere this would be a mystery, but it's in South Africa, thus it's just some combination of government corruption and incompetence.

Love this video. I’m originally from South Africa and we left for, amongst other reasons, the lack of stability there. The government are awful, the police are corrupt and the emergency services are a joke. Everything can be bought and it’s an awful system. Would love to talk to you about it at some point.

I've explored it before. Was very eerie. The rumor was that it was closed for renovations but that never happened. It cost about R50 to bribe a guard to get access to the premises which is around 3 dollars I imagine. It seemed that everyone left in quite a rush as all equipment and stuff was left lying around

Excellent piece dude, and on the money too!

I've just watched 6 hours of your videos thanks for giving me something to listen to

My dad lives in Kempton Park and I have lived in Johannesburg my entire life. The streets are falling apart and South Africa as a whole is collapsing. Our government has been corrupt for decades and there is no way to undo all of the things the government has done wrong. People are dying. People are starving. The government doesn't care about us. I broke my finger and went to a PRIVATE hospital (because the government ones were full) and they tried to push the bone fragments together by hand and when that didn't work they taped my finger to a lollipop stick and told us to seek surgery in the city. I cannot imagine what government funded hospitals would do. The Kempton Park Hospital is more than likely just one of the many government funded things they chose was less important than their own paycheck. I 100% believe corruption shut that hospital down and that people in the hospital were laundering the governments money and not using it to help the public. Most government run schools don't have tables or chairs or toilets. They have long drops. An ungodly number of kids die yearly from falling in and drowning. South Africa is a corrupt place and everyone is suffering because of it.

*Ah yes, the SCP Foundation, I am familiar*

this is still a great rewatch

"nostalgic frisson" describes it well, as well as that liminal vibe that comes from things like "the back rooms" I've thought about this emotion a lot, and it seems like a lot of it is how it ties into memories from one's childhood.

Interviewer: Okay we gonna run a background check on you so you can work in the call center. After you will be working with really sensitive info. Me: OK, seems reasonable. This dude: "Im a Dr" Hospital Staff: "oKAy yOuRe hIrEd"

I live 10 minutes away from this hospital and I can see it when I walk outside my house. The government makes healthcare workers go inside to fetch equipment because the equipment is still new. My mom still tells me stories on how scary it is to go inside this place

"Regarded as a stable in its community" well there's your problem... they were keeping horses there.

Me and a bunch of mates went there a few times, the building is slowly giving in on itself but its a pretty cool site, and the view from the roof is awesome at night !

Ligit as soon as I found out this place in south Africa (I live here) I was like oh yeah this makes complete sense and doesn't phase me, the government has their "secrets"

The guy “posing” as a pediatrician. Terrifying and absolutely horrible.

Former South African here, now living in Scotland. I used to go to the skate park in Kempton Park when I was a kid. I asked my father about this. He said back in the day when Johannesburg was mainly just a mining town, many miners fell ill from mine diseases like anthrax. Kempton at that time was a desolate, far out area in the middle of nowhere where they used to berry the bodies, you can put the rest together.

One thing I've noticed watching people explore abandoned medical facilities is that ALL the medical records just get left laying around, even in the US where it's a HIPPA violation.

8:52 “Was designed to last a hundred years” Lol I’m watching this video on my phone because the government can’t even give us electricity for one full year. Let alone building something that could last 100 years.

They found out *all* their doctors were just dudes who walked in off the street with a handwritten note saying, "I am a doctor," and threw the whole hospital out

There was a hospital in Suffolk, Va. that closed suddenly. I heard it was due to a mold or some germ. All patients were removed, the doors were bolted, and equipment was left. It had a tall gate erected around it, and it was left for about 8 years, then demolished.

I visited dozen of abandoned hospitals around the east coast and midwest US from 2000-2016. They were primary closed down for budgetary reasons around the 1990s and the majority of them were full of abandoned equipment. The amount & type of patient records left behind varied, but there was one notorious case of a children's hospital in Connecticut that was full of abandoned patient records for people who were still alive. This same hospital had closets full of abandoned medications as well. Two other hospitals, one in NY and one in NJ were known for having medical specimens left behind. The hospital in NY had a whole room full of organ and tissue samples, which I saw first-hand. The hospital in NJ was rumored to have brains in jars (which I never saw) but the location was used to warehouse patient records, medical equipment, medication and paperwork, so its possible I just didn't get there before they were all stolen or destroyed. The abruptness of the closure and the secrecy around does seem a little weird, but the state the hospital was left in is very common. Hospitals here were also plagued by scandals and abuse (radioactive oatmeal, titicut follies, etc), and I'd assume keeping that quiet to protect administrators and politicians from blame is the most likely cause of a cover up.

There is not one video of yours that disappoints

I am a resident of Kempton Park, have lived here for 28 years. My mother worked at the hospital for a number of years. You have pretty much covered most of the information available regarding the shutting down of the hospital. It still dominates the skyline in this town of ours. I hope that one day they can make proper use of what is left. Thanks for the video.

I’d like to point out that the building featured in the first few seconds is actually not abandoned. It’s located in my hometown of Astoria Oregon and was damaged in a storm that ripped the roof off. The collapsed bridge was repaired soon after and a new roof was put on. It’s currently a private residence of a local artist.

"Frisson." I never get to use that word in a sentence, so hats off to you!

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I am a former hospital porter with 23 years of service and I find this case very odd. Certainly the fake doctor alone can't explain it. Also after spending so much money it makes no sense just to shut it. Kempton had been built, fully equipped and was working, at the cost of probably several hundred million pounds. And it was abandoned so suddenly, the hospital equivalent of the Mary Celeste! Normally when a hospital shuts it is gutted of all equipment, and certainly confidential documents. Weird! I agree that the most likely reason is embezzlement. South Africa is notorious for government corruption.

My mother and most of her siblings were born there. I drive past that hospital often. Interesting to finally learn the actual history of the place.

In the 90' we were transitioning from the apartheid government into the New South-Africa. The health department was taken over by people who were completely inexperienced and inept, not to mention greedy. That hospital closed down due to fund mismanagement and corruption. Funds that were supposed to go to the hospital for its yearly operation, got "lost". They shut it down immediately to avoid peopel sniffing around and asking questions.

When you've never been to SA and experienced the insane level of corruption... tip of the iceberg mate

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the fact that they quarantined it seems a loose end. it's like there was something in there they didn't want to be found. also, that mention at the end about a mental facility killing patients due to not feeding them is horrifyingly haunting - high intensity mental facilities are already nightmarish, but this takes it to a whole new level.