Creepy photos show the inside of a halfway house where residents are said to have killed each other in rat-infested rooms before it was closed for good.
The building, in Ontario, Canada, was used to rehabilitate former prisoners and psychiatric patients but was abandoned last year following concerts of unsafe conditions.
Two days before the facility was closed, a staff member arrived from a neighbouring facility and found a resident tied to a radiator with a knitted blanket.
He was reportedly tied up by another resident for wandering around all the time.
It was eventually closed and 35 people were evacuated.
Chilling pictures show bedrooms empty of people and belongings, where lonely beds sit surrounded by discarded waste.
Another showed a fireplace where ash had fallen onto the ground. Childish drawings adorn the walls.
The photos were captured by urban exploration photographer and filmmaker Dave of Freaktography.com in Ontario, Canada.
He said: "This has been long since condemned and closed down for reasons of safety and health concerns.
"It was in pretty rough shape. I thought somebody was in there while I was exploring, I heard someone walking around. Someone had been living there for a while.
"There were lots of beds in the rooms, big bay windows and a nice ceiling medallion in some rooms.
"There were three floors. Most of the rooms had a couple of beds, sometimes up to three.
"This facility was entirely evacuated and closed down due to unsafe conditions and unacceptable health concerns.
"All kinds of bad stuff went on with the ownership of this building, basically neglect to care properly for the people who stayed here, neglect to safely secure the building from fire, all kinds of things.”
Upon inspection it was found the fire escapes were padlocked, the kitchen was infested with cockroaches and rodent faeces and there was no functioning bathroom for more than 30 residents.
As well as this, there were 18 broken windows, no working smoke or carbon monoxide detectors and not enough beds to sleep all the residents. The medicine cabinet had also been broken into and all the drugs were stolen.
Multiple fatal incidents have also occurred over the years, with police being called multiple times to cases of second-degree murder and manslaughter.
In November 2010, a 50-year-old resident was charged with the manslaughter of a 62-year-old housemate after a fatal fight over medication.
He was found not guilty.
In 2013, police were once again called to break up a fight wherein a 44-year-old man was rendered unconscious and died a few days later in a hospital.
A 33-year-old resident was charged with second-degree murder.
The family who owned the home also previously owned a now-condemned retirement home.
The retirement home saw one of the worst covid-19 outbreaks in the province due to the alleged neglect towards patient care.
This resulted in 16 deaths and the infection of 64 residents and 22 staff.
