Jemison Center & Old Bryce Hospital
Northport, AL 35473
The Jemison Center, also sometimes called the Old Bryce Hospital, was a mental health facility in the early 20th century. Accounts of the building while it was still in operation say that conditions in Jemison were deplorable, with patients being mistreated by an overworked and understaffed faculty. The center eventually closed down and has been left abandoned, but that hasn't stopped thrill seekers from breaking in and trespassing on the old grounds. Visitors say they have heard disembodied voices, footsteps, and slamming doors. Others claim to have had more violent experiences in which their hair was pulled or they felt as though they were being kicked. Now in serious disrepair, the Jemison Center may be unsafe to visit, and is reportedly patrolled by police who will arrest those caught trying to sneak in.
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me and my friends have been a couple of times, the first time we only explored the right side we did not having a good feeling about the left. we have a stupid ghost app on our phones that we use when we do these things bc yk why not. i’d like to add the app only responds to things my black friend says while we are here. they then went again with out me bc i fell asleep and again the app only responds to my friend of color. we then go again with a different group this time no person of color. the app is silent the whole time we go up the stairs the app is still silent until we go left and get to a hole in the floor where it then says “pulled down” okay creepy i start to walk the other way we go up the stairs again, app is still silent until we get to the hole in the same spot on the next floor it says again “down” well we then go around the hole and go down a stairway that is towards the back left and we end up on the left side of the building on the floor that creeped us out so we quickly walk out and explore the basement which is where i got the worst feeling, it felt like something was behind you. but anyways the reason why i kept mentioning a friend of color is because i recently found out it was originally a segregation area so this was very creepy to realize. it is safe to go up and down the stairs but always be safe
November 2025
| Would Recommend | Yes |
I had went the other day with my boyfriend and 2 of his friends, we got there at about 3am and when we got around the little gate thingy we walked about half way from it and stopped, I’m very sensitive to energies especially not so good ones, so we all stopped walking because of me, I had us all get into a circle and pray because it just felt right to do, we got up to the entrance and walked through it, nothing really happened till after I hit my head on one of the dangly pieces of metal, we were all laughing about it for like 5 minutes then we heard somewhat loud bangs coming from the second story, the stairs didn’t look safe enough to walk on at the time because it was pitch black and our flashlights were going out oddly fast, my boyfriends phone battery also went from 70 to 31 within the 30 minute span of us being there and he only took out his phone a few times to get a closer look at the writings on the walls, one of his friends tried to go to the basement, but when I got to the doorway I got a massive cold chill so from that point forward we all decided to leave, on the way back to his truck something pushed one of his friends was behind the rest of us and then we all ran back because we were not letting whatever that’s there follow us back, we all agreed that we would go back when we are more prepared supernaturally and physically and a little bit before sunset
September 2025
| Would Recommend | Yes |
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
me and my boyfriend went there at 3:30 in the morning after i got past the little gate thingy i started to feel sick and turned aroud and went back to our truck ( i was to overwhelmed to continued) he continued walking was almost to the door when he said he saw hisself and what he was wearing laying on the side of the road and when he poked it it disapperaed and he was chased away by a white figure with glowing red eyes will be back to make it through the whole thing
July 2025
| Would Recommend | Yes |
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Went, nothing happened. Scariest part was the bird in the basement trying to touch me. Great fun though.
November 2024
| Would Recommend | Yes |
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Me and my boyfriend went there almost a year ago with some friends, it was my first time going there and so far nothing had happened until about the second floor, a car appeared at the hospital we never seen them come down the road or anything, it was a black SUV with extremely bright blue headlights that didn’t even look realistic, the vehicle stopped at the entrance and then we hear what sounded like 50 people screaming for there life, like so realistic it sounded like a horror movie. We turned our lights off and the car disappeared and with our lights off there was a very faded blue figure with a face standing in front of me and my boyfriend that he said he also saw we ran out got in our car and the vehicle appeared behind us and chased us out but once we passed the train track the SUV disappeared from behind us and if you’ve been there you know there’s no way to turn around so quickly after being behind us one second and gone the next well we drove back up there and check every road twist a turn and there was no trace of another vehicle except for ours no tire tracks except for ours nothing I also have friends that claim they have also witnessed what we call the ghost car…
September 2024
| Would Recommend | Yes |
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Back in 2019 a few of my friends and I decided to go ghost hunting. Somehow we ended up in Alabama (from Mississippi). I didn't want to go but they asked me to go because of my "gift". I can feel presences evil or good I can feel them since I was a little kid. Anyway we walk through the hospital ruins and the other buildings I felt uneasy but not presence uneasy just "we are not supposed to be here" uneasy, that is until we made it to the crematorium. Walking towards the crematorium I kept hearing whispers, asked my friends if they heard it and of course they didn't. this continued the entire walk to the crematorium. As we reached the entrance I stopped, felt like I couldn't breath my partner at the time asked me if everything was ok at that point I felt extremely cold ( it was the middle of summer) and said to her "I don't want to go in there" the moment she asks me why I kind of blacked out came back to a few moments later with her and our friends standing over me asking if I was ok. We got up and headed home. I forgot I was even recording but the next day I watched the video back and the exact moment that she asked why I didn't want to go in you can see a white fog like apparition come straight at me and that's when I passed out. Needless to say I have never been back and I have never deleted the video.
July 2024
| Would Recommend | Yes |
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Last weekend my son and his best friend wanted to go explore so we walked through each floor of both wings. It had rained the night before and it was difficult to distinguish the sounds of water dripping at times from anything that might be supernatural. An entire square section of the left wing third floor has indeed collapsed through the send floor all the way down to ground level, making the 1st floor left/west wing difficult to safely access from inside except from the 2nd floor stairwell. All of the stairwells are a slip hazard due to the accumulation of terracotta ceiling tiles and debris scattered around. My son’s friend swears he heard someone laughing soon after we first entered from the rear-center access ramp. On two occasions within a few seconds of each other, on the third floor, a dark shadow seemed to quickly move away from me briefly back into a room as I walked down the east wing hallway. Both occurrances happened just at the edge of my peripheral vision as I walked past a room and really gave me an unsettled feeling like we weren’t alone. When I looked directly into the room though with a flashlight nothing was there. This happened around sunset when darkness started creeping in and the natural light was fading so we left at that point to briefly explore the SD Allen facility down the street.
April 2024
| Would Recommend | Yes |
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
We went just a month or so ago, and we had so many events happen just in two short hours there on the property!!! We started in the Jemison center and we had several occurrences of footsteps, at one point sounded like a man cleared his throat on the second floor, east side. The west side had completely collapsed. From the third floor all the way to the main floor… We also went to the nursing home side, and this is where it got rough. We were just looking through rooms… trying to get EVP’s. Well there was four to six rooms we would hear noises out of. We would go to one room and hear noises in a room behind us or adjacent to us… we felt as if we was going crazy. In one room that appeared to be an exam room due to the size, and how it was set up.. I got overwhelmed with emotion, and sat down in the dirty floor, feeling sad, and angry… Once I stand up I notice the back of my neck is burning, and I have scratches down the base of my neck almost to my shoulder blades… it was burning and showed up red and could see the scratch marks… I then am ready to go after being affected as I’m walking out I hear something run up behind me and I felt someone I’m assuming try to push me… I could feel the coldness on my back… this place is amazing for activity. If you go please be prepared! Also it is posted as no trespassing! So if cops catch you then you could be fined or arrested! Happy hunting!!!!
February 2024
| Would Recommend | Yes |
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
While at my experience with Bryce,Me, My uncle and my aunts went here. At first we arrived around 9pm. We took 30 minutes to travel along the way to get there.. After we got there we explored the buildings and on our way back we saw something that shocked me. When I looked over we saw headlights and there was a man in a truck staring at us with red glowing eyes, now I’m not saying like when your high type of red eyes.. I’m talking red light red glowing eyes.. he was staring at us while he drived by we couldn’t see his exact facial expression. This happened in June 2023. And keep in mind they have a yellow border line across from here, so there was now way he could’ve fitted his car thru this pathway and found us in the forest. His eyes were GLOWING red like red headlight glowing.. he just stared at me and my aunt while he drived by slowly.. it was the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.. he wasn’t high.. his eyes were literally glowing I can’t even describe how scary it was.. he was silent as he drove by.. which made me get even more chills, other then that.. the place was eerie, and it was very scary.. there are actual people in the rooms of these places so be prepared before you get ready to come here.. always have people with you..
July 2023
| Would Recommend | Unsure |
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
While walking to the second building down the road before Bryce, one of the people that I was with had his phone suddenly start playing a pregnancy loss video. Having never watched a video of that topic at all start playing off of his youtube. (Youtube normally suggest your interests.) Theory is, a woman that suffered a pregnancy loss went so insane that she was taken to Bryce. Died there.
June 2023
| Would Recommend | Yes |
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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