During the height of the Great Depression near winter 1932, it seemed as if all the businesses in Maine had closed their doors to the public, except for one. The mental rehab facility of Lewiston, Maine was booming with business. Dozens of clinically depressed people once wealthy stock holders were checking themselves in everyday. Some now bankrupt citizens had been so affected from the stock market decline that they couldn’t function normally. Quickly the rehab facility was packed with patients and forced to find another building. The largest and cheapest building on the market was located about 2 hours away in the small town of Bangor. The 4 story building was too old and unsanitary for most patients, so the mentally ill who were thought to never recover were boarded on a bus and sent to Bangor. In December of 1932, a bus packed with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, hypochondria, and multi personality disorders arrived at the newly created insane asylum of Bangor and forever locked into their cells. For 7 more years the insane asylum functioned normally and patients were put through rehab and therapy to help them recover. In 1939 the stock market began to grow and strengthen as America entered into a war. The faculty of the Bangor Insane Asylum, being completely men, were drafted into the army. Their thoughts shifted from saving others lives, to trying to save their own. Transporting the near 60 mentally insane patients back to Lewiston before the faculty left for military training was near impossible. Moving all the equipment and patients would take weeks, and far exceeded the asylum’s budget. Further more, the patients refused to leave their cells after making them their homes for 7 years. The only option left was to abandon the Bangor Insane Asylum and lock the patients in their cells with enough food for them to survive until hopefully they are relocated. The schizophrenics and hypochondriacs survived for about 3 months eating the food left for them but eventually the food supply started to wan, and the patients began to starve. They pulled on the bars and screamed at the top of their lungs for help. Their emaciated faces were pressed against the bars and their muscle less arms clung to each other as they prayed for help. Help never came and eventually the mentally ill patients died a long painful death. It wasn’t until 1945 that the Bangor Insane Asylum was reentered by the few faculty war veterans able to return. They scanned the cells expecting to find bones and remains of humans, but instead the cells were deserted. The only evidence left in the cold, dark, 4 story building was the millions of words carved into the cement wall, all reading “We survive, We survive” over and over. Every cell from the very bottom to the very top floor was riddled with that phrase, “We survive, We survive” carved with the patients dull finger nails. As Bangor started to become more populated, the state needed to cover up for this cruel treatment of mentally ill patients, and their frightening disappearance. So they turned the Bangor Insane Asylum into a college known as Beal College. The cells were destroyed, the writing was covered, and the legend of the disappearing patients was almost lost. Lacking funds, the state was only able to renovate the first three floors and had to heavily lock the fourth floor attempting to seal in the last remains of the patients homes. To this very day the fourth floor of Beal College in Bangor, Maine is believed to house the souls of the mentally insane patients who disappeared in 1945 then were forgotten about. It is said from the citizens of Bangor that on very quiet nights when the wind is blowing in the right direction you can hear the souls of the lost patients chanting “We survive, We survive” from the fourth floor of Beal College hoping that one day the doors will finally open and save them.