Brookhaven Hospital
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Brookhaven Hospital is a mental institution in South Vale. It was originally founded in the 1860s as a Civil War field hospital. Currently, it has appeared in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3. It has also appeared in Silent Hill: The Arcade. Nurses are a very frequent monster in Brookhaven.
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History
Prior to the 1600s, the area where Silent Hill was eventually established was the home of members of an unnamed Native American tribe that used the land for sacred rituals. At the end of the century, settlers arrived and founded the town; shortly thereafter, they began to rapidly die off. The deaths were attributed to an epidemic, and Brookhaven Hospital was built to treat those affected. Eventually the settlers fled the town, leaving it abandoned for nearly a century, until it was resettled as a penal colony in the early 1800s. Twenty years later, another epidemic broke out, and Brookhaven Hospital was rebuilt and reopened.
Appearances
Silent Hill 2
The first game to explore Brookhaven, James Sunderland and Maria enter here in pursuit of Laura.
From clues received during play, it appears to be a mental hospital, complete with solitary confinement booths and various medical notes. It is unclear whether both Brookhaven and Alchemilla hospital are both mental institutions, as their purpose differs from game to game (for instance, Alchemilla appears to be a medical hospital in Silent Hill, but a mental facility in Silent Hill: Homecoming).
Brookhaven Hospital undergoes a genuine, though comparatively subtle, Otherworld transformation. The walls are covered in tarp, many doors are blocked by either boxes or material, and many strange sounds and noises can be heard. Some examples include glass shattering, a pig-like creature squealing in the basement and someone heavily breathing in the room where James discovers Maria is missing. Like many of the buildings James enters in Silent Hill, the general feeling here is one of abandonment, a dilapidated husk void of life and activity.
Silent Hill 3
Heather Mason also explores Brookhaven when she first enters Silent Hill. She enters the hospital after splitting up with Douglas Cartland in order to find Leonard Wolf, as suggested by Vincent.
The Otherworld of Brookhaven is much more of an organic change in the environment compared to the dark, derelict version of Silent Hill 2. The walls pulse with throbbing veins and sometimes even doors and floors are obscured by the almost palpitating environment. Numerous hanging corpses can be seen strung up behind mesh walls and inside cramped cages, much like those witnessed by Harry Mason. Seemingly abandoned hospital beds with corpses covered beneath blankets are also left lying around, and Valtiel lies within view numerous times, usually engaged with hanging a nurse, or turning a valve. Heather also encounters a similar version of the Bubble Head Nurses found in Silent Hill 2.
Silent Hill movie
In contrast to the games, the film's version of Brookhaven Hospital shows no signs of being a mental institution, but rather appears to be a regular hospital.
In the Silent Hill movie, Alessa Gillespie was taken to Brookhaven Hospital after she was burned alive by the town's religious cult for being born out of wedlock. While in the hospital, Alessa's rage grows out of control and she splits her soul, creating Dark Alessa and the Otherworld. For the next thirty years, Alessa lies in the Otherworld version of her hospital room with Dark Alessa watching over her and a nurse with burned eyes tending to her. Rose Da Silva enters the Otherworld version of the hospital to find answers about her missing daughter, Sharon.
Alessa's hospital room is considered to be "the core of the darkness" in the movie.
Comics
- Dying Inside - Though not mentioned, it is assumed (based on events from Hunger), that the conflict between Whately and Lauryn LaRoache over the fate of a female patient occurs in Brookhaven Hospital.
- Hunger - Dr. Aickmann, under the supervision of Whately, has been abducting women and bringing them to Brookhaven in hopes of finding one capable of nurturing the seed of Samael, allowing the being to be born on Earth.
- Sinner's Reward - While searching for his girlfriend, Jack Stanton and Sara Linwood seek shelter inside of Brookhaven from a pair of wolf-like monsters. As they explore the hospital, Jack begins to hear screaming coming from the upper floors. Sure that it's Jillian, his missing lover, Jack takes off to investigate with an unsure Sara following behind.
Trivia
- In Silent Hill 3, during Heather's climb and transition to the Otherworld version of the hospital, the corpse of a nurse can be seen near a wall with the words "What a wonderfull [sic] world" scrawled on it. This is a reference to the film The Exorcist III, in which nearly the same words and imagery appears.
