Last Updated on September 20, 2026
This Halloween, Hospital of Emotions in Los Angeles is opening a door that has remained closed. Beginning October 16, guests can descend deep into the bowels of the historic former St. Vincent Medical Center for “Restricted Access: The Downstairs Experience,” a new 30-minute guided journey into the hospital’s previously closed lower level, where a century of lives seems to linger in the halls.
Guests are led underground through original hospital spaces left largely as they were: abandoned labs, old medical equipment, records, specimens and remnants of the lives that passed through them. From there, history begins to blur with performance and the paranormal. What happened here, what has been imagined and what might still be lingering becomes increasingly difficult to tell apart…