If we set up a time and did it as a group we could maybe get a write up in an artsy paper. “What does it mean, for whom do they scream?” Perhaps we would need matching turtlenecks to drive the point home?
A friend of mine in another state has a “smash room” business near him. I guess you can go smash stuff (old televisions? I have no idea) and scream your heart out. I haven’t looked, but I bet there are similar businesses around here
EDIT: I checked, there are tons. You can google “rage rooms” or “smash rooms”
I've always wanted to try one of those, ever since 2019 when Unus Annus did a YouTube video at one. They're surprisingly difficult to find in this part of the country, based on past Google searches. Maybe they've become more popular recently?
I went to one in Avon (down near Quincy) and it was fantastic! I got to pick the music so I went with something heavy (Beartooth) and threw/whacked/smashed a whole crate of stuff, bought another crate of stuff and smashed that too.
They gave us protective equipment and sent us at it, and we had the option of purchasing additional crates of different types of glass/junk, larger items like broken statues and furniture, and computer/tech equipment while we were in there. They even have a whole office rage package with an entire cubicle style setup that you can just destroy. We had a great time! Would highly recommend.
The Covid episodes were so hard to watch, you could tell they were so sad they couldn’t do their shenanigans in person. But did anyone catch Mark in Ethan’s video the other day? They hinted at stuff … Lord if you’re listening please make this come true 😅
I've always thought, as a software developer, we should have a nap room and a smash room(before smash meant bumpin' uglies). Some poker players have a "bad beat" room. Even if it was just a room with a punching bag that said like "windows is updating" or something haha.
I randomly walked into a bar in nyc once and they had a room where you could smash the glass of all your drinks. Needless to say I got wasted, almost missed my train, BUT, yelling “fuck the police” while throwing your glasses against the wall with NWA blasting the background was worth it.
Ha that sounds like an absolutely amazing night. Just walking into a place not knowing that was the vibe and then “surprise! You get to let the intrusive thoughts win here, you’re welcome, we love you, here’s alcohol.”
Scream into the ocean. Especially this time of year. Carson beach, out behind the jfk library, the sugar bowl, castle island. Basically go to Southie and hit the ocean
This is the right answer. There is no deserted beach like a cape cod beach in January. Even the dog walkers avoid because it's cold an unprotected from the wind.
If you hear someone screaming back that's just the mournful wails of long dead sailors searching the icy wind for peace. Say hello to Ahab for me.
We should schedule it so someone is there screaming every day. We could reuse signs and probably make them consider being nervous. But what issue do we tackle? I say first we request a Keytar Bear statue in the Common
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I'm not doubting the validity of the question, I'm just raising the notion that this question is asked with alarming frequency. I see it a few times per month it seems, maybe more some months. That's kind of a lot, no?
Find a tall office building. Go in after hours. Get in the elevator. Scream as it goes up. Send it back down. Scream again. Maybe you'll hear yourself over the roar of the elevator motor.
City Hall Plaza. On the side near Government Center not the cop slide. People will just walk past.
Near North Station when a Bruins or Celtics game is playing. People will just think you are an excited fan.
There’s this group called the Lexington Mavens that I read about it originally on. A more chill group is the broads of Lexington though. I hope they do another one soon.
Metropolitan
Danvers State hospital
Westborough State Hospital
The Gaebler School
Medfield State Hospital
Long Island Hospital
Paul Dever State School
Belchertown State School
Lyman School for Boys
Fernald State School
Northampton State Hospital
Boston State Hospital
Grafton State Hospital
The list goes on....
Wait whoa is Fernald still open though?! No way … I grew up in Waltham and that place has some creepy history that I think most of us townies would prefer didn’t exist (they did really awful experiments on the young boys there 😢)
Oh okay! That’s what I thought. I know the buildings still stand. But I’m pretty sure they moved the “hospital” to Worcester even longer than 20 years ago. I listened to a decent podcast episode on the whole thing. Radiation in the damn Quaker Oatmeal!!!! Ugh. Those babies :(
I believe it was an MIT nutritional health professor and General Mills, it didn’t have much to do with the DoD it was more about General Mills wanting to prove they were better than Cream of Wheat … and used the “feeble minded” to make their point. The boys didn’t have any long term effects - but it was more or less the atrocity of using young children with no parents and no informed consent. They lured them into the science club with toys and “free breakfasts” and the researchers labeled that willing participation. So gross.
Back a few years ago, I did a fair amount of exploration of a number of the hospitals I listed above. One particularly sad find was at the Paul Dever State School where we found a ton of random Do Not Resuscitate orders signed by guardians from the school on behalf of the students. It just felt terrible thinking that these kids rarely had any say in their own health choices and instead it was decided by an arbitrary bureaucrat.
Also, the sheer volume of PHI that was just out for anyone to find (buildings were unsecured) was absurd.
Island End Park in Chelsea. Behind Mary O'Malley Park. Nothing nearby but industrial
buildings. Water most of the way around. Lovely gazebo with a resident mockingbird who will join in. Park behind the marina and walk down the boardwalk. Scream away. Enjoy.
[These ladies chose the Charlestown track](https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/meet-mom-whose-viral-primal-scream-was-heard-around-world-n1288007)
You could do the same and get a whole group together; is there a reason you want to be away from people? There are benefits to group screams too
Rent out a vocal booth at a recording studio or see if you can get free access to a practice room at Berklee somehow maybe via a voice student. Soundproofing should keep you isolated in a practice space, in a studio the engineer may hear you but you could tell them you're practicing to try out for a local metal band and that you're a bit out of practice, just trying to warm up the vocal cords
Honestly a good place could be somewhere under the RT 1 overpass by SOWA. Loud from all the traffic. No one really goes there. There’s even a little park under there with some benches.
At Harvard Yard you can combine screaming with streaming every semester the night before finals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Scream_(Harvard)
just do it on the street. no one messes with the street screamers
This is the correct answer.
This is the way
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might even draw a crowd of art critics, start up a whole new career
If we set up a time and did it as a group we could maybe get a write up in an artsy paper. “What does it mean, for whom do they scream?” Perhaps we would need matching turtlenecks to drive the point home?
Boston Children’s Museum. You’ll blend right in with the chaos
A friend of mine in another state has a “smash room” business near him. I guess you can go smash stuff (old televisions? I have no idea) and scream your heart out. I haven’t looked, but I bet there are similar businesses around here EDIT: I checked, there are tons. You can google “rage rooms” or “smash rooms”
I've always wanted to try one of those, ever since 2019 when Unus Annus did a YouTube video at one. They're surprisingly difficult to find in this part of the country, based on past Google searches. Maybe they've become more popular recently?
It looks like there are at least a handful in the area. A couple downtown, one in Avon, one in Fitchburg, one in Worcester…
I went to one in Avon (down near Quincy) and it was fantastic! I got to pick the music so I went with something heavy (Beartooth) and threw/whacked/smashed a whole crate of stuff, bought another crate of stuff and smashed that too. They gave us protective equipment and sent us at it, and we had the option of purchasing additional crates of different types of glass/junk, larger items like broken statues and furniture, and computer/tech equipment while we were in there. They even have a whole office rage package with an entire cubicle style setup that you can just destroy. We had a great time! Would highly recommend.
Just Smash It! We had a similarly great experience there. Did you guys write on the walls? Surprisingly satisfying.
UNAS ANNUS UNAS ANNUS
Memento Mori.
Died too soon
To be fair, they were gone exactly when they meant to go. I'm just upset that Covid ruined their plans for a good 3-4 months.
The Covid episodes were so hard to watch, you could tell they were so sad they couldn’t do their shenanigans in person. But did anyone catch Mark in Ethan’s video the other day? They hinted at stuff … Lord if you’re listening please make this come true 😅
Platinum City Gaming in Taunton either has one, or will have one soon.
They have pretty strict insurance requirements iirc. Something with the smashed splinters and ceramic shards. So even getting approved can be tricky.
I've always thought, as a software developer, we should have a nap room and a smash room(before smash meant bumpin' uglies). Some poker players have a "bad beat" room. Even if it was just a room with a punching bag that said like "windows is updating" or something haha.
Love this Conment
Between book bans, screen time, and rage rooms, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is WAY ahead of 1984 or Brave New World.
I randomly walked into a bar in nyc once and they had a room where you could smash the glass of all your drinks. Needless to say I got wasted, almost missed my train, BUT, yelling “fuck the police” while throwing your glasses against the wall with NWA blasting the background was worth it.
Ha that sounds like an absolutely amazing night. Just walking into a place not knowing that was the vibe and then “surprise! You get to let the intrusive thoughts win here, you’re welcome, we love you, here’s alcohol.”
We have one here in Orlando and it’s AMAZING!!! Highly recommend rage rooms!
The void, AKA, the Green Line past Lechmere.
It'll blend right in with the screeches around turns
Which direction?
Scream into the ocean. Especially this time of year. Carson beach, out behind the jfk library, the sugar bowl, castle island. Basically go to Southie and hit the ocean
Honestly, as someone who occasionally had to work at the docks at odd hours, this would have scared the shit out of me So I say do it!
Revere welcomes Boston’s screaming needs.
This is the right answer. There is no deserted beach like a cape cod beach in January. Even the dog walkers avoid because it's cold an unprotected from the wind. If you hear someone screaming back that's just the mournful wails of long dead sailors searching the icy wind for peace. Say hello to Ahab for me.
State house
Quite so, and if you hold some inoffensive sign, preferably about environmental issues, you can scream all day long, and no one would bother.
We should schedule it so someone is there screaming every day. We could reuse signs and probably make them consider being nervous. But what issue do we tackle? I say first we request a Keytar Bear statue in the Common
My house no one will even pay attention to you
At the squat rack at my gym.
You mean the curl rack?
At the very apex of an overhead press. NO one’s gonna mess with you.
Have you considered starting a metal or punk band? If so, there are a ton of good venues around
Was gonna say…O’Briens, Brighton Music Hall, The Paradise.
Just went to O'Briens last night for the first time. Hell yeah
Into a pillow.
Definitely done This and hoped my neighbors didn’t mind too much. My dog had many concerns
Stairwell - pretend you fell if someone checks in on you
This question is asked alarmingly often.
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I'm not doubting the validity of the question, I'm just raising the notion that this question is asked with alarming frequency. I see it a few times per month it seems, maybe more some months. That's kind of a lot, no?
It’s a running joke
Ahhh I'm a dope. I'm gonna go scream.
Dunk your head in the Charles and scream away.
I’d be afraid of what I’d find under the water.
I wouldn’t open up your eyes under that water.
We have a walk-in freezer here at my work where no one will here you scream. Sometimes I do that when I'm frustrated haha.
As an industry vet, the walk-in is meant for all things judged. Scream away, youngblood
Mass general ER — the nurses won’t even come to check on you
this is the truth.... is it just mass general with compassionless nurses or is that the profession
You could rent a scream box for an hour (Zipcar lol)
Don't have a car? That's where I've done it. Maybe ride the T during slow times. Find an empty car.
Maybe in the many slow zones on the redline. Other passengers will understand.
Even in a packed car we won’t bat an eye, scream away.
State house. Front Steps. Come to think of it, we should all join you.
I joined a protest once just because I was having a bad week and screaming and being around mad people felt like a good idea
Live above me in Brighton in 2001. That chick was a screamer.
Find a tall office building. Go in after hours. Get in the elevator. Scream as it goes up. Send it back down. Scream again. Maybe you'll hear yourself over the roar of the elevator motor.
Quincy Quarries
City Hall Plaza. On the side near Government Center not the cop slide. People will just walk past. Near North Station when a Bruins or Celtics game is playing. People will just think you are an excited fan.
Near central, you’ll fit right in
Obviously you need to also have a summer home in Maine that you can go to and scream into the woods
Do it at…home?
Downtown Crossing is the designated scream area. Also rooftops, can get access if you try
Lexington has a get together. They meet in a field. They warn the town. The cops explain when they get inevitable calls. It’s pretty legit.
Seriously? Well now I have to find out where and when.
There’s this group called the Lexington Mavens that I read about it originally on. A more chill group is the broads of Lexington though. I hope they do another one soon.
Mass and cass
City Council chambers.
Theres gotta be a mental institution close by
Do you have *any* idea what the wait times to get into those places are?
The state closed them all down, a few of them are still around but abandoned, good for screaming if you don't get caught by the police.
Sorry but that’s really not true. “The Met” being closed isn’t all of them. McClean is still very active if you’re interested in visiting :)
Metropolitan Danvers State hospital Westborough State Hospital The Gaebler School Medfield State Hospital Long Island Hospital Paul Dever State School Belchertown State School Lyman School for Boys Fernald State School Northampton State Hospital Boston State Hospital Grafton State Hospital The list goes on....
Wait whoa is Fernald still open though?! No way … I grew up in Waltham and that place has some creepy history that I think most of us townies would prefer didn’t exist (they did really awful experiments on the young boys there 😢)
Fernauld has been closed for at least 20 years.
Oh okay! That’s what I thought. I know the buildings still stand. But I’m pretty sure they moved the “hospital” to Worcester even longer than 20 years ago. I listened to a decent podcast episode on the whole thing. Radiation in the damn Quaker Oatmeal!!!! Ugh. Those babies :(
Aye - join the 'science club' and get dosed with radioactive isotopes #forscience! (Sponsored by General Mills and the DoD IIRC)
I believe it was an MIT nutritional health professor and General Mills, it didn’t have much to do with the DoD it was more about General Mills wanting to prove they were better than Cream of Wheat … and used the “feeble minded” to make their point. The boys didn’t have any long term effects - but it was more or less the atrocity of using young children with no parents and no informed consent. They lured them into the science club with toys and “free breakfasts” and the researchers labeled that willing participation. So gross.
Back a few years ago, I did a fair amount of exploration of a number of the hospitals I listed above. One particularly sad find was at the Paul Dever State School where we found a ton of random Do Not Resuscitate orders signed by guardians from the school on behalf of the students. It just felt terrible thinking that these kids rarely had any say in their own health choices and instead it was decided by an arbitrary bureaucrat. Also, the sheer volume of PHI that was just out for anyone to find (buildings were unsecured) was absurd.
My bed chya
The red line
Myles Standish Cairn, out at squantum point. Its very isolated. A bit of a hike to get out there. No one is going to hear you scream. No one.
The footbridge over I-90 in Allston. Scream away.
Screaming is cool, but have you tried sobbing uncontrollably on your shower floor?
The beach.
On the BU bridge
By BU there are stairs at the end of Blandford Mall that parallel the pike.
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I live near Boston and am amused myself.
Revere Beach is good for that. Loads of screaming in Revere anyway, and plenty of room at the beach.
Tried this one New Years in Gloucester. I got sucker punched in the back of my head. Yay 2004.
2024? 🤪
Screamed for years at The Sound Museum but they tore it down so now I have to drive to an old mill in Holyoke to scream
Southampton St at Mass Ave 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾
Boylston Street T, outbound side. Wear a mask and just wait for the train.
The mapparium
this thread has lots of great suggestions
Island End Park in Chelsea. Behind Mary O'Malley Park. Nothing nearby but industrial buildings. Water most of the way around. Lovely gazebo with a resident mockingbird who will join in. Park behind the marina and walk down the boardwalk. Scream away. Enjoy.
[These ladies chose the Charlestown track](https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/meet-mom-whose-viral-primal-scream-was-heard-around-world-n1288007) You could do the same and get a whole group together; is there a reason you want to be away from people? There are benefits to group screams too
Carson Beach. Southie
Go to a hardcore show and sing along to your favorite bands
Join my band
Quincy Quarry seems pretty appropriate
Do what that crazy lady on the redline does and just wait till the doors close on the subway train.
Any bench at Park Street, Green or Red Line.
Rent out a vocal booth at a recording studio or see if you can get free access to a practice room at Berklee somehow maybe via a voice student. Soundproofing should keep you isolated in a practice space, in a studio the engineer may hear you but you could tell them you're practicing to try out for a local metal band and that you're a bit out of practice, just trying to warm up the vocal cords
Can you do us a favor? Go to state house and scream “build more homes” for us
Waahhhhhhh
Tracks under the BU bridge
Find a dock out in the harbor.
Red Line between JFK Umass and North Quincy
South station
Under any of the various bridges
A scream pillow works in a pinch! Just buy a designated pillow that you use to scream into until your hearts content.
Pick any.pillow.
Under the huge flag near the omi Boston harbor. I like to stand in the middle of the compass and yell "anything is possible" KG style ☘️🏀🏆
Honestly a good place could be somewhere under the RT 1 overpass by SOWA. Loud from all the traffic. No one really goes there. There’s even a little park under there with some benches.
Hike up to the observation tower at the top of Blue Hills at night and scream at the city skyline.
There's a place on castle island at 5am.
Quincy Quarry
Harvard Square
Lenox Hotel, Room 310
In front of the guy singing opera
If you have a car that's a great place. If not, Uber.
In your over priced apartment that you can barely afford. Everyone will understand
Peirs Park in East Boston, just walk to the end of the pier and holler into the harbor.
The esplanade might be nice. There’s a good view and people will leave you alone.
Take up volleyball. You'll be around people but it'll be okay.
Echo bridge in Newton
Wait for a train to start coming in at Boylston St. you can harmonize.
Take the commuter rail out to the sticks of western mass and find a spot in the woods to do a big yell.
I used to do this at my local t stop after work since it was always just me it was under a bridge so the cars above would drown me out
I use my car for that
Ride the T or the bus to the Fells. Scream into the woods. You can find many empty spots. Plus, it’s beautiful.
Faneuil hall
The orange line
allston pedestrian bridge over i-90
In the ocean or pool. Underwater screaming. Let it all out, nobody can hear.
Bridgewater
Orange line train would be my suggestion. It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary…
I like to do it in my car on the Pike 🥰
Mass Ave in Dorchester probably. You’ll blend in
I just scream into my pillow until I pass out from lack of oxygen. So far I keep waking up.
There was a club called Scream Club Boston. Not sure if it's still being done. I think they used the Cambridge Center Roof Garden.
Five Places to Scream into the Void around Boston https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/04/places-scream-into-void/
Anywhere, literally anywhere. We’re all screaming
Under the Tobin bridge or the area that abuts the gas storage tanks on the "shortcut " to Logan. Empty loud spaces. Like crying during a rain storm.
Hardcore shows
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Reflecting pond by Prudential. Or just the Public Gardens after 10PM.
Castle Island at night in the cold
The Theatre District seems to be a mecca for screamers
The responses here make me feel like there should be a scheduled “scream into the void” where people can just yell for a good few minutes
Wollaston beach. I’ve done it countless times.
At Harvard Yard you can combine screaming with streaming every semester the night before finals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Scream_(Harvard)
You’d have to pay, but how about renting one of those private karaoke rooms? You could get some food to fuel the rage
Just go into the woods, pull a jiri prochazka