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yea why did no one catch this sooner? than 1987!! that is ridculous!

Ricardo I saw that same show, which now has me interested in this subject. So sad to see all those children and how devasting it was for them. God Bless the man who blew the lid off the situation.

It is likely that the steps are not original as the opening is presented now
the last step up or first step down would be a doozy when you compare the remaining step heights... but it could be as others have observed - a window replacement for a full frame door.

Excellent work Motts including the site design. Thanks

Happy New Everybody! JackieB Happy New Year to u. I miss u so so much. Where are u JackieB.

It's kinda cool the slight wavy effect you get when you stitch pictures together taken with a wide angle lens.

where is the wide screen? Am i on planet hollywood?

it means 'tolong bantu membersihkan kamar mayat ini. Buang semua sarung tangan, catatan dan yang lainnya di kontener sampah'

I dont know where that water cmae from but I wouldnt want to go near it. Miss you Debbie.

Thank you fo the inside shots of this prison. I am a native of this town and driving up to this incredible building gives you chills and you can just feel history brewing out of this place. I would love if York would restore this site as a historical sight like Eastern State. My husband got to go in there because he was a student of a school nearby in the 80"s and I was so jeoulous when he told me that because this building is so,so unique. This is a historical gem. The previous poster asked how tall this is and it is 3 or 4 stories high and sits on a little bit of a hill so it is high enough to tower over the houses in the area. This is right in town and is near an elementry school. Imagine looking at this building from an elementry school.

I I attended Bennett College (1971-1973) I have so many wonderful memories of my time there. I was in the Berkshires last winter and went to see the school property with my husband. I was so sad to see this magnificent building crumbling to the ground. So sad that those responsible allowed this beautiful piece of history disappear forever. It was such a beautiful palace of grandeur!

One of the highlights of the Ghost Adventues tour of Pennhurst on the Travel Channel 1/2/10 was when the director of security related the story about he and his son standing in front of one of the bldgs and they saw someone pull back the draptes and stare down at them.
The GA team went with the security chief into the bldg and to that room on the 4th floor----ALL of the windows are 'covered' with a protective screen that is screwed in place......NO ONE has access to the cloth drapes. The security chief radioed his son to meet them in the room. He looked to be about 23 yrs old---not a kid. He recalled the incident...........then, they showed him the secured windows. He was totally taken aback.........I think it was Zak who said aside to the camera----'it's always neat to watch skeptics when they realize that they HAD seen a 'ghost'..........

Another frightening thought is that there are other facilities like this still functional .......There was a report a few weeks ago about the massive TB Hospital in N.Carolina that is as deteriated as Pennhurst.
They claim that close to 63,000 people died there. TB patients were treated like 'lepers'..........sent there to die---no hope for getting cured...there WASN'T a cure.................

Gaebler1988 and shauna, Yes we are thinking of the one and same Christina Hill. She was on ward D as was I.

BH I saw it also.............all I could think of was the 'asylums' set up by the Nazis in Germany. They 'experimented' on some of the 'undesireeables' before finally taking them to the 'ovens'......they were 'unworthy' of being in the Superior Aryan Society.
What really stunned me was that this place functioned until the late 1960's/early 70's and NO ONE on the staffs reported it......none of the doctors, nurses, maintenance or caretakers........no one spoke up.

I would so love to see this in person.It's too bad it's crumbling. I wish I could see what it was suppossed to look like originally. It's Like out of fairy tale....