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This place is awesome...ive been in it 3 times. the front/main part of the building seems to be the most interesting. Its not haunted just creepy. The lights ppl are seeing in windows are actualy reflections from the near by street light....we thought we saw lights in windows..but quickly realized it just just light reflecting. We heard rumors of both a morgue and large auditorium with a stage...we didnt find either...alot of doors where locked and we didnt have a crowbar with us....so im sure there are parts we did not see. we also walked around lost in there for 2 hours(all 4 of us where very drunk) Once you find your way in(we found a broken out window behind some overgrown bushes. The back part i went in appeared to be like living quarters of some kind...had lots of posters on the walls about pregnancy..this was all about 6 years ago and everything had been gone through and there was lots of vanalisim. Lots of cops patroling so you might want to steak it out/make a point of entry and come back the next night.

lord in heaven imagine this same toilet and 19 others in a circle in a blue tiled room and folks watching you pee in a cup .... thanks to the us navy i have lovely memories

this reminds me of the old york country jail in pa.... friends and i use to frequent it when younger looking at it 10 yrs later im not sure id be brave enuff to venture in with out my piece

wAaAaAoOoO!! great

kinda sad that people just abandon places like these... i would love to buy this place and turn it into something that i can reuse the hotel for.

i bet that would have been worth a lot of money if it was in decent condition.

taking a rest in that seat would not be a good idea at all.

Looks amazing, and an awesome quote.

cool, some interesting facts there...does anyone not think that texas chainsaw massacre comes to mind?

Wow, its so creepy. I want to go there, god I would love to take a trip round there. Shame its not there anymore tho. i love scary things, id love to stay there overnight and see if anything creepy happens...

In reference to barry's note of the 9/18/07 interview on the El Peecho site, there's no doubt that residents of Pennhurst suffered terrible conditions and abuse by their keepers. The world is made up of all kinds of people, and they are found everywhere—even in places like Pennhurst.

I still say, however, that having been inside Pennhurst as a "guest" when the facility was still operational, caring for people who are mentally challenged and in an institutional setting is extremely difficult. Especially when the caregivers did not have adequate support from the state or the residents' families. I believe it takes very special people to do this work the way we think it should be done.

I had a young mentally retarded cousin in Pennhurst. I just learned this a week ago. I have little doubt that she had few or no visitors and suffered as many others did. It's appalling, for every person who ever had to live there. And now it's hit even closer to home for me.

It looks so horrible, yet so (whats the word) um refreshing. id love to take a bath in it although it does give me the creeps. Anyone got any interesting stories to tell about it... would love to hear one.

i personally love needles... and no i do not do drugs... but i love medical devices and what not... i would say that the thing on the right of the table may be an old bread knife.

i would messed with him, like started dropping random things near his car.

Great capture of an amazing archway and one lonely plank's effort to find balance among the decay!