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yeah freaky shit happens here.. does any1 know why they shut this place down, leaving alot of bottles, fork lifts, generators just chilling? and how far does this place go back?

Just there recently and that exhaust is ripped off now as if someone tried to steal it. Everything there is moved around and things are missing

That place is def. haunted or something. Me and my buddies were there an we were going upstairs in the one building and something screamed up top and we took off and heard it again.

SPrat some fabreeze, add some non-lead latex paint, maybe a throw rug and an air mattress? and hey, you're set! Oh and don't forget a generater, cell phone, etc...

It documents SOME activities that happened at Pennhurst. When an audit or survey occurs, the auditor's job is NOT to look for the good things that happen; only the violations or failures that can be seen. I know this because I myself do surveys at a state residential facility plus I have been under many surveys personally (in many different states) and I know how they work. Remember too, when lawyers are making a case to close a facility, they do not go out and take pix of the good things that they see. They also don't discuss what happens to a percentage of the children who had to stay at home because the waiting lists were too long and their parents became frustrated and, as the child grew older and exhibited more behavioral challenges, abuse understandably occurred. Marcia is saying that not every person who lived at Pennhurst (or any other state school) was abused and not every person who worked at Pennhurst (or any other state school) was an abuser.

"Parent" is tarring everyone with the same brush because of what s/he heard from a friend and read on a website that describes the bad things that happened at Pennhurst, not the good things that happened - of which there were many.

Most of us are just plain tired of hearing the accusing and blaming of people who didn't do anything to make things better for people who lived in institutional settings at the time (or even today, for that matter, because - believe it or not - there are still a bunch of institutions out there, and I am guessing that those of you who are complaining haven't been to one recently to see just what is or isn't happening there); they just want to blame those few of us who had the courage (stupidity, it appears now) to work in the field because at least that way there's someone else to put the blame on. We were the people who took care of these folks when no one else would/could. And sometimes we did a pretty terrible job when there was minimal pay, minimal training, triple overtime, and horrendously bad staffing ratios.

"Parent" doesn't want to look in the mirror and see whether or not s/he has called all local and state reps to push for more funding, nor has "Parent" stated whether s/he has done much in the way of supporting people with disabilities instead of just his/her own child. Rather than talking about how to make things better or empathizing with the staff who actually kept these very difficult and fragile folks alive, "Parent" is just lobbing stones. And after awhile we get a little unhappy having stones lobbed at us when we did a heck of a service to a group of people that few of y'all even look at today, much less help.

If you haven't walked the walk, don't pretend to talk the talk, and certainly get your dang hands off the pile of stones many of you seem to have at your fingertips that you are just itching to lob because - guess what? Most of y'all live in glass houses. :-)

I live in Dover DE and there is an old plant that was called Dover Electric. They say it's haunted there. This place looks a lot like there!

I was wondering if anyone knows what the building in the foreground is/was used for. its connected to the building behind the photographer but not the inpatient facility, so I'm wondering if it was just a service center for the building we can't see? anyway just curious!

yo thats place is sweet.....we recorded shit the other night and heard some crazy shit....i dont think its haunted.....does neone know if it is???

Godfather 4?

can you just picture the old, sick, and dying people sitting out on this breezway in their wheelchairs just relaxing and getting fresh air

well "becca" your either blind or never seen the movie saw because it looks like the bathtub in the room their not refering to the hoyer lift.

when i took a picture of my friends and i on this stage it turned out all blury and trust me i know how to use a camera

over the summer i came here as a skeptic and now im a true believer. my friends and i ran around the hospital like some kind of fun house and so we separated into two groups of people. my group consisted of my friend brittany david and myself. we went down to the floor below the other group and hid. david was hidding behind the door toward the right of the staircase and brittany and i hid behind the door to the left. we only went directly behind the door because of the long narrow dark hall way that was behind us. all of a sudden we heard a noise. we took off running to david but i could not find him. so i started running up the stair case to go with the other group and the door would not open. they said they were standing right in front of it waiting for it to swing open but it didnt. finnaly david ran up the stair case. he asked us what happend when we told him that we looked for him he told us that he was standing right in front of our faces but we didnt see him at all.
then on one of the floors we kept hearing loud bangings but the whole group was with us . next all of a sudden a big volture came flying out of the window. scared the crap out of us.
the last ting that was weired was that in the childrens hospital one of the rooms smelled like dogs then when we went futher down the hall we heard dogs barking in that room. if that was only in the day time i wounder what could happen at night.
and there are all kinds of easy ways to get in and the police dont go around there to often anymore so nothing to worry about and have fun if you do go.

Scattred sub-basements bring fortune to those who seek beneith the surface

Perhaps Parent is venting instead of ranting and raving.The Pennhurst website has some of the documents detailing what went on there.