3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

yeah im a example why you should not breath in that stuff you see in front of the flash light you know that stuff thats falling from the roof ASpestas becaue i have cancer

I was there in the B1 basement im not sure what building it was because i went in 2003 at 9pm at night after watching the guards get offf shift well all i know is that there is records down there because there is a caffatieria and i heard kids but never found them

Oh my god i think after all the aspestas setles on your burgers i think you would get poision, plust when you drink and inhale aspestas you get realy drunk and high

considering what? i don't see what's wrong with that comment from Aaron P.

this stuff is scary

um.....

*considers above comment but doesn't know where to begin*

For those who don't know, these pictures were taken during summer, when the trees and bushes have GREEN leaves on them. Sunlight reflects off the foliage and that's where the greenish hue comes from.

Hey listen back in 2003 I vistied Byberry alot because people at my school would talk about it in Fairless hills PA. Any ways I went one night no masks and a video camera and a friend I could not tell you the name of the building but i know we spent 1hour on trying to pry open the window boards and door boards but no luck then moving along the side of the building we found a staircase that over the years the mud had built up around the entry to the basement there was just enough room for us to squiezz down any ways why looking for this entry we heard kids in side well this entry led us the basement B1 we spent at least 4 hours in the basement we then found caffaterias after another to what looked like to be thousands of mutilated flilling cabinets and old janitorial stuff TRAYS for food then we found books with DEVIL SIGHNS INSIDE THE PAGES and old medicine bottles and i had my cell phone on me perfect signal there was a elevador that had stoped at B1 and had not moved since at least 1991 or 1990 the doors open actualy was creppy that it just stayed like that i never hoped on becuause i did not want it to free fall to B2 and get stuck down there many of the entrys to B2 had been destroyed to stay shut we ran into the morge where they burnt the dead there was a huge furnace where they slide people on to I did not see a single roach spider what so ever i even destroyed a celing vent locked to put my video camera to se ACTUALY WEIRD we heard people but did not find any of them. We found a B2 entry way but on the botom of the stairs painted in RED was ALL DEAD DOWN HERE LOTS OF DEAD BODIES. I swear to god that place is of the devil because as soon as I turned around the face of friend was like they had scene something realy bad, i had a incoming text message PLAIN SCREEN no number WE Went up to F1 where there was just halls after halls of open rooms with pading walls tons after another. We rested [removed per site policy] AHAHAHA BYBERRY IS GREAT PLACE

The implosion can't come fast enough! Oh, what a glorious day that will be, to see it all reduced to rubble.

Interesting, thank you. :) So not actual mansions as in old homes, just old buildings.

The "mansions", as they are referred to sometimes, are Byberry's oldest and probably most decrepit buildings. Most of them are not anymore dangerous than the regular buildings. The most dangerous of the buildings is most likely old administration, it is built of all wood. Part of it has collapsed and a few of the floors are kind of mushy. These buildings were abandoned between sometime in the 70s and 1983, when administration moved to W-3 (they weren't all closed up at once).

I'm sorry but I have a silly question; what are the mansions? What were they used for?

im scared i live near it

If you like this stuff, you can get more of it on Mott's fantastic FORUM.
I have a Byberry thread going with dozens of pics from all kinds of explorers.
Go here: http://www.opacity.us/forum/
and shoot to the "Photography" section.

Thank you, Motts, for the awesome tour. And thank you, Radikal Ed, for the "play by play". You both succeeded in making me feel as if I were actually there. =]