3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

Byberry might be creepy to some, but it's just an empty group of delapidated buildings.
The whole machete thing is just a bullshit story.

Nope, they're just empty because they've never been used.

Wow! You got nice arms. =)

It makes me wonder if all those bottles are empty because they've been pilfered by druggies.

Wow! That's so wild that there are hang out rooms in Byberry. I heard that there was a guy who wandered Byberry with a machete.

You guys are a hell of a lot braver than I am! =P

It still does, until your friend tears a fire bell off the wall and throws it down a long echoey hallway!
Then you figure whoever was watching you is leaving the scene very abruptly, as the guy that threw it is seven feet tall.
Long live Lanky!

There's still things here and there, I have tons of pics of everything in there, but it's not as prevalent as before.

I got a half of a book on infectious diseases published in the 1940s from N-10

use to play freedom there it always felt like some one was watchn u in early 90s

you know the abandoned warehouse on jacksonville road in our hometown? thats where they got those posters... they being the people from no-trespassing.net
-natalie's cousin

Byberry was gutted by state-run work crews the year following it's closure in 1990. I've found a few text-books and music books there, but if it wasn't removed by '92, it was set on fire by vandals.

i was in the auditorium up on the catwalks last week, and when i came down, my friend in front of me said "oh my god!" and when i looked out into the seats, i gasped. there were about 50 prints of an artwork with a little girl holding some kind of musical instrument pasted onto the first 10 or so rows of seats. it scared the shit out of me. i looked to see what the original is called, and its called "between acts"... does anyone know anything about the person who did this? cuz i'm sure they'd like to know that they almost made me piss my pants. i think thats what they wanted from all that work.

i work in a nursing home, and we have a "line" in which we have food that gets put on trays to take to residents that are bed ridden or in a smaller dining room. it may have been used as a tray line for patients not allowed to leave their rooms. i've been in that room, and i believe that there were trays lying all over the place. maybe for that purpose? i'm totally guessing here.

were there any traces of any books? or were those taken when it was abandoned? i highly doubt that looters would have taken the books.

i worked there late 70's patients often like zombies..but saw alot of very violent behavior....psych sessions frequently not relavant to patients confined conditions