3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

the lighting in this is stunning

the overexposure actually makes this shot - i love it

SHE LOOKS LIKE DONNA SUMMER

Christina Ellis Preiss and Debbie Taylor....I guess we are all related because Furey Ellis was also my father's uncle. I was born the year he died, but heard about him when I was little. I am on facebook if you'd like to connect. That staircase is amazing and would scare the heck out of me!

I used to volunteer to visit in the early 80's thru Ryan H.S . It was a scary place , some of the inmates were just wild. One really scary guy grabbed my best friend Mia and tried to kiss her . We stopped going. That place was very sad . Just horribly sad.

Spray painting shitt on the walls is the same as trashing it...

I bet it's due for a hyro test!

Where dose the tunnal start at

i believe it cold be hounted

i remember walking down this hallway with a group of friends and we get in the middle and heard a baby scream.. we jetted out of there. we went back a few months after and we seen some people on the roof and they said they same exact thing happen to them

I am curious to know if I am the only one who has noticed there is a dark shadow of a figure standing right to the left of the window...Is that someone who was with you? Or did you even notice it was there?

@ kathy Im sorry,but you posted 4 years too late to save it,but I dont belive any one even rasied a finger to save Byberry.

@ Max I know most of these comments were made 7 years ago,but not all mentally ill are in prisions. Not far from where I live is a place called Marion,Virginia,and there is a still running state hospital for the insane there

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@Irina Unfortunately my dear, The 'Byberry Era ended for good in the fall of '06. After the unstoppable force known as 'progress' claimed yet another important piece of American history, and probably one of the most famous, or infamous Urban-Explorer's paradise. From what I heard, the property was razed and redeveloped into a retirement community. I wonder how many of the old folks currently living there, if any, are plagued by the supposed-phantoms that roamed the forgotten halls of the old Philadelphia State Hospital. In the paranormal-enthusiasts community, we believe when certain locations, that may have once housed the spirits of those past on, are demolished, and new structures are built over the grounds. These 'energies' are not destroyed, they remain, possibly becoming unwanted 'tenants' of the new buildings. It would be interesting to talk to some of those people, and get their stories, or even find out if they know the history of the grounds and land upon which their new 'houses' sit.