1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

I went into building 24 and through a tunnel leading into building 23. i never felt so scared. I heard a little girl scream. and in the tunnel my friend took a pic. in the pic showed the face of a little girl with bangs clearly in the shot

oops... just realized thats not the rehab! Oh well.. I guess thiese are abandoned areas? the buildings are all similar, hard to tell the difference in b&w

It is not how it appears. There are patients living there that think of this as there home, and they do not want to leave.
The smaller building in front is the rehab, its a pretty nice building, has a pool, theatre, bowling alley and more. Patients with privledges can go there. The average length of stay is 2 years, but patients stay tend to be 5 months, although many have been there a few decades.
There is some mistreatment, mostly from the way the place is administered. The patients are treated as children, punished if caught smoking, food choices made for them. There is staff there that is wonderful caring and kind. But trust me, Pilgrim is not anything like it appears. By the way, its weird inside, each wing is a mirror image of another, and each side is a mirror image, and each floor the same. There are these thick glass brick windows that distort the outside world and courtyards on both sides. Look at this building on google earth, its really odd.

That did happen in 2005 at a different hospital - the Philadelphia Geriatric Center closed up and left the body in the cooler; it was found 3 years later by a construction worker renovating the place.

http://abclocal.go.com...local&id=4273050

holy crap! they did not close cuz of paitent abuse.! there r still buildings if that was the case then ALL of the buildings would have closed and they werent.
1)they didnt need trhe buildings
2) couldnt afford to have that many
3) y dont u ask some1 who works there!

i was looking at pictures of abandon buildings and almost every1 of them were spirit photos.. look closely.. sometimes u cn see the ghosts fae other times its just a blurr

omg.. hha imagine going there and being stupid open one of them like in horror movies.. and all of a sudden u see a body they forgot about.. =/

its like one of the halloween movies! when the lady gets her face like melted off! =/ i would deff wnt to go there and take a bath.... (nott)!

my mom is a nurse there and they just didnt need the building anymore so they just stoped using it. btw do u know how expencive that would have been?

is it just me.. it feels like someone is like still in the building waiting to be let out. waiting....

I completely agree that being on this site and reading Lynne's comments have strongly influenced my thoughts about people with illnesses and disabilities. Her comments have also really opened my eyes about the people who work with these patients. Thank you, Lynne, for all of your posts.

IS THIS BUILDING STILL STANDING,THEY SHOULD HAVE GHOST HUNTERS FILM A SHOW THEIR.

Wow, after seeing this for real when I was a kid, it's kind of surreal seeing it in photos 35 years later. That's exactly how it was then. Dark and gloomy, cloud coverd day. The echos in those corridors were so eerie! We were 14 years old, running through the halls, turning stuff over and breaking windows.

This brings back memories. We broke into the main building before it was torn down in the summer of 1974. We got chased by security, took off in the woods, walked along train tracks and ended up at the coal burning power plant. The guard there made us walk through the still occupied insane asylum until we got to the gate that leads out to Comack Road. What a day that was, I will remember it until I die!

I worked at blg 7 at KP. Yes, there are ghosts
there. Don't, don't go in, ever! By chance, and'
by accident, I saw the forms after sunset. It
was at the northend of bld 7, floor two. I left in a hurry, of course, and never returned. I worked there in Security.