4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

does anyone have a pic of the old Mattern X-Ray Machine

damn you.... its useless

There's nothing wrong with taking stuff from some abandoned place. Essentially, it's a torn down building and I doubt that anyone is really going to miss the suction machine from pennhurst.

Vandalism IS a different story, however...no matter how abandoned, there's no reason to draw pictures on walls that have history.

I take small tokens from places that I've investigated just to remind myself of those experiences.

And....COME ON!!! Someone turned a suction machine into a LAMP. How cool is that?

"rolling a queer" or "rolling a fag" means having a smoke or a blunt, FYI

Such a powerful presentation of youthful innocence and play mixed with age and decay. Wonderful picture.

It's very scary that the sheep are named, isn't it?

crystal u have a gud eye

dosnt it luk like da boy on da end is touchin da boy n frnt of hims butt

I worked at Pennhurst. There were employees who were concerned for the patients and some who were abusive to them.There was a hospital with a T.B. ward, dental clinic, school where classes were taught in weaving, basket making.and other classes.Also there was a dairy,and poultry farm, Penn Hall was a residence for one of the types of maintenance,others had homes on th property which were part of the state property too.The girls colony was up on the hill and there were three buildings,one,which was called C8 and in the basement was a cannery where items were canned. Inthe basement of C2 was the kitchen,where food was prepared for the girls and the employees that worked up there. A dental clinic was inC4 building which also housed less mentally handicapped girls. Some of the girls did beautiful tatting and crocheting which employess would pay them to do for employees..


some ofnt

i ran into phantom once while i was there. (or at least some old guy claiming to be Phantom. Honestly, that guy was crazy. Myself and like six others were walking through a tunnel and I had two other friends looking out for people and he started creeping out of the bushes real slow in full camo and night vision goggles. We freaked out but one of my friends started talking to him and he ended up giving us a tour of the place and took us to places like the theatre and the morgue and a lot of the rooms in the main buildings but it started raining and we were by the area he referred to as the 'rape shack' and we were near our car but he tried to split our group up saying that "i know a quicker way, come through this tunnel" but I made sure everyone stayed with me and we got back to the car real fast. He had a walky-talky and was talking to people on his radio that he claimed were his friends and family but it sounded like he was just overhearing static filled conversations. He also pointed at a lot of the graf on the walls and claimed some of the tags to be his friends and family (saying it was his wife and kids doing the tags). He told us a story about a kid that would reach up his anus and rip out his colon and the doctors would have to restitch him but he died within a week. He claimed to have this knowledge due to how he was the first person to get the records out of the filing cabinets. I start to wonder whether he was actually committed to Pennhurst. He kept talking about "back in the day" too and said he would go to Byberry with his friends and roll a queer (meaning" to beat up a gay guy".. i think). He also kept asking one of the girls with us if she had a grandmother as pretty as her, haha. It was a long eventful day and I heard later from a friend that Phantom was arrested for graf and for pushing a filing cabinet off of the roof and onto a police van while being chased. Phantom told us he did this and got away with it which was funny when i found out he got caught weeks later. Anyone else ever meet this creepy old guy who calls himself Phantom?

I lived in the spring city area and i went to school at spring-ford i heard about this place from the time i was 8 till i went up there my last year in spring-ford last year its crazy

KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha
private police force

WTF!? this! this! is the creepists picture i have EVER seen in my life!!!!! EVER!!!!! nightmares.....such nightmares!

no offense intented, but i feel retarted looking at these!