4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

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how do you get to this building???
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i have been to pennhurst twice in the past three months and i could only find around 7 of the buildings and they were all the ones that were near the veterans hospital. does anyone know how to get to the rest of them?? any info could help a lot!!! thanks.
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i was in this building last night...it was nuts...i went in with abunch of friends...really scary...we also went into the power plant, if you go about 2 or 3 floors down it reeks of gasoline...we couldnt breathe down there....scary stuff..
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I really would like to know what's on the walls. Looks kinda gross.
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yah... i live on pennhurst road. i actually believe my house is haunted. i always see a blue figure on my third floor when i come upstairs in the dark at the very end of the hallway. and lastnight my friend slept over, and i had placed my hair clip on the couch. i wake up looking for it and find it all the way on the table. alot of things tend to be moved around in my house... and its not any of my family members......
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Hello,

Im writing a paper on medical ethics and people with developmental disabilities and Mental illness'. I was wondering if anyone can point me in a direction where i can get some "credible" information reguarding willowbrook?
Barry, were you the person who left the comment about the mural with the children, ie: that you had known who painted it and when, (on an earlier post, diff. page)? I had a genuine question about that (don't know if you saw it). If this is you, I still am wondering about what you started to say.... -the Pennhurst attic mural, question left on 10/16. Can you, or which ever "Barry" started to give his info plz. elaborate if poss.
Thanks.
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Some Scary stuff!!!!!
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This is the Vincennes attic, which now has a nice big garden growing out of the floor. Vincennes is one of the most deteriorated buildings of them all, aside from the old part of Whitman (medical building), which has a few collapsed floors.
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My grandmother was one that was wheeled beyond the ornate doors and emerged 6 years in a casket. It was long ago and she had alzheimers at a young age. Not much was knowm at that time. I will remember goeing to see her and knowing the superficiial beauty was a better show than PT Barnum could ever do. A beatiful vibrant women entered. A withered shell emerged.
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That is not a B3. I learned to play on a B3 and it only had a single octave of foot pedals. A B3 would not be worth more than $100- The B3 has an internal speaker but it is not powerful. It needs the Leslie to project
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There are now multiple holes in the floor surrounding the X-ray table. It won't be long before the table ends up in the basement.
Heh, good one Frida.
Having lurked for, yikes...years and having read pretty much everything on the site, I find Lynne's postings to hugely informative. I read 'em all. I admire her tenacity in the face of the pervasive (shame, really) tendency to assume the worst and react viscerally. Yes, it's human to react so but it's also wise to gain an understanding of the entire picture before letting the ol' knee-jerk.

I realise that some folks quite enjoy being spooked and scared and "creeped out" whilst others seem to almost romaticise the darker side of humanity. I tend to accept its existence, that it does exist and do whatever I can to counter that darkness and encourage light.

Might be my age here (like Lynne...dirt came after me) but I've learned to look at the entirety of an issue. Lynne has said it far better than I ever could and she's spot on with respect to *US* bearing a great deal of responsibility for some of these issues. Funding matters hugely. And with sufficient funding, those who would abuse and denigrate could be replaced so fast their heads would swim.

I'm an American who now lives in a European country and some of the differences I see with respect to health care in general and care for the disabled (mentally/physically) and the *attitude* is astounding. There is a sense here of responsibility for caring for those who do not have what "we" do and I am quite glad to see that.

Good on ya, Lynne and all the others who do that which so many of us could not begin to do. And keep on "preaching" because there are entirely too many who still aren't hearing.

DAH
Looks like someone is a leeeeeetle bit too "involved" in a video game.

Poor Lynne, I worry her hair will get stuck in that position some day. :-)