4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

Ewwwwwww Gads! That Dr Fear fella gives me the creeps! And you're kidding right? Fear? This is the guy's real last name? Guess it must be as that what he was called in the video. Damn it fits! Is it just me or does that dude look like a living corpse or what? YUCK!

OMFG yeah dude! That pic of that guy who died in the bath and that heater or whatever it was went in with him and nobody found him for a really long time? Gaaaaaaaaaaag! That was totally gross. I think the most gross pic on Rotten (I think they've removed it now) was the set of that guy who died and nobody found him for a whole week, and it was summer, hot hot summer? Now I have a strong stomach, but I nearly puked when I saw that...

Now its patrolled by security and the natinal guard facility can be heard nearby. Some crazy stuff hapend at pennhurst.

I was there last night and stumbled across a homeless person sleeping in this very same tunnel.-Pennhurst is probablly one of the creepiest places ive been

I was there last night... I saw this mural and was speechless at the rest of pennhurst

Ah yes, the second floor hallways in whitman. One of my favorite parts of Pennhurst. Notice the marble floors, this was a very interesting building. Lower floors contained the morgue, labs, operating and examination rooms. Correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe this was the main "medical" building of Pennhurst?

Thanks to some stupid little punks, this light has been completely vandalized. Some genius out there thought it would be awesome to take some red spraypaint to the interior.

Weird. Last time i saw it it was in the blue hallway near Devon. Makes sense i suppose.

I have been there 2 times. Both in the middle of the nite. A little scary, but made it through. I brought my camara and took some pics. Afterwards we found some crazy shit. A man walking from the road to a building.He was dressed in a robe that looked like he belonged in a church choire. I still have the picture on my camara chip.

I grew up in the Pottstown area near Spring City. As a junior high school student, I first visited Pennhurst on a health class field trip. It seemed an inappropriate place for young teenagers to "learn," and, in fact, one of the boys in our group passed out cold when the place became too much for his sensibilities. Pennhurst was shocking simply as an institution. It was even more shocking to see groups of retarded and mentally ill people housed like this. I would visit Pennhurst two more times before it closed. A few years after my school visit to Pennhurst, my mother took a job there as a ward assistant. It was her job to watch over and care for the patients. Two times in the year or so she worked there, I accompanied her to the facility for reasons I cannot recall. I remember being approached by "Elvis," a patient who was intent on trying to charm me with his animal magnetism. While my mother had the psychological fortitude to deal with the daily, sometimes mundane but often disturbing realities of caring for institutionalized mentally ill patients, she eventually had to leave her job because of abuse she witnessed. She filed a complaint, but nothing significant came of it. The sheer helplessness and bizarre behavior of such human beings in such an environment makes them extraordinarily vulnerable. To be their caregiver demands an almost superhuman level of patience, compassion, alertness and sometimes physical strength. This is not work suited to those who simply need a paycheck, and that is where I think the disconnect lies. But, tell me, where would you find the number of people needed who also happened to possess the virtues to care for helpless people with integrity, to provide physical assistance with compassion, to nurture psychologically with respect? And to do it five days a week, no matter what. It's a tall order. Not many people could do it. I couldn't. And I thank God for those who can.

i have spent the night in pennhurst
numerous times
and from what i see it is NOT haunted.

i live in spring city and i hunt there and i walked through all the buildings and even some of the tunnels you guys herd shit that wasnt even true about this placce... both of my grand moms were secretarys there and they said rumors got around and no one knows how pennhurst really is so stop with the rumors they aint true your all beat!!!

Yeah, what is that sticking out above the window? To me and my shite sight it looked at first glance to be a tree branch, but blowing up the picture to super large showed no trees to which the branch could be attached. So I'm guessing it's some sort of ariel?

Ahh don't ya know? Nearly every state school and hospital has tall fences all round their grounds. This is to keep the nosey ole' public out so that the workers there can abuse the residents! Okay I'm just kidding. Really though, I think a lot of state schools and hospitals have tall fences like this not to torment the people on the inside, just for security measures. I know that the state school for the blind I attended as a child for summer term had a very very tall fence around the grounds and I was freaked out by it and worried a bit as to my fate but it was explained to me that the location of the school was and still is in a very bad neighborhood and it was, the fence I mean, was for security.

i have been to pennhurst like 500 times and the one time i layed on the freezer rack and my friends pushed me and shut the door.......not so fun but defintly something to remember....