4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

yes there were walls that divided them but no doors used to work there

its not being patroled i was just there 11/1/06 on a full moon so kali your way off wrong buildings.never been there during the day the nights the shit especially a full moon to hear some fucked up shit

I live near hear and me and my friends went there and i deffntly fell on them steps...they are NOT sturdy at all.

I remember going to Pennhurst to fix copiers in the fall of 1980. It was a creepy place then. I remember hearing people screaming. One afternoon as I was rummaging around the back of my station wagom for parts one old gent pushing an even older gent in a wheelchair asked me "Do you have anything good to eat in there?". One misty morning as I was aproaching the grounds I remember seeing 3 or 4 patients walking around a field in a daze. They were all listening to transistor radios... weird...

Motts I almost pissed myself laughing. My whole class is staring at me because I randomly burst out laughing. You're great.

Sorry, need a new keyboard after that one . . . 8`-)

oh good god Motts, now THAT was certainly unexpected! I can't stop laughing!

Oh dear...I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard!

I feel the same about almost all your comments, I guess we're just not meant to be.

Take care now!

this picture is just stupid and borrin to me

holy cow thats worst than my room. And my room is pretty hard to beat 4 the dirtiest room

this is some freaky stuff on this website!

i live right down the street from pennhurst and its awesome

If you actually "cared" you wouldn't make such ugly, blanket statements. To slam families who sent their child to a residential facility because it was the usual practice at the time is a cruel and hurtful thing to say. There may have been a handful of families who were embarrassed, but that was mostly because of how they were treated by others. And just like in every other home there may have been children who were abused, but tell me that doesn't happen today and with so-called "normal" children in "normal" families. "Unfit homes," my aching behind! You have made such ugly and hurtful charges against such a large segment of the population that I am stunned. The families of individuals who lived (and in some cases still live) in residential facilities are some of the kindest, gentlest, most caring people I have ever met. The pain and guilt that many of them went through (and in many cases still have) about sending their child away is some of the deepest and most grievous pain I have ever encountered. To call their homes "hell" makes me wonder about the deepest recesses of YOUR own personal soul (or perhaps your total lack of knowledge about these families). And then to assume that every single person was then sexually abused and tormented is just as sick. People like you frighten me, especially when you hide behind the "I care" label. What you care about is muckraking and voyeurism, and that is what "hell" is. My guess - you stir it up all the time and make life hell for others and then act self-righteous about it.

[Steps off soapbox and picks up bull's eye target to attach to shirt.]

people were sent there because their families were ashamed of their children, some were sent there because the police and social workers (child welfare) found these children in unfit homes only to be taken from one section of hell to a worst section of hell, they were sexually abused and overmedicated and strcited from any individual rights.