4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

Very few of the buildings (as you can see from the pictures) are usable, but yes, the ANG does use the space to train. Also, it's not like they train exclusively at night. The whole thing is a lot scarier at night. During the day, for the most part, it just looks like an old run-down building.

Has anyone ever stopped to think that it may be the vacuum in the window has deteriorated? Everyone needs to realize that this was many many years ago, the place has fallen into extreme amounts of disrepair and neglect. Most of the "faces" you all are seeing could be any number of things. They could be dirt, they could be shadows, they could even be objects/equipment behind the windows that was left behind and happened to be in a visible spot. Most of the time, there is nothing there, just imaginations running wild.

It's not a Navy Base, it's Army National Guard. They will not shoot you on site, unless you appear to be a threat.

The National Guard base near here is VERY on top of the happenings here. Each of them know the lay out of the complex, and what should and should not be there. (A good friend of mine trains/works there). Being of the generation that we are, we also know other ways to get in and around the area. Back when we were all in high school, there was a group of people that used to do "research" on Pennhurst and we acquired (the information isn't being used for anything other than historical knowledge) maps, business cards, lists of staff, etc. The comment about buildings A, B, C...etc is correct, there was absolutely no personality behind any one of the buildings here, other than the architecture.

I live down the street from Pennhurst, the "city" could also be Parkerford. It's a tiny village now, but it was considered a lot larger back when Pennhurst was still "thriving."
Back before all the security and before the end of the road was closed, my dad and I drove through the complex and these buildings are absolutely beautiful.

It's not a shadow, it's either mortar or some other sort of plaster-like substance on the wall.

I was talking to my grandfather a few years ago, he used to live around here...(here being the town Pennhurst is in)..he said that back around the 1920's, pink was considered a male color and blue was considered a female color. That could explain why the "Men's" bathroom was painted pink.

it's a soap dispenser.

yeah i live a mile away, i love this place, very good shot

u also gotta think bac k then things were different in the way kids saw tv and paintings..they could of enjoyed this plya room..think about all the way back then..it makes sence

omg i bet some person or kid was in that wheel chair i'd love to sit in it

Uh, another reason there might not have been windows in the tunnels, is that many of them were underground. I mean, it would just be damn depressing to look out a window and only see dirt.

heh. And surely a few bodies of the people Lynne had killed from her violent violent beatings...HAHA...right.

Did that ''Shawna'' girl even think about what she said?? LOL!!

''I heard..I head..I heard'' you dont know anything!! turn off MTV and study REAL history..not that new ''50 cent'' video!

Lynee is correct that the dead really do a number on the living(meaning when they are wheeled around) esp in a mental hospital, so they made these tunnel's in part for that ordeal!

Some of these place's have had abusive staff, but it was not in the majority..most have clean record's..which is amazing considering what they have to put up with, could you handle being around people who are not all that stable all day and night..it take's compassion for this type of thing!

But I also know that what the resident's in these place's do is not all that ''crazy'' that would be more in the criminal hospital!

I also want to add that many member's of my family or their friend's have worked in hospital's, they seem to be more concerned with what the state is doing to screw them over rather than having to worry about the residnet's!

My mother told me this one guy thought he was Hitler ..she has a few other storie's but nothing like a tragic beating or anything!

TURN OFF THE TV!!

Well, I for one DO beat my patients, but only when they ask me too... Why else would I have a whip? :D

Dunno Lynne m'dear you must be getting confused.

I wonder if by letting it out that the deceased are moved around in the unseen places in the hospitals and that they are taken to the Morgue in the freight elevator will wind up being construed as abuse of the dead?

Maybe I'm the morbid one here.