4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

Disturbingly interesting...

The fridges would make an awsome beer fridge!!

Whats wrong with turning it into a bar? -other than the limited amount of space. What a great conversation piece it would make!

you can drive right up to this one. The road comes right off of Bridge St. I bike past it all the time.

decent photo, yeah i have seen the flourecents kinda creepy i have seen bulbs riged to breakerboxes in the basements of buildings hanging that were a glow

A friend of mine told me that when he was a child of about 7 or 8, his mother worked at Pennhurst. He and his brother used to rought house and call each other names, "retard, stupid". His mother was so fed up with her 2 boys one day that she took them to work with her and put them on one of the "low grade" wards and left them there for the day. He said it was an experience he will never forget. He saw first hand the fesses on the wall and patients, most were nude at one time or the other.

On a better note, she also used to bring patients home for holidays. Things like that were easier back then, law suits were not lurking behind every good deed.

Also, Phantom if your still lurking around, please stop destroying Pennhurst with your immature graffitti. Most of us go there to take in the history and explore things we are trying to understand, differences in cultural acceptance, lost childhoods, historic buildings, and people like you feel the need to ruin everything in your path. Why?

You guys think way too hard.....All that writing on the wall was done by my friends and I...where it says "Pennhurst Mission"...we posed for a picture together...everything that is in this picture is from us...

My mother is a nurse, and worked with an agency that was brought in to help Pennhurst before it was a lost cause for the patients..some of what you are saying is true, but a lot of it is 'ghost stories'...

I have tons of pictures and experiences I can tell you about first hand, and from my mom...so if you're interested...you can contact me on AIM.

Troopermedic33

Andrew

You don't want to hear how I really feel about things? :-)

Thank-you, thank-you Lynn. Some one finally gets it. I'd almost given up hope. Your last comment scares me though.

There was some leftover soap from scubbing those chairs down

blub, blub, blub, blub, blub...

Backy! Find a soap dispenser and wash that mouth out!

Then I got big balls. What else could I say? LOL

you have to have big balls to walk through here without being scraed

i have asperger's syndrome and only live about an hour from pennhurst, so this place really hits home for me. why, if i had been born just ten years earlier i would have ended up in this hell hole...or possibly wernersville.

Yes, there are also marks on the floor where the divider supports were fastened, they would have had doors also, like any public restroom