4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

no. none of them are. there are crazy rumors that police are using the land to train their dogs - but they are just rumors. nothing is in use.

Hey - i was here yesterday! but i was so freaked out that i couldnt even get out of my car!

It's an amazing picture, whatever its origins. No wonder some initial viewers don't wade through 40-odd comments before making their own remarks. To be honest, I would, and did, but that's just me. Never mind. They've seen it.

A simple scene but perfect shot, leads the viewers eye up to the building in all its rustic look, framed by the tree branches captured.. on top of it all, the bright sky with clouds contrats greatly with the scene on the ground.

Thanks, Tony. Hand it to me along with a cumezekyama, please, that's a dear child. :-)

I still think it's just a storage area, not a play area...

Taking things and defacing property ruins it for future explorers. You (phantom) either didn't think of that or care. It really saddens me that the kids of this era don't appreciate true beauty and therefor someday we will no longer be able to enjoy the remains of anything. We'll be staring at a bunch of graffitti (sp?) and vandilism. At least there's still people out there like Motts.

People with a mentality like Phantom are the reasons why you can't just go dive on The Great Barrier Reef or you have to have a guide going through spectacular natural locations that'd be so much more moving if you didn't have a party of twenty other people with you chattering and blowing the 'mood.'

Why can't a photo be the only trophy needed? Retorical question. People, and I use the term loosely when referring to this kind of mind-set, can be completly selfish and greedy. Which, in turn, just blows the whole thing for the rest of us.

Bah ...

Ack, that word! 8`-(

Nah, I gave up. Old age and cynicism are catching up with me. :-)

Actually if anything it looks like a stairwell

Totally encaptured by these pictures, oddly i don't know why.
As for the above image, It's not the first time a picture has been taken with a person in the scene, it does look like someone else is viewing one of the rooms, i would'nt put it down to being a spooky shadow figure at all.
Window image - Zoom in 250, you'll see it's in no shape or form a humans image, just a trick of the eye.

Thanks, Ack. I should know that as I can barely reach the floor when I sit in a chair (yes, that would be a lonely chair). :)

Ack, did you not read what Lynne stated above? Also, I have noticed the lack of murals. Aren't there always murals in the play rooms? Maybe this is just a storage area.....?? (Albeit a very spooky storage area.....)

My guess is, that they turned this room into an impormtue shower/bathroom. They left the stairs there for one of two reasons I can think of.
1) It offered some kind stablity for a fairly mobile pacient to cling to while waiting to get into the shower. It also might have provided some kind of PT. Warm water loosens up muscles and having the stairs there they might have walked them a few times to help keep limber.
2) Since this is a make shift bathroom they where too cheap to remove the stairs. It costs money to rip things out . Why spend money to rip something out the pacients don't care if it stays or goes?