4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

...slowly being sucked inexorably into the dark maw...

I'm looking at that walkway...is it sinking into the ground? Sorta like the place is being pulled into the depths.....slowly.....

If you want to talk to former patients come to royersford or spring city. That's where they all live since they were let out. I have former patients that walk by my house every day, even found a naked one in my back yard! The cops know her, so when we called, they knew before they got here who she was.

But, I am VERY surprised that they took the pregnant ones to the hospital. I don't know if any one has found the grave yards yet. They have small plaques on them, and the babies are buried there. Were do you think the babies came from? Do you think they were patients at age 1, 2 or 3?

They called it the Mayflower building because once you were on, you had to come across! See you in the ruins/////Phantom

Excited, it's against the policy of this site to post access info or detailed directions here so you probably won't have much luck. Instead, I'd suggest El Peecho's Pennhurst site ( http://www.elpeecho.co...nhurst/pennhurst.htm ) which gives quite a lot of info and links to discussion boards about Pennhurst past & present.

What I would say is take time to research the place before you go, watch the newsreel and try to understand what Pennhurst represented and some of the terrible things that took place there. Don't be a muppet and damage it or take souvenirs, treat it with the respect that Motts did and that I would if I had ever had the opportunity to take a look around.

i really want to go, but all my friends are chickens, any one have any advice?

hyi vittu... silent hill

I should add when Jeremy was born, my twins were 5 years old and my oldest was 7, so it was a little crazy keeping up with 4 small children. I managed though, and wouldn't trade the experiences for the world.

Even when a child is loved and at home it is difficult to care for them, especially if there are siblings. My youngest son (of 4 kids) was born deaf and the strain of making sure he couldn't unlock a door and get out and run into the street, or play with the stove, etc was nerve racking for the other 5 of us as we couldn't yell at him when danger threatened. My other kids told me after they grew up they always thought Jeremy was my favorite because he got so much attention! True, deafness is not the same as retardation, but surely the same principles apply. There were times I was so exhausted all I could do was cry. When he was about 7 he finally understood running into the road could get him killed by a car, that all dogs were not friendly, that people were going to point and stare at him when he vocalized, etc. He's 21 now and works and is a joy in my life, but it was hard when he was a little boy.

My mom taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in the '70s in Calif. I remember her using those machines to teach the little Korean and Vietnamese children words.

OK, so it's cobwebs! I thought it was just smashed glass that looked like it was forming a ghoulish face!

The same face appears in a different picture of a fog type mist in one of the rooms

P.S. ~Me,

The disability movement uses that slogan - it is burned into our brains. Here are some various places who use that phrase and it already IS a tee-shirt. :-)

http://www.alaskachd.o..._graphics/pflogo.gif
http://www.health.stat...sdoh/promo/title.gif
http://www.open.org/~people1/

OK, I know what I want to say here, but (unfortunately for those who hate to read through these things) it's going to take me a while to figure out how to say this just right. Give me a couple of days to respond to this, because I know what you are asking, but it will take a while to put in the right words without consuming all of Motts' bandwidth, so I'll work on editing it down to less than a billion words. ;-)

good lord people, they are NOT ghosts! they are spirits. but its a beautiful shot in a beautiful landscape.on other sites ive seen floating orbs hangin around too...deffinately creepy-cool.