4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

it indeed looks like a bathroom, with the outlines of what appear to urinal stalls.

ive been there before and it's not really that scary inside and most recently the whole place was basically emptied out after awhile none of those things are really there anymore

Thanks, Xopher! I knew someone would figure it out!

I blew it up using photoshop. It is hard to tell, but I believe it is something printed on a screen behind the window: like an illustrated human body, or some other anatomy illustration.

Lynne, I like your posts. They are very informative and give a good background to these PICs.

That was the most informative, and insiteful post Ive ever read.

Honest Carr's Used Johns

But it would certainly be there "All Season"....

I'm not sure, a tin for food maybe, I don't remember.

motts what is that on the bed?

OMG they should open peen hurts and hire pepole to act like if it was still open for holloween that will be really scary so scary they would make alot of money by doing that

but doesnt look like this because its really old just think when it was open it probly looked the same way

I was with jen on this one, interpretation-wise, until I read the subsequent submissions. I suffered from depression for years, and the picture has a kind of bleak darkness to it which was uncomfortably familiar. It does have the positive aspect that some/most of the black sheep are escaping... that's much less familiar. Maybe the blackness of the sheep wasn't a reflection of guilt after all. Good picture though!

Mr Motts, thanks for your well-written, as well as magnificently photographed site, by the way. A rare combination on the Internet.

Different times, different standards of privacy. Haven't you seen four hole outhouses where the whole family could "share the moment"?

Maybe it's the ghost of the cat from the drawer.