4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

Truthfully, I don't know if I could walk through that hallway if I saw a light flickering.... it would seem too foreboding somehow.

Motts, do you remember which building this stairwell was in?

I know our Nuclear Medicine Lab had one of these tv monitor things. I'm not exactly sure how it was used, but I do remember seeing it in about 1984.

I know its not... But it reminds me of a Confessional.

Yea, I was going to say that it looks like a ball pit we have at the YMCA

Wow, I wish I had something like that.

That shower doesn't look too watertight, and would patients take a leak out of the window?

Actually, the staircase in front of a window is quite Escherian.

I kinda want to go and rescue that wheelchair. It looks like it's trying to hide from something.

stairway to nowhere, I suppose.

silkster, i really dont know. i do know that my friends grandfather was on the staff at pennhurst, and that was HIS explanation for it. but who knows? maybe the old fart was wrong!

There is asbestos, broken glass, live wires, and other stuff like twisted, sharp metal fragments, ect.

Don't they have a barbershop down in the basement of some building too?

For me, it looks more like a release from the suffering. Leaving a wheelchair (which if you're not used to manoevreing, it can be a tough thing to do), going to the fair, riding the carousel, and finally being at peace.

Maybe it was either to keep people from climing the posts....OR maybe the plaster was crumbling and it was used as a cover for it instead of repairing it (like a pressed tin ceiling was sometimes used to hide cracking plaster ceilings).

I went in yesterday and i cant find a lot of these places