4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

do you mean the shadow figure at the bottom left of the window?

This is the one you want to watch... NBC 10's Bill Baldini did a multi-part report on Pennhurst in 1968 that I beleive may be parts of, if not all of, "Suffer the Little Children." It is streaming and in excellent shape.

http://www.nbc10.com/videovault/index.html

4th one down on the right side.

THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AT THIS PLACE!

WHY ARE THESE CHAIRS ALL OVER THE PLACE?

OH MY! this is really scary.

eh, I met Mr. Stroyne....he is not a bad guy at all. The amount of trouble that place has caused him, I don't blame him for trying to make a few dollars. Dixmont is in ruins.

kinda looks like a bathroom where the sinks would be cause of the holes in the wall

These reliefs seem alot like the school itself. Appealing at first glance, but deeper lies the toil and struggle of the workers...

Does anyone else see the little ghostie...? : )

Dunno bout it...looks like a human too much,but no one said ghosts had to be see through.

Particularly the 50`s strikes me as a fascist decade sometimes,nothing was allowed to flaw the "perfect" facade,which I guess was one of the reasons parents left their children at horror places like Pennhurst.I hope we have learned something since then.

OOOOOoooooh might one of the victims ghosts, maybe he suffered here too

Looks like a nightmare corridor from some horror video game.

Can u give me anby advice on going into new buildings and sites, that are unfarmilliar

As Pjrichard asks,I wonder too why they leave all the inventories behind.It's,in a way,disrespectful,at least if patient's names are still present on records.Here in Europe,modern ruins are rare(abandoned building are torn down),so this is fairly new to me,even if I have been looking around for ruins here to photograph.Fascinating and important pieces of modern history,but very tragic.
I must compliment Mott too for great pictures and a respecful approach.