4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

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Beautiful 'otherworldly' quality to this shot. The foreground really draws your attention.
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Mostly children, and some adults who's mentalities were that of a child. Click on the Pennhurst State School link on top of the photo for a rundown of the place.

There's some strange rooms in the place, nothing weird happened though.
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HAAHAA this girl Rissa is a RIOT. fucking hilarious
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did they keep dead people in there?
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omg did they keep baby's and children there?was it like scary there?did u experience anything weird?lol srry im really interested in this!
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this is the room i want to have my breakdown in.
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Ok... now I'm officially jealous. This is EXTREMELY cool framing... great composition! Very creepy... it would be creepy w/out the branches.. but the addition just fits the images so amazingly well, that it makes it that more creepy ... I'm just going to go kill myself now. :-)
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Ah, that's what they're called. I suppose they doubled as wheelchairs.
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lol
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they are commodes, i still cant figure out where you would need to wheel off to while your using one though
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i wonder what happen there...
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This was a morgue, not a solarium or a bedroom. These were built for medical practice and efficiency, not to look pretty or comfort the residents... I don't think assumptions towards patient care should be made from these "behind the scenes" places.
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the way the freezer id put seems very shuned from the rest of the room possibly shows there attitude towards the mentaly ill.....
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this is so very sad...but the mentally ill are usually very difficult to live with...VERY DIFFICULT...so it's sad for many different reasons...
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Most people who were committed to a state hospital lived there for the rest of their lives. It was common for families to leave a child or family member at an asylum where they didn't have to live with or pay for an 'abnormal' person; someone who might of been frowned upon in the social mentality of that time. Some families cared and visited, some didn't... those that had no where to go died and were buried at the hospital's cemetery. Autopsies were sometimes performed to help find out how diseases and mental problems affect the body and how to treat those cases. Their graves are only marked by a patient number and their religion... so is the end of the loneliest existence to live.