4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

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I've heard so many horrible things about this place it blows my mind to an extent were i can barley think about how many lives were lost and what the people staying here had to suffer through.
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It's not about the amount of people that died here.. its how they died. I hear that this hospital was one of the worst, with lots of abuse. That can lead to distressed spirits and such.....
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oh yeah my email is lilsprite_21@yahoo.com
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does anyone still frequent this site? i have stumbled upon an old mattern x ray machine...trying to figure out what era this thing is from got the machine, the partition, and the table....i have pictures...i'd like to restore it if possible.
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I have to agree, to me its looks like a vent from I don't know air conditioner or something. But that medication stuff I to agree.
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hey motts,
I like to join this comment. I'm not a spy. But I'm interresting in this story of pinnhurst. what type of books are they thats piled up on the floor? I'm just wondering. I hope not any trouble.
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sorry I forgot some in there when you see for at it , I ment from looking at it and about the part it looks like is old i ment Its look like its old and cracked. please forgive
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look at the windows, no affence but it look its old and cracked. But this place for at it,give me creeps. I don't work and I'm not a student but if you don't mind I would to hear alot of history about this poor place.
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By away everybody, please tell me about this building. I heard about this place,I heard that if the mental child had bit somebody what they do is the doctor or whatever had sat the client( child)on the dental chair and start pulling all their teeth out so they wouldn't bite other children. is that true?
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Is it me or do you see a person in the sheets. Pennhurst looks so sad and cold I feel so sad for the people who were forced to live here. : [
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They probaly felt like they were caged animals.
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I went to pennhurst 1 year ago and it was CREEPY!!!!!!
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I know a man who spent 12 years in this place and every day this man is hunted by the things that happened to him in here. I feel sorry for anyone who had to spend any time in this place. it should have been closed down long before it was.
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I hope someone was with you in that room Motts, because you couldn't get me to be there by myself for two minutes, scariest room ever.
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HEY GUYS, I'M CONSIDERING MAJORING IN ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, I'LL BE STARTING COLLEGE IN AUGUST. MY GOAL IS TO HELP PEOPLE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISORDERS AND MAKE SURE THINGS LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. BUT IN ORDER TO DO THAT I NEED TO BE WELL EDUCATED AND INFORMED ON THE HISTORY OF MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, ESPECIALLY ONES LIKE THIS. IF ANY OF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY LINKS/RESOURCES/INFO, & COULD E-MAIL ME AT jennifers982@gmail.com IT WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED! thanks :)