4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

ive also heard that in one of the buildings a app of a child is heard laughing and running through th hallways
if these are true then i would like to reseach it

i like the paranormal and have heard of a lot of things about pennhurst. I would like to tour and collect evp and get some emf read and maybe there can be video also ive heard of apparitions among the buildings and people peering through curtains of windows that have been covered with wire and things brunsh by you and touch you in the tunnels and the morgue

yea why did no one catch this sooner? than 1987!! that is ridculous!

Ricardo I saw that same show, which now has me interested in this subject. So sad to see all those children and how devasting it was for them. God Bless the man who blew the lid off the situation.

It is likely that the steps are not original as the opening is presented now
the last step up or first step down would be a doozy when you compare the remaining step heights... but it could be as others have observed - a window replacement for a full frame door.

Excellent work Motts including the site design. Thanks

One of the highlights of the Ghost Adventues tour of Pennhurst on the Travel Channel 1/2/10 was when the director of security related the story about he and his son standing in front of one of the bldgs and they saw someone pull back the draptes and stare down at them.
The GA team went with the security chief into the bldg and to that room on the 4th floor----ALL of the windows are 'covered' with a protective screen that is screwed in place......NO ONE has access to the cloth drapes. The security chief radioed his son to meet them in the room. He looked to be about 23 yrs old---not a kid. He recalled the incident...........then, they showed him the secured windows. He was totally taken aback.........I think it was Zak who said aside to the camera----'it's always neat to watch skeptics when they realize that they HAD seen a 'ghost'..........

Another frightening thought is that there are other facilities like this still functional .......There was a report a few weeks ago about the massive TB Hospital in N.Carolina that is as deteriated as Pennhurst.
They claim that close to 63,000 people died there. TB patients were treated like 'lepers'..........sent there to die---no hope for getting cured...there WASN'T a cure.................

BH I saw it also.............all I could think of was the 'asylums' set up by the Nazis in Germany. They 'experimented' on some of the 'undesireeables' before finally taking them to the 'ovens'......they were 'unworthy' of being in the Superior Aryan Society.
What really stunned me was that this place functioned until the late 1960's/early 70's and NO ONE on the staffs reported it......none of the doctors, nurses, maintenance or caretakers........no one spoke up.

On 1/2/10 the Travel Channel showed a series on this place called Ghost Adventures. Catch the re-run if you get the chance. This facility looks like a college campus---huge. And all the bldgs are connected by underground tunnels. The GH team interviewed several doctors who were in their early 20's when they tended patients there and they told horror stories that Stephen King couldn't come up with.....for instance: if a patient had more than 3 incidents of biting staff members they'd get all their teeth pulled. And he clamied there were some 'retarded' kids there as infants that hadn't been taught how to walk by age 5 or 6. He also remembered 'criminals' sentenced to the facility who took sexual advantage of those unable to fend for themselves. All I could think of was the facilities Hitler set up in Nazi Germany to 'rid society' of 'undesirables' who were subjects of all kinds of experiments before being sent to 'the ovens'..........

I too saw the paranormal investigation with Zak and his crew. The impression I got was that it is very hard to imagine mankind being so cruel to other human beings, as depicted in this horible place. I guess the parents of the children never came to check on them once they 'put them away'. Very sad commentary.

WOW That fan is old in deed! OSHA would have a hay day if they came across one of these old fans in the work place and I would bet Child services would scream if one of these fans was in the house hold. todays fans are so caged in to prevent people from puting there fingers in them I can only wonder what the hospital staff was thinking when they put this in the hospital?

The Power plant is no longer runing and the lights in the buildings no longer work. What ever newer EXIT signs that have been instaled have built in solar pannels on them.

Only the best worked here.

Looks like such a nice place.

Yes, it does look like someone is standing in the door way at the very end of the hall. Also, the light coming thru from the left of the picture shows a cross formation on the right wall. Interesting shot.