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The Attic

The Attic

Clothes, shoes, and other personal items were left up here.
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Finding articles of clothing in an abandoned building creeps me out the most...I think it's how they're the most personal articles people have...
Mnementh
Wed 06-08-2005
Creeps me also.. Sad that the people who stayed here didnt have much to begin with....
Sinister1
Sun 06-26-2005
Third floor of Union. Clown masks are in the alcove behind the picturetaker. Now thats creepy.
Phantom
Tue 08-02-2005
What is the "Picture Taker"?
silkster40z
Sun 09-04-2005
That would be a reference to me.
Motts
Tue 09-06-2005
Mmmmmmmmmmm
~Me
Wed 09-07-2005
Clown masks? Why clown masks? Clowns are creepy enough as it is. Creepy clown masks in a creepy place...
Twug
Mon 10-03-2005
wait, clown masks? how is do u see the clown masks if it's a picture, was it in a mirror or something? i'll just stop talking
~Cortni~
cortni
Tue 06-20-2006
Last time I was in that Attic there were trees growing out of the floor
Sean
Sat 07-15-2006
It's certainly bright for a room that is traditionally one of the darkest.
morta
Sat 08-05-2006
Phantom...did you really have that urge to just have to spray paint your name all over pennhurst?
mikeymisery
Tue 09-05-2006
i believe they are just some homeless's clothes. to find real ones is extremely lucky b/c all the clothes would have rot away.
XEmOxLoVeR666X
Sun 01-14-2007
This is the Vincennes attic, which now has a nice big garden growing out of the floor. Vincennes is one of the most deteriorated buildings of them all, aside from the old part of Whitman (medical building), which has a few collapsed floors.
Andrew
Sat 10-20-2007
Barry, were you the person who left the comment about the mural with the children, ie: that you had known who painted it and when, (on an earlier post, diff. page)? I had a genuine question about that (don't know if you saw it). If this is you, I still am wondering about what you started to say.... -the Pennhurst attic mural, question left on 10/16. Can you, or which ever "Barry" started to give his info plz. elaborate if poss.
Thanks.
aunt esther
Mon 10-22-2007
looks like a whole bunch of coats
sms
Mon 11-12-2007
is that [gulp] [drumroll] GRAFITTI on the left wall!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
KahunaTony
Thu 07-03-2008
Inthe mid 70's I was a camp counselor at an Easter Seal camp in Eastern Pa. I spent a lot of time there with wards of Pennhurst. Some of those campers were so far gone they could not have known they were even in a camp.The good folks at Pennhurst just sent them away so they would not have to deal with them for a couple of weeks. I remember one camper who would ask me the same question whenever I would move him to one activity or another, "Are you gonna cornhole me?"
These are the first pictures I've seen of Pennhurst. They match the impression I always had in my mind.
Passinthru
Sun 11-01-2009
There would be a little bit more to it than the "good folks at Pennhurst just sending them away" I guess as a camp counselor you only wanted the good ones. And mentally challenged people also have sex among themselves if you are implying something else was going on.
bsmarcia
Mon 11-02-2009
This is so creepy it sends chills down my spine. Ive always wanted to visit Pennhurst though to take photography, its like my dream.
rosie
Mon 05-10-2010
it is scary because some people were brought up the attic and chayned to the wall or beaten and or left up there to suffer and or even die sad
ilovezakbagans
Mon 01-03-2011
Okay i was reading this book... http://www.disabilitym...681&&page;=3 written by one of the previous patients and it mentions somewhere on the second page it mentions that during their may festival thing the would wear costumes and every year after the principle would come down and make them put the costumes in the box she had so she could take them to the attic. just thought that was interesting.
Moonlight
Wed 11-30-2011

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