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any close-ups of these arcades?

How often did you see security? if at all. I was there the other day and found that theres really no where to park.

Garth, how what abandoned houses have u been too????????? cause i saw ur name painted at the roof of essex mountain sanitourium

i go to pennhurst all the time...veyr interesting...yet sad. me and my friends almost got caught by the cops back there but we hid in on of the buildings jus tin time. jus tmake sure your careful! cus there is a navy base back there and they will shoot on guard..there are even signs.

This could be my dream home...How I would love an old state facility to convert into a house. A room redone as an O.R., annd other places rebuilt (The only house in town with its own morgue) :-)

Maria is right. the do patroll the area, and the do carry drawn weapons. they will shoot on sight, so beware. and has anyone but me been up to the tower? if you can get up there,which i am not saying how, is the best spot to check out where the patrolling officers are.

i have i also could tell you alot of stories on how me and my friends used to get there it was a genius tactic seriously we need to get together some time i am coming home to linfield on aug 1st we should hang out some time w/b!!

Looks like 2 alien faces in each window...

The armored guard is there as is the veteran's hospital, but they don't shoot on sight. I grew up in the same town that Pennhurst is in and many ex-residents lived in my town all fully functioning adults that spent thier entire childhood locked up in this horrible place. It is a truly terrifying place to drive up to then and now even more so with all of the overgrown circles and different driveways into and out of the original buildings. Very scary...I would never venture up there without uttering some sort of cleansing prayer.

Closeby there are other comments on this site from people who also worked at Pennhurst and claimed it wasn't all that bad. Maybe the word 'worked' is important here. it would be interesting to know the truth about the place but if a court case and God-only knows how many testimonies couldn't uncover it, maybe it will never be fully known.

The thought that some of the people in the place were 'fully-functioning' is very scary and depressing - even if it was the happiest institution on earth surely they shouldn't have been there! But I've heard it was once not so difficult to get a badly-behaved child or an oddball teenager sent to one of these places.

Perhaps this place should not be bulldozed for a parking lot or a Walmart, but be opened to the public as a museum and memorial, a reminder of terrible times past. And maybe, as Lynne has said, a section on modern standards of care and techniques should be included - to make it clear that this place represents a period in history and not the way things are done now... but also as a warning as to the results of a lack of funding and unhealthy social attitudes towards those who are different and feared.

There is a definite forboding to the area around Pennhurst , even though there is the armored guard and the Vet. Hospital within walking proximity. I don't know if any of the buildings are even in good enough shape to restore. The main and back drives up to the facility are so overgrown and hard to reach that once you come up upon Pennhurst itself it is almost like this huge ruin in the middle of nowhere. I wonder why after all of these years it is still standing. I remember as a child we would have to drive up to pick my Grandmother up from work and the more functional of the residents were outside taking in the air, going for walks, etc. I was only ever in the administrative building, but back in the early 70s it was ver hospital like in comparison to the pictures on this site which just make it look teriffying, which I am sure in some situations it was. What must have been difficult for alot of these people was the way they were put into group homes after being in Pennhurst their entire lives. There were 3 gentlemen that lived on my block when I was growing up who spent their entire life in Pennhurst and they were fully functioning adults who loved to talk to anyone who would say hello to them. I think that they were and even considered themselves outcasts. I think that if they do anything with Pennhurst that it would be a wonderful to open a part of the facility as a memorial to the people who lived, worked and died here.

It's not a Navy Base, it's Army National Guard. They will not shoot you on site, unless you appear to be a threat.

sinister1.
I wouldn't want to live there. There's asbestice [sorry for the spelling!] & it'll kill you!!!

haha

yeap that would be the fire i was bitching about...dumb kids are the reason this place is on such lock down

Does anyone see a face of a man in the last window on the top right???????

Motts - Was that a friend on yours watching you from inside the building?

Why do so many people insist on setting these beautiful abandoned places on fire? It's such a waste of energy.

Spring City I see what you're talking about.

I've been up to Pennhurst in the past month twice and I didn't see anyone. We heard dogs at one point and police sirens another time and it scared us to death but other than that I haven't heard or seen a thing of security. Just a no tresspassing sign.

YES I SEE THE FACE OF A YOUNG MAN TOO
HE COULD BE INDIAN OR OF A DARK HERITAGE LOOKS LIKE....

YES I SEE THAT DUDE IN THE WINDOW

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEPY SHIT

Wow... if you people would take the time... you could clearly see that the "face" is actually... the tree.

I hope all of your dreams are crushed.

The only thing creepy about it, is you.

HE IS FUCKING RIGHT THOUGH...IT IS THE TREE. FUNNY HOW PICTURES CAN PLAY TRICKS WITH YOUR EYES

yes indeed there is something or someone in the window. you can also see the branch of the evergreen tree,it stops short right at the egde of the window frame. or it could just be something that camera picked and came out when it was developed,if motts developes his own pics too. there also might be a smeare or the picture that give the illusion that someone or something is in the window.

i was there yesterday, its sad. i think he should do something w/ it

Hey just a question does anyone notice THAT CREEPY LOOKING AT FACE THINGY IN THE TOP RIGHT WINDOW

second window to the left from the center double window, is the window that used to be in front of my moms desk......weirddd

Hey someone, go back to Pennhurst. They fixed it up, and it's now a haunted house attraction.