Interrogation

I was thinking the exact same thing.
Methinks that they should use this room as an interrogation room on CSI instead of the ones that they do use. It might have a higher success rate, methinks.

Scary picture...yea,interrogation is what comes to mind,not examination.

Or a chair moved into the path of a surgical light :P.

maybe all the figures people see in the other pics like to interrogate "visitors" lol

Messed up!!

i get interogation yes but also a sence of confession as well .. i dont know why but this to me would drive me to perhaps sit and just confess my feelings or something does anyone feel this ? email me at justicedreams24@aol.com to let me know thanks!

YOU WILL TALK!!..haha

this room was used for electric shock therapy..i just got back from visiting pennhurst. it's so creepy at night. we got caught by a cop but he let us go. pennhurst wasn't just a place for severely retarded people, these people were tested on..acid in the 60s and 70s, various drugs, electric chairs...it was shut down because things were leaking out people were gradually finding out all the shit and torture the patients endured..my grandfather headed the committee to shut it down. creepy shit

Can't forget the electric chairs . . . . .

Bzzzz-Bzzzz!

'SIGH"!

That's the first time I heard that one. Too funny!

yeah when i was here i went in this room and the light was broken and hanging

HA! you took the word right out of my mouth Motts!

you people are nuts.. any good medical facility would have good lighting. the chair was obvoulsly placed in the picture for effect. and it's a wooden chair ... not really condusive to "electrical shock". you're reading way too much into this. you're looking at the present run-down facility. Come on, they had a theatre, a gym, all kinds of recreational facilities. Get a sense of history, people.

"Where were you on the night of tonight?"

*SLAP*

"This can take all day if you want"

On another note, i can't agree more Mr. Motts. When i visited Pennhurst, i couldn't understand why certain sections of Whitman hall were deteriorated when others weren't. Did you happen to see the isolation cells at the other end of the building?

Some sick and twisted people must have worked here.What were they thinking?!This place was filled with thousands of kids!What the hell was there problem?!

Only the best worked here.

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT MEG! THOSE DOCTORS MUST HAVE BEEN SO CRAZY AND SO PHSYCO! THOSE POOR CHILDREN!

That chair's on the spot...and being wooden, will meet its natural fate long before the light does...*IF light wasn't trashed by spraypainting vandals.

I was in there just before the raid in 68. Fear was trying to kill me using his electroshock machine for hiding evidence of another kid he had mudered and creamated alive. Fear was completely emotionless, and confident about being able to get away with it. His goons relished the torture techniques and laughed as he fried me. If it were not for my rescuers, I would have been thrown into the furnace too.

Read a couple of these posts, would like to clarify a couple things.
-Sports equipment and training gear was used by the residents who were the most hadicapped. Fear's crew wanted no chance of some resident being stronger than them. If a patients with good cognitive skills were kept drugged. Goons made the most use of the equipment and rest was for show.

-Fear braggeg about his electro-shock machine design, he claimed it was his design. It was based on an electric chair for executions. The room it was kept in was specially wired for the extra amperage. The room with the heavy guage wiring was a torture room.(and ummm......electric chairs are wooden, it is the metal straps that conduct the electricity) . I was electrocuted on a bed, but I would not rule out the use of a chair.

-Most of the regular staff I met at the time were nice caring people, but Dr. Fear did live up to his name, and kept people in fear so they would not talk.

-An amazing number of residents were very normal and forced to medicate to make the appearance of being mentally handicap.

- Alot of the handicapped people I met were very nice, but understandably confused about what they were seeing and hearing

blindfolded, it would not surprise me if this were correct. just watching and listening to the videos of, i dont believe nothing that man said, just his demeaner really disturbed me.......

The wooden electroshock chairs do exist at pennhurst. I got pics