Ancient Room

Taking your comments to heart, this area seems the scariest of all. Everyone here must have left horizontally or not at all. May they be in peace now.

Motts, if you were to guess... what would you say this room might have been used for?

That, I think, is the scariest of anny picture here. How it was just sealed off freaks me out.....

closed off from the rest of the building makes you wonder what went on here doesnt it

I heard that Pennhurst caught fire once...maybe this is one of those rooms that got caught on fire?

The 2nd floor of the Administration building caught fire. The Administration buildings the main one, right in the front, lol.

Perhaps this was used by the lower-functioning patients. I read in Lost In A Desert World that the lower-functioning dorms were often in very bad shape...holes in the walls, feces all over...

And this building looks worse than the others, so maybe it wasnt really taken as good care of.

Im not sure, but I think it was "El Peecho's" web site where he states that he found all kinds of secret rooms that were sealed up.... stairwells that were boarded over. He had some pictures.....
Motts, did you experience anything like this besides this room here?

I'm wondering the same thing Motts.
Oh, watch out for *add-ons* on El Peecho's site. A friend got a viral ad campaign latched onto his PC when he went there.

oh great, i was just on El Peecho's site for like two hours.
thanks for the heads up radical ED

my computer got a virus from Peecho's site too... its too bad really because ther was a lot of stuff on there i wanted to read.

It looks like a sick ward from the early days to quarantine infectious people.

Evrery time I look at this picture, the room looks like its in worse condition! lol

i wonder what happened in rooms like this since they were made to not exsist

I've spent ages poking around on Peecho's site and not 'caught' anything... but then I do have some pretty heavy-duty virus software :-)

It's a fascinating site (if very dated-looking, though that kinda fits with the subject matter in a way) and as I say, as long as you have a decent, up-to-date antivirus program it's probably fine.

I wouldn't recommend his version of "Suffer the Little Children" though, it's in B&W and is so badly deteriorated as to be almost unwatchable. The soundtrack is virtually inaudible in places (especially the 'Dr Fear' segment, which is the most shocking bit of the whole thing) There's a pristine version here: http://nbc10.feedroom. ... set.jsp?ord=263067.

Everyone with the slightest interest in Pennhurst or institutionalisation should take half-an-hour to watch this.

> rich_edwards79

Rich, do you know of a different source for that video, I can't get the silly NBC feedroom to work whatsoever

OK Mathue, looks as though NBC have moved it since I posted that link. From the main Feedroom screen, you need to select 'Video Vault' from the jumpbox in the top left-hand corner. Keep clicking the button marked 'More' until Pennhurst Parts 1, 2 & 3 appear down the left-hand side of the screen. At the moment the first segment is around number 40 but I suspect that it will drop further down the list as new items are added. Good luck!

A friend of mine told me that when he was a child of about 7 or 8, his mother worked at Pennhurst. He and his brother used to rought house and call each other names, "retard, stupid". His mother was so fed up with her 2 boys one day that she took them to work with her and put them on one of the "low grade" wards and left them there for the day. He said it was an experience he will never forget. He saw first hand the fesses on the wall and patients, most were nude at one time or the other.

On a better note, she also used to bring patients home for holidays. Things like that were easier back then, law suits were not lurking behind every good deed.

Also, Phantom if your still lurking around, please stop destroying Pennhurst with your immature graffitti. Most of us go there to take in the history and explore things we are trying to understand, differences in cultural acceptance, lost childhoods, historic buildings, and people like you feel the need to ruin everything in your path. Why?

Hey Motts, did you find any of the rooms with viewing windows?

WAIT, Motts how can a whole wing be unnoticable? WERID.

it was sealed by those national guard guys...anybody ever have a run in with these dudes or what?

heres just an empathic guess but based on how i felt when i first saw this im going to asume.... that this was a place they put sick children ... to die... again i know that sounds horrid but ... i cant think of anything elt's and the feeling i get from this sends me just mently running right back out the way i can as if i just saw something that was very disturbing in the way sick kids dying would be disturbeing anyone feel the same or have anything to input about my perception ? email me at justicedreams@aol.com

i used this pic as my wall paper lol.. thanx for the shot!

Spidergirl you always assume the absolute worst.

there is a easier way to watch all 5 parts to the nbc piece. just google pennhurst. and i believe it is the 3rd one down. it says 1968:Pennhurst special report. video vault news wcau( nbc). that is where i found the best one!!!!! best version. that is the reason i am soooo facinated!!! that and i know people that have been there.

Ewwwwwww Gads! That Dr Fear fella gives me the creeps! And you're kidding right? Fear? This is the guy's real last name? Guess it must be as that what he was called in the video. Damn it fits! Is it just me or does that dude look like a living corpse or what? YUCK!

I left a comment on Peecho's site saying I thought he was the most gullible person on earth but I can see now that he has companionship. You people are too much.

I'm not sure I understand...were these rooms sealed off when Pennhurst was in operation, or after it closed down? (perhaps to prevent vandals from gaining access?)

well I saw one of the boarded up stairwells.. it was for people's safety more than anything else.. the floor on the level above was falling and I guess whoever boarded it up didn't want anyone wandering up there, taking a wrong step, falling through and getting hurt ..

I had a FUCKED up experience in this room. All of a sudden felt like I wanted to vomit. Air got thick and I started choking and gagging. 5 minutes later my friend tells me about an EVP she caught in the medical wing (same place as this room on the 2nd floor) The EVP was of someone, something... gagging...shit is creepy. Listen at 17 seconds. Again very faint at 19-20 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bIwBQle5dk

how much to rent this room for a year?

Why does everyone think that everybody here was treated so badly and killed...It was a mental institution where some people were abused. Its not like it was a death camp and tons of people died.

I know of cases where, as part of a consent decree in a class-action suit brought on behalf of patients at institutions like Pennhurst, certain sections of buildings (or entire buildings) were so far out of compliance with standards for active treatment and patient care that they were ordered permanently closed. Because of the deficiencies, any services that did take place in such areas could not/would not be paid for by Medicaid, which was the funding source for most patients. In some cases it would have cost too much to renovate the area to bring it into compliance, in other cases it was concluded that no matter what was done, the area could not be brought into compliance, and it was sealed off to ensure that no one had access to it.

wonder whats in the closet oohhh

it did start on fire

Looks like such a nice place.

UM, NO OFFENSE BUT THOUGH IT LOOKED LIKE SUCH A NICE PLACE, UM HOW SHOULD I PUT THIS? I WAS A LIVING HELL!! ALL THOSE BITCH-LIKE DOCTORS WOULD ABUSE INNOCENT CHILDREN!

danzamiami, please research before you make accusations such as this. that is a severe and extreme statement, and it is not true. or at least not wholly true. i have done extensive unbiased reseach on the history of pennhurst and have concluded that the nurses were doing the best they could with the situation presented. their dedication and love for the residents was evident. yes, their was abuse. but it was because of how many residents there were to how few nurses and staff. the most accurate ratio ive obtained was 48 residents to 3 staff. now imagine trying to teach, love, and form relationships with 48 residents that had severe disabilities. this is unreasonable and an unobtainable goal. it was a matter of controlling the residents and trying to prevent injuries/ harm. oftentimes when a resident became violent, muffs were necessary, to prevent them from hurting themselves, the nurses and the other clients on the ward. please understand that the nurses and staff were dealing with something that the public refused to acknowledge was there. who are we to judge these courageous, dedicated people?

This room is very creepy. I dont think I would want to be there

Was this the hospital? It might've been wing C in the hospital; it was condemned and sealed off because of fire code reasons. When you say it might've been a dormitory, it could've been one of the rooms where sick patients slept.

If this was in another building on the third floor, then that would explain this room being sealed off. All the buildings with third floors (not counting the attics or hte basements) had their third floors sealed off. It is unknown why they did this, although there is some speculation that it was only economical, as the heating couldn't reach the third floor.

I'm guessing the white stuff is freshly fallen snow?

now this room is really freaky...id hate to go into it at night...its bad enough during the day

shadow in the left corner or an optical illusion?

human-like shadow