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Pennhurst State School
Children with disabilities were tortured, experimented on, and forgotten. The 1968 exposé shocked America. Buildings still echo with the cries of the abandoned. They never left.
1908 - Present
Spring City, Pennsylvania, USA
30000+ witnesses
Pennhurst represents humanity’s darkest treatment of the vulnerable.
The Institution
Originally named:
- Eastern State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic
- Opened 1908
- Meant to help
- Became horror
- Closed 1987
The Abuse
Documented cruelty:
- Patients restrained
- Beaten
- Experimented on
- Left in filth
- Forgotten by families
The Exposé
Bill Baldini report:
- 1968 investigation
- “Suffer the Little Children”
- National outrage
- Reform began
- Too late for many
The Ghosts
Victims remain:
- Children’s voices
- Crying heard
- Footsteps running
- Shadows in windows
- Rage and sorrow
The Tunnels
Underground network:
- Connected buildings
- Bodies transported
- Dark history
- Extremely active
- Investigators affected
Modern Haunts
Paranormal destination:
- Ghost tours
- Halloween events
- Investigations
- Powerful activity
- Overwhelming sadness