Pennhurst Asylum Ghost Hunt

Church Street and Bridge Road
Spring City, PA 19475

May 11,2019

$99.00 Per Person

Join Ghostly Excursions for a night of ghost hunting at one of the countries most haunted places Pennhurst Asylum. We will be investigating the Mayflower Building and the incredible haunted tunnels from 7pm to 3am if you dare. You will see some of the newest equipment in the field being used today and get a chance to investigate with seasoned investigators or venture levels on your own. This is not a free to roam hunt but you be able to explore each level of Mayflower and the Tunnels with our guides.

Haunting

There is always the chance you can get to communicate with former patients, The nurse on the third floor and the person known as the King in the basement

Investigators have experienced poltergeist-like as well as intelligent and residual activity. Spirits have touched and shoved investigators, and they reports of objects moving. You can capture ghostly activities like hot spots, cold spots, EMF surges and Class A EVP s. and possibly capture and apparition on film.

History

Pennhurst State School, a live-in facility for people with mental and physical disabilities, was surrounded by controversy from its earliest days. In 1908, the state of Pennsylvania built the school as an asylum for patients with special needs. This complex, first known as the State Institution for Epileptics and Feeble Minded, was filled with adults and children with varying disabilities. From its very beginning, the school’s history of mistreatment and abuse was quietly underway.

Behind Closed Doors
Over 10,000 patients crossed through the doors into Pennhurst, residing in one of the many buildings in the school’s network. Overwhelmed parents dropped off their children who were mentally retarded or autistic, hoping the school would provide for them. Sadly, many of these children were abandoned to become wards of the state. While some patients could care for themselves, many more suffered from severe disabilities. Those patients who couldn’t care for themselves became the school’s most vulnerable victims.

Despite the high number of patients requiring special care, the state provided the institution with meager funds. There were very few doctors, nurses and orderlies available to meet the patients’ needs. Many patients spent their days and nights trapped in metal cribs in horrid conditions. Others were so desperate for human contact that they went to great lengths for attention by injuring themselves or even smearing themselves with their own feces in hopes of a bath.

Cruel punishments were common at the facility. Overworked staff responded to unruly patients by drugging them into submission or chaining them to their beds. Other residents were isolated for such long periods of time that they regressed and lost their will to speak, fight or even to live. One particularly harsh rule chastised patients for biting. When a patient bit someone the first time, he or she was reprimanded. But if it happened again, the patient was sent to a dentist who would pull all of his teeth. Thousands of teeth were removed in a rusty dentist chair that still sits in the tunnels beneath the Pennhurst complex. https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/pennhurst-states-haunted-history