81: The Horrors Of Pennhurst Asylum

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Pennhurst is often referred to as one of the most haunted places in America. It's not surprising, considering it was a mental asylum that opened in 1908 and was known for torturing, experimenting on, and holding captive it's patients. Today, we're going to dive into that dark history and the stories of the ghosts that still linger inside.

TW: Brief mentions of suicide and child abuse

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0:44.0	Hopefully I'll see you there.
0:48.0	On a gloomy afternoon, George Murrow pulled up in front of an imposing brick building. He got out of his car as construction workers passed by him carrying bricks and cement and he took the whole view in.
1:02.0	The massive French inspired building was now under his
1:06.2	control. He was the new property manager and the first order of business was to get
1:11.3	this nearly 100 year old building back in tip top shape.
1:15.0	His eyes scanned from the workers patching up the brickwork to the gardeners shaping
1:20.0	the landscaping. Within the next few weeks they'd all be joined by movers who would be
1:25.0	tasked with pulling old rusted medical equipment out through the front door.
1:31.1	Yep, through the building's beautiful entrance would roll squeaky gurnies, ivy bags full of dark, unknown liquid, and mattresses that looked like they had the shape of a person forever imprinted into them.
1:45.1	This building, beautiful as it may seem, has an incredibly dark past.
1:52.0	Before George took it over, it was known as the Penhurst State
1:56.4	School and Hospital, a softer way to say that it had been an asylum and when Penhurst
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