Ep. 285 - Pennhurst State School and Hospital

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Pennhurst State School and Hospital is sometimes referred to as Pennhurst Asylum. This is a location deemed to be one of the most haunted and with its history, there is no wonder. Decades of abuse and experimentation were perpetuated on children who for all intents and purposes were left abandoned to a system with no moral compass. An expose in the 1960s shined some light on the situation, but it would still take twenty years before the location was shut down. Today, it is open again as a haunted attraction and hosts tours. I'm joined on this episode by Tony Merkel of The Confessionals Podcast who lived near Pennhurst. We discuss his fascination with Bigfoot and the paranormal and the history and hauntings of Pennhurst Asylum! The Moment in Oddity features The Narragansett Runestone and This Month in History features the Bhopal Disaster.

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Darkness Collective.
0:05.0	Visit darkness.org to discover more shows like this one.
0:10.0	The Darkness awaits. History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives.
0:35.0	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
0:52.0	it's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:57.0	Hello, you spook-tacular people welcome to this 285th episode of the History Ghost Bump
1:07.1	podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host Diane. On this episode we've got a biggie, you know one of those most well-known
1:16.6	locations that I put off and put off and put off. Well finally on this episode we're going to talk about
1:22.2	the Pennhurst State School and Hospital.
1:25.2	And I'm going to be joined in just a moment by Tony Merkel of the Confessionals Podcast.
1:30.0	He used to live near there and when I asked him, is there a particular place near you that's haunted that you'd like to talk about?
1:36.0	He was like, well, Pennhurst and I went, wow, that's a big one, haven't done it yet, let's do it.
1:41.0	We've covered a lot of asylums on History Ghost Bump and this one has to be one of the worst.
1:47.0	And one of the reasons why I say that is because it involves a lot of children.
1:52.0	That's probably why we have a lot of haunting activity
1:54.8	going on at this location, because there
1:56.9	was a lot of overcrowding and mistreatment.
1:59.8	And before we get into talking about the hospital
2:02.3	and the hauntings and the history and everything,
2:04.8	it's not very often that I'm in the same vicinity as somebody who's into fringe Christianity.
2:09.2	And Tony comes from a very similar belief system as me, so I'm going to pick his brain a little bit at the
2:13.4	beginning and talk a little bit about his show where he talks about the
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