Suffer the Little Children

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Recorded Live at Strange Escapes, Waverly Hills Event

Pennhurst Asylum may have opened with the best of intentions, but it didn’t end up that way. In its 79 years of operation, the asylum was characterized by the harshest of patient mistreatment. Its more than 10,000 residents were subjected to what the Philadelphia Inquirer described as “medical experimentation, cruel punishments, and constant threats to physical and psychological well-being.” Residents were trapped, forced into labor against their will, unable to leave, out of control of the most basic elements of their own lives. And that was the adults. Children under five years old were kept in cages, lying in their own filth for days on end. As one newspaper put it in 1972, Pennhurst Asylum was “the shame of Pennsylvania.” Many inmates stayed there as long as 35 years. And some never left.

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0:00.0	The 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, known as the gunfight at the OK Corral only lasted
0:06.0	30 seconds, but the market left on popular imagination has held on for nearly 150 years.
0:11.9	Why?
0:12.9	Because Americans have never stopped being fascinated with the Wild West.
0:16.0	On Friday, July 7th, Grim and Mal presence will travel into the unknown, the misunderstood,
0:20.7	and the forgotten tales of America's Westward expansion.
0:23.8	Subscribe on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:28.8	For more over at grimandmild.com, slash presents.
0:33.9	Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Erin Manky.
0:39.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:44.4	Without further ado, really bring the house down, make some noise for the Haunted Road podcast
0:52.0	host Amy Brunnay.
0:54.0	Holly Molly, thank you guys.
1:01.0	I appreciate it.
1:02.0	I'm just making sure everything is working.
1:03.6	So as I stated before, I don't know that all of you are in here when I said this, but there
1:08.4	is definitely a content warning today.
1:11.3	This is a really heavy episode of Haunted Road.
1:14.8	I have Kleenex in my pocket.
1:16.9	It will be a miracle if I make it through this without crying.
1:20.2	So just be ready, okay?
1:21.8	So if you haven't heard Haunted Road before, the first half, we delve deep into the history
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