You know that feeling when you walk past an old building and think, “That place definitely has ghosts”? Well, Pennhurst Asylum in Spring City is that building times about a thousand.
This massive former state institution isn’t just playing at being haunted for the tourists, it earned its terrifying reputation the old-fashioned way, through decades of operation, a troubled history, and enough documented paranormal activity to make even skeptics raise an eyebrow.
The campus sprawls across Chester County like something out of a gothic novel, except this isn’t fiction, and you can actually visit if you’ve got the nerve.
When you pull up to Pennhurst, the first thing you’ll notice is that these buildings don’t mess around with their presentation…