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The ground-breaking 1968 NBC10 Expose on Pennhurst State School by Bill Baldini

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A former institution for the mentally and physically disabled, located outside Philadelphia

The sprawling Pennhurst State School and Hospital was shut down in 1987 after years of chronic overcrowding and patient abuse. Now a businessman has turned the property into a haunted house. The move has upset people who say it trivializes the suffering of those who lived there.

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Journalist Bill Baldini broke the story about the horrific conditions at Pennhurst in 1968. Resulting in an outpouring of support for Pennhurst, and the eventual closing of the institution.

'I Saw Things That I Will Never Forget'

"Think of a ward of infants and children from the ages of six months to 5 years old," Baldini recalls. "There are 80 of them in ... metal cages. They had to attend to them every day, all day. These people were literally lying in their own feces for days."

Jim Conroy, a medical sociologist, arrived at Pennhurst a couple of years later to research developmental disabilities.

The Pennhurst campus, is located about one hour northeast of Philadelphia. The first six buildings were completed between 1908 and 1909.

Beds line the walls of sleeping quarters on campus in t 1912 photograph. Pennhurst was closed in 1987 after years of chronic overcrowding.

Pennhurst was originally known as the "Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic."

According to a 1954 brochure, a farm along the nearby Schuylkill River provided most of Pennhurst's food for patients.

The buildings on Pennhurst's campus are connected by exterior pedestrian ramps

"I drove up in 1970 in my dad's blue Chevy, and I saw a place with 3,700 people in it that was built for far, far fewer. And I saw things that I will never forget," Conroy says.

Both Baldini and Conroy say the site should become a memorial to the past, not a haunted house.

A Thrilling Experience

On a recent Friday night, dozens of people wound their way up to the entrance of Pennhurst's former administrative building and paid up to $50 to enter.

First, visitors entered a museum featuring photos and information about the institution. Then, they entered the haunted house, which is filled with gruesome props, bloody dental patients and parts of the original morgue. The last walk is through the underground tunnel system that used to connect the buildings. Screams filled the seemingly endless stretch of utter darkness.

Visitors emerged to the sounds of local heavy metal bands. Scott Clower, 19, drove up from Delaware with his friends. He says Pennhurst was known to be scary before there ever was a haunted house.