The Disturbing Story of Pennhurst Asylum

[@jallenecs]

My father had cerebral palsy. When he was born (in 1922), the doctor told his mother, "Put him away in an institution, forget about him, and go have another child." Obviously his mother didn't do this; he grew up to be a scientist and later a teacher. but he lived the rest of his life in mortal terror of being institutionalized; he was terrified that he would end up in a place like this.

[@TheKazadoodle]

I had a cousin who was born a thalidomide baby and his mother was told to put him in an institution, which she refused to do. He lived in fear of being put away if his mother died. The 'good old days', blah.

[@firestarter3245]

We all have our challenges darlin. This is just the human condition. When one is in need, it is likely a test on the rest of us.

[@rustinstardust2094]

Jesus - that's great that he was able to live a healthy, thriving life. *And* it's terrifying to consider what the alternative would have been.

[@steveclark4291]

What is scary is having a doctor that does believe in certain diagnosis from other doctors which holds a high position in that field ! Or prescribing a higher dosage of a medicine that is causing the problem ! I use to work at a VA hospital and seen a lot of this happening . As well as been one of the patients at that VA hospital . Now I don't trust doctors much .

[@jallenecs]

@Matthew Anthony nevertheless, true. He worked as a research chemist for ten years. He moved back home when his father was diagnosed with cancer. Here, he got an offer to teach, discovered he loved it, and spent the next 28 years in a classroom.

[@Fiery530]

You know how you can tell if a channel is truly good? If they continue to grow without constantly telling their viewers to make sure they subscribe, and "smash that like button" you're a great example Mike, keep doing you and the numbers will continue to reflect the great content!

[@ThatChapter]

I really appreciate that!

[@kerryann2041]

You're spot on there. I must admit I was late to this channel..but once I found it ..I was hooked. Plus when you watch this channel and how informative it is, you realise how lacking other channels are. Not well researched...false info...rushed content. But this channel.....ticks every box. Its brilliant. 💯✌

[@ironmaven1760]

"There's 33 dirty trees out there....clean em up, Mike, or back to the asylum!"

[@erinthesystem9608]

I KNOW!! I hate that crap! -And for me, it always just has the Opposite effect. (Surely I'm NOT the only one; do people realize this is off-putting?) "Before we begin, hit that 'Like!' button, be sure to subscribe, check out my KZbin channel, some new merch..." is too much to wade/wait through Every. Single. Time. ~ It's not that the wait is even that long, really: it's more that it is spent on the same annoying, SEEMINGLY obligatory self-promotion each time.

[@shadowbanned2170]

​@@erinthesystem9608youre a drama queen, and a yapper too damn smh

[@aprilpotter3054]

As Scooby-Doo taught us, the only monsters are people.

[@itismefresh4204]

Pass

[@serdnaoreducse2686]

"Jinkies" !!!

[@tiffanycarpenter8981]

And/or the Loch Ness monster!

[@jordanwiser4192]

@@serdnaoreducse2686 zoinks!

[@emmaturner1748]

@@serdnaoreducse2686 m

[@samanthasimmons2058]

My little sister is in my care. My husband knows we will have her the rest of our lives. She has her own apartment in our house. These documentaries I praise, why? Because they show my family that I know where she is truly safe. Home. With me. I love her. My precious sister. She hangs out with my son, he has high functioning autism. But he will be okay. She can’t even read or write. I’m proud of her steps. And of him. These documentaries are a blessing.

[@birdie8006]

you and your husband are incredible and selfless people, samantha - so amazing. my mother took in her blind, elderly mother for over 12 years in our home, and the experiences i had growing up with my grandma living with us was amazing and taught me how to take care of others as well. your son will learn the same which is fantastic.

[@samanthasimmons2058]

@@birdie8006 thank you! Seriously though I love my sister, she is my heart. I have quite a few tattoos of her because I love her. She and my little boy are my world just because they were born being cool doesn’t mean a thing! I love them so much! And they will never be gone somewhere bad.

[@douglasmacomber6881]

God bless you ❤🙏 i watched a show with Reynaldo Rivera got inside penbrook in new York and it was so sad!! Brought tears to my eyes... They said the same thing. Their doctor told them to put the kid in Penbrook? And forget about her. Her mother and sister rescued her and they were giving her 23 medication's. She weened her off of them. She is very functional now!! They also found out ahe was molested and at one time pregnant?? So she had this unnecessary operation. Thank God people like you and your husband have her❤ Bless you all

[@dannyleo4791]

God bless you and your family

[@yagesh287]

Take care Samantha, you are the best

[@flouncymom]

I grew up not far from Pennhurst. I went into mental health professionally and cared for several folks who had spent their entire lives at Pennhurst until it was closed. They were very sad souls. I believe many of them would have functioned at a higher level, had they been cared for properly. Pennhurst is a stain on my profession. I hope those former patients have peace now.

[@thisismecantuseeitsacz5823]

I bet they locked you up after they found you were crazy as a sprayed roach 😂

[@darrenw9495]

@@acbulgin2 That's why the mentally ill need a psychologist and not a psychiatrist

[@richvanek1363]

I'm sorry lady, but this subject brings the trucker out in me, hurts to much to contain my feelings.....But the biggest stain is the lie about pyschotropic drugs, SSRI's (i.e. LSD-25). MKULTRA. Cia, Dr. Cameron. EVERY mass shooting they are involved, and NO ONE says a word about SSRI's slice of the pie, and blame guns. I know two people that committed suicide, another that was barely saved,and lithium ruined my uncle's life. SSRI's turn some into buckets of drool, and others into raging lunatics. Watching friends and loved ones ran into the ground by executive stuffed shirt college level idiots, that are accountable to NO ONE. And lie about selenium levels being to low from farms overproducing and veggtables not able to give the right nutrients enzymes and vitamins to produce adequate serotonin levels. Dr. Are EVIL. Need proof? They make an oath to Apollo, aka Abaddon, aka apollyon, aka Satan.

[@twr412]

@@richvanek1363 I'm guessing your personal prescription for mental illness is church. Because that never worked out poorly.

[@danielclark-hughes692]

Didn't take long for this sympathetic post to get hijacked by the "meds are bad, the Drs are SATAN" crew. Smh.

[@wanderinghistorian]

Remember when reporters were brave souls who went out and found injustices like this and exposed them?

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

There are still plenty who do. You're just not paying attention.

[@k8marlowe]

Vaguely.

[@gigipaints1302]

They do, but unfortunately the idiots, the ignorant that follow a cult don't believe them, they say it's all fake!!

[@ericqualley6764]

Geraldo?

[@atrxmx2542]

@A Sojourner didn’t know about that! not a fan of the whole far right part but definitely important for exposing corruption

[@jenb6412]

Agreed; the things humans have done to each other are far scarier than shadows and whispers.

[@Bweird501]

"Highly respected" ghost adventures... Come on... I can smell that guys' axe body spray through my screen

[@H.Liddell]

🤣😆 😂😆

[@carolyngrey2853]

😂😂

[@lailanimessina1473]

Real shit 🤣😂😂🤣

[@hallievanoutryve3109]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@deanwinchester3356]

Axe smells good.

[@kathrynmckeown3595]

As they say Mike... I'm more afraid of the living than the dead. Blessings from Ireland. You are doing us proud. 🇮🇪☘️

[@noelsnotes]

I thought he was from Mexico

[@utopia5534]

@@noelsnotes Haha 😂😂

[@sadieireland8282]

I'm watching from Dublin ☘️❤️

[@kathrynmckeown3595]

@@noelsnotes 😂😂😂😂

[@kathrynmckeown3595]

@@sadieireland8282 The Fair City itself.

[@ellenm1228]

This one is really hard for me to watch. I’m disabled and imagine that if I had been born at a different time I could have ended up somewhere like this. Many of us are still abused in institutions and by our “carers” regularly. Parts of the disability community continue to work very hard to make sure that institutionalization doesn’t become as widespread as it once was.

[@anjachan]

same ...

[@squashedshibber2684]

except unfortunately the mental health care system is too lax and let out people who are a danger to themselves or others and wind up on the street or hurting others and themselves.

[@anjachan]

@@squashedshibber2684 I think we both are only physically disabled ... not mental ...

[@ellenm1228]

Coconut Ducks The mental health care system is not “too lax”. It’s under funded, for profit, and focuses on locking people up instead of helping them. Many mentally ill people end up in jail rather than getting the help they need. Statistically, the vast majority of mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violent crime, not perpetrators.

[@anjachan]

@@ellenm1228 and I think most of them are fine too ^^ At least in my country ...

[@cindyscrazy]

"So, Mike, why are you here?" "I can't say turty tree" "You can't say dirty tree?" "No, turty tree!" Nearby attendants quickly bustle poor Mike off into the shadows

[@LittleLulubee]

😂😂

[@RebelTheUncanny1]

hahahahaa

[@mikey420ful]

J D and the shackles

[@Max_R_MaMint]

@J D torazine

[@marcief.8165]

Poor Mike😂

[@DH-ve5bl]

You’re a good soul, Mike. I’m glad you posted this video. Especially showing the cruelty done to these poor, innocent disabled people. Also showing how people try to make money from other people’s suffering. It’s all funny and profitable until it happens to them or their loved ones.

[@robinginnette]

This is a very clean showing of the atrocities that happened there. But it is good reporting.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

Imagine being a young child and not much is really wrong with you and they throw you in this hellhole

[@hiko73]

Imagine being a small child with a mental illness & being thrown in here. Imagine being a small child with any illness being thrown in here.

[@firestarter3245]

Right?!?

[@Mozes316]

Imagine being anyone, rather they are any age or have any type of physical or mental disability.

[@Room-uc5se]

I would die before I ever let them take my kids to that place.

[@RickSanchez-jr1ef]

Happened to my aunt bc she got raped. They gave her electro shock therapy, strapped her down to a bed 24/7. She was in Clinton valley max in Pontiac Michigan. Place was terrifying.

[@greyline1012]

I knew a man who was classed as having the mind of a ten year old. By the time he came out of the institution he needed a lot of care. If only he’d been diagnosed properly. The only thing wrong with him was he was deaf in his left ear. Because his speech was bad he was locked away never to be seen. I suppose in the 30s and 40s doctors weren’t as in tune as they are today. Sadly for him him, he didn’t have a good life. He was a lovely man. Another insightful and thought provoking video Mike. Thank you.

[@meachew]

Kind of reminds me of myself

[@greyline1012]

mxtth3w Did this happen to you?

[@meachew]

@@greyline1012 luckily no, I have the mentality of a 13 year old but had a good support system

[@greyline1012]

mxtth3w I’m pleased for you. A good support system is vital for people with mental issues.

[@MissOsaka]

"You dont need ghosts to make it scary" That hit me.

[@tomcook2040]

"Turdy tree". That's the part that hit me.

[@pamcollins1651]

MsMaryPatricia Oh I sooo agree with you 🤭

[@WeRNthisToGetHer]

Same

[@morgangadbois2092]

@@MsMaryPatricia you are absolutely right!! Im more scared of humans than any animal on Earth....such a heartbreaking thing..

[@justlee-ann5124]

Terrifying statement.

[@nmrowdy4605]

Thank you for being so respectful regarding what residents went through there.

[@Stopthisrightnow560]

That reporter was savage and I loved it.

[@RIVALContentJammerz]

A self righteous snot.

[@jodo1971]

Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night- William Blake

[@evilsexyhamlet6399]

those were some sick rhymes - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[@flext-rex8284]

@consistency 14 wtfff are you on you sound crazy

[@flext-rex8284]

@consistency 14 Okay, so you're an actual child. Good to know. You have to be atleast 13 to use KZbin sweetie, do your parents know you're on here?

[@Sansonius3rDaSlayer]

@consistency 14 ohhhhh your one of those stupid people I've heard so much about.

[@valeriemacphail9180]

Never a truer word!

[@MB.543]

"Every feeble-minded person is a potential criminal." It's true, but like, so are the rest of us.

[@irisgarizo3991]

exactly

[@JohnWickkkk]

A A 🤣😂

[@roxymargot7534]

I thought that too

[@TSL480]

It’s true, but IQ alone is no guarantee of success. A person with an extremely low emotional quotient (EQ) is also likely to fail in society. So I honestly believe a combination of IQ & EQ - when finely balanced - is a bigger predictor of success that IQ or EQ alone.

[@philiptucker7590]

I once heard on CSI “Every one is a killer/criminal, they just haven’t found the right trigger”. Basically all humans have the capacity to either commit crimes or kill….everyone…

[@Dawn82]

Dead guys can't hurt you. It's the living guys that you gotta look out for.

[@nickrandles1102]

Oh no, the dead can hurt you too. Maybe not always physically, but many people who went messing around with the dead ended up mentally scarred for life.

[@digigalbytes2445]

Unless the corpse is contagious?

[@KAdam-hm3rc]

covid -19 dead patients beg to differ

[@lyndsayw5843]

Thank you. The respect you showed covering this and the genuine care you had for the victims of this Asylum means a lot. My son is Autistic and he has friends who have varying special needs and levels of function and the thought of any of the children I care about being in a situation like this one or Willowbrook makes me sick.

[@jenhenningson1473]

Me too soo horrible omg

[@liberty5069]

yes, amazing how far our society has evolved on these issues, but yet we're still so far away.

[@jessiimamii5113]

Poor souls needed so much love. Society failed them.

[@crystalsmith7939]

And sadly, not much has changed with the system failing people today either.

[@50centgotshot9times]

It's so sad how those people were treated. And this isn't the only case and it's even worse in some other countries =(. This shouldn't be happening in the modern age.

[@Luke-ef1px]

Why do you want a Nanny state, Do you just sit on the dole ?

[@dansweet2499]

Its sad to know people like me with high functioning Autism would be here

[@Sunny10tv]

@@dansweet2499 I have autism as well. Stories like Pennhurst & other asylums seeing how those before us who have all sort of disabilities both physically & mentally were treated is absolutely bone chilling...

[@car0ndelet]

“John is a problem.” That sums up Pennhurst in one sentence. John is a child. Not a problem. That outlook was inexcusable regardless the psychiatric standards of the time. It’s in humane, full stop. Thank you as always for the brilliant work, Mike. Been here since tree-tousand. 🌲🌳🌴 Proud of ya.

[@velcro-is-a-rip-off]

@Devils Advocate what are even saying?You're not holding up to your namesake on this one, weirdo.

[@mashakalinkina7207]

To be fair, a lot of the people in these places Were in above their heads. A lot of people knew it was not the right way, but, docs & management pushed this shit to make money. It’s like folks who work in orphanages & maternity hospitals that govts do not support at all. Its heartbreaking work, but people try the best with what they have. Both of you are right. I didnt find the comment offensive & agree with the original comment as well. Folks were treated as if they were violent criminals, when they just needed more care. Then turning this reality into something spooky is some kind of bullshit. Esp as it still goes on.

[@sucelyl8536]

Thank you for helping remind everyone of these atrocities in your own, caring way.

[@murryme]

It's so strange to think that in a different time, I'd have been in an asylum just because of my epilepsy.

[@DemonCore618]

Same. But I'd be locked up for being a troll. Scary

[@TheChugg11]

I’d be locked up for my offensive habits...

[@johnrankin7135]

But are your teeth good poor or treated??

[@murryme]

@@johnrankin7135 they are good and treated...? I assume treated means you've had dental work?

[@jessicarabbit8195]

Mary I was just thinking the same exact thing... I only even have seizures every couple months

[@immunized1823]

"Turdy Tree"...sorry Mike we're gonna need you to come with us

[@hannahpugh469]

😂😂

[@quasimodo8959]

💩y 🌳

[@justnikole6476]

Lmfaoooooo

[@davidhilton2625]

Haunted by "a small female child with long black hair" No, that's every hackneyed horror movie since The Ring

[@susanjohnson318]

How about The Shining? That had TWO! :D

[@diablojones]

And 95% of all “ghosts caught on camera” KZbin vids.

[@RabidlyTaboo]

@@Noah-wv4td two creepy girls tho.

[@cyn37211]

Where do you think the idea for these movies originally came from?

[@AriPicard]

Yes but it can happen. I once saw a native American girl in a residential school uniform in Montreal.

[@laguerrera2902]

I love how respectful you are of all of the victims in these videos. You don’t try to exploit or sensationalize anything. A rare quality indeed for someone who covers true crime. This is the only true crime channel I watch now- your respect for the victims- I really appreciate that.

[@startrick7390]

I genuinely choked on my food when he said “oh boy if only they could hear me say turty-tree (33)” 2:21

[@LoraHari81]

He said 'tirti tri'. Ps . I'm Polish, living in the UK 😂 😉

[@chikiyabonita909]

😅😂🤣

[@primalamerica]

33. 2021 here, just thinking about this after reading a few comments. Our great narrator owns it! Fun.

[@saintultra2737]

You know even if this place is haunted, it's incredibly tragic how the "ghosts" are crying, screaming, asking for mommy and saying to hide. If they really are still there, may they find peace.

[@helenwa1651]

Lol. There's no such thing as ghosts.

[@Cryptati0n]

HelenWA you don’t believe until you end up encountering it in reality

[@ThirteenAmp]

@@Cryptati0n its confirmation bias They have an unexplainable experience and then whatever they already believe in is blamed, ghosts, aliens and religous characters (Angel's, demons etc) are the most common You already believe in it so whenever you have a weird experience you make connections that support that already held belief, confirmation bias In religon it's called "god of the gaps" meaning "I dont know, therefore god did it"....fill in god with aliens or ghosts and it's the exact same thing, ghosts of the gaps

[@rabbit0664]

@@Cryptati0n That's true. I've had experiences myself. Also for the comment on blaming it on what you believe, I'm not sure. Truth can be stranger then fiction. I've seen a statue move and the moon move, quicker then it usually does. I've had items vanish and suddenly reappear and I've lost a couple hours out of nowhere just to name a few.

[@helenwa1651]

@Descartes' Apparition The biologists that proved things like platypus and huge kimodo dragons were not cryptids were working in the 16th and 17th centuries. There's not going to be huge animals with many numbers being discovered now.

[@bobbiejoecassell6717]

Lmao "if only they could hear me say... Tirty Tree." Mike, you are absolutely adorable!

[@paoweezysvlogs3278]

I died when he said that lol

[@Itsnotthatserious2023]

Yes! Heeehe

[@Baysidemom2]

I'm dying

[@genellecampbell5378]

He is 110% completely adorable😍

[@jhern083]

What a fkn savage

[@dannycasey8261]

You took care of this story with respect and standing up for these poor children. You have a great sense of humor but you know when to hold back. Thank you my friend.

[@rochellewhite4613]

The phrase "some people are born to be a burden on the rest" broke my heart how can you have that mind set and call yourself a human. This sick sob should have been forced to live in this place and endure the torture and "necessary" treatment that was forced on these people.

[@Raykibb1]

I am 57yo, born in 1963, and when I was a child from the time I could first remember events, I remember visiting my great aunt, who was in the “Home For Incurables” in New Orleans, La. It was a state run facility, and the images I still have of those residents haunt me to this day. A boy my age (maybe 6 or 7yo) coming up to me and lacking verbal skills, just grunted at me. There were not the resources or advancements in care for the permanently disabled, and it was the best the doctors could afford to do. My heart was always broken driving away from Aunt Alma’s “home.”

[@anneosullivan5160]

You are right

[@keyworksales6241]

Well its true. And the truth doesn't care about your poor broken heart.

[@agentxorangexskies]

There's a free to watch documentary called Unseen here on KZbin. It's about the murder of black women by a serial killer named Anthony Sowell in Cleveland. There's an interview with a man who owns a bodega across the street from the house where the murderer lived with the bodies. He actually says in the video, on film, where people can see him talking, that because the victims were sex workers or drug addicts they were garbage and that he wishes there were millions of people like Sowell out there "cleaning up the garbage." This kind of thinking hasn't gone away. It's just not okay to talk about it anymore like it used to be. Hopefully someday it just won't be thought of that way at all and seen for the horrible thought process that it actually is. We are making progress, though, and that's definitely a good thing.

[@pinco40]

I know we knew very little about mental illness in the past, but just on a human level. HOW CAN YOU TREAT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS WAY.😡😡😔😔

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

“Some people are born to be a burden on the rest.” - Right, some grow up to be eugenicists or the type of people who exploit a tragedy with idiotic money-making ghost hunting scams.

[@lux.illuminaughty]

I had hoped against hope that the owners would maybe go a little more high-road, like say something along the lines of: As much as the haunted house attraction or ghost hunters may not be for everyone but we believe that such interest will bring out the truth about Pennhurst's years as a prison of the most vulnerable operating under the name "asylum" (a perversion of *that* concept), stimulate the public's conscience, and thereby open up a dialogue about how much has changed but more importantly how much still needs to change. Alas, they instead went the lowest-common-denominator route by actually stating that people's curiosity make Pennhurst a "profitable paranormal property." Ok guy, you get an A in alliteration (see what I did there? 🤗), and an F in public relations.

[@bananasinfrench]

The real burdens on society were the people that hurt large groups of people like this. Funny how those who like to ride those high horses are exactly what they claim to hate

[@michaelmace924]

@tfs2O3 you should start a go fund me account to tear it down

[@dansweet2499]

I always do ghost hunting in a respectful manner a way to somehow give them answers they never could get in life or at least listen to what they have to say I am sure no one ever listen to these people who were in the hospital

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

Dan Sweet If you’re concerned about people not being heard on their death bed then go volunteer with Hospice or something instead of talking to imaginary dead people. You know, something based in reality and useful.

[@matthewwilliams8220]

“If only they could hear me say turty-tree” touché, friend...touché.

[@ulivolga228]

"You don't need ghosts to make it scary"

[@janetwestwood9194]

👍🇬🇧👈

[@GamingIncMasterTroll]

Tru u need humans

[@theamberabyss1745]

You don't need humans or ghosts to make it scary

[@cyberpilate]

Thank you for your coverage of the reality of Pennhurst more than the spooky side. I can see the interesting in hauntings there, but at the same time, it's incredibly disrespectful to have people walking around in "scary inmate" costumes when real people suffered.

[@michelleporter1850]

Right? I was thinking the same thing. Like I can understand using old jails but places like these? Its disrespectful. These people suffered horrible injustices and abuse...dont profit on that shit for entertainment sake.

[@angelmorningstarr9504]

Well said!

[@cats1970]

Imagine if they turned Auschwitz into a Halloween ride 😒

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

@@michelleporter1850 You wouldn't believe the sh*t that went on in old jails. My mother was a prison chaplain for 27 years, starting in a (later shut down) institution with a terrible history of brutality and mismanagement. I wouldn't want to do a prison tour either, out of respect.

[@Terri_MacKay]

I don't know if I believe that it is haunted, but I certainly believe that the sad, hopeless, terrified energy of the inmates who lived and died there is trapped within its walls.

[@Tillythedevine]

I took a few classes at Harrisburg Area Community College years and years ago. My psychology 101 teacher USED TO WORK THERE just before it shut down. He couldn't even talk about a lot of his experience there.

[@froufroudeluxe]

It’s scary to think that, if born in another century, a fair part of this comment section would’ve been put in an institution like this. Including myself

[@Luke-ef1px]

That sounds fucking amazing tbh

[@nikopalmer6471]

Froufrou Deluxe lol good one. But I concur!

[@moviemad56]

@@Luke-ef1px What sounds amazing? Having no freedom, rights, or privacy, no money, no access to transportation, being fed disgusting food day after day, being beaten and sexually exploited?

[@nirvana-owo]

@@moviemad56 bro chill. they were probably saying its amazing society has become more accepting and turned away from the abuse. i get why your defensive but your misdirecting your rage.

[@dansweet2499]

I have high functioning Autism so yeah I know what your saying it still scares me

[@radar536]

"They don't need ghosts to make it scary". Good one.

[@vegbird1]

This story makes me so, so, so sad. It was incredibly difficult and maddening to watch. Thanks for your sensitivity, Mike.

[@antoniareardon6767]

I've avoided watching this video for a long time because I knew it would be so upsetting. I love the respect you showed in this video for these poor victims.

[@MedievalFolkDance]

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members" - Mahatma Gandhi

[@OrchestralOrg]

*shut up, Ghandi. Had enough of your shit.*

[@louiseleite3866]

@@OrchestralOrg He was perv

[@simonebittencourt8251]

It is absolutely true!!! Thank you for bringing up this quote! It is so important people remember that and live by that example.

[@katybug6572]

Love this quote.. so beautiful

[@johayes7529]

Gandi was a racist psychopath. Lol

[@heyysimone]

Whenever you see "found footage" videos, does anyone else think "i wouldnt go in there". Not because its scary, but like what kind of spores or organic matter is floating around in there that can make you sick? Is there asbestos open to the air, are there any animals or creatures that live there that could bite you, is the infrastructure actually safe to walk in/on, or around?

[@Nitrous-ej5zy]

You know, I think the same thing. Like the mold issue with the moist damp air, without a respirator, or for that matter a level 3 NBC suit, makes me palpitate.....

[@lindahamilton5618]

I never cross the road unless it's a green light. You can never be too careful these days.

[@Scratchingforcash]

That stuff won’t kill you…… Now, eating pizza 3X a week? That’s a different story

[@jacquelyn1784]

Yerrrpppp

[@Nylak-Otter]

I've worked in a building for 15+ years that tests dangerously high (as in, should be legally condemned) in black mold in asbestos. I'm already doomed. I also train and handle K9s in search and rescue, and I'm familiar with working in urban disaster sites, and my own trainer was the kennel manager for NYC during 9/11 and taught me most of what I know about entering a dangerous building that is currently collapsing, and I have the appropriate gear. So, I would totally do it! I love those kinds of sites for training my dogs and practicing myself. But yeah, most people shouldn't go there if it's condemned. However, this place does legally operate as a haunted house business, so it's likely structurally sound and is frequently inspected.

[@PeanutForBrains]

I'm so glad you focused more on the historical stuff than the supposed hauntings, because you're absolutely right, what happened to all those people is far scarier than some made up ghosts. Also, on a different note, it always cracks me up to watch people listen to those EVPs and come up with words, when you can clearly hear it's the wind or some other perfectly normal, perfectly natural sound.

[@joeford860]

Agreed 💯

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

Ikr? It's so widely open to interpretation. I almost never hear any actual words on those recordings - it's mostly just static or random radio-station pickups, anyway. Or - yeah - wind.

[@Xanaxdu-si3ch]

In the late 19th century, my great-grandmother and her family lived in southern Indiana on the bank of the Ohio River. My great-grandmother lived a short distance from her father, who, according to his obituary in 1897, was "well known to every man, woman, and child in Clark County on account of his eccentricities," one of which included his profession as a medium and spiritualist who conducted seances all over the Ohio River valley. He'd also spent much of his adult life digging around his farm, convinced that the spirits of the Shawnee people were guiding him to buried treasure. His life ended when he was killed in a freak train accident -- he inexplicably stepped in front of the afternoon passenger run from Louisville. About a year after the birth of her second child (my grandmother) my great-grandmother's behavior began to change. She became argumentative and prone to aggression. She also began holding conversations and verbal fights with people no one could see. She raged at family who tried to help her. She also began having sudden fits and seizures. Fearing that she was becoming a danger to herself and her family, her father had her involuntarily committed to the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis. My great-grandfather turned over my grandmother and her sister to my great-great-grandmother for care (which continued for the next fourteen years until my great-great-grandmother was brutally murdered by a grandson (who then suicided... but that's another story). My great-grandfather remained alone the rest of his life. My great-grandmother spent the second half of her life living at the "hospital." According to the records my dad and I received from the State of Indiana, she lived in a "cottage" setting with several other women, doing laundry and planting gardens. She continued to have "fits" and the medical staff claimed she was epileptic (which was a blanket term sometimes used to described psychotic breaks). She suffered from self-inflicted burns, cuts, and bruises, but wasn't kept in restraints or isolation, at least according to the records. When she died, it was due to a long battle with pneumonia. Her body was sent by train back to her hometown. There was no record of an obituary. Her parents and husband were dead, her children had moved out of state -- it's unclear if any family members even met the train. She was 55 years old. Her last 25 years were spent in the asylum. She was buried in a family plot next to her parents. Her husband was buried in another cemetery. Now her grave is literally on the edge of a shopping center parking lot -- even in death, she found no respect. Rest in peace, Emma.

[@Nosferata138]

Awwww!!!! RIP Gramma... 😞 Thanks for her story. I heard you.

[@keetahbrough]

Thank you soo much, for sharing Emma's story. She is seen.

[@witchcraft7934]

We eat poultry pork and beef. Not birds pigs and cows. Those families didn't want to know what became of their own people so the idea of a cottage with gardening and painting, it's like telling children a dead animal was taken to a farm to live with other animals. Although I do sympathize with a lack of any real alternative without medication or even an elemental understanding of the underlying disorders, and 19th century America didn't have the resources it has today. There is also compassion fatigue. Imagine working there with no means to deal with the patients, would warp any psyche unless it was already warped to begin with. I couldn't work in a place like that. You watched less than 10 minutes of footage of it and how did you feel?

[@lindasue8719]

Very, very sad. Thank you for sharing this personal story of what some people have had to endure. 😔

[@bkitteh6295]

You should write book. You have a very powerful story to tell & a lot of people would want to hear it. 💔😷✌

[@bradmajors1886]

"I have the power"? Great. Haunted by He-Man.

[@Crocs4cats]

Brad Majors 😆😆😆

[@OrchestralOrg]

*they're retarded, don't fall for their delusional bullshit.*

[@bradmajors1886]

@@OrchestralOrg who are you talking about?

[@OrchestralOrg]

@@bradmajors1886 *the idiot paranormal investigators. They're adults behaving as children. They're seeking Hollywood and they're playing.*

[@MrSouthernlord]

@Brad Majors But they are highly respected! I know that because it says it in their video introduction.

[@Andy-gq5hb]

*Cough Sound* Subtitles, "Hi my name is Gerald and I am an asylum ghost"

[@gtw4546]

As horrible as this was, I have to question if our current way of dealing with the lowest 10% of society is any better. Now they're just dumped on the street to live under bridges and try and fend for themselves. A person with an IQ below 82 is virtually untrainable for any kind of job. We're still not addressing what to do with this segment of society - we've just gone from one extreme to another. Even those whose mental illness can be treated with medication are unlikely to comply without supervision. Society is still failing these unfortunate individuals.

[@danielclark-hughes692]

Asylums were just dumping grounds for disturbed souls and the mentally ill, and rarely actually helped their patients. Heartbreaking to see some of that footage. Edit: They turn it into a ride at Halloween?! That's disgusting...

[@knexfan100]

That's kinda cool... might as well use the history of the building to make some people during the holidays happy.....

[@AshDemonYoung]

@Nobody Knows At least they're free and not being tortured. We need places that actually help people, but with the current political atmosphere. Republicans would complain because it waists money that they could be giving to oil barons and military contractors.

[@chandracox6814]

Disgusting or clever?...

[@damienhalbert6132]

Those people are scum for taking advantage like that. The haunted house crew seemed cool, though.

[@erikrooize7941]

Alisha Hicks shut up dumb broad you don’t know what you’re talking about

[@MarkPMus]

When that 1960’s doco was made, we’d all seen the horrors of Nazi eugenics and concentration camps. So how come it took so long to close it down? This was a very disturbing watch but thanks Mike for saying what needs to be said about the scammers running “haunted house” tours. It’s downright exploitative of a situation that never should have been.

[@frankiee5004]

Because Nazis got their ideas about how to do eugenics from the US. We were forcibly sterilizing "invalids" (poor people, poc, mentally and physically disabled) before Nazis, they studied us and perfected it lol

[@whitedragoness23]

Haunted houses as tours is one thing, caging up and chaining humans is a major difference

[@PyrrhusBrin]

And the founder of planned parenthood was all for eugenics.

[@shedshow1439]

@@PyrrhusBrin and the founders of America owned slaves.. what’s your point

[@ashadekat8787]

Eugenics is on the rise again, just ask Bill and Melinda Gates and their cronies. Part of the depopulation agenda 🤷

[@josephdurkin8180]

The always sunny thing in the beginning made me for of laughter because of how dark that humor was

[@chubbycatfish4573]

When I mysteriously vanish, I hope I leave behind a VHS tape. I'm old school like that.

[@NotJessH]

Chubby Catfish but no one will be able to watch it!!

[@KatKevaKelise]

Not funny.

[@jbob138]

@T Doran the last remaining VCR will be found and purchased for $50,000. The whole world would gasp in anticipation for what will play on the screen when suddenly it eats the tape.

[@jaymeaaron]

@@jbob138 ah the days before DVD and Blu-ray

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

In 2008 too🤣

[@TheKazadoodle]

9:15 - highly respected Ghost Adventures Crew - sure they are ...

[@troywallace7011]

Imagine exploiting these people even more than they already were to pretend that this place is now haunted. Let the people have some dignity, at least in death.

[@simonebittencourt8251]

I could not agree more! You are SO right!!

[@TheMouseAvenger]

Well, if there really are ghosts there--& being a believer in the paranormal, I wouldn't be surprised if that is indeed the case--then that can't be helped, I'm afraid. *(shrugs)* The Halloween-style haunted house, on the other hand? I quite agree with you.

[@isolde6319]

@B Me what’s the title of the documentary?

[@jasonmarshall5498]

@@isolde6319 pennhurst asylum documentary

[@whitedragoness23]

I do wish they would tear it down. And give any bodies a respectful burial and ask the spirits to find peace. I ain’t going there. It’s history is so sad and won’t spend a penny there.

[@enchanted376]

Update: there are new owners and they are trying to bring awareness of the atrocities that went on there so that society can see and know not to ever let something like this happen again. They have an area dedicated to memories of the people that were there. It is a great way to help people not to repeat the past but only to do better for the people who need us the most.

[@AthyDuGard]

Good news. Are the ghost tours cancelled now?

[@kylieknight2365]

Husbands could also have their wives put away for “woman’s problems”

[@ellurko3303]

Must've been nice

[@davebayliss3142]

Kylie Knight not all bad then

[@ispartacus1337]

🤔 how do we go about bringing this back?

[@rexferalman4543]

Hysterical emotional train wreck combined with intellectual flatulence, excessive bleeding without a wound, and a willful denial of empirical reality for seven days every month for 25 years. Sounds perfectly "normal" to me 😂😂😂😂

[@rexferalman4543]

@@ispartacus13371. Hide the Maybelline and Harlequin romance novels in the asylum. 2. Wait 3. Lock the door 😂😂😂😂😂

[@m.ccheddarbox874]

The problem with shows where people "hear ghost" is they always put what the supposed word was.. It's a suggestion to our brain and then that's what we hear

[@beatrizferraz593]

Totally agree with you, it was probably air passing by the camera lol

[@itismefresh4204]

Helps the deaf people out I believe your so insensitive

[@beatrizferraz593]

@@itismefresh4204 So why put subs only on the parts where the "ghost" talks?

[@itismefresh4204]

@@beatrizferraz593 original subs doesn't show what the ghost are saying that part gets skipped over

[@beatrizferraz593]

​@@itismefresh4204 That doesn't make sense, but whatever, they still trick our minds into believing that a noise from the wind was a "ghost" talking

[@uremawifenowdave]

Pennhurst? Wow that’s a pretty dark subject. There are only a few asylums that have such a reputation. Broadmoor springs to mind.

[@uremawifenowdave]

And of course Bedlam, Topeka State Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Trans-Allegheny Hospital, etc, etc.

[@hiko73]

Especially since Broadmoor is still in operation....but I believe just mostly as a prison??

[@uremawifenowdave]

hiko73 Broadmoor is still a functioning high-security psychiatric hospital. It also has two sister hospitals, Rampton and Ashworth. All of them house some seriously disturbed patients including the serial killer Bruce George Peter Lee.

[@amiebrown7926]

@@uremawifenowdave I think I'd be pretty excitable, too, if I had four first names.

[@cheasepriest]

@@uremawifenowdave fyi Bedlam was bethlam royal.

[@ElizabethHoward]

Excellently covered. You're absolutely right - the reality is far scarier than the ghost stories.

[@levi1929]

Ghost hunter’s audio: ........... Ghost hunter’s subtitles: Help me, I am in fact a ghost, and ghosts are real, and I’m just, like, some energy, and there’s totally a reason for the ghost hunter’s existence.

[@KptnHaddock_]

@Jeffrey Dohnger They aren't real at your house after you've oiled that sqeaky door you've heard the night before either.

[@TheMouseAvenger]

Oh, great! Another skeptic.

[@OchibiChama]

you must be really popular on parties, my dude. let people have their fun ffs

[@bigmanmark4334]

@@OchibiChama he’s only unpopular at the ones with ghosts in them, so I think he’ll be good

[@kt114]

“If only they could hear me say turty tree” 😂 I love self deprecation

[@gillianwills9049]

Turdy Tree...

[@starfirechris4415]

I'm inclined to think turdy tree and it's not pretty. 😅

[@meadowrue]

Bwahahaha..... turdy tree.....🤣🤣🤣

[@gillianwills9049]

Favourite haunt of the local dog population... 😎

[@katelinnelson6894]

It's my personal favorite word he says!!!

[@jonesba2004]

I grew up in Chester County, PA and very clearly remember how I felt when these news stories broke. I was 8 or 9 years old, and our family just couldn’t believe it. Later, when I was in 7th grade, our class went to Embreeville State Hospital to sing Christmas carols to the patients. It smelled so bad in there that I couldn’t sing because I was gagging. Patients were naked. Vomiting. Screaming. Floors hadn’t been cleaned... ever. And the staff knew we were coming. Oh god. How were the patients treated when we weren’t there? That place closed down, too. Another horror story. Supposedly haunted. If these places are haunted, it’s not by the patients. They surely have now been taken into heaven because they served plenty of time in hell on earth.

[@sherrygraham8650]

Would be nice if the current owners would donate a portion of their earnings to mental health care or some organization. Good go Mike, you make my day sometimes.

[@zaprowsdower204]

Oh my God, Turdy Tree! Mike, you're the best.

[@danielclark-hughes692]

Turdy tree sounds like some poor tree that gets bags of crap tied to it. Turty tree might be a better spelling for it 😆

[@PongoXBongo]

@@danielclark-hughes692 The leaves are used for toilet paper.

[@ironmaven1760]

@@danielclark-hughes692 lolololol😁🍃🌱🧻

[@TimZeTerrible]

Built in 19 "O" 🌲

[@jimkaletaBuffalo]

Ha. Love it.

[@werthersoriginal]

10:43 I used EVP on this portion of the clip...I can definitely hear you say "bullshit". Did anyone else hear it? I literally just got the chills from re listening to it. 😱😱😱

[@rosa-belle]

Thats ALOT of asylums in Pennsylvania. "Feeble-minded", they just lumped people together. Scary times.

[@CanItAlready]

Rose Sables Not just PA. I used to know a man who was classified pretty much that way as a kid simply because he had cerebral palsy.

[@nozoto]

And nowadays, it's the polar opposite: permissiveness to the point dangerous elements are even left on the streets and gently asked to mind about medication on their own. What could possibly go wrong?!

[@miceandgods4171]

@@nozoto that would be old Ronald Reagan responsible for that one. Slashed funding to mental health facilities in the 80's forcing most to shut down. If the patients didn't have family than they became homeless.

[@firestarter3245]

And children too Rose.

[@bruggeman672]

Things have not changed as much as u think....

[@NA-xg1ji]

"If only they could here me say 'Turty-Tree' " haha

[@larissacroan7150]

Also, having had severe depression & bipolar, it terrifies me that I could have ended up there if I’d been born earlier; there but for the grace of god go I. 😞

[@jenniferjones2394]

Same. I have generalized anxiety and depression and a big mouth lol so yeah. I feel like I definitely would’ve been sent to a place like this. I tell my fiancée all the time I’m glad I wasn’t born back then because I wouldn’t have fit it. I would’ve been labeled as a witch or something lol

[@pinco40]

Shame on these people who in the 21st century turn mental illness and physical disability into a theme park!! They obviously don't have any loved ones in those categories! What people do for money never cease to surprise and sadden me. 😔😔

[@GiantsWS]

Did you ever consider you may *actually* need to be in a place like this? Every day you're a danger to yourself and others. Please do not live, work or exist anywhere near me or my family.

[@cherylreuter4008]

Me too 😢

[@shereekern6801]

It’s so true people hid their mental struggles if it was possible to hide and suffered in silence out of fear of being institutionalized. Our country is so so backwards about mental health, judgement and prejudiced.

[@danmarshall5895]

I've been there (and Byberry, since torn down) and one of the things that gives it the ghost history is that in the early 90's a lot of former patients still "lived" there. They weren't allowed to, but these were people who had been institutionalized, had no job history or support structure and well, those places at least had walls and ceilings (at byberry the padded rooms also still had padding). So you would sneak in and you'd hear people moving, distant voices answering your questions and occasionally get doors slammed right next to you. Less of that happened at Pennhurst (Byberry, being in a city neighborhood led to there being maybe a few dozen people living there. Pennhurst was kind of rural and you only got that occasionally, but it was still a thing there).

[@TheMouseAvenger]

But the ghost-hunting videos took place AFTER that time period... :O So I'm not so sure about that....

[@samclarn]

The mistreatment of those deemed “undesirable” never fails to break my heart. It’s so important to educate people about places like Pennhurst. Maybe that’s why the residents continue to haunt there.

[@lindakay9552]

Love ya Mike!!! I can feel your pain as your saying "those words." I appreciate your candor with this episode. I am diagnosed with C-PTSD, Agoraphobia with panic attacks. General anxiety disorder. Parasomnia sleep disorder, and night terrors. Back in the day, I would have been diagnosed bat-shit insane. Thank God these prisons are on the decline.

[@lonniephillips4028]

"they should hear me say 33" too cute!! On a serious note, you're so right about what went on there is more scarier than any poltergeist or EVP.

[@187alan]

If they heard you say 33 they would probably of classed you as witch. Lol

[@legatomodi3522]

Theyd probably just think he was challenged and they send him to the west wing. Someone might say "No!! stop!! hes just irish!!!" and the orderlies would say "Oh!... get the handcuffs and the tranquilizers stat! we're about to have trouble".

[@HiVoltish]

😂😂😂😂

[@waderaney7]

😆3.333

[@karanbirsinghbhullar]

If they read your English you would be there next to him.

[@187alan]

@@karanbirsinghbhullar go away. Couldn't think of anything to say so you just have to attack people's grammar. People like you are just a little bit sad and lonely.

[@chillywilly3207]

"We have forsaken them" . Reality at it's worst. May these souls rest in peace and for the folks who locked them up there and also the ones whom mistreated them, burn in hell!

[@davemckay4359]

I read this line as it was spoke n.

[@itismefresh4204]

Define we because I wasn't involved in this so I haven't forsaken shit

[@Relativecalm2]

Respect to the way you handled this chapter. Your final comments regarding those in the ghostly business being unnecessary and disrespectful, given what actually happened, was on point.

[@saintjohnchick6866]

Hands down one of the best channels on KZbin. ..love the content, always interesting & the dry humor is the cherry on top Keep up the great work!!!

[@sailorarwen6101]

This breaks my heart. I grew up in ths 90’s and both my sisters are autistic. No one knew what autism was back then. I’m so gratedul to have my sisters in my life. I wouldn’t have the compassion, love, and strive to serve humanity that I do today, if it weren’t for them. Even knowing what we know now, people still lack knowledge and understanding of proper communication and handling of these individuals. Unfortunately, I see it all the time. The treatments today aren’t THAT much different than what is displayed in this video. Group homes still exist and the residents are not being taken care of by people who care. It’s not for a lack of resources or staff. Staff is assigned a certain number of hours to work and they just want to hurry up and get everything over with so they can sit around for the last several hours of their shift. Nothing made me more angry than the selfish display from staff I witnessed on a daily basis. Always treat others the way you wish to be treated

[@danamiceart]

When I see these asylum stories it breaks me. My daughter has autism and could've been committed if she were alive back then. So freaking sad. I've heard that during the depression a lot of parents had to commit their children because they couldn't afford medical care.

[@alisonhughes6476]

Mike is so factual and serious in his younger days. Now he is an absolute ray of sunshine with a funny sense of humour and really kind to his fans xx

[@elizabethsedai854]

Lol, I was so hoping to see ol' Zak Bagans' face in this vid! Very sad place, and indeed, you don't need fake ghosts to make it scary. Thanks for showing the respect you always do, Mike! Can't believe we're over 100k strong now! Congrats, man!! Keep up the superior work! Xo

[@ThatChapter]

Thank you! I know, I cannot believe we've grown so much, it's awesome!

[@staceyclement6590]

I'm autistic. Ive Never rocked in my life. I did for the first time watching what people were driven to.

[@shedshow1439]

That’s really intense

[@-Ghostess]

Fellow autistic person, I had to pause the video for a ticking fit to pass.

[@randomagon5123]

Same, I too am autistic, this video made me stim a lot

[@RIVALContentJammerz]

Oh, jeez.

[@coll4455]

My niece is not autistic and she rocks when she is sitting on the couch watching tv. She’s 16 and I still catch her doing it every so often but she did it all the time when she was a toddler especially when she was trying to relax or was relaxed. I can’t believe that this could have been seen as something that was “wrong” with her

[@CelebrianUndomiel]

True shade is displaying a picture of Thor saying "is it though??" when the ghost company says it's "highly respected"

[@joshuacook4116]

Mike, I know you don't normally cover this stuff anymore but I can tell you that this reminds me of Topeka State Hospital! My wife actually had snuck inside of the last standing buildings. It was scary mainly because there were still shackles in some of the rooms. Topeka state hospital was open until the early 1990s. Creepy shit....

[@lorijeanneancrayne1965]

Wow, how truly sad. I cant believe just how horrific they were treated. This mad me cry!💔😭 shame on the people who did this to them.

[@DanTheMan454]

I live in pa we know all about this place, patients were also raped there too and some of them got pregnant. Who knows what they did to the baby's. I would never send my special need son to a place like that.

[@iwashere1860]

When I was young, my grandmother told me, her mother worked here, and they put them in the furnace. Rest their souls. 🖖💛✌️

[@DanTheMan454]

@@iwashere1860 those poor baby's! RIP. Sick people. We found out the house we lived in was owned by a Dr.Hobart owens back in the day and he got in trouble for leaving a naked mentally handicapped boy out in the snow to die in our town of hawley pa.

[@mzliberty7647]

... so many forgotten souls, the babies .. the women and girls, the boys and the men... May God Bless and Comfort them All. .. x

[@Macmumoz]

@@iwashere1860 many of them were "sold" into private adoptions.

[@beverlydevry6985]

Yet another XLNT video! This is such an unbelievable sad tragic part of history. Thank You for covering this facility in your always thorough and well documented manner. LOVE YOU MIKE!!!

[@ThatChapter]

Thanks Beverly!

[@sharonbarker5751]

Another great video Mike! In 1971, when I was 10, I was put into UAB medical center, children’s psych ward for one month, because I was hyperactive. They put kids who “misbehaved,” into a completely dark empty room. They had to sit in the floor for up to three hours. I will NEVER forget that, and this is SO much worse!

[@albertalikesbix]

I worked at Pennhurst for over a year as a college student. While I am sure abuses took place, when I worked there, the main problem was overcrowding. I did see people on occasion, right out on the ward with the other residents, in straight jackets. I never saw anyone tied to anything, or in chains, or beaten, or abused in any way. Behavior was managed through medications. There were employees whose job it was to teach the residents life skills: eating with utensils, getting dressed and undressed, etc. On decent days, everyone spent time out on the sun porches. For the residents who were high-functioning, there were employees who did fun activities with them like singing or crafts. Quite a few people were there because they were basically non-functional: couldn't sit up, weren't toilet trained, had to be fed like infants although they were in some cases rather old. I thought it was a sad place because there just weren't enough staff to give all the residents the attention they might have benefited from. I never worked on a ward where the residents could talk. I never heard anything about haunting, but I was always assigned the day shift.

[@susangilliam6400]

Again it's a double edgesword about giving residents pathink residents patients medications to con troll them or that trying to help them cognitively to better themselves but just to medicate them ignore them and stick them away it's still sad

[@bm-ww8kb]

just because you didnt notice abuse, doesnt mean it wasnt happening around you or that you werent involved in it. whether intentionally or not.

[@davokelly7876]

Well done Mike from a fellow paddy here...this was one of the best CHAPTERS you've done because I can relate to the horrors of the asylums of them days as my grandmother Mary was diagnosed schizophrenic and was regularly sectioned to a well known institute in Dublin called St Brendan's I'm sure you heard of this place Mike....my gran had some woeful stories of her stays there and when she was on the right meds or not stressed out she was completely lucid and very godly woman who didn't lie...anyway she told us of a time a woman in the bed ajacet to hers was calling for a doctor and the nuns who ran the wards were huddled around there fire and wouldn't go to the woman and even check on her my grandma was terrified and the woman continued to howl until something snapped and she managed to get out of the the bed and drop to the floor which my grandma thought it would finally get the attention of the nuns but they flat out ignored her....the woman then began to bash her head off the floor repeatedly AND STILL the nuns ignored her...the woman died from her cracked scull and then the nuns finally went to her because she stopped screaming and then got a doctor who came and pronounced her dead from self inflicted brain trauma....needless to say my grandma was terrified of that place and that's only one of many different horrors she witnessed....she said she very quickly learned not to complain or make a fuss and just do what you were told to survive that place...she was a loving wonderful grandma and it kills me she indured that awful place while tryna cope and get back to the family....she was so funny and I miss her dearly RIP Maisey (Mary) kavanagh....❤💚🧡

[@FionaNici-jq7mz]

❤️

[@davokelly7876]

@@FionaNici-jq7mz thankyou x

[@janetwestwood9194]

🤝 🇬🇳 🇬🇧 👈

[@wobblyjelly345]

😭

[@KQuinn672]

Sorry she enduredthat horror😨

[@720reddog]

Love the creepy music in the background adds to the weirdness and horror of it all. Well done

[@ThatChapter]

Thank you!

[@heyysimone]

Ive seen a lot about this place. Making them fight each other, calling them all "children", just all of the horric living conditions; it all makes me actually feel sick.

[@bumblebeeznutz9506]

Oh my gosh! It's the ghost of He-Man shouting "I have the power!"

[@ckotcher1]

The inspiration for “American Horror Story ASYLUM” if you didn’t know.

[@justanotherhuman8592]

I didn't actually know that! 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂

[@chelseaward9841]

I figured that as soon as the video started. Very interesting

[@memawknowsbest4978]

Actually, it was Willowbrook that was investigated by Geraldo Rivera that the AHS Asylum season was based on. The sequence at the end of the season when the reporter goes back with the camera crew even quotes GR in her dialog.

[@katrabbit]

Memaw knows best Truuee. I know exactly what news segment you're referencing

[@oldbatwit5102]

So.... it wasn't The inspiration for “American Horror Story ASYLUM”. Thank you for putting that right.

[@alexireland1435]

Mike has got some real ♥️ there, good for him for doing what he does.He seems fairly young to bring so much true crime situations to the world. He's correct in mentioning the real horrors that happen in this world and how monsters often walk on 2 legs (my words)

[@aubrey1633]

I've been binge watching this channel for months. This video is the first one to make me cry. The mentally ill still don't have great care. But this made me realize how badly people like me used to be treated. This hit me hard.

[@abbeycd4079]

This is one of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard about.

[@seigedrakonera5689]

They all had such "great teeth care" there because local dentists were trained there. But hey free dentistry and they get practice... pain meds not gurarenteed though.

[@leanneelks5596]

Yeah great dentists.....that would pull all your teeth out if you bit someone......kinda understandable, but if your chained and in a straight jacket how else can you defend yourself....... I lived a mile away from one of these places called St Augustine’s in a little village called Chartham, which is in Kent in the U.K. horrific place!! Perfect place for child molesters and murders, but other than that.....totally tragic! xXx

[@edwardtomassacci1101]

That's one of the first rooms they take you to and its like frozen in time they have pictures on the wall of patients with no teeth 😬 the " tour guide " said they removed teeth to prevent biting but also as one way of eliminating a task for workers having to make sure the patients brushed there teeth ...pretty sad 😥

[@leanneelks5596]

@@edwardtomassacci1101 heart breaking.........no-one deserves being treated like that.....these were people who had no choice in how they were born, and then no choice over their own lives, I met patients that use to walk our village, broken lost souls......no words xXx

[@MilesBellas]

Ted Kennedy's sister was a sad story and an unnecessary lobotomy IMO.

[@tdmj2812]

MilesBellas They messed up that woman so bad, somebody should have paid for that!

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

@@tdmj2812 The family did suffer multiple tragedies

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Bobby Lawson the Kennedy curse

[@Nobody18718]

Agreed

[@blendedcellar6895]

That family got paid back for sure.

[@claudinejames7731]

I feel really sad that so many people were helpless victims of these institutions. Just having an illness is already bad enough, then having no one to really care on top of it. They are so vulnerable and helpless. I agree that making museums of such places can bring people understanding about the past and hopefully raise awareness for improving the present.