Haunted House Has Painful Past As Asylum

A former institution for the mentally and physically disabled, located outside Philadelphia, is the site of a new Halloween attraction.

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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