Episode
Ghost Hunters: Pennsylvania Asylum
Overview
TAPS investigates the outrageously spooky Penhurst State School and Hospital in Philadelphia. Penhurst was forcibly closed in 1986 due to maltreatment of patients: people were actually rotting in cages! There’s good reason to for any ghosts of Penhurst to be angry or sad. The building had been built to house around 600 patients, but at the time of its closing was jam-packed with nearly 3,000 individuals who suffered greatly in this facility. Here are the paranormal claims: people being pushed, shadows, a glowing apparition, violent banging and dragging noises. Naturally, there are underground tunnels connecting the buildings, and lots of visuals of ghosts, half torsos of men, doors slamming and voices.
Details
- Series
- Ghost Hunters
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2011-03-02
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Pennsylvania Asylum is Episode 2 in Season 7 of Ghost Hunters. It aired on 2011-03-02. The runtime is 45 min.
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TAPS opens their seventh season on the road to Alexandria, La., where they investigate several locations, including a tavern and the Diamond Grill restaurant.
Episode 3: Century Of Hauntings
The Voas family in Oxford, Mass., has had enough! Three generations have been haunted by the same old ghosts and they want TAPS to figure out what is going on.
Next it’s the U.S.S. Olympia in Philadelphia where both staff and visitors have seen some creepy activity.
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