History & local legend
Pennhurst, near Spring City, operated as a state institution for people with intellectual disabilities from 1908 to 1987. Its treatment of residents became central to the disability-rights movement. Paranormal accounts belong to the site's later history, after institutional operations ended.
During the Ghost Research Society's visit on August 7, 2020, a guide named Brian described an earlier experience in the tunnels beneath the Philadelphia building: he had heard a voice telling him to leave. The report distinguishes that story from things investigators said they experienced during their own visit.
In Mayflower Hall, investigator Dale Kaczmarek reported hearing voices; another team member checked nearby and found no one who could explain them. Kaczmarek and Sylvia Shults also heard bumps around a doorway in the Rockwell building, while a colleague farther away did not.
