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The Twisted Story Of The Asylum That Inspired Stranger Things: Pennhurst State School

Pennhurst State School held nearly 3,000 people in facilities designed for 500. In 1913, Pennsylvania declared disabled people "unfit for citizenship" and "a menace to the peace." They built Pennhurst to hide them. For sixty years, no camera ever got inside. Children were tied to beds. Adults lived in cribs. Residents who could speak when they arrived lost that ability after years inside. Then in 1968, a journalist named Bill Baldini walked through the gates with a film crew—and what he recorded changed American law forever. This is the story of Pennhurst—the institution so notorious that Stranger Things named its fictional asylum after it. The place where Roland Johnson, patient number 9134, spent thirteen years enduring abuse before becoming the "Martin Luther King Jr. of the disability rights movement." The institution whose closure led directly to the Americans with Disabilities Act. But Pennhurst's story doesn't end in 1987. Today, people pay fifty dollars to scream in the same hallways where children were once caged. 🔔 Subscribe for more forgotten asylum histories TOPICS COVERED: Pennhurst State School history and 1987 closure Bill Baldini "Suffer the Little Children" 1968 exposé Halderman v. Pennhurst Supreme Court case Roland Johnson disability rights advocate American eugenics movement and institutions Americans with Disabilities Act origins Pennhurst Asylum haunted attraction controversy Stranger Things Pennhurst Mental Hospital inspiration Chester County Pennsylvania institutional history Deinstitutionalization movement Sources and further reading: "Suffer the Little Children" - Bill Baldini, WCAU-TV (1968) "Lost in a Desert World" - Roland Johnson autobiography (1994) Halderman v. Pennhurst State School - Federal case records Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance The Pennhurst Longitudinal Study - Temple University #Pennhurst #Documentary #DisabilityRights #StrangerThings #TrueHistory #ForgottenHistory #Pennsylvania #Asylum #DarkHistory #AmericanHistory