Awhile back I posted up some info sent in by one of our readers. Since then it has gotten many rebuttles. So here are some to read, and like usual, there are some more in the Reader's Feedback section of the site. All letters are copy and pasted! I do not correct spelling or grammar! What is here is what I got. Submit carefully.
This section of the site now contains all feedback about Byberry, rebuttles and all. Newest at bottom [and addition pages].
BYBERRY TO BE DEMOLISHED! Please scroll down to get more info...the title is in red!
EVENT! ATTENTION!!!
FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES BYBERRY, I AM INVITING ONE AND ALL FOR A GRAND MEETING
IN THE LARGE AUDITORIUM ON SATURDAY, APRIL 21st AT 10 PM... BRING YOUR
FRIENDS, BRING BEER, BRING PIZZA, AND KEEP THE WEAPONS, SPRAYPAINT, AND
FIGHTING, AND BAD ATTITUDES AT HOME... IF YOU NEED DIRECTIONS TO BYBERRY,
AND/OR MAPS TO GET TO THE AUDITORIUM, EMAIL ME here... HOPE
WE SEE YOU THERE!
-russ
This was mailed to me today. Please do not e-mail me asking for information about this! I am not running this event and I have nothing to do with it! Thank you!
First of all to let you know I have been in Byberry three times. Me and my friends go there for fun, I am not a Satanist. The first time we went in nothing special happened, It was basically a felling out process. We, a group of seven, wanted to see how much we could get away with (as in where we could park, how long we could stay, and what we should expect).
The second time is when we decided to let our balls out, so to say. We park by a corner store about 1/4 mile from our entrance. This time it was a group of about ten. We were in there about 4 hours and we covered a lot of ground. We were in one of the building north of Byberry Road and west of Roosevelt Blvd., where the majority of them are. The building we were in is on a map I later found. All I have to say is the place is destroyed. You can tell this is where a lot of people have been, and most of them had to be drunk. There is graffiti all over the place, all the windows, inside and out are busted (the outside ones are boarded up) This was the trip that freaked me out, we were on the 3rd floor and there was a room that was burnt to a crisp. It had a huge steel door blocking the entrance. We wanted to see what was inside. Every inch of the room was burnt. ( I'll tell you more later). My friend Fran is writing you a letter about something he saw that night.
The third time we went in we made a mistake. We took about 20 people. Most of them were assholes that wanted to be scared and didn't care if they got caught. We were in there about 2 hours, we had to leave because we were making to much noise and we had apparently had the cops called on us. We didn't get caught but we barely got away.
Well, back to the second time, I didn't see anything but I differently felt something I didn't notice it till we opened the door of the burnt room. It was just like this presence that didn't want us there. Me and a couple others felt it, it was like pure hatred. Not that night but the next night I had a really weird dream. I was lying in my bed, and (in the dream) I woke up. there was this little boy standing in my room, he looked like a normal 9-10 year old, black pants, red T-shirt, dirty blond hair that looked messed up. I couldn't move or talk, He just looked at me and said "I don't come into your house, Don't come in to mine." All I could do is nod, and he turned around and walked away. Then I woke up in a cold sweat.
This may sound like a lie but it happened and I haven't been able to explane it. It did freak me out but it didn't stop me from going back.
I found a link to film footage taken inside Byberry, I can't view it because I'm cheap (the realplayer plug-in is required.) Here is the link to it (Video by Karl L. Papendick) It's the link at the bottom of the page.
OKAY OKAY OKAY..>HERES THE DEAL
All that stuff that person wrote last time..is bullshit..okay..here let me
give ya the lowdown on byeberry, i've been in there several times and NO i'm
not a devil worshiper,..but i am a ghost hunter, I strongly believe in the
paranormal and what have you..now the first time we went in..we headed
straight for the tunnels..no guy with a mechette,and if we would've he would
been dead ..we had about 20 of us, we we're all heavly armed with spiked
batts and bb guns and knives and everything that you could think of,
anyways..we roamed the tunnels for a few hours..but only to come across a
small room with soundproof walls and you could stand inside..shut the
door,and scream bloody murder and you couldn't here anything..it was actually
pretty neat, anyways..we made our way into the actually buildings, we make it
to one hallway and start to walk down, we all stop in our tracks like
something has literally pushed us back, very wierd happenings, we edged
forward, i stepped into the side room, and saw someone sittin in the corner,
wasn't one of us, wasn't anyone we knew, i thought it was a bum,i said out
loud to it, man? You cool, and as i edged my flashlight over to where it was,
it was gone, ya gotta realize that in this room, there was one way out,and
one way in, and i was standing at it with a spiked bat in my hand,now get rid
of that kids story who never been inside, now, note that there is devil
worshipers in there, and skin heads, the way we walk in theres a big swastika
with a 666 in the middle of it, we found many dead chickens, but ran into no
one in there, there was enough of us and we we're armed enough to not be
stopped, but that incident alone was enough to make us turn tail and get the
hell out of there, we've been back several times and plan to go back soon, if
your ever in there look for anything that says AFU written on the wallas,
thats how we marked off where we we're and my names FRANNY -----, remember
it..cuz if your ever in there, and if you see franny ----- on the wall,
remember..you heard it here first,
There ya go man..thats better than that shit that was in there..thanks for
listening
Sent in by: Franny
I've been to Byberry and although it's been about 15 years I can still
remember how it made me feel. I have never been so scared and hope I never
get that scared again. We went to the "old Byberry" section that you can't
see from Roosevelt Blvd (rt 1) back in the woods. During the 80's the part of
Byberry you can see from rt 1 was still an active mental hospital. Some of
the patients worked at the Crispy Creme across the street on the blvd. We
got there by cutting through the Catholic Church/School grounds in Parkwood.
Back then there were no fences and I remember the woods being pretty dense.
There were so many rumors about the place that we all had preconceived ideas
about what was going on back there. When we got there it was just about
dark, we had flashlights but you could see ok without them. We went into a
bldg that had a kitchen? or a big gym (there were no fixtures to define the
room, but it had tile walls and a tile floor so it made me think it was the
caf or a kitchen). There were pentagrams and other symbols on the walls and
the floor and there was a spot on the floor were someone had been building
fires, the burnt wood and ash were still there. I definitely felt that
something was wrong with the feeling of the bldg. and really wanted to get
out of there. We started to look for the tunnels or catacombs. We went
through a series of rooms and hallways until we got to some stairs that lead
down and up (like in a school). The railings had been ripped from the walls
and some of the stairs (concrete) looked like they had been busted up by
sledgehammers or something. It was getting dark by now and we had our
flashlights on. I did NOT want to go up or down those stairs and was
actually feeling sick with fear. There were 4 of us, two wanted out and 2
wanted to stay. What ended up happening changed all of our minds. We all
started down the stairs with our flashlights shining down towards the
basement(?). For some reason one of the people I was with shined their light
up toward the area we had started from. We all looked up and saw a face -
small, white with big black eyes - looking down at us. It scared us so badly
that we all froze for a second. We ran like crazy and ended up climbing out
the nearest broken window on the main floor and ran all the way home to one
of our houses. I don't know what we saw that night but I dreamed about it
for years. I went back a few times after that, but only in daylight and
never anywhere but on the main floor of that one bldg. Does anyone else have
a similar experience? I think some of the other stories are way too
sensational!
Sent in by: AOSO
alright people...
my name is russ and i have been going to byberry for seven years now... i
have memorized EVERY detail of the philadelphia state hospital (it's not the
pennsylvania hospital)... i have blueprints and have done hours and hours of
research on the history of the buildings... i am even creating a video game
with the exact layout of every remaining building... and by the way, have you
seen my room RUSS' ROOM in the heart of the refrigeration building? am i
obsessed enough for you? let me fill you in on everything you wanted to know
about the place (and didn't want to)...
-i am sorry to inform you believers in the supernatural will probably be
disappointed going to byberry... although the scare of being a mile into a
tunnel of complete darkness may make you hear and see things, i have never
seen anything out of the ordinary... i have even gone into the buildings
alone twice, and although i was completly freaked out, there were no
apparition of any kind...
-no fbi agents, no cops, no security guards... unless you just shot at
someone from the roof or commited a REAL crime, don't worry about officials
coming in and finding you... cops and security guards don't make enough to go
through asbestos-laced buildings... i always hear about the clown that got
caught in the building and arrested at gun-point, but remember- it's like a
maze in there... cops don't know where they are going any better than you
are.. if a cop comes in, shut your light off, duck into a small room, and
hide for awhile...
-no booby traps except for the occasional 40 pound pipe ontop of the door
(heehee)...
-nothing really of value in there... the final building was shut down in
1989, and soon after everything of value was pretty much stolen or
destroyed... hey, i did manage to get a pile of blank death certificates!
-devil worshippers... nahh... just a bunch of kids that use a creepy building
and try to make it creepier... i'd be more afraid of the kids drinking too
much than a few punks spraypainting upsidedown crosses... by the way, anyone
ever met the guy they call LERCH in byberry? he does shoot at people from
time to time with his pellet gun...
if anyone wants to know more or wants a tour guide, give me an email.. i only
go once a month these days and usually during the afternoon, since the
afternoon is the safest time to go, surprisingly...
thanks for reading
Sent in by: Russ AIM Russ at: madball26
For a while, My friends and I had a passion for Byberry. Walking inside
of the buildings were amazing. My first time I went in Byberry I was really
drunk. We were soo unprepared. Its was five drunken little shitheads walking
soo close together with only one flash light and a paintball gun. Thank God
we got out of there alive after what I saw some other night.
My friends and I went in there often and same old stuff up stairs,
Writings of satanic crap, Ceiling falling down, all doors with little rooms,
and broken glass and broken walls everywhere. We finally decided to go into
the tunnels. We walked around down there and some of my friends were shitting
themselves. We went down a long tunnel and you could feel the incline of the
ground and feel the dampness. One of my friends was shitting himself so bad
he thought he heard a dragging sound. We stop all your movement and we kept
hearing it. It made my almost piss my pants. It sounded like dragging and
then there was a small but scary bang. My friend almost pissed themselves
too. We were all bout to leave but my one friend and I persuaded them to go
up stairs. We were pretty damn loaded with flashlights, paintball guns, and
beer. so we went up stairs and can back down in a little bit. While we were
leaving, I ! saw a wall which was knocked through and a sign saying "Satan's
complex." I told them we have to see what is down there. We start walking
down and there is water all over. Most of my friends stopped at the water.
Some of us went down farther. Then we saw a reflection of our flashlight down
the hallway (so we thought). Then we noticed it wasn't our flashlight. It was
four people walking towards us. We thought it would be someone doing the same
thing we were down here for, Just fucking around. So we were trying to talk
to them but the wouldn't say a thing at all. they kept walking towards us. So
we ran to the entrance of the doorway. They kept walking. By now we could
see their faces a little bit. It was two men and two ladies and when I say
men and ladies I mean it. These people must have been in there late 20's. The
two men were in the front and the ladies were behind them. We could make out
the men faces. They had lo! ng, stringy, blonde hair that bounced around as
they walked. They have goatees which was long and stringy too. They all wore
leather jackets and pants with chains and little metals points up and down
them. As they walked their heavy boot were stomping on the ground and their
chains were rattling all around. Most of my friend at this point ran out the
door. I was fascinated by this. They were coming very close about 20 feet
away and they hit their flashlights off. Well, by then I seen enough and ran
out side following my friends. We ran out and felt kind of safe and we were
screaming back at them. But just as I ran out I noticed in the field about 10
people all with flashlights. I was like "all shit, we got to get the fuck out
of here." They all turned out there flashlights and started to walk towards
us. They were satanic too. We regrouped and ran all the way back to our cars
through the pathways. When we got back to ! your cars, they all had writing in
soap and red hair dye. All satanic signs, pentagrams, and words of hatred.
And an arrow on the ground pointing to a box. They box read "Godbox." I had
seen this all inside on the walls but never a box with it. We opened the box
and in side was a dead cat cut open from the gut.
That was all gross but after going I became aware of some strange things
that night. When we first were going in Security was driving around and they
definitely saw us. I was wondering after I read your analogue of Byberry,
maybe they people in the field were satanics sent from security or just
people going inside to fuck around. Another thing was that I did seen one of
the satanics on the bus. Like the first time I went there, We came home by
bus because we were drunk and I stood in the back I stood next to a men that
matches the description above perfectly. He got off at cottman where I got
off and he lives probably right around there. Another weird thing is I read
the story about the tape recorder (how they had whisper on it) We'll sort of
the same thing happened with my friends. My friend Dicker gave his cell phone
to Dave. Two days after Byberry, He got a voice message. It sounded like we
were he! aded into the building. You could hear Dave talking from far away but
you also heard branch and grass and wind-like sounds. That got us all
puzzled. The sound wasn't from the film we made and you cannot record your
own voicemessages. This was mind boggling. Last of all I did see the AFU wall
and I signed my name in the list.
Hopefully I get blueprints soon and hopefully go in soon to because I have
been hearing some good stories about the morgue and the tunnels.
By: OJB
As of November 10, 2000, demolition started on the power plant side of
the complex. A demolition company and already taken the 2 old garages down
and are currently tarring down the warehouse. They are about half way done
on the warehouse. There for entering the hospital from the laundry building
might be finished. The main service tunnel that connects all the buildings
passes between the warehouse and the garages. So there is a possibility that
they might have back filled that section of tunnel. I am planning a full
scale recon and will advise on the situation. This is as of 01/04/01.
There is two more entrances. One was entering an open boiler room door
in back of N-10. The guards have figured this one out real quick. Because
it has the shortest distance from the cover of the woods to the enteric only
about a 50 to 75 foot dash. It was sealed by state contractors in the recent
resealing project 2 years ago. They used 3/4 inch ply wood with 1/4 or so
self tapping screws about 1 1/4 inches long.
There is another enteric and that is use of a storm drain that goes true
the center of the place on the modern looking side. The storm drain used to
be a creek until they built w-3, w-5 the central kitchens, w-6and w-7 which
are 5 story dorm buildings and n-8,9and n-10. All of which were built in the
40's as per the plot plans and contractors schedules that we had procured.
When you get in the buildings that have the most "stuff" are n-8 and
n-10. Another operator on the feed back page of this site mentioned finding
records that would be in building N-8 on the 1st floor. There are still a
good amount of books, various forms, charts and papers. There are also a lot
of med. supplies still there. Including an x-ray machine.
N-10 has the crematorium in the rear right side basement. It looks like
it would be able to hold 4 bodies at a time. With doors on both sides and
spans 2 rooms. N-10 was the infirmary. It also housed possibly the pharmacy
by the fact we found a large supply of unused med. bottles used to hold
prescriptions. N-10 has a full x ray machine with a dark room. Someone was
in there about last year and cleaned out all of the old x-ray films (patiens
films) . Hell there was still developing fluid in bottles in a cabinet. We
also found the OR and sterilizer two rooms down.
Every one is talking about the morgue well lets talk. the morgue is in
the basement of w-3 on the left side rear if you were looking at the building
from the front.
There are two rooms. The first which is the referig. room has about 30
drawers. Then the next room is the autopsy room. Which is weird because it
has 4 rows of bleacher seating the length of the room? With the table inthe
middel. The floors are that of the kind you would see in the kitchen area of
a fast foor resturant.
If you find your self in the "C" building block of byberry (the old 1920s
looking buildings closest to Southampton Road) you will notice that they are
connected by above ground tunnels. The main admin. bldg. were security likes
to park have a nice grand stair way with a winding stair case. Banister is
made of formed wood with marble type stone stairs. The stairs to the 2 and
3rd floors and a locking wrought iron gate. Do NOT lock any of the doors in
the attics. The locks that are in there are about 100 plus years old and
have not been oiled. If you throw the deadbolt portion of the lock by means
of the thumb turn on the inside you might be screwed. So DO not lock any
locks in there or I might find you dead.
The modern buildings and the most part all of byberry uses BEST A2
removable core. So far They have "A" keyway cores which I know are mastered.
And "F" key way which are mastered only by that they stamped key and or core
I D numbers on the face of the core. The stamping looks factory so there was
a master key system for each key. I am guessing. That there might be a
system for each building or one for each keyway. Just by looking at the
stampings on the cores. The mortise locks are all corbin/russwin.. I also
found an almost brand new sargent modern touchbar panic unit in N-8.
Byberry used to use corbin/russwin keys. Because most of the mortise
locks are formatted for the corbin jumbo cylinders.
Security is a joke. They mostly sit in front of the main entrance. The
drive a white jeep Cherokee. There patrols are every 2 hours. And every hour
when it nears Halloween. Me and my team have been in there about 150 times
which includes 3 sleep overs one being on Halloween. Nothing really happened
the place was dead. I figured that everybody and their moms would try to
break in. Will it was disappointing.
We collected a lot of Intel on our night patrols. The map that we produced
and that shows all entrances and exits as well as tunnels, foot paths,
scrutiny trails and stations.
We bring our usual bag of tricks. Flares and smoke grenades. Besides
the 12 Ga. pistols. To tripwire and demolition if things get hairy. One of
the most important pieces of equipment is a medical bag. If you get cut,
sliced are any thing else like that clean it quick. There is plenty of crap
that will screw you up in there. Let me name some. Typhoid mostly in the
air duct work and fan rooms, Tetanus from rusted metal. TB is a possibility
in N-10.( that is were they housed all the TB patients). And nasty bugs such
as that.
So, have fun and don't get caught.
Submitted by: JCKINZ3JS
Special thanx to JCKINZ3JS for giving me the word that Byberry is being demolished!
okay ready here is my story of when i was in byberry and it will prob freak
you the hell out okay me and 7 of my friends i think it was a friday night in
november were bored on our asses an decided to go we took flahsligths with
extra batteries and basbeall bats and my two friends bb guns. we entered
through a stairwel it is right near the two garages nad u go down there and
there is a hole in the wall and as soon as u go in there u go straigh make a
right and keep going (ur in the catacombs) i think about liek a 30 min walk
you ed up in the morgue. alognthe way there are big dirt pathces where they
must of backhoed in to the entrances but anyways the tunnels ar eprob about
as wide as a car and liek 6 ft high still in them are wheelchairs and
hospital beds which freaks you out when u dont know what to think about who
used to be in them but you will come to a stairwell after a coupel turns and
steppign over a coupel of pipes and ducking unde rneath valves(watch out for
them) and you walk up and you are in the morgue now its pretty freaks it has
the refrigerater in it and all and i wanted to get the hell out of here but
my friends and i all changed our minds an decided to open the freezer door
and wen we did(in the middle of november this past year) a warm breeze and
eveil pressence shot out at us and we all gasped and as sooon as we did we
all looked at eachother knowign we all felt the same thing butthat sonly the
beginning we htougth it was just sumthign coincidental. but anyways we came
to a long hallway k for peopel whove been in there they know wjow long the
hallways re with th celign missing(te drop celing if you know what i mean)
and puddles of water evrywhere well from all the graffiti in the place there
was none in this art of this building??????? now we were like maybe sumthign
wierd but we came upon one thing it seemed almost perfect as if liek
vanghough had ainted it it was spraypaint it was liek paint it was just
suthing perfect liek picture a real one and it said HALF GATOR HALF
MAN....now i know what urthinkin that this is bullshit i thougth the same
thing an di knew byberry wasnt about this but anwyays we walked and walked
and walked down this hallways and finally decided to turn back after a 20 min
hike.........and as we were walkin back we were hallfway from a liek cross
path liek goign horizontal and we heard sumthign so we looked back and sall
sumthin I DONT KNOW WHAT but sumthign walk across this withits head down and
it was huge! so all of us were liek damn the hell with this lets go see what
it is so we walked down back t t it turn the corner slowly and nuthoing was
there and it coudltn fo gotten far we checkedroom for as far as it coudl have
gotten.......cause the halways are really really long so then we were liek
mayeb it was our imagination so we started walkin the way we were goign so
when we were bout the same spot as before we heard sumthign else and we tured
aroudn and called whos there and out peakign from the corner was sumthig and
i dontknow what but it was freak and then it just peaked backaround so we
were liek lets get out of this hallway then we came to a fligth of stairs and
and were all foolign aroudn and trying to laugh and not be scared and we
heard sumthing it was like wispering and panting and strong loud footsteps
comming up the stairs we all froze..........it was th emost ive ever been
scare din my whoellife i got a burning sensation on ym neck and we all called
out whos there when we did it stopped for abotu 10 seconds then kept going we
ran and ran and ran out of there we ended up aabout a a miel and a half away
from our car but hell we got there in no time trust me people say thyev been
in there and they havent seen anything well screw them cause i have and its
a GOOD time a really good time but its scary its not for the fainthearted but
if youre looking fo ra good scare it sure as hell scared me too the point of
nto liking bein scared and i lOVE scarythings!!!!!!!but this was beyond scary
trust me if you go brign sumthign to prtect urself just incase because you
never know what or who is in there and belive me you dotn wanna know but
everything i am sayign is true and scary late late
PS;never go trippign face youd prob die of a heart attack!!!
Submitted by: KEITH
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