I have been getting a lot of feedback about stories that were already posted. So, I finally decided to post them up here so you can see the experiences of others and more information. Send your feedback to me here and I'll post them up with credit to you and your e-mail address [upon request].
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I thought at first you were fucking bullshitting, but lately after i read this I have been noticing wierd vans exactly how you described it. I live in N.E. philly. I have seen them in my neighborhood and in neshamity. Maybe you can send me more information on it. And also me and my friends have been in Byberry and we have found the morge in the underground tunnels. If you have info on that then send that to I'm looking for Blueprints of it so please help me.
Sent by: Injun E-mail Injun
I have been to byberry lately and have been chased by satanist through the tunnels. If you would I would like it very much if you would send me some stories and if possible I would like if you can send me blueprints. My friends and I go in there alot to fuck around. Soon we are goin in the morning to try to find thing left there from the satanist. so send me anything you can about byberry.
Sent in by: E-mail, Name Unknown
When I went into Weird USA it was because one of my friends told me the story of cry baby bridge was on it. I wanted to see what was written about it because I have been to it. To my suprise you said it was in pennsylvania. The cry baby bridge I have been to is in southwestern Oklahoma. The story is somewhat the same except the child and her mother were murdered by the father. At night you can here the mother crying for the life of her child and desperatly looking for it. The child is heard whimpering and crying. I and several others have experienced this phenomena. I find it amazing there is more than one of these bridges.
Sent by: PeaTree3640
I was looking around websites this morning around 2:20 and found a page on your site about the abandon mental hospital here in philly (byberry) I read the stuff you had posted and just had to luagh at some of the stuff, like the cults that live there, the boobie trapped rooms with the spring loaded doors that slam shut becuase of the pressure sensitive floors and how the fbi and everyone else and there mothers are part of it..Ive been there myself about 16 times give or take a few and never once have me of the other 3 or four people I have gone with ever found anything like this, hell we never even ran into anyone else who was just there to trash th place or look for remnents of what is now long passed...never have we found dead animals,alters or anything else that is really satanic.. the closest weve come to finding anything like that was some pentagrams spraypainted in the halls all of which sucked except for 1 which looked like whoever had done it went to art class once of twice in junior high, it was even on the south wall... but hey they got lucky with that one...never once had we come across an ex patiant roaming the halls with a macheite... the only person who ever had one of them while down there was me, along with a katana and a few other weapons for protection should we run into a few drunk idiots throwing a party and wanna start shit... the hospital was opened somtime in the mid to late 1800's (not mid 1900's as on your site) during the outbreak of yellow fever which if gone untreated long enough would cuase people to go crazy...the only thing that I have read so far on the site that was true was the abuse to paitiants from paitiants and to paitiants from staff.. a few times we have gone we picked up a few files on our way out and when we got home we read some of them which gave detials of beatings that took place or fights that were broken up.. one man was almost beaten to death with a strand of christmas lights..(this file had been thrown out by a jackass friend) we have a few index cards (about 40-60) with some paitiant info as to when they arrived, some medicade coverage they receievd and when they died (which was shortly after gettng coverage) i also have some photos of the inside (some look weird and at least on you can see a greyish face in) some audio from a mini recorder (which you can hear wispering of someone other then the two people I went with,and the recorder was next to my hip when on, nothing was heard while we where there it was only on tape..) and a leather wrist restraint with lock taken from one of the paitiant beds..a friend who went with got a bed sheet (still in package) with byberry state hospital (or somthing like that)printed on it.. and an old nurses uniform which was in a room that looked like it had been in a few hundred times but no on ever took the drees off the hanger that was on the wall(??) ...please dont take this as me bashing you or bitching at you or anything like that for the stuff on your site.. I just read it and thought I would tell you what I know (which there is still more of) I go down from time to time.
Sent by: Nox
Just so everyone knows, the section done about Byberry was sent to me by one of our readers. I, personally, have no idea what goes on there, and it's the two stories against each other. You can take whichever you want as truth. But thanx to Nox for sending this to me and clearing up the story.
A few weeks ago me and two of my buddies went up to a bridge called the Van Sant Bridge......or something very much like that. It was a wooden bridge, bigger than I would've expected a wooden bridge to be! We walked around the damn thing or I did....they were on it for a little while and then went back to the car, whether thru fear of ghosts or the police they didn't have very much enthusiasm about it after we got there.
I went under the bridge and although I was scared out of my mind...I didn't actually hear or see anything out of the ordinary until after I went back to the car and then started to look around the surrounding properties! There was a screaming and a yelling coming from somewhere rather indistinguishable. I ran up to the closest house and the yelling which I could've sworn I would've been closer to....I thought, seem to disappear as if I was traveling away from it. The house that I went up to was on one side of the road and after I crossed over to the other side to try and pick up the yelling and screaming again several cars as if on key came down the road towards the bridge...I stayed out of sight! I started walking back down towards the bridge knowing that my friends were gonna start to wonder where in the hell I was and a car coming from the other side of the bridge started over the bridge and stopped! Right on the bridge! And just sat there w/ its lights on...like it was waiting for something. So I was gettin a little weirded out and so I just went back to the car got in and we got the hell out of there!
Nothing paranormal in any sense of the word that I am aware of but nonetheless a little spooky! What I want to know from you is what are the names of the bridge that you said that you were on that time. You said that the cops came along and ordered you off the bridge. I got the impression that the bridge that I was on is not Cry Baby Bridge but I cannot be sure! From the story that I heard the woman w/ her two children climbed over the side of the bridge and plummeted over the side. Well, both sides of that bridge are solid wood w/ no holes of any kind what so ever. She would've needed a bomb to blow a hole thru the side of the bridge to be able to climb over the side! Or maybe there was holes there before. Something tells me that this ain't the bridge...but I can't be sure.
If you want to know how I went a looking for it that time, I used mapquest.com. Its good to use as a reference to improve your chances of not getting lost! Especially if you have a printer and you can take that info. w/ you! (I've got to get a printer!) I hope to hear from you soon...I am still looking and my interest is always peaked!
Sent in by: SPOOQEYRUBEN
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
ME N TWO OF MY FRIENDS DECIDED TO BRAVE BYBERRY THIS PAST SATURDAY WE STARTED
ON THE WHITE ROADS BEHIND PARKWOOD YOUTH CENTER CROSSED OVER THE OVER PASS ON
THE BLVD. WE MADE IT IN NO PROBLEM NO GUARDS IN SITE WE WENT IN THE FIRST
BUILDING ONLY TO FIND IT WAS PITCH BLACK WHEN WE TURNED OUR FLASH LIGHTS ON
THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF UPSIDE DOWN CROSSES N PENTAGRAMS WE LEFT THE
BUILDING AND ENTERED ONE THAT SAID CEDAR OAK-6 IN THIS ONE IT WAS LIGHT N WE
DID NOT NEED OUR FLASHLIGHTS WE EACH TOOK A ROOM NUMBER FROM THE TOP OF THE
ROOM OUTSIDE THE DOOR WE WALKED AROUND FOR A GOOD 2 HOURS ROAMING FROM
BUILDING TO BUILDING UNTIL WE CAME UPON ONE THAT SAID THE GOD BOX ON IT WE
OPENED THE DOOR ANDAS SOON AS YOU WALK IN IT SAYS ON THE FLOOR GOD LIES THIS
WAS SCARY BUT WAS MOST SCARY OF ALL WAS THIS ONE ROOM IT HAD A CHAIR WITH A
STRAP ON IT FACING THE CORNER WITH A HOLE IN THE WALL THAT SAID THE DEVILS
BEDROOM WE WALKED THROUGH THE HOLE FOR ABOUT 10 SECONDS IT WENT DOWN ON A
SLOPE I BELIEVE THIS WAS THE WAY TO THE TUNNELS BUT WE HEARD SOMETHING N
DECIDED NOT TO GO ANY FURTHER I HAVE MANY PICTURES OF US OUTSIDE AND INSIDE
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM I WILL SEND THEM TO YOU ALSO 5 OF US ARE GOING
BACK THIS SATURDAY WITH A VIDEO CAMERA WITH NIGHT VISION AND WE ARE
DOCUMENTING THE WHOLE THING I CAN LET YOU KNOW HOW IT TURNS OUT EMAIL ME BACK
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW N WANT TO SEE THE PICTURES I HAVE ALSO ONE THING EVER
SINCE I BROUGHT THAT ROOM NUMBER I TOOK FROM THERE THINGS HAVE BEEN COMING UP
MISSING OR MOVED IN MY HOUSE MY FRIENDS SAY THE SAME THING DO YOU THINK IT IS
POSSIBLE I BROUGHT SOMETHING HOME FROM THERE I DONT WANT?
Sent in by: JoeytheD
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
Hello, i live in bryn athyn, and bryn athyn and it is not in the least bit scary. i know for a fact that the story about it is faulse. the pitcarins have not been in the united states for 400 years they have been here for about 150 years. they are rich, and they do not in breed there is one situation where two 2nd cousens married, but the kids are fine, two small childern died at a young age because of small pox. they do not have an island. and people don't even live at the estate. but there are other gost storries about it i could send some in but you should not put fake stoies on your page because it is just bad for you reputation, how can i beleive eny of your stories if i know for a fact that one of them is wrong.
Submitted by: JEREMIAH
Spooky's response: I didn't write the story that you speak of. I post what is sent to me. I do not have the amount of time needed to validate all the stories sent to me, and many of the things sent to me are stories of things I cannot validate or have never looked into before. Your conserns were valid, however, this site is meant for entertainment, not to show exact historical truth. If it were dedicated to exact historical truth, there would be no supernatural experiences mentioned here since ghosts and other paranormal beings cannot be proven to actually exist. Thank you for correcting the information given, however. I would like to keep as much truth as possible on the site. I hope it did not ruin your experience here.
I live in Bryn Athyn, and I must say that I found that "ghost story"
about the Pitcairns quite amusing. While the much Pitcairn family
contributes largely to the college (spelled with an "e" not an "a") and
the church, I am sorry to say that they do not own it. They don't own
the town either, and it's impossible that they have been inbreeding for
hundreds of years, since they haven't lived in this country for more
than what is probably one hundred fifty years.
And as for the guy with the flashlight who chased your contributor off
of Glencairn Museum's property at night. . . that was probably security.
They walk around with flashlights at night making sure doors are locked.
They also ask people to leave the grounds if it is after dusk, since
that's when they close. (Don't worry, it happens even to us "insiders"!)
Anyway, I got a good kick out of the story, but you might want to check
up on your contributors stories, for accuracy's sake. . . who knows,
they may even have missed the "real" ghost stories Bryn Athyn has to
offer.
Submitted by: Reed
hey to all those experts out there that know all about byberry, me and my
friends wanna go and i keep hearin descriptions and seeing maps of the main
building but i still dont knwo which one so can anyone nice out there tell
me.. also this is for buck i got respect for whatever u have w/ byberry i
think thats cool but i was just wondering if we happened to meet in there
would u get violent or u dont care about other people being there?
Submitted by: Innochka143
The information on your website regarding Staten Island's "Haunted Block" is
incorrect. First of all, the abandoned buildings are part of Seaview
Hospital (located across the street--also mostly abandoned, except for a
local theater group and the county morgue and the S.I alzheimer's
association). Anyhow, before they redid the baseball field, you could drive
right up to the buildings, but now they've got things all fenced off. The
name of this cluster of buildings is the "Seaview Farm Colony" and it was
built as a poor farm managed by the Seaview Tuberculosis Hospiral. Here is
some info taken from the Preservation Society's website:
Anyhow, it is a sight to see, even though I didn't find a morgue or any
skeletons during my visit there. It is located on Brielle Avenue if you are
interested.
Submitted by: Victoria Heckler
Major Gifts Associate
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Address and phone number of this place was given, but with-held. If you want it, please contact me. Unless...Victoria, if you read this, please contact me and let me know if this info is safe to post on the site.
The Info on Byberry is All BS!
It Followed Me Home From Byberry!
Byberry Info Rebuttle!
Another Byberry Rebuttle
Well, Byberry Scared the Hell Out of Me!
The Story on Bryn Athyn
Now THAT Was Amusing!
Hey, Buck...This One's for You!
No, No, That's All Wrong, Spooky!
The character of this historic complex is absolutely unique in the City of
New York. Gambrel-roofed dormitories and service buildings of fieldstone and
brick were built between 1904 and 1916. Extreme care was taken to place
these solid structures strategically in the landscape. This sensitive site
planning resulted in preserving the rural landscape and views often by
hiding the buildings with slopes and/or complementing the terrain by their
shape and height. The use of the Dutch Colonial Revival Style maintained the
continuity of local architectural traditions and created a unified complex.
The recent history of the Farm Colony is pretty dismal. The last residents
were removed in 1975. Beginning in 1980, the city has repeatedly tried to
sell land within the historic district for development, despite the protests
of Staten Island environmentalists, who are committed to making the unbuilt
land part of the Greenbelt, and of preservationists, whose aim is adaptive
reuse of the buildings.