Urban Escape

Point Pleasant, New Jersey

Damaged

November 2012. Right after Hurricane Sandy. You can see the damage.

Not only to the homes, but to the boardwalk and the beaches.

Boardwalk all ripped up and you can see at the end its all sand

Clearing up and people are coming out to look at the beaches

Huge wall of sand

So pretty!

How you had to get onto the beach

Ripples in the Ocean

Pieces of the boardwalk were all over

Houses were still boarded up, you can see the white house in the distance

Looks like a sign from the street

The beauty of Nature after a storm

Pennhurst Asylum: The Shame of Pennsylvania

Pennhurst State School & Hospital: Abandoned

GO HERE FOR MORE: History & The Attraction

Originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic is positioned on the border between Chester County and Montgomery County in Pennsylvania. Pennhurst was an institution for the mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania. After a decade of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987

As of 2010, the administration building, Mayflower Hall and only a part of the Tunnels have been partially renovated and reopened as the Pennhurst Asylum haunted house. The attraction has been successful, though controversial among locals and those previously affiliated with Pennhurst.

Entering the Administrative Building

The Administrative Building- The first part of the tour. Housed the nurses and doctors.

Mayflower Hall- Lower Campus building, Ghost Hunt, roaming the building on your own. This building housed most of the children that were in the institution.

Graffiti covered the halls

The couches were as hard as a rock

Paint was chipping

An old shed right outside the entrance to the tunnels

Out front of the Administrative Building, It's beautiful!

Rust all over

Another chair

Inside one of the rooms, to the left of the chair which you can't see was a mattress. It was said that that's how the kids slept because there wasn't enough room to house them all. So sad.

The showers

The corners of the walls looked like they were bleeding

Barred Windows

Toys left behind by the children of the Mayflower

If you look close, you can see an arm of what looks like to be a small child (look at the last sink to the right)

Here is one of the mattresses I was talking about above, You can clearly see that it's on the floor with no real bed or frame.

Devastation & Sadness

Hurricane Sandy: Seaside Heights

Sandy was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. Estimates as of June 2013 assess damage to have been over $68 billion, a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina. At least 285 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries. The severe and widespread damage the storm caused in the United States, as well as its unusual merge with a frontal system, resulted in the nicknaming of the hurricane by the media and several organizations of the U.S. government "Superstorm Sandy" or was called "Frankenstorm Sandy"

In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York.