The old Pennhurst grounds may not be still much longer. It's being filled with fake skeletons, hanging torsos, coffins, exam tables and other frightful things as new investors plan to begin ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

Now, plans to turn the site into a haunted house attraction are causing a "fright" among families of former patients and local residents. A hearing will be held Friday morning in a lawsuit aimed at ...

PHILADELPHIA — Every Halloween, the Pennhurst Asylum draws large crowds seeking a thrill at the former institution for people with disabilities turned haunted house. Also every year, critics admonish ...

The owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming of electricity, and the looming specter of an overhyped speculative bubble ...

Pennhurst Asylum near Philadelphia, for example, opened as a haunted house in 2010. And after selling at auction in 2007, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virgina began offering ghost tours ...