iMaginarium Sanitarium - Cresson, Pennsylvania, USA - Haunted Attractions on Waymarking.com

The former prison is in a secluded location and it still has all of the security features of an active prison. The real scary part of this attraction is the double chain link fence with Concertina wire both atop and between the doubled fences, There would be NO WAY to escape.

"A ONE-OF-A-KIND EXPERIENCE IN CRESSON, PA

" While on your normal evening walk, you stumble across a path you’ve never encountered before, dimly lit from a source you cannot see. You feel the urge to give in to your darkest desires, and feel your soul being pulled along the path, which leads to an abandoned church in what appears to be the plague stricken wilderness. Adrénaline pumped, you stumble inside. While investigating the church, you uncover a passageway leading deep underground. Following it, you are led to a portal and are transported through time and space to the quant Maple House, home of the Darkness. Coming to your senses, you desperately try to escape. Along your journey, you will meet the Darkness and its twisted mother and father, who attempts to pull you into the Darkness. The Darkness know that souls are the key to letting Darkness win, and will do anything it can to trap your soul and infuse it into its army of doll henchman to create the ultimate Army of Darkness. Treat this journey with the utmost care, because the Darknes isn’t the only thing who’ll snatch your soul; it's very manor will grab you and pull you into the darkness if you aren’t careful about every step you take. Fight for your life through Maple House, the Valley of the Dolls, and other skin crawling locations as you maneuver through the worlds the Darkness has built for your horror.

The History:
What began as the Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium when it opened in 1913 morphed over the years into a state hospital and finally a state prison (SCI Cresson).
The Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium treated more than 40,000 patients suffering from tuberculosis between 1913 and 1964.
The sanatorium opened as both a hospital and long-term residential care facility, to treat both individuals and entire families who had tuberculosis.
SCI Cresson opened in 1987 as a medium-security correctional facility for male inmates.
SCI Cresson closed June 30, 2013, with the State citing the antiquity of the prison and rising costs of maintaining it as the primary reasons for the closure.
Now SCI Cresson sits mostly abandoned on a parcel of land just off of Route 22 between Altoona and Ebensburg.
I said mostly abandoned because at least part of the former prison grounds is now being used by a new company for a new purpose. Big House Produce took over the SCI Cresson campus in late 2019 with plans to build hydroponic equipment, grow hydroponic produce and hemp, and develop sustainable energy projects on the property.

Though the day-to-day focus of Big House Produce is on growing crops and building equipment for other hydro farmers, they began offering photographers and explorers a chance to tour portions of the former prison in May of 2021, as a way to help offset the costs of restoring vandalized infrastructure more quickly.

The portion of the prison grounds graciously made available for tours by the folks at of Big House Produce and it is MASSIVE! Visitors should read the ground rules before visiting, so that you are prepared to safely explore the former prison grounds.

In 2022 Imaginarium Sanitarium and Big House Produce came together to build a one-of-a-kind attraction in central PA.

This will be the first year for Imaginarium Sanitarium and you won’t be disappointed – Please come out to show support for Big House Produce and all of the time and effort put in to make a truly wonderful haunted house experience."