While Autumn acknowledges the possible contradictions of running a disability history museum by day while working at a Halloween attraction on the same property by night, she insists that her priority is to honor the lives of those who suffered at Pennhurst. Autumn, like many of the haunters I spoke with, believes it is a sacred place inhabited by the spirits of its former inmates, which she is responsible for protecting. She tells guests on ghost-hunting tours (or, as the company refers to them, “paranormal investigations”), which she runs year-round, that “you have to be nice to our ghosts… If you hear a growl or grunt, it’s probably not a demon trying to eat you. It is likely a nonverbal person trying to communicate with you.”

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