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Waverly Hills Sanatorium
During the 1800s and early 1900s, America was thrashed by a deadly disease that people called the White Death - tuberculosis. This deadly contagious disease had no cure at the time and it claimed the lives of entire families and at times, entire towns. In the early 1900s, Louisville Kentucky had one of the highest tuberculosis death rates in America. In 1910, a hospital was built to help combat this disease in southern Jefferson County. This hospital quickly became overran with patients and it was terribly understaffed. So with money, donations and land, a new hospital was started in 1924. In 1926, the facility known as Waverly Hills was built. At the time, it was considered a state of the art and the most advanced tuberculous sanatorium in the nation, but patients were still succumbing to the deadly disease.
Beneath this facility, there is a tunnel complex that people have called "The Death Tunnel". This is where the bodies of the people that succumbed to tuberculous were transported out of the hospital. Since so many people were dying at a time, live patients seeing hearses arrive to take them away would further bring down the morale of the patients. So the workers of the facility used a secret tactic to get the bodies out of the hospital by using this secret underground tunnel way.
Today, this place is known as one of the most haunted places in the world. A lot of activity takes place here. People see Shadow People and full bodied apparitions and spirits. People see white mists and black mists. You often hear doors closing and shutting and foot steps and cries for help and cries of pain. You hear things banging off the walls. People see orbs and spook lights. People have reported to seeing things move such as chairs and doors among other things inexplicably. This is a Ghost Hunter hot spot and you are almost assured to find some evidence here of the other side. The patients that were here died horribly and there is a lot of negative energy at the place.
Historical Video of Waverly Hills Sanatorium:
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Waverly Hills Sanatorium is one of those stories you think just can not be true, it feels like it has been dreamt up by some big shot horror movie director or its a new haunted house attraction at a theme park… But Waverly Hills is a real place, the stories are real and this is certainly not a place you want to take the kids.
The Haunting
The haunting of Waverly Hills Sanatorium are well known to the locals and the paranormal investigators that have visited the hospital but I will share with you some of the most horrific and terrifying stories to come out of the wards of Waverly Hills.
Room 502
The most known story about Waverly Hills is that of Room 502. A nurse, Mary Hillenburg, was found hanged in the door way of Room 502 in the year 1928, it is thought it was suicide as she had recently discovered she was pregnant out with wedlock. There is a story that Mary Hillenburg was impregnated by a doctor of Waverly Hills who was actually married. He tried an abortion which killed Mary Hillenburg in the process and to cover his back he made it look like a suicide
Body Chute
The Body Chute was a tunnel which lead from the back of Waverly Hills to the train tracks at the bottom of the hill. This tunnel was built for supplies and deliveries and ease of access, but when the outbreak of Tuberculosis hit the tunnel was used to transport the dead bodies out of the hospital by a motorized trolley. This was used as the patients that were being treated would originally see all the bodies of the dead patients leave the hospital by the front, which depressed the patients and in turn would kill them. The Tunnel now is said to be haunted by the spirits which traveled the length of that tunnel. Voices and unidentified noises have been heard in the tunnel, while cold shivers have been felt by paranormal investigators.
Official Website
Source: www.hauntedplacesinamerica.com...