Waverly
Hills Sanitarium
Louisville, Kentucky
Sanitariums
are perhaps the creepiest of the haunted hospitals. When you combine the
paranormal with mental deficiencies and insanity, you have a recipe for some
scary telling.
Waverly Hills
Sanitarium in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the most popular haunted hospital
locations in the United States. It's reputation is one of desolation and
sickness, disease and death. The Sanitarium was built in 1910 to
quarantine people who were sick with contagious lung diseases like
tuberculosis. When it was finally closed in 1961, over 63,000 patients succumbed
to their condition at the Waverly Hills hospital, making it a primary facility
in the Louisville area.
The death tunnel, or body
chute was originally used to transport construction materials to and from the
hospital's building site without having to take the circular road up to the
hospital with trucks. Later, the chute was used to transport bodies of
patients who had died. The tunnel allowed undertakers to bring the bodies down
from the hospital out of view of the rest of the patient windows and sun
rooms. It was felt that this helped to keep the moral up for those fighting
the ravages of TB.
There are stories about
nurses who worked at Waverly Hills, of doctors that hung bodies to drain them,
of the haunting of the body chute and morgue area. There have been shadow
balls rolling down hallways and some rooms more prone to mysterious paranormal
occurrences.
Room 502
The Girl on the Third Floor
Lady in Chains
Children on the Roof Terrace
The Boy with the Ball
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