ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED: Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Loiusville, Kentucky is considered one of the most haunted places in the USA. Looking at the pictures alone will just give you the creeps!

It originally opened it's doors in 1910 as a two storey wooden structure with 40 beds, to try and treat patients with the contagious disease Tuberculosis.

This was quite a common disease back then with no known cure. It was also known as the White Plague and Consumption.

By 1926 it was made into the brick and concrete building as you see it today.

How the Sanatorium looked in it's opened days: Patients are out on the Sun Porch in front of their room doors

Now an eerie hallway showing the doors lies empty where patients once resided (compare with the pic above)

A massive 63,000 people died in the sanatorium. Most of those were said to be through severe mistreatment of patients and unnecessary medical procedures and experiments being carried out. I was shocked to hear that alot of those were children.

What used to be once used as a pathway for employees was made into a disturbing body drop tunnel. Deceased bodies were taken to the bottom via a motorized rail track system, to keep it a secret from the patients of the amount of people that were dying.

The Body Drop Tunnel
The Body Drop exit

Many hauntings and ghost like findings have been reported such as voices, screams, cold spots, shadows that shouldn't be there and figures.

Room 502 is known for being one of the most haunted in the building. This was an old nurses station, and a nurse hung herself there when she found out she was pregnant. Another nurse climbed into the room committed suicide by jumping out.

The roof top of the famous room 502

An effective antibiotic treatment called Streptomycin was discovered in 1943, which is still used to this day.

Because of this there no longer became a use for Waverly Hills and the Sanatorium was shut down in 1961.

It did re-open it's doors again, but this time as Woodhaven Geriatrics. But yet again patient treatment was being abused to the extreme of using shock treatment at unnecessary times. Most of the time this resulted in the patients death.

This brutality only got worse until in 1982 it was finally shut down by the State of Kentucky

One of the patient rooms

Since that time the Sanatorium had several different owners, but now the current owners plan to have the place restored.

For the amount of deterioration over the years this will cost a considerable amount of money, so in the meantime ghost hunting tourist conventions are held to try and raise the cash.