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Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a location reputed to be haunted in Louisville, Kentucky, US. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is Waverly Hills Sanatorium?
- Location
- Louisville, Kentucky, US
- Type
- Hospital / asylum
- Coordinates
- 38.13, -85.842
- Testimonies
- 0
- Last updated
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Why is Waverly Hills Sanatorium said to be haunted?
Waverly Hills opened in 1910 as a small wooden hospital to treat Jefferson County's tuberculosis patients during an epidemic locals called the "White Plague," and demand grew so fast that a much larger five-story facility replaced it by 1926, eventually treating hundreds of patients at a time in the era before antibiotics. Death rates were high enough that the hospital built an underground tunnel β later nicknamed the "body chute" β reportedly to move deceased patients out of sight of the living without disturbing morale on the wards. Streptomycin's success against tuberculosis let the hospital close by 1961, and after a brief second life as a geriatric center that closed in 1982 amid allegations of neglect, the building sat abandoned for years. Ghost hunters now cite room 502, tied to a nurse's reported death by suicide, and the body chute itself as the site's most consistently reported hotspots.
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