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The terrifying story of the Waverly Hills sanatorium

This abandoned sanatorium tops the list of the most terrifying and haunted places in the United States.Learn the history of the Waverly Hills sanatorium and the multiple spirits that inhabit it.

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a huge building located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.built in 1883 by the Hays family, first it was their home and then they turned it into a school.

The terrifying story of the Waverly Hills sanatorium

In 1910 it was sold and it became a hospital from that moment, called the Waverly Hills sanatorium , which would receive thousands of tuberculosis patients.Initially this hospital sheltered about 50 patients.However, due to the large number of patients with tuberculosis, he received h up to 400 people.

For 50 years this enclosure sheltered thousands of sick patients , unfortunately many of them died in those facilities.According to the records, more than 6,000 people they died in Waverly Hills, the terrible thing is that many of them before succumbing to diseases were used as laboratory mice for numerous surgeries and experimental treatments .Some of the most controversial cases are Electroshock therapy and the implementation of sandbags in a patient's chest.

The ghosts of Waverly Hills

In this sinister and abandoned building they inhabit numerous ghosts , who have had the opportunity to visit it, say they hear the screams of pain of disembodied voices, see shadows with human form and objects that move without explanation.

One of the most famous ghosts is that of a little boy named Timmy , who died when he was barely 6 years old in unclear circumstances.The truth is that Timmy appears regularly through the sanitarium corridors and many people who visit the place bring him balls and other toys so that the come before them.

Another spirit that also makes her presence felt strongly is that of a young woman named Mary Lee , she arrived in Waverly Hills being completely healthy but in the place he was infected with tuberculosis and later died.Many tourists claim to have captured images of the girl in photography.

Within this sanatorium there are two places especially who always have a very active paranormal activity, the first one is the famous room 502 , apparently there was a nurse who had become pregnant with the hospital director.Some claim that actually this nurse was killed, others believe that was hung up or thrown out the window, the truth is that in that room the cold is present even if it is a hot summer day, electronic devices stop working, voices are heard and in sometimes the soul can be seen in pain of this nurse.

The terrifying story of the Waverly Hills sanatorium

The second place is the " tunnel of death ", it is a 150-meter tunnel that was initially used in the winter time to unload the supplies that the hospital needed, then it was used to place the corpses of the hundreds of people killed by tuberculosis.

Without a doubt, the Waverly Hills sanitarium It is one of the most terrifying places in the world, currently its owners are Charlie and Tina Mattingly, who keep the whole place in its original and organized state.zan tours so that the curious and fanatics of the paranormal can experience in their own flesh whether or not there are ghosts in the place, would you like to visit it?

Image: Pam Culver , Aaron Vowels , wanderstruck

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