5/18/2023 0 Comments Waverly hills sanitarium room 502![]() ![]() It remained open until 1982, when the state closed it due to confirmed reports of patient neglect from under staffing and overcrowding. Specifically, it was a home for seniors with dementia and those who could no longer walk. In 1962, the hospital was no longer needed and it became a seniors home called Woodhaven Geriatric Center. The Decline of Waverly Hillsīy 1943, streptomycin, a powerful TB drug, had greatly reduced the number of TB cases. The city didn’t turn away anyone who was ill. However, the city stuffed the campus with far more people than it could hold. In 1924, a sanatorium was added to hold up to 400 patients. It would hold 50 children’s bed and it had a maximum capacity of 130 patients. A children’s pavilion capped off the new campus. New wings were added to the main hospital, mainly to hold the influx of sick patients. The Golden Years of Waverly Hills Sanatoriumīetween 19, the hospital grew quickly. Eventually, the city could no longer fund the hospital and the horror began. It was intended to hold 40-50 people, but Louisville built more buildings when it was hit by a TB outbreak. This must stem from our fear of the unknown.Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened as a tuberculosis hospital in 1910. We don’t really want to die we may claim we do when in misery, but deep down we don’t. Is it due to the untimely death? Some would believe that having a horrible disease like tuberculosis would be an uneasy passing and it would be a relief when they did finally succumb. It seems as if the tragedy from some types of deaths makes a haunting more likely. Fans point out the similarities between the sanatorium and the show however no one from the show has denied the connection. But the biggest flattery, if true, is the Waverly Hills Sanatorium is probably the basis for the TV show American Horror Story: Asylum. ![]() Ghost Adventures also featured the sanatorium in an episode where they captured a lot of EVP’s including some very creepy ones aimed at the guys themselves, also one of the members, Aaron Goodwin, claimed to have seen a doppelganger of fellow investigator Nick Groff. ![]() Even the UK got a taste of the Waverly when Most Haunted visited during their season special which saw them tour America’s most haunted places. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium has become a bit of a television celebrity appearing on many TV paranormal shows such as Ghost Hunters who visited three times and even had one of their Halloween specials there. It is not uncommon to see lights on in the building even though there is no running electricity in the building as if the building is alive and is reliving its own past perpetually. It is so sad to think that even in the afterlife this poor tragic soul has yet to find peace. But the most terrifying and shocking sighting is that of an elderly lady with her hands and feet bleeding and chained runs away screaming from stunned onlookers. Possibly the most famous ghost sighting is that of a little boy bouncing his ball, or maybe it is the sightings of a little girl innocently playing hide and seek with the visitors. The building lay empty since then until it was recently made available for people to take paranormal tours. There are stories of patients being experimented on with horrible treatments. This senior home was closed down in 1982 due to the reports of severe patient neglect due to being under staffed and overcrowded. ![]() With the discovery of the antibiotic, that could successfully treat and cure tuberculosis, the sanatorium was closed down and quarantined, then transformed in 1962 into WoodHaven, a geriatric facility. Perhaps too quiet as the building has been award the most haunted hospital. The sanatorium was designed for the purpose to care for those struck with the epidemic.īuilt on a hillside surrounded by woodlands, this was to create a feeling of peace and a serene atmosphere to help with the recovery or in most cases to hopefully ease the sick into the afterlife. Construction to expand the property was completed in 1926 to eventually cause it to be a 5 story building housing over 400 sick and dying. Originally in 1910, the building was two stories because the county was hit with a serious case of tuberculosis. ![]()
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