I want to go there at once, first I didn’t believe in ghosts until I saw this…

chelsea, is there anyway your dad would do a contest like have people enter and if they stay the whole night theyd get a prize?

I have been there a great many times. You guys do have one thing wrong in your description. They didn’t push dead bodies down a tunnel. They piled them on this underground “train” that wen to the bottom of the hill so that all the patients didn’t see how many people actually died. It is a very beautiful old building but definitely eery! As soon as you step out of your car you get a whole different feeling that you don’t even think that you have! The new owners are renovating the whole plave and are looking for any volunteers to help. I will actually be one of them. I have had many encounters there!

Does anyone know when the documentary “Spooked” about Waverly Hills is coming out? I know the movie “Death Tunnel” is scheduled to be released on 2/28/06, but they have not said anything about “Spooked” being released as of yet. If anyone knows, please post it. Thanks….

I went to Waverly last Halloween and here are pictures, if anyone is interested in seeing the place.

Here is the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joschmoblo/sets/72057594069810396/

Also, creepy enough, in my attic I should still have paperwork from there. Old prescriptions, doctor’s notes, patient charts, or something like that. I may go look for it one of these days.

Finally, the season premiere for SciFi Channel’s Ghost Hunter’s is on March 29, 2006 and that episode will be about Waverly. It’s at 9pm so you may want to watch it!

Chelsea doesn’t know much about Waverly for her father to be the owner. Her father may have owned the place at one time…but not presently. And if I am incorrect in saying this (I thought it had been purchased by the Historical Society), then she knows very little history on the place. I have never heard any story about this room 217…I think she has the room number incorrect, but again I may be mistaken. It was owned for many yrs. by the Mattingly family (as seen on Scariest Places on Earth a few years back). As for there not being any parties there…all one needs to see is the graffiti all over the walls to know better. I believe the first yr. it was actually open to the public as a haunted house (which covered a very small area…), there was a live band, a para-psychologist (who was a flake), and tours offered. It was actually quite fun. As my husband and I were standing in line, a teenager was dragging a keg through the hallway and was himself dragged off by security. I grew up in Valley Station very close to Waverly (Prairie Village) and made many a trip (both legally and illegially). I can’t say I have truly seen any para-normal activitiy, but the place does have an eerie feel to it. The beauty of the place itself is reason enough to want to see it. As for there being 68,000 people to die, this also is not a fact. The death toll was only in the hundreds. There is one very accurate site that reveals the history by an individual named Ron. I will find the site and post it for anyone interested. There is also a site that has some outstanding photographs of the building and old out buildings (some of which have since been torn down). I had three strange things happen while visiting. One time a couple of friends, my son, and myself decided to play hide and seek in the building. My son and I were hiding in a closet on the fourth floor when we heard that we were about to be found. We ran into a room that had a rusted table and a rusted disc shaped light with a cone hanging from the ceiling. Something about that room gave me a bad feeling…but I could never seem to find it on any other visit, nor saw it on any tours. Another time, my husband and I decided walk the path by the apts. off Dixie (not the road by the golf course)…our way is the most scenic trail! I have heard that if you veer off the road (before the gate) and follow the grassy path to the left (at the bottom of the hill), that there is actually some kind of cave or underground entrance…but not the body chute. I don’t know if this is an actual fact. Anyway, as we were walking the path (it was very dark and they had security at this time in trailers), we came to a place where a huge drainage pipe ran beneath the road. On the end of this pipe there sat an individual with their feet dangling over the edge. We got very quiet because we thought we had walked up on a security person…as we quietly approached, they disappeared from sight. Then another time, a friend and I had planned to spend Halloween night on the roof (hallucinating). While sitting at the bottom of the road where the apts. are, we saw person’s in hooded black capes coming from behind a dumpster. Not wanting to become anyone’s sacrifice, we decided to make other plans. I will find those sites and post them so you can get some more accurate info going here…thanks for taking time to read my posting! Gypsyblood

I hope you find this information useful!

http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html

http://www.pbase.com/cowsgomoo/waverly_hills_sanitorium

http://whsmemorial.tripod.com/index.html

http://www.waverlyhillstbsanatorium.com/

courier-journal.com > Local News
Monday, September 26, 2005
“Local News Headline: The living roam Waverly Hills”
The living roam Waverly Hills Convention-goers mix with sanatorium spirits By Scheri Smith
ssmith@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Because so many people died at Waverly, it has developed a reputation as a place where the spirits of patients still roam. It was featured on the “World’s Scariest Places” television show in 2001.

Charles Mattingly and his wife, Tina, are the current owners. They bought it about four years ago and are trying to get it restored.
“It’s a piece of history,” Tina Mattingly said. “In my opinion it’s been badly beaten and battered, and it’s very disrespectful to the people that died here.”
Despite all the potential spooky or scary things that some claim happen at Waverly, the really scary thing is the thought of losing it, Age said. That’s why his organization is donating all proceeds from this weekend to help restore the building.
Members of the society estimated that they raised $10,000 throughout the convention.
Thanks, Gypsyblood

i love waverly hills tuburculosis is still in there and people say the can smell breakfast cooking.

Hello, My name is Alanna me and a guy i work with are going to Waverly Hills tommorrow night i have been looking forward to this for a while i will let you know how it goes….

the room # is #502 you F*****G retards they did this one on goust hunters the tv show look get your facts right

I cannot believe all the gramical erros on these comments, you all must be a bunch of uneducated hicks from Kentucky.

I cannot believe all the grammical errors on these comments, must be a bunch of uneducated hicks from Kentucky

I wonder if Derek Acorah from “Most Haunted” would be able to pick up on any residual energies or presents at Waverly Hills? I think the “Most Haunted” team would even be most apprehensive at the sanatorium.
http://www.livingtv.co.uk/mosthaunted/

To the girl that called us Kentuckians uneducated hicks…You must be an educated itch..Add the B yourself…….

get r done!

Hey, we wanna go to the hospital sometime but we dont want to take a tour becuz all the majesty of the dank will be ruined by annoying children and ppl trying to be scary. We just wanna go by ourselves….no vandals…just looking….do yall(wanna single?) think thats possible?….bye

I’m from the Indiana Ghost Trackers. In July we have a group of people spending the night at Waverly. I’ve heard alot about this place and have seen the movie “Death Tunnel” which is about Waverly, also filmed there. I’m real excited, but kinda scared at the same time. Has anyone stayed the night there, and how did it go? I’m sure there won’t be any sleeping going on.

To whoever called us hicks from Kentucky-I would like to ask if you have ever been to Louisville? You will find that almost everyone here is not a hick or redneck and if they are, they are probably over the age of 70 and were raised that way. About the TB hospital, which is what anyone calls it in Louisville, I have lived within a couple miles of the place my whole life, but have never been there. Seriously, everyone I know has been there. About 4 or 5 years ago is when they started having the halloween thing and the bands up there(I’m not sure how long ago it was) before that people would go up there all the time. All my friends never saw anything creepy. All they saw were rooms filled with grafitti and trash. Some of my friends slid down the shute that they use to push the bodies down. After walking around and doing illegal things there for about an hour a gaurd or someone usually realized they were there and chased them to their cars where they were told to leave. I’m sure it is very spooky(that’s why I’m too scared to go) but no one has ever saw a ghost or anything that spooky.

This was taken directly from the courier journal(newspaper in Louisville):

But the hospital left a legacy — a quiet, woodsy backdrop for the neighborhood, land for a park and a golf course, and a colorful, if occasionally morbid, history.

When the hospital opened in 1911, it had 8 patients, but it soon reached its capacity of 40. At the time, Jefferson County had one of the country’s highest rates of tuberculosis, a highly contagious, sometimes fatal lung disease characterized by coughing, hemorrhaging, fever and shortness of breath.

And the hospital, which offered plenty of bed rest and fresh air as well as some surgical methods of treating the disease, was thought to be an excellent facility. In 1924, the hospital was expanded to house 400 patients.

Many people died at the hospital, and because hospital officials were concerned that the sight of hearses would be bad for morale the bodies were sent to the bottom of the hill through a steam tunnel.

The steam kept the tunnel warm and was also used by employees who needed to walk up the hill during the winter. Fey remembers that he and other children would go into the tunnel to warm up after sledding. The entrances to the tunnel have been blocked off, but it still exists underground, Severs said.

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