Wavery Hills Sanatorium

Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, KY

Case File 06-0914: Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Classification: Commercial, Abandoned, Hospital

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The main entrance.

The rear of the building. The middle top features room 502.

A brief history of Waverly Hills:

Waverly Hills Sanatorium, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium which originally opened in 1926. Over the years the deadly and untreatable disease claimed thousands of lives at the facility. In those days tuberculosis was virtually always fatal, and those who suffered from it were given plenty of sunshine, fresh air, and hearty meals. Often all that could be done for the patient was to make them as comfortable as possible. Experimental procedures were attempted, including the insertion of syringes into the lungs to attempt to relieve pressure. Still, MANY patients eventually succumbed to the incurable disease.

To help preserve the morale of the patients, a steam tunnel running several hundred feet from the main building to the roadway below was often used to transport the bodies of those who died to hearses waiting at the bottom of the hill. This tunnel has come to be known as "The Death Tunnel".

Waverly Hills finally ceased to function as a hospital in the 1960's when antibiotics became readily available to fight the infection. It eventually became a geriatric home, but finally closed it's doors for good in the early 1980's.

Many paranormal researchers consider Waverly Hills to be one of the most haunted locations in the country.

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iGHOST visited Waverly Hills on September 14, 2006, and would like to extend a very special thanks to Mike Flickner of Southern Indiana Ghost Hunters (SIGH) for his invaluable assistance with this investigation! Visit SIGH here!

Below are some photographs taken during the investigation, as well as three EVP's

(Electronic Voice Phenomenon) captured at Waverly Hills. All evidence submitted on this site is subject to interpretation (see Ghost Hunting Toolkit).

Room 502 is the most famous single

room at the complex. Years ago a pregnant

nurse aborted her child in this room and

then promptly hung herself. Room 502

is considered highly active.

This is the skylight outside of room 502

that the nurse is reported to have hung

herself from. Originally there was a steel

bar running across the middle of it.

Shanna and Ann in room 502.

Barry films just outside room 502.

Billie takes EMF readings.

Mike (SIGH) checks EMF readings.

The Morgue

Inside the "Death Tunnel"

Another shot in the "Death Tunnel"

This picture, and the one directly below it, is hard to make out but appears to be some

sort of anomaly. It has been suggested that the shapes may be "shadowmen".

Inconclusive and open for interpretation. See "Matrixing" in Ghost Hunting 101.

This picture has us scratching our heads. It appears to be a figure. Successive images

clear it up. This is definitely open for interpretation.

Waverly Hills EVP's

Click on the links below to hear original and cleaned-up versions of EVP's captured by iGHOST at Waverly Hills.

EVP 1 Noise Reduction

EVP 1: Possibly, "He's healing me" or "He's hearing me".

EVP 2 Noise Reduced

EVP 2: Possibly, "Hello..." (exhale) "...it's cold".

EVP 3 Noise Reduced

EVP 3: Investigator question: "What day is it? What date"?
Possible response: "I don't know" or "I don't care".