Touring Waverly HillsĪddress: 4400 Paralee Drive. Louisville, KY. The room in the rooftop chambers is believed to have housed tuberculosis patients with mental illnesses, according to a 2010 Courier Journal article, and was allegedly the site of a nurse's death by suicide. Situated in the southwestern area of Louisville, Kentucky theWaverly Hills Sanatorium is renowned for being the most haunted asylum anywhere in the world. With Their Dying Breaths: A History of Tuberculosis in Kentucky and. In a 2017 interview with The Courier Journal, Tina Mattingly said orbs and balls of light are believed to have been seen in the chute, along with spirits. The History and Hauntings of Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Kindle edition by Vernor. The infamous 600-foot body chute, for instance, that was used to discretely move thousands of corpses through the facility has grown in infamy and is often cited as a place where ghostly experiences take place. Still, several sites on the property, where more than 6,000 people are believed to have died, have taken on a life of their own in paranormal popular culture. Meet Wayne Hettinger: How did ignorance help create Thunder Over Louisville? A Q&A with the man behind the show For Kentucky, Louisville was the only city to take on such a task after they established a tax, levied by the city and county, which enabled the construction of Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatarium in 1909-11. (The name, too, may have played a role in its notorious history, with then-Courier Journal reporter Thomas Nord describing it as "like something out of a comic book, a place where the Joker might hide out from Batman.") some healthcare services e.g., primary care, Rural Emergency Hospital (REH), skilled nursing care.
After an expansion in 1926, the property could hold more than 400 patients at once. 183 Rural Hospital Closures since January 2005. Who's running Waverly Hills?: The bitter feud over Louisville's most famous haunted site Waverly Hills' historyīefore it gained fame as a so-called "haunted" site, the Waverly Hills Sanatorium served as an important medical center in Louisville.Ĭonstruction on the site began in 1908 and it opened in 1910, according to Waverly Hills' website, to serve as an isolated medical center for patients afflicted with tuberculosis, which had been spreading through the Louisville area. In 1900, Louisville, Kentucky had the highest tuberculosis death rate in America. Waverly Hills has been home to an estimated over 6,000 deaths during its years in operation 2 and many believe that this influx of tragedies may be the cause of the. Lately, the southwest Jefferson County site has been at the center of a lawsuit between its owner and the Waverly Hills Historical Society, a group leased to take care of the property.īut even before protesters showed up this month at the gates on Paralee Drive, Waverly Hills has always been a well-known Louisville landmark - first as a tuberculosis treatment center in the early and mid-1900s to its more recent "haunted" history. Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky was one of the hardest hit areas 1 and home to one of the most infamous haunted locations in the worldWaverly Hills Sanatorium.
Louisville's Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been called " the most terrifying building in America," with an infamous history that draws paranormal thrill-seekers from all over the world.
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