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Speaker: joe the ghost guy i hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend
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Speaker: That's today's story.
Speaker: Take you.
Speaker: to Louisville Kentucky as we talked to
Speaker: Talk with me about a certain hospital.
Speaker: It's called the Waverly Hills Sanitarium, and the sanitarium also is known for the plague of white.
Speaker: death were able to heal sanitarium known officially as a hospital that cured
Speaker: for tuberculosis patients although the building
Speaker: of such more verified varied history is located in a quiet
Speaker: the quaint hills of
Speaker: Waverly
Speaker: Hills neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker: The building is now tucked into a burlick.
Speaker: setting in the bluegrass state.
Speaker: but times were not always so peaceful
Speaker: in the early 1900s the Jefferson County
Speaker: portion of kentucky was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis known then by the unsettling
Speaker: uh moniker
Speaker: the white death tuberculosis or simply t b was a serious infectious disease that mainly infected the lungs the bacteria that is caused
Speaker: you
Speaker: that caused tuberculosis was spread from person to person even though it tally droplets released into the air
Speaker: you
Speaker: when the affected coughed or sneezed.
Speaker: this plagued prompt
Speaker: the
Speaker: Re...
Speaker: Repres...
Speaker: Re -
Speaker: Fruit.
Speaker: reproposing of the facility
Speaker: which opened in 1910 as a school
Speaker: They'll transform it into a two -story hospital in order to accumulate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. Tuberculosis patients were originally housed in tents on the grounds of the Waverly Hills. Completion of the hospital for the advanced cases in 1912, this new hospital opened and treated advanced cases of TB.
Speaker: emittering
Speaker: Emitting another 40 patients in 1914, a children's pavilion added another 50 beds.
Speaker: patient total to around 150.
Speaker: i'm sorry 130.
Speaker: sadly this new children's provision
Speaker: was not up for treatment of the children affected with tuberculosis.
Speaker: but also was care for the children of tuberculous patients who could not have cared for them and assistance wherever the hills was a crucial care hospital and orphanage it is out of the
Speaker: this environment out of the sickness and sadness
Speaker: lots of poverty
Speaker: that goes
Speaker: who linger still
Speaker: ARRRR
Speaker: emerged into the
Speaker: very fabric.
Speaker: of Waverly Hills.
Speaker: is
Speaker: As these ghosts...
Speaker: that we see today death is a constant
Speaker: a presence in the sanitarium the only comfort these patients may receive in comfort that many patients would receive
Speaker: it is these souls
Speaker: that they still manifest within these walls because the death was
Speaker: for prevent occurrence steps were taken to attempt
Speaker: that other patients will not see the continual removal of the bodies of the hospital.
Speaker: in there
Speaker: you
Speaker: indigenous hole
Speaker: or indigenous tunnel
Speaker: was built to serve as passageway to the
Speaker: transported bodies in and out of the sanitarium the corridor is
Speaker: 500 feet to the bottom of the hill
Speaker: and a set of stairs on one side
Speaker: which were the stairs used for the orderlies on the other side there was a cart that moved
Speaker: up and down the staircase which transported the bodies this tunnel
Speaker: would become known among the sanitarium employees as the body shoot or
Speaker: Death Tunnel.
Speaker: making light of the situation sometimes removes the sting
Speaker: in reality however
Speaker: this tunnel as feared by the living a haunting reminder
Speaker: of the thin line between life
Speaker: and death even now reports of
Speaker: Go store animate.
Speaker: from the tunnel indeed some investigators referred to the death chute as a paranormal hot spot
Speaker: within the depths of the tunnel shadowed figures have seen witnessed their dark presence conjugating in its shadows and manifesting as full -body apparitions
Speaker: possibility.
Speaker: residential miners a few and nearly countless individuals
Speaker: who made their last journey
Speaker: from the sanitarium along this tunnel it is said that the the height of the tuberculosis epidemic one person
Speaker: per hour died.
Speaker: within the sanitarium.
Speaker: even by the late 1930s a decade after the outbreak of TB began.
Speaker: Berkliosis
Speaker: but still leading cause of death in Kentucky in fact Kentucky
Speaker: led the nation to tuberculosis deaths some.
Speaker: 2 ,000 people
Speaker: a year
Speaker: where dying of tuberculosis in the state even after sanitariums such as where the hills were established it is from the massive amount of lives
Speaker: lost their unexplained footsteps
Speaker: have been heard echoing
Speaker: from within the space as well as disembodied voices many screams
Speaker: for light these ghosts are tenuous witnesses for the unrecognizing torments of tuberculosis
Speaker: that occurred within these walls waverly hill sanitarium attempted to treat its patients holistically fine
Speaker: exposure to sunlight
Speaker: proper bed rest, healthy foods, and keep him breathing.
Speaker: breezeways open to allow for fresh air some
Speaker: cases were more problematic in many
Speaker: barbaric attempts at situations to
Speaker: tuberculosis were attempted on many patients. Most infamous of these operations
Speaker: was known as artificial
Speaker: A pneumoniac.
Speaker: and pneumonia.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Which...
Speaker: involved
Speaker: propelling air into each of the lungs itself or cavity
Speaker: between the lungs in order to
Speaker: So...
Speaker: artificially claps.
Speaker: the diseased portion of the lung and hope
Speaker: that the long would
Speaker: would rest theoretically
Speaker: allowing the lesions caused by tuberculosis to heal.
Speaker: amazingly many patients did survive this procedure
Speaker: but those with whom the procedure is less effective
Speaker: had died a slow and agonizing death their final days were restricted and various postures which was laying on the side most
Speaker: efficient by lesions and extracting the movement of the diseased lung
Speaker: with puncture posture and gravity
Speaker: and the hope that the patient's life would be prolonged another commonplace surgery for treatment of tuberculosis was something called
Speaker: I could put.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Thorough.
Speaker: Acoplasty.
Speaker: They're all acaplasty.
Speaker: Save these things a lot while I try to do this. Need a medical degree on this one.
Speaker: which revolved a removal of multiple ribs with the intention of collapsing the lung while doctors preferred to only remove two or three ribs at a time
Speaker: most patients required as many as eight removed by this technique and to be effective meaning they had to
Speaker: endure multiple painful surgeries of course many of these surgeries ended up in death of a patient many ghosts who have yet to cross over
Speaker: Scramble to...
Speaker: to the operations and attempt to save them while under anesthesia it is possible for these phantoms not to be
Speaker: realize that they're
Speaker: For...
Speaker: preposterous body has died and is no longer in hope.
Speaker: that the cure had been discovered a long man to leave the confined
Speaker: you
Speaker: uh discovered a long man to leave the confines of the sanitarium
Speaker: as local legends
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: contend the most haunted location in the entirety
Speaker: of the wayward the hills facility is a notorious fifth floor it is said that this floor
Speaker: patients and mental illness were housed and treated more as inmates than as patients this floor particularly room five o two is the centre of much of the ghost stories surrounding the sanitarium visitors have
Speaker: Claimed have seen shapes moving around the windows green voices yell
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: and some claim to have
Speaker: physically pushed or shoved off the
Speaker: off this floor.
Speaker: more supernatural claims although unverified have suggested some visitors have seen so overcome by the influx of ghosts on this floor
Speaker: that they have accidentally jumped.
Speaker: to their death to avoid the torment
Speaker: of these
Speaker: of the
Speaker: what is known that is alleged claims that the way back in 1928 a nurse was found in room 502 having hung herself from the light fixture another nurse who worked in 502 in 1932
Speaker: is said to have thrown herself off the roof patio
Speaker: onto the ground below.
Speaker: which is also known as some visitors have indeed felt compelled to jump from the window of this room.
Speaker: even the point of having
Speaker: to be talked down by others
Speaker: before coming to their senses where they
Speaker: Possessed or simply overwhelmed by these surroundings, just another mystery within these walls of the sanitarium.
Speaker: But there are more to the fifth floor than just suicidal alterations. A ghostly boy named Timmy.
Speaker: you
Speaker: is said to seen
Speaker: wandering in these halls according to the stories
Speaker: Timmy moves throughout the space of hospital.
Speaker: either playing with his own ball
Speaker: or seeking something else to play with some guests have reported
Speaker: bringing balls of their own for timmy only to subsequently see them
Speaker: the same balls floating
Speaker: you
Speaker: down the halls
Speaker: carried by an invisible hand
Speaker: If there is indeed a young boy haunting this space, he may have been an orphan.
Speaker: and in this life who died before reuniting
Speaker: with the sick parents
Speaker: Perhaps he waits for them, hoping that one day...
Speaker: he'd be reunited with his family.
Speaker: Went nor the boy.
Speaker: apparition was known as the creeper
Speaker: This dark entity was seen
Speaker: crawling up around the halls ceilings and floors of the building it said that if you come in close contact with the creeper you'll be overwhelmed with suffocating
Speaker: fate of dread
Speaker: what is the creeper some have suggested that is
Speaker: residual energy of a patient
Speaker: who underwent experimental surgery
Speaker: his body
Speaker: contorted by the operation that left him mangled mess some investigators suggested a demon
Speaker: drawn to the raw emotions that have drained the energy of this place
Speaker: which eventually that feeds on despair and fear wherever the creeper is it is best to avoid it have you been and now you have been warned with the introduction of
Speaker: stemphomycin in 1943 the number of tuberculosis patients
Speaker: and causes gradually declined until there were no longer
Speaker: a practical need for such a large hospital the remaining patients were sent in another facility in waverly hills closed in june 1961 however a year later
Speaker: Waverly Hills was reopened in 1962 under a name of
Speaker: Woodhaven.
Speaker: Generatic Center, Nursing Home Pro...
Speaker: primarily training Asian patients.
Speaker: were at various stages of dementia this facility
Speaker: also took and surveyed
Speaker: So.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: severity mentally handicapped reports were ramped at patient abuse and tales were told that elderly
Speaker: being chained up to their beds in fact a ghost
Speaker: of an elderly lady
Speaker: her tarsal and hands bound in chains is claimed to
Speaker: It may err
Speaker: and mediate
Speaker: from this history.
Speaker: of the building
Speaker: Eventually, Woodhaven had closed
Speaker: by the state in Kentucky in 1982.
Speaker: for patient neglect
Speaker: this building
Speaker: had a long and storied
Speaker: history.
Speaker: of pain and suffering
Speaker: even after no longer a sanitarium is out of this human misery that the ghosts were spawned
Speaker: Waverly Hills considered one of the worst haunted...
Speaker: one of the most haunted locations in the united states every day visitors reported that apparitions of death and suffering
Speaker: including ghostly hearers even seen dropping off coffins at the back of the building a phantom of a woman with bleeding wrists
Speaker: banging for help
Speaker: a man in a white coat
Speaker: You've been wandering around the kitchen.
Speaker: this building make it
Speaker: never truly
Speaker: rest in peace too many lives
Speaker: were in it under this roof.
Speaker: and too much sorrow occurred
Speaker: than simply to be forgotten
Speaker: in the passage of time
Speaker: waverly hills stands as a monument to those people
Speaker: who lost their lives to the epidemic and to those who were forgotten to wish themselves known even in death well folks that's one
Speaker: Crazy hospital.
Speaker: you know that would be one place that you'd like to go to if you end up going to
Speaker: you
Speaker: Alright.
Speaker: Louisville Kentucky and
Speaker: you
Speaker: Check it out.
Speaker: And I think I heard on another podcast that...
Speaker: you
Speaker: the person that
Speaker: owns
Speaker: the place he's been trying to renovate it to where it was and
Speaker: You know.
Speaker: It was abandoned for quite a while, and one guy ended up buying it, and he was trying to restore it.
Speaker: If you want to, there's a website. If you want to book a tour, go with Derby City Ghosts in Louisville. And I'm sure that'll give you something.
Speaker: or go on the website
Speaker: TheRealWeberleyHills .com
Speaker: And...
Speaker: Hopefully...
Speaker: that I'll show you
Speaker: But...
Speaker: Hope everyone liked the story.
Speaker: And...
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