waverly hills

Waverly Hills Sanatorium, located in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1910 as a five-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. It has been popularized on television as being one of the "most haunted" hospitals in the eastern United States, and was seen on ABC/FOX Family Channel's Scariest Places On Earth as well as VH1's Celebrity Paranormal Project. It was also seen on the Sci Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters and featured in an episode of the 11th series of the British TV show Most Haunted.

The current plan for the sanatorium is to turn it into a hotel that will cater to the haunted hotel crowd as well regular hotel patrons.[2] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Original Sanatorium 1.2 Sanatorium expansions 1.3 Woodhaven Medical Services 1.4 "The Body Chute" or "Death Tunnel" 2 Recent developments 2.1 Prison 2.2 Statue 2.3 Restoration 2.4 Private property 3 Structures 3.1 Edgewood 3.2 Original sanatorium 3.3 Pavilion buildings 3.4 Hospital for advanced cases 3.5 Main building 3.6 Tunnel 4 Legends 4.1 Room 502 4.2 Death rate 4.3 Other Hauntings 5 Waverly Hills in entertainment 6 Sounds of the Underground 7 See also 8 References 9 External links //

History

The land that is today known as Waverly Hill was purchased by Major Thomas H. Hays in 1883 as the Hays Family home. Since the new home was now so far away from any existing schools, Mr. Hays decided to open a local school for his daughters to attend.[3] He started a one-room schoolhouse on Pages Lane, and hired Lizzie Lee Harris as the teacher.[4] Miss Harris loved her tiny school nestled against the hillside, and remembered her fondness for Walter Scott's Waverley novels, so she named her little school house "Waverly School".[5] Major Hays liked the peaceful-sounding name, so he named his property "Waverly Hill" and the Board of Tuberculosis Hospital kept the name when they bought the land and opened the sanatorium.[6] It is not known exactly when the spelling changed to exclude the second "e" and became Waverly Hills. However the spelling fluctuated between both spellings many times over the years.[7][8][9]

Original Sanatorium

In the early 20th century, Jefferson County was severely stricken with an outbreak of tuberculosis. There were many tuberculosis cases in Louisville at the time because of all the swampland, which was perfect for the tuberculosis bacteria. To try to contain the disease, a two-story wooden sanatorium was opened which consisted of an administrative/main building and two open air pavilions, each housing 20 patients, for the treatment of "early cases".

"In the early part of 1911, the city of Louisville began to