HAVE YOU EVER SPENT THE NIGHT AT WAVERLY? We have...
Not as patients, of course! This massive complex has been unoccupied for many years, but is currently under restoration. They offer tours and overnight investigations, and the L&L Dreamspell team had the opportunity to experience one of the "scariest places on earth" at night...
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THE DRAINING ROOM...
In the photos below the bottom left corner picture shows the "draining room"--reported to be the final stop for dead TB victims. They were hung up and opened so their body fluids would drain out before they left the hospital. This was to prevent the disease from spreading once the bodies were taken away from Waverly Hills...
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THE DEATH TUNNEL
Perhaps the most famous place within the Waverly complex is what is called the "death tunnel"--where they'd move patients who had died of TB out to waiting hearses, out of view of the other TB patients. This tunnel was originally used as a steam tunnel, to transport steam up the hill to the hospital's radiators (the boilers were down at the bottom of the hill.) The original hospital began with a small building opened in 1911, meant to house only 40 to 50 patients. At the time Louisville, Kentucky had the highest TB death rate in the country! It was only natural, with no cure for TB at the time, that they'd soon need a larger hospital. The facility was expanded in 1926, but by the mid 1950's with TB nearly eradicated it became obsolete. In 1962 it was converted into the Woodhaven Geriatrics Sanitarium. It continued to house patients until 1982, when it was closed down due to patient abuse. Perhaps some of these troubled souls are the ghosts that wander the hallways...
