Waverly Hills Sanatorium

HAUNTED HOSPITAL is the last thing you probably would want to visit. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium was a hospital that opened in 1926 because of the white death other wise known as tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a virus that travels by air and you get it in your lungs. If you have tuberculosis it basically attacked your lungs and would eat them away. The white death was a huge outbreak in the early 19th century and back in those times if you got it you were going to die. If you got it within 24 hours if you didn't turn yourself into Waverly Hills they would come and get you. There were many deaths in the hospital and patients knew that they were going to die. They didn't have a cure back then for it, so they went to as far as putting sand bags on people’s chest to try to solve it and sometimes even bloodier procedures like: deflating a portion of a lung, remove 2 to 3 ribs at a time so lung could expand, and the pneumthorax method . The hospital had lots of windows that they would set the patients by; they thought the sun and fresh air was good. Waverly Hills Sanatorium was closed in 1982 because of budgets. There is an estimate about 63,000 deaths in total, even though it was the most advanced hospital back then. Just because the hospital is closed doesn't mean there's life that doesn't still linger. There is another life than the human world. Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been on shows like "Ghost Hunters", "Most Haunted", "Scariest Places on Earth", and "Most Terrifying Places in America". The sanatorium has unexplained shadows, footsteps, doors that open, children laughing, screams, and etc. If you go there you can encounter with a little boy named Timmy. Timmy was a boy that was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was admitted in to the children's wing of the hospital. Timmy likes to interact with playing hide and seek and playing with balls such as rolling it back to you. In the same wing there have been reports of a woman with her wrists chained and bleeding as she is crying for help. There have been reports of a hearse outside of the hospital which leads to the story of the tunnel. When people died in the hospital they would throw them down a chute that lead in to a tunnel. This was so the patients at the time wouldn’t get discouraged. The tunnel was before used for the delivery of foods and needs. In the tunnel would encounter such things as “shadow people”, voices, screams, and unexplained footsteps. In the hospital there is a room that has a very sad story. Room 502 was one of the nurses head quarters. In 1928, the head nurse was only 29 years old and developed tuberculosis. Not only that she was pregnant and not married; seeing no other way out she hung herself. Now you can hear her crying. In 1932, in the same room another nurse jumped out of the window plummeting to her death and no one seemed to know why. On the third floor there is a little girl named “Mary” that plays with a leather ball and says disturbing things about “I have no eyes.” In the kitchen you can experience a man with a white coat on and pants. They say he’s an old employee of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Mostly about every floor is “haunted.” Fact or fiction, one thing is for sure I never want to know.

Room 502.