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While shooting a single laser beam to the bottom, it suddenly stopped upon something solid and that something was making its way up the tunnel toward us! We could see the vague white outlines of a form. Standing at the top, even a flashlight beam would not reach the bottom of the tunnel. It eventually graduated into the “Body Chute” where the deceased were transported after passing in the hospital.

The tunnel through the hill, from the hospital to the road below, was originally the entrance and exit for workers.

They stopped as my team returned to let me out. I couldn’t see anything but black, yet outside the locker door I heard the sounds of shuffling feet and the clatter of things being moved on a metal gurney. It was quiet for a while and then the small room seemed to come alive. I listened to their footsteps retreating.

My teammates helped me into a morgue locker (at my request) and left me alone.

One of many hallways in the former sanatorium. I switched on my light and no one was beside me! Someone tripped in the group in front of me and I heard Doug – up there – laughing and making a comment. We had our flashlights off so our eyes would adjust to the dark. In what little I could make out he was built like Doug anyway.

I was holding up the rear with a shadowy figure walking next to me I assumed to be my teammate Doug. My team made a trek through the dark first level hallway.Scary stuff there! I had to see for myself, so I joined the pack, doing an overnight a few years back. Afterward followed years of common folk doing their own investigations, and heavily endorsing their stamp of approval on social media. Welcome to Waverly Hills Sanatorium! (Submitted photos)įast forward many years to a period when the former sanatorium was deluged by various television ghost teams declaring the place legitimately haunted. Nonetheless, it didn’t end there for the spooky looking building on the hill. Construction of additional buildings – and added stories to the hospital – culminated in 1926. Opening in 1910, the building eventually grew too small to house all of the patients needing beds.

In the early 1900s Jefferson County experienced a tragic outbreak of tuberculosis (the White Plague) resulting in a two-story hospital built to house these patients it was far away from downtown Louisville. Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a tall, monolithic structure perched on the hillside of southwestern Louisville, Ky. I get asked a lot, “What’s been your scariest experience?” There have been quite a few of a curious nature (shadows, voices, doors opening and closing, etc.) which have been intriguing and made an evening interesting, however, there is one location that got my heart racing with a series of events and all on the same visit.