Waverly Hills Sanatorium Is Thought To Be One Of America’s Most Haunted Buildings, And Due To It’s

Waverly Hills Sanatorium is thought to be one of America’s most haunted buildings, and due to it’s imposing appearance, it isn’t hard to see why. Officially opening it’s doors to the public in 1910, it was originally built to house “40 to 50″ tuberculous patients after Jefferson county suffered a severe outbreak. At the time, the swampland surrounding Louisville made the perfect breeding ground for TB bacteria, and the disease quickly spread amongst the population. Sure enough, Waverly Hills was inundated with sick, dying, patients so the government had to intervene.

An expansion was ordered to hold an extra 400 patients, however the doctors didn’t have sufficient training and were swamped with the dead and dying. Reportedly, many patients suffered from depression and committed suicide before the disease could take them, whilst others simply succumbed to the gathering fluid in their lungs.To make things even more horrific, the dead were stripped from their dignity and transported via the infamous death chute (an underground tunnel in complete darkness) as part of their final journey to the grave.

To this day, Waverly Hills Sanatorium remains a terrifying looking building, and has featured on many paranormal shows, hoping to capture the huge building’s long-suffering patients, nurses, and doctors.