Seeing as Halloween is litterally just around the corner, I thought I'd share with you the story about the time that I visited Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY.
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(A small background story of Waverly Hills)
Opened up in 1926, Waverly Hills was a hospital built to house patients who had contracted the TB (Tuberculosis) disease. Back then, no antibiotics had been discovered to help those patients, so for those who had contracted TB, they had to be isolated away from everyone else. Waverly's was open until 1961, when it was shut down.
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For me, I visited Waverly Hills back in April 2008. I went with my aunt, and her friend. And if you know me really well, you'll know that I am fasinated by anything paranormal! And I had been wanting to visit Waverly's for a while!
When we finally got there we met up with the guides who advised us to keep a small enough flashlight on us to be able to see, but not big enough that the light would ruin the pictures that people would take. We were also told not to let the strings on the flashlight swing loose, because people had come back to them and reported that something had gotten their flashlights and have them hovering above their heads.
For the first part of the tour, we all watched a 30 minute video on Waverly Hills. About when it had opened, and the history that took place during the time it was open .
And after the film was over, the real tour began!
Spending a total of 7 hours inside of the hospital with 5 floors to cover, I was psyched!
I didn't really know what to look for, seeing as this was my first time investigating something paranormal, but I had learned from my research that there were several stories that had become the famous hot-spots for Waverly.
One story being that of Room 502, where a pregnant nurse who had contracted TB, hung herself after giving herself an abortion, and disposing of the body of her baby.
Another story is that of a little boy named Timmy. He had lived in Waverly's for the majority of his life, and had eventually died there as well. So now today, people bring toys for Timmy to play with.
One of the most famous kinds of ghost that you run into at Waverly's are Shadow People. Which are pretty much ghosts who appear to be shadows but have human form.
The thing that I found to be the scariest part of all of this was the fact that the guides had said that people had seen the apparitions of several ghosts: a dog, a man whose eyes had been taken out, shadow people, and most recently ghosts that have become known as dopplegangers.
Dopplegangers are ghost that take the physical form of someone else, and it's said that if you run into your doppleganger, that you're to die soon.
During the time that I was there, I only had one really personal scary moment.
I was all by my self at one end of a hallway, while my aunt and her friend were close to the other end, and I had my hair up in a pony tail, and I felt something lift my hair up into the air and away from my body.
Seeing as Halloween is litterally just around the corner, I thought I'd share with you the story about the time that I visited Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY.
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(A small background story of Waverly Hills)
Opened up in 1926, Waverly Hills was a hospital built to house patients who had contracted the TB (Tuberculosis) disease. Back then, no antibiotics had been discovered to help those patients, so for those who had contracted TB, they had to be isolated away from everyone else. Waverly's was open until 1961, when it was shut down.
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For me, I visited Waverly Hills back in April 2008. I went with my aunt, and her friend. And if you know me really well, you'll know that I am fasinated by anything paranormal! And I had been wanting to visit Waverly's for a while!
When we finally got there we met up with the guides who advised us to keep a small enough flashlight on us to be able to see, but not big enough that the light would ruin the pictures that people would take. We were also told not to let the strings on the flashlight swing loose, because people had come back to them and reported that something had gotten their flashlights and have them hovering above their heads.
For the first part of the tour, we all watched a 30 minute video on Waverly Hills. About when it had opened, and the history that took place during the time it was open .
And after the film was over, the real tour began!
Spending a total of 7 hours inside of the hospital with 5 floors to cover, I was psyched!
I didn't really know what to look for, seeing as this was my first time investigating something paranormal, but I had learned from my research that there were several stories that had become the famous hot-spots for Waverly.
One story being that of Room 502, where a pregnant nurse who had contracted TB, hung herself after giving herself an abortion, and disposing of the body of her baby.
Another story is that of a little boy named Timmy. He had lived in Waverly's for the majority of his life, and had eventually died there as well. So now today, people bring toys for Timmy to play with.
One of the most famous kinds of ghost that you run into at Waverly's are Shadow People. Which are pretty much ghosts who appear to be shadows but have human form.
The thing that I found to be the scariest part of all of this was the fact that the guides had said that people had seen the apparitions of several ghosts: a dog, a man whose eyes had been taken out, shadow people, and most recently ghosts that have become known as dopplegangers.
Dopplegangers are ghost that take the physical form of someone else, and it's said that if you run into your doppleganger, that you're to die soon.
During the time that I was there, I only had one really personal scary moment.
I was all by my self at one end of a hallway, while my aunt and her friend were close to the other end, and I had my hair up in a pony tail, and I felt something lift my hair up into the air and away from my body.
But I guess that that's my scary story.