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The building in which there was once a tuberculosis sanatorium Waverly Hills (Louisville, Kentucky), today is the most popular of the abandoned places in the country and the most visited and mysterious object. Thrill lovers ride here from all over the planet.
Tunnel of death
Built in 1926, this sanatorium practiced the most “advanced” treatment methods. By the way, then tuberculosis was incurable, so the good intentions of the doctors turned into a tragedy for of many people.
It was believed that patients should spend as much as possible time in the air, so patients were constantly forced be on the street, and in winter they slept with the windows open.
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The hospital had a very high mortality rate. To hide from patients the number of dead, corpses were transported through underground tunnel that went directly to the railway station. Often, waiting for the composition piled up in one heap of the body for days were at the exit.
But in 1943, Zelman Waxman, an American microbiologist, Found a cure for a terrible disease – streptomycin. With tuberculosis was finally done away and the Waverly Hills was empty and in 1961 the year the sanatorium was closed.
However, the building did not stand closed for long. A year later it was renamed “Woodhaven,” and a nursing home was placed there and geriatric treatment center. Soon rumors circulated around the city that sick old people are being abused. Supposedly on them conducted various scientific experiments, for example, irradiated radiation or used shock therapy. It is not known how much these rumors corresponded to the truth, however, during the checks revealed many violations, and the case was referred to court. In 1980 the institution was closed forever.
Ghosts instead of Jesus
The land and Waverly Hills itself were auctioned, and in In 1983, the building was even going to be rebuilt as a prison, however this project failed. Finally Waverly Hills bought the current one master. He wanted to demolish the existing buildings, and in their place to establish a gigantic statue of Jesus Christ that would be superior the size of a similar statue in Rio de Janeiro. In accordance with By design, next to build a center of meditation, as well as a small hotel.
The city authorities did not allow the construction on the grounds that Waverly Hills belongs to the national historical monuments and is not subject to demolition.
… Gradually abandoned house was chosen by various dubious persons who eventually knocked out windows that covered graffiti walls, destroyed the surviving equipment and torn off radiators heating … So they saw the first ghosts of Waverly Hills and told the inhabitants of Louisville about them.
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All witnesses of mystical appearances in the building saw one and the same. the deviations in their stories turned out to be insignificant. All talked about strange sounds in the empty spaces, about how objects left here moved randomly. Many have seen light that lights up by itself, and talked about doors that clap with the absolute absence of a draft. Sometimes in the corridors out of nowhere came a little boy who was playing with the ball. Also saw a woman with wrists cut in blood, and to the official the hearse supposedly drove up the entrance, into which the coffins were loaded.
At times, a former chef comes to visitors and invites them to the kitchen. After that, the kitchen smells of hot food and fresh of bread.
Now Waverly Hills is a five-story gloomy building with broken windows. Windows are only available in the morgue, as there security post is located.
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