Faces of Waverly Hills
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- One of the most haunted hospitals in the US, right here in Louisville KY? Waverly Hills was a tuberculosis hospital from 1910 till 1962. I did this video in 2008 for the owners of Waverly Hills. At the time they were trying to drum up interest and inverters to convert the hospital into a haunted hotel with shops and such. It's an intriguing idea. This is what I came up with.
I used video footage and photos found on line. I was also given access to personal family photos from the Mattingly family who own and run the place. During my production of the video I was given access to the hospital to photograph. It was an amazing experience, walking down the halls, imagining all the people who were there.
As I went through the photos, certain rooms and places stood out. So I re-photographed the exact spot that those shots were taken and re shot them. As you watch the video you will see ghostly transitions of times gone by. Photos from 1922 turn to 2008 and what remains.
Every time I watch it I get chills thinking of the people in these photos. Ghosts of the past. It chills me. I wonder how many of them got out of this place via car and not the body chute better known as the death tunnel. If you aren't familiar, that's the long concrete tunnel where the dead were rolled out to be taken away.
I loved making this video. The black & white photos set to the haunting music i chose. The best part was at the showing. On a late summer afternoon on the top floor of Waverly Hills, they had a presentation. And among the crowd was a frail old woman. A woman who sat in a chair and watched every minute of my video projecting on the wall, hands clasp and trembling. I was told she was a nurse when the place was open. The last survivor if you will. She shed a tear or two but mostly smiled as she remembered the past, pointing herself out in a few of the pics.
I'm not sure if I believe the place is haunted but it sure has an amazing past, an amazing story. Sure while taking pics a few odd things happened but maybe it was just the wind......
They hold haunted tours today and at Halloween have a wicked haunted house in part of it. Check out therealwaverlyhills.com for info. The sanatorium was featured on ABC/FOX Family Channel's Scariest Places On Earth, VH1's Celebrity Paranormal Project, Syfy's Ghost Hunters, Zone Reality's Creepy, the British show Most Haunted, Paranormal Challenge, and Ghost Adventures on Travel Channel
Thank you, my mother was a survivor. Her name was Janet Stout, from Louisville, KY
The music in this video takes me back to when the hospitals door were first opened
Ya its so nice! My grandmother was forced to lay outside in the cold! Take shots in her ribs and was pulled from her family! What a nice video and place! Unless you had a family member here and heard the bad stories stop posting possitive comments! This place was a prison and human experiment! Wish my grandmother was here to tell you all the real truth of this hell on earth place as she told me!
James Motter Thats a crock of crap. And I would know.
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Why would you know??
@@laswan5 My parents met there. At a Halloween party for the patients. The place was always doing what they could for the patients. Above and beyond the regular duties of a facility. This guys grandmother yeah sure she was in a prison. That was her only hope for getting over TB. Sleeping outside comes from being on the screened porches. That was for fresh air. Dad said they even woke with snow on the bottom of their blankets sometimes. Shots and needles? They even used sandbags to hold the healing portion of an infected lung down at times. Now you take a series of pills to beat TB. Back then not so easy. Yes almost experimental. They were working with what they had.
Now later the place became a nursing home that was pretty terrible.
But the sanatorium for TB was a state of the art facility. This guy and his grandmother make it sound horrible. Well if she felt that way she might have wanted to give up her bed and take her germs home to her family. And the neighborhood kids, and all the others she would contact before dying a miserable ass death herself. Those beds were wanted to the point they turned out of state folks away. People knew if you were gonna have a chance against this disease you needed to be there. It wasn't fun. It wasn't home. But that staff tried. The nurses would get the girls hair curlers and make up and glamor magazines on their own dime. A doctor would bring his horses so that those patients who were strong enough could ride. Those who were too sick for that were given sugar cubes to at least have some interaction... Even the "death tunnel " was about addressing patient moral. No different then the false cart at a modern hospital that can transport a body down the elevator without you even knowing. My parents were both damn sick. They were healed there. They had me and lived good long lives. They weren't shy to point out mistreatment. And they had nothing but praise for the good care they received at Waverly. So to jamesmotter and his grandmother I say a hardy piss off. By the way, grandma must have recovered to tell him how bad she had it huh?
It sounds like everyone has their unique story to tell. It was open for several years and maybe some people were more lucky than others..I heard non white people got some of the worst treatment. And yes maybe got the worst being an experiment.
beautifully done.....very moving, .....for most that caught TB in those days it was a death sentence, may their souls rest in peace
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I'm 72. My grandfather's brother died of TB. Before I was born (1952) I don't know what year he was born but my grandpa was born in 1887 or 88.
for once waverly hasnt been presented as a tourist attraction and a ghost hot spot. the people there were living and some need more respect for the dead. really good video
Karys Griffiths thank you my mama went there
Karys Griffiths God rest these souls. I mostly have feelings for the babies shown.
Karys Griffiths much-needed, and much agreed, very good point and observation.
So many haunted tales deliberating from the fact that these were at a time living people.
Gerri Petress just the babies? I think you missed the commentator's point that these were once all living, breathing people.
If only you had a clue how these people were treated back then, and you'd know better.
WAVERLY HILLS was not a heavenly place to be for no one- rich or poor, black or white, sane or insane, healthy or sick, prideful or humble, loving or hateful.
Karys Griffiths thats a lie cuz they do tours at waverly hills I would kno cux ima b goin there soon
This is by far the best videos of Waverly Hills I've seen so far. Most of the videos I've run across are hand held shaky cameras, loud creepy sound effects which are annoying, pseudo history and paranormal bs. Thank you for sharing a real and refreshing look into this sanatorium.
The current owners of the hospital should build a memorial and dedicate it to the people who passed away, it would make a good tribute.
I think they had planned to build a bed and breakfast on either the fourth or fifth floors where they could put up a plaque.
Yes that would be great 😊
Thank you Pascal, Greetings from Louisville, Kentucky. I loved making this video and me finding the music a week before finishing it seemed like fate. It's a perfect fit.
kingzimage I pray to the Lord Jesus Christ that these souls too rest.
Absolutely wonderful Thankyou for sharing.
Love this place - thanks for making such a wonderful video. Both my grandparents did 2 tours of Waverly. They actually met and fell in love during grandfather's second stay and grandmothers first stay. They both survived many different surgeries and therapies during their stays. Grandfather passed in 2011 two weeks before his 91st birthday and grandmother is still with us in her late 80's. I dropped a large story board off to Tina this last week telling their story. It will hang in the laundry room where everyone checks in for tours.
is it possible have info about your parents who stayied sick in this sanatory?.. can i know theyr story...? if you want can i have a link? tks.
luiberri
By all means. This is what I put on the story board:
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
A LOVE STORY
By: Julie Ann “Webster” - Barter
The Webster Family History
Charles William Webster July-23-1920 to July 15-2011
Aged 90 years
Delores (Dodie) “Tucker” Webster March-8-1930 to________
Married March 24, 1951
My Grandparents:
Charlie is my Paternal Grandfather, and Dodie is my Step-Grandmother in name only. She has always been my Grandmother in the true sense of the word. Two more wonderful people one could never ask for. Both gentle spirits in every sense of the word. Kindness for all, never a bad word spoken against another. I am blessed to have them for my Grandparents.
Their story begins at Waverly Hills.
Charlie was in Waverly in 1946 he checked himself out and went home to help his family he was worried about them making it without him. His two children were with his family. (his wife divorced him while he was in Waverly) He was then re-admitted in 1947 and stayed until he released by the doctors pronounced cured in 1949.
Dodie was in Waverly in 1947 the first time released by doctors only to return in 1949 until cured. (Her first marriage had also ended)
It was in 1947 during Charlie’s second stay and Dodie’s first that they met:
A Love to last a lifetime
Here is Grandma Dodie’s Story:
My room mate and I dressed up Halloween night in tacky clothes and painted our faces, we went to the second floor and someone asked me if I would like to meet my cousin? As strange as it may seem I was married to a Webster the first time, no relation to your grandpa.
I thought he was a very handsome man.
Here is Grandpa Charlie’s Story:
My friend and I were on the second floor for the Halloween festivities, sitting and talking when in walked the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. I turned to my friend and told him that I was going to marry that girl, and I did. That’s how I met your Grandmother.
It was love at first sight.
The rest of the Story:
They started writing letters back and forth. When they got to go home for the Thanksgiving Holiday Charlie stayed with his brother Gene and his wife in Louisville. Dodie stayed with her mom and step dad and got to visit with her Daughter Marilyn. Charlie made the trip to Dodie’s families home and had Thanksgiving dinner with her family and she was thrilled everyone liked him.
After his release Charlie lived with his mother and step father and 2 children Charles Jr. and Peggy in Bloomington Indiana and worked for RCA. After Dodie’s release from Waverly he would take a bus to Louisville to visit her while staying with his brother Gene and his family.
With life, family and work they kind of drifted apart. Then as fate would have it one day Charlie’s brother Gene a city bus driver in Louisville saw Dodie on the bus and called Charlie to tell him. That re-ignited the fire and the letters started flowing again.
After awhile they decided to get married and on March 24 - 1951 they went to the jail in Bloomington Indiana and were married by a Justice of the Peace. Creating their new family. Charlie’s children Charles William Jr. and Peggy Webster and Dodie’s daughter Marilyn Webster. Then together they had Gregory Webster in 1962.
They lived in Bloomington Indiana from that day forward. Grandpa Charlie passed away on July 15, 2011 - 8 days before his 91st birthday. Dodie continues to live in the home that Grandpa Charlie built 60 years ago.
About TB:
Physicians in ancient Greece called this illness "phthisis" to reflect its wasting character. During the 17th and 18th centuries, TB caused up to 25% of all deaths in Europe. In more recent times, tuberculosis has been called "consumption."
Treatment:
Treatment for Tuberculosis was at best and experiment, the crude techniques and therapies were just ideas of what could maybe work.
Sleeping on the veranda year round in all weathers was good for you. Fresh air and cold air were thought to be good for the lungs. My Grandpa Charlie told me he slept out on the veranda year round, he would wake in the winter with snow up to his chin. He did assure me that they gave them plenty of blankets to help keep them warm. Grandma Dodie was on the 3rd or 4th floor inside.
Experimental surgeries:
In the 19th century, patients were isolated in sanatoria and given treatments such as injecting air into the chest cavity. Attempts were made to decrease lung size by surgery called thoracoplasty.
thoracoplasty /tho·ra·co·plas·ty/ (thor´ah-ko-plas″te) surgical removal of ribs to gain access during surgery or to collapse the chest wall and a diseased lung.
Grandpa Charlie had this surgery done. This procedure would make you collapse on one side making your body twist and bend. Grandpa always worked very hard and never let his physical issues stop him from hard labor he built up lots of muscle so he stood pretty straight, but he always had a little bend and twist to the side with the missing ribs.
Europe: Middle Ages and Renaissance
During the Middle Ages, no significant advances were made regarding tuberculosis. Avicenna and Rhazes continued to consider to believe the disease was both contagious and difficult to treat. Arnaldus de Villa Nova described etiopathogenic theory directly related to that of Hippocrates, in which a cold humor dripped from the head into the lungs.In the Medieval Hungary many notes of the inquisition were taken while pagans were judged in trials, and one of them from the 12th century contained a very extense explanation of the illnesse's cause. The judged pagans affirmed that the turbeculosis was produces when a dog shaped demon occupied the person's body and started to eat his lungs. When the possessed person coughed, then the demon was barking, and getting close to his objective, kill the victim.
Nineteenth century
It was during this century that tuberculosis was dubbed the White Plague, mal de vivir, and mal du siècle. It was seen as a "romantic disease." Suffering from tuberculosis was thought to bestow upon the sufferer heightened sensitivity. The slow progress of the disease allowed for a "good death" as sufferers could arrange their affairs. The disease began to represent spiritual purity and temporal wealth, leading many young, upper-class women to purposefully pale their skin to achieve the consumptive appearance. British poet Lord Byron wrote, "I should like to die from consumption," helping to popularize the disease as the disease of artists.George Sand doted on her pthitic lover, Frédéric Chopin, calling him her "poor melancholy angel.
In France, a least five novels were published expressing the ideals of tuberculosis: Dumas's La Dame aux camélias, Murger's Scènes de la vie de Bohème, Hugo's Les Misérables, the Goncourt brothers' Madame Gervaisais and Germinie Lacerteux, and Rostand's L'Aiglon. Even after medical knowledge of the disease had accumulated, the redemptive-spiritual perspective of the disease continued in literature. (More recently the 2001 film Moulin Rouge is based in part on La traviata, which itself is based on La Dame aux camélias.)
The scientific advances
Though removed from the cultural movement, the scientific understanding advanced considerably. By the end of the 19th century, several major breakthroughs gave hope that a cause and cure might be found.
One of the most important physicians dedicated to the study of pthisisology was René Laennec, who died from the disease at the age of 45, after contracting tuberculosis while studying contagious patients and infected bodies. Laennec invented the stethoscopewhich he used to corroborate his auscultatory findings and prove the correspondence between the pulmonary lesions found on the lungs of autopsied tuberculosis patients and the respiratory symptoms seen in living patients. His most important work was Traité de l’Auscultación Mediate which detailed his discoveries on the utility of pulmonary auscultation in diagnosing tuberculosis. This book was promptly translated into English by John Forbes in 1821; it represents the beginning of the modern scientific understanding of tuberculosis. Laennec was named professional chair of Hôpital Necker in September 1816 and today he is considered the greatest French clinician.
Lannaec's work put him in contact with the vanguard of the French medical establishment, including Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis. Louis would go on to use statistical methods to evaluate the different aspects of the disease's progression, the efficacy of various therapies and individuals' susceptibility, publishing an article in the Annales d'hygiène publique entitled "Note on the Relative Frequency of Phthisis in the Two Sexes."Another good friend and co-worker of Lannaec, Gaspard Laurent Bayle, published an article in 1810 entitled Recherches sur la Pthisie Pulmonaire, in which he divided pthisis into six types: tubercular phthisis, glandular phthisis, ulcerous phthisis, phthisis with melanosis, calculous phthisis, and cancerous phthisis. He based his findings on more than 900 autopsies.
In 1869, Jean Antoine Villemin demonstrated that the disease was indeed contagious, conducting an experiment in which tuberculous matter from human cadavers was injected into laboratory rabbits, who then became infected.
On 24 March 1882, Robert Koch revealed the disease was caused by an infectious agent.In 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the X-ray, which allowed physicians to diagnose and track the progression of the disease, and although an effective medical treatment would not come for another fifty years, the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis began to decline.
Sanatorium movement
The advancement of scientific understanding of tuberculosis, and its contagious nature created the need for institutions to house sufferers.
The first proposal for a tuberculosis facility was made in paper by George Bodington entitled An essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption, on principles natural, rational and successful in 1840. In this paper, he proposed a dietary, rest, and medical care program for a hospital he planned to found in Maney. Attacks from numerous medical experts, especially articles in The Lancet, disheartened Bodington and he turned to plans for housing the insane.
Around the same time in the United States, in late October and early November 1842, Dr. John Croghan, the owner of Mammoth Cave, brought 15 tuberculosis sufferers into the cave in the hope of curing the disease with the constant temperature and purity of the cave air. Patients were lodged in stone huts, and each was supplied with a black servant to bring meals. One patient, A. H. P. Anderson, wrote glowing reviews of the cave experience: [S]ome of the invalids eat at their pavilions while others in better health attend regularly the table d'hote which is very good indeed, having a considerable variety and being almost daily (I've noted but 2-3 omissions) graced with a saddle of venison or other game.
-A. H. P. Anderson
By late January, early February 1843, two patients were dead and the rest had left. Departing patients died anywhere from three days to three weeks after resurfacing; John Croghan died of tuberculosis at his Louisville residence in 1849.
Hermann Brehmer, a German physician, was convinced that tuberculosis arose from the difficulty of the heart to correctly irrigate the lungs. He therefore proposed that regions well above sea level, where the atmospheric pressure was less, would help the heart function more effectively. With the encouragement of explorer Alexander von Humboldt and his teacher J. L. Schönlein, the first anti-tuberculosis sanatorium was established in 1854, 650 meters above sea level, at Görbersdorf. Three years later he published his findings in a paper Die chronische Lungenschwindsucht und Tuberkulose der Lunge: Ihre Ursache und ihre Heilung.
Brehmer and one of his patients, Peter Dettweiler, became proponents for the sanatorium movement, and by 1877, sanatoriums began to spread beyond Germany and throughout Europe. In 1885, Edward L. Trudeau founded Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, the first tuberculosis sanatorium in the United States, at Saranac Lake, New York. Peter Dettweiler went on to found his own sanatorium at Falkenstein in 1877 and in 1886 published findings claiming that 132 of his 1022 patients had been completely cured after staying at his institution. Eventually, sanatoriums began to appear near large cities and at low altitudes, like the Sharon Sanatorium in 1890 near Boston.
Sanatoriums were not the only treatment facilities. Specialized tuberculosis clinics began to develop in major metropolitan areas. Sir Robert Philip established the Royal Victoria Dispensary for Consumption in Edinburgh in 1887. Dispensaries acted as special sanatoriums for early tuberculosis cases and were opened to lower income individuals. The use of dispensaries to treat middle and lower-class individuals in major metropolitan areas and the coordination between various levels of health services programs like hospitals, sanatoriums, and tuberculosis colonies became known as the "Edinburgh Anti-tuberculosis Scheme."
Julie Barter
tks Julie. Greetings from Italy.
luiberri
Thank you. Ah beautiful Italy - on my bucket list of dream vacation.
Julie Barter, I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed and appreciated my video. It was a labor of love. I loved making it. I felt so much emotion making it. I love history and keeping it alive. Thank you for sharing your grandparents story. It floors me that I got responses from Italy and Germany. WOW
I work in a hospital, our office is next to the morgue and sometimes things happen that freak me out. I ALWAYS remain respectful while moving a patient whether they are living or have passed. REST IN PEACE
The pained smiles on the faces tell a sad story.
Those patients & the staff with both hopes & fears like you & me now ! - With smiling faces looking into the lens of the camera - Hiding the struggles - the problems that they faced - Knowing fellow patients they shared rooms with - that had died in such terrible circumstances of the terrible disese Tuberculosis - And that they could well be the next to die the same way ! - Where these patients aware of that dreaded death tunnel - Was that in the back of these patients minds as they were at the mercy of this disease that knew no boundaries age sex race rich poor anyone could be infected !!!Thankyou for showing these photos the faces of Waverly!
Love to each and every one of these precious souls, God bless them 💛
Wow very haunting even the music adds to the effect of how these people men, women, children, babies, and doctors and nurses at Waverly Hills I remember this hospital and later on it became like a crazy house it was later run down and there were alot of people who had severe mental illness and who were sick, and they stayed there! This is so sad and if walls could talk I am sure they can say alot more! GOD BLESS THOSE PEOPLE WHO ENDURED HARDSHIP! I hope they are in a better place! Its hard to see someone being so sick with TB and Mentally ill its nothing to laugh about or joke about alot of people have been in worst situations, and I wonder if these is a book about Waverly Hills?
Angel Simone there are several books. Most by local authors
I used to ride my bike up there as a kid in the early 80's and visit with a few of the elders at that time; they'd always light up when we'd show up-mostly during the summer school break.
Walls can talk and that's why paranormal investigative groups research at this location so they can gather evidence of all kinds, including EVP (spirit communication through white noise).
Im sorry for all of you people that had suffered so much in that TB Hospital and it was also painful to Rest In Peace every body that suffered in this Hospital😢😢😭😭😭😯💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 and you dont have to feel the pain now😭😭😭😢 rest in peace again and the loved ones who suffered.
I was enthralled by your excellent video! All those faces. They were somebody & they mattered. I'll remember them ❤.
@@normalopez3476 Thank you. It’s great after all these years so hear that my video still has an impact on people.
Lovly pictures. Puts a face and the human experience to those living there.❤
i think thats the best vid i ever seen of that famouse hospital..it brought that dead building alive.it was realy interesting tnx
So sad that these people had lives and they were ripped away from them and families, love ones, and betrayed so they have no one and what these people needed was love that was the only thing that can save these people! This probbaly was the closest to hell as you can get! Wasted, Burnt Out, Thrown Away, Used Up, and then nonexistance as if they never existed! So sad and depressing about these people! I hope they are in a better place now!
Great Work. I love this Video.
Greetings from Germany
This is so poignant and touching. Done with real heart. Thank-you for acknowledging the human value of these people.
The back-to-back before and after shots are done brilliantly.
And the music is so apt and moving.
WELL DONE.
Beautiful production. Thank you for posting this video. It's very touching, respectful, and very well done.
Thank you
What a beautiful video. My mother worked at Sonoma State Hospital, in the 70's and 80's, and that was a little town by itself, called Eldridge.they had their own farm, and pond to fish in. The people were treated very good there.
That was great. I have a little bit of a 'thing' for Waverly Hills, and sure while all the 'omg so spooky' ghost stuff is interesting, I think what's so intriguing is that it was never meant to be an 'evil' scary place. Tuberculosis was a terrible disease, nobody knew what to do about it for so long, but they were trying. A lot of people suffered, a lot of people died, it's very sad... But the place was dedicated to providing care, helping the best they knew how, I don't believe that there was malice or cruelty involved even though some of the procedures sound that way to us now. A look into history, into the people who worked, lived, and died there. Very interesting. Thanks =)
Awesome video and old photographs, thank you for your sharing I also love background music as well 😢✝️🎚️
Kingzimage, this is an amazing video tribute to the patients and staff of Waverly. Also to the families. I'm actually surprised there is so many photos still around. From a paranormal aspect, I wonder if it's possible to match up some of the names caught on EVP'S to the pictures. Something to think about I guess. Again excellent work!!
Beautifully done Thankyou ( from Australia ) 👍🏽
Thankyou for taking the time to make this video, it is very well executed. The parts where you show past and present are brilliant. Please continue to make more 🙌🏽
How beautifully done, thx for making and sharing!
Incredible film probably the best there is to honour this place well done and thankyou for putting so much love into it breathtaking x
well done. the wonderful photos brought life to the people. Thank you so.
People don’t realize that Waverly was more than a hospital. She was a living breathing entity. A small city inside a city. People were born here, people celebrated birthdays here, holidays, they laughed, cried and died all in these walls. There were good and bad times. But for a lot of people, this building was the only place on earth they would ever want to be.
What an excellent souvenir of a time of great pain made with great love and respect! The music only adds to the beauty. You have created a work of art Mr. Kingzimage. God's blessings to you.
Too often we forget that these places had real human beings that were there and experienced first hand the misery it is famous for. Good video.
In the early 80's it was a retirement home-we used to call it the old folks home. We'd ride our bikes up to the top and around back, see a few of the folks up there and talk with them-you could tell that a lot of them were lonely and they'd light up when we came to visit-a few times right after it closed down, we snuck into the body chute at night time via a hole that was on the property(until they cemented it closed, because others would vandalize the place) and then walk around the hospital-never felt like it was haunted to me
I love this video, it gives me a strange feeling maybe because a lot of people die there
Beautifully made & telling, LOVED it .... Thank you !
if you was a passion and still living I hope you had good health and living long time . if you past away rest in pace in heaven . this is just my a little bless
FEW you tubers need to watch this..MAYBE TEACH THEM HOW TO HAVE RESPECT ..
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for such a touching video!
This is such a wonderful Video. Absolutly great 👍
This is very touching it gives this place a human side that ghost tours lack. What once was, this is what that building means to me, these are people both staff and patients that should never be forgotten but remembered as dedicated people that made their mark and tried to save lives and make a difference, may they all the nurses and drs. The patients, rest in peace
what a fantastic video. thank you for making this.
Beautiful video, thank you for sharing!!
Maravilloso vídeo que me ha dejado bastante impresionada y emocionada. Soy escritora y estoy recopilando información sobre Waberly Hills para escribir una historia basada en este lugar, la verdad es que gracias a este documental he podido hacerme una idea del lugar y las personas que lo habitaron. Un saludo desde España y gracias por compartir tan maravillosas imágenes.
VERY IMPRESSIVE VIDEO. ENJOYED THE PICTURES OF THE PATIENT'S AND NURSES. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT CHILDREN WERE THERE TOO. REALLY SAD HOW MUCH THE PATIENT'S SUFFERED WITH ALL THOSE BARBARIC TREATMENTS.
Kids were up on the very top floor with a playground. Sometimes, late at night, you can look at the swing set and see swings moving back and forth as the kids play.
Let us pray for the peace of their souls🤲
From Afghanstan 🇦🇫
Woow this is pure gold ,my respect for all the nurses and all the people !! The best video,the best pictures.
Very neat video, I watched it twice in a row! Love the before and after pictures. It'd be neat if that old Chevy truck was still there with the Waverley logo on the door. Awesome job! Very touching!
Thanks. Yea I tried to recreate as many pics as I could. The truck was long gone.
This place is #1 on my bucket list. Ur vid jus made that tear at my heart even more.. Beautiful job.. I'm hoping to get there before the transition to Hotel is complete.. Ty so much for the upload.. New Sub🤗
greeneyed Lilpup74 ive been numerous times. U should definitely go. I've never been disappointed or let down by the building. Definitely been scared but not disappointed
Beautiful video and well done. It's nice to see the faces of the people who lived there instead of some paranormal ghost story! Yes, some time ago, I watched the documentary, The Ghosts Of Waverly Hills.I have a movie akin to that doumentary. But it's more like a horror movie. I've watched ghost adventures and yes, I'm pretty sure there are some spirits whom are still there. But it's more than just a ghost story. It's about human lives and the diseases they endured at the beginning of the 20th century, and how they suffered. Keep in mind that the medical field was not advanced as it is today. Immunizations and medicines were not available at that time. It's so sad that so many human beings suscumbed to this horrible disease. I know first hand how devastating it can be because my own father died from TB. I am a former nurse and I have worked with both the mentally and physically challenged. I've seen all types of diseases and illness and how they ravage both the body, mind, and spirit. It's not a pleasant thing to witness.
Thank you. I was going into this for a intimate and personal idea not a ghost story. I don’t know if you read the info about the video in the description. I actually met the last surviving nurse when I played this video at the event that I made it for.
Omg this is so sad..they were so happy😢
Antibiotics were not discovered yet, when TB was first diagnosed. It took several years to develop them. It was a horrible way to die.
Actually the global elitists have the cure for every dis-ease, dis-eases and viruses are all manmade, but none of us ever have access to the cures and that included the patients at Waverly Hills. The elitists always have access to antidotes for everything, get the best healthcare, get all non-GMO food, access to life extension technology and on and on.
This is amazing I love the old photos and the new ones where they once stood. You have done a fantastic job with this. 👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👏
Krista Horton Thank you. This was one of the best things I’ve done. Hope you read my description of how it came about. It was so emotional to make. I got to see the last living nurse watch it at the presentation. So glad it still touches people.
Just to know that these people used to be alive once, this video is so hauntingly nostalgic 🙏🙏🙏🙏 to get a small glipse into their lives
Amazing video, thank you for sharing!!
Such a beautiful tribute to the human life; its struggles and still they were able to smile through their tears, I am sure ! Thank you for this! Goes straight to my favorites !
So glad to see this. Most of the time you hear about the hauntings. But very rare do you get to hear their story. Thank you so much for the video
When looking at the patient’s I wonder if they survived or not. Beautiful tribute.
Thank you. I know some did but sadly not all.
My heart goes out to the people that passed away at Waverly hills sanatorium.
My dad had tuberculosis his mother made him sleep outside in the snow my mom's sister my Aunt Margaret had TV thanks to the doctors 4 funny nature for that nasty disease and I thank God each and every day 🙏 I thank God for people dad has cancer 💔 and now but technology they are living much longer my mom had ovarian cancer it went into remission but it came back 5 years later with athe doctor only gave her five years she lived a little over 5 years my dad died what's small cell cancer I'm so thankful that we have a lot to working on getting rid of cancer 2 my heart goes out to I know the struggle my parents went through when they had it may God bless each and everyone of you 🙏❤️
I wonder if the Room 502 nurse and the one who jumped from the roof are in any of these pictures. They are star spirit people at that hospital.
Me too
The nurse you are referring to did not jump off the fifth story. She hung herself above room 502. It was rumored she had an affair with a doctor on staff and became pregnant. It is also said that she had not only found out the doctor in question was married, but she too had contracted TB. So wirhout any hope for the future, she comitted suicide. So tragic.
@@donnahatfield6772 Very sad. 💔🙏🙏
this is beautiful. thank you.
I’m glad there are some Wood Haven Geriatric photos in here as well
All in all Waverly was a great hospital that was meant to save lives.
It really was a beautiful hospital :)
My grandfather died back in 1952 in the Mountains of Ewing, Virginia from TB aka tuberculosis. I've always wished that I got to meet him.
I like the name of this because it shows me the past of all the staff and the patients that were sent there
This is so sad and haunting and beautiful at the same time b/c there were people who lived and thrived in Waverly Hills and I think they make this into a museum for the forgotten
and history should be rememebered Mental Illness Blood in the lungs whatever these people had they had a life once. They had families that visited them when they were sick and dying.. its all going to happen to us one day..
Beautiful I love it thank you
Kinda sad to think that most of these people in the photos whether they were ill or healthy at the time pretty much have all passed. And one day someone will come across my photo and say the same thing. ☹️
The music from Schindlers list fits well with this video.
Incredible job! I enjoyed it!
Celeste Robbins Thank you
I hope they don’t build a hospital like this during the corona era we are living may god protect us and our beloved
Beautiful piece of history
Interesting video. Well made. Sad to watch. Makes you think of all the people who suffered and died there. It would be honorable and respectful to have a memorial for all the people who died there. It is more than a haunted sanitarium that is being exploited by some people. For thrills and money.
This was in a email I get, beautifully done on the human aspect we dont hear much about with this place
Nathan Platt thank you
The Sanatorium should have a plaque placed in front of it of all the patients and staff that stsyed,lived and died-this is how I get my information about it
Very emotional 😢
1910
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1962
Awesome
A wee 1946 biomedical discovery doomed this huge hospital:
Streptomycin.
I don't know why this hospital did not close in the early 1950s.
They all are remembered as they were. Taken in photos that now are still life they posed for pictures and went into the history books
Waverly Hills was a TB Hospital and in the 60s it was a nursing home and it was for people who went there to die and it was nothing but pure sadness and heartbreak and so many people died at Waverly and these are the only existing pictures of them that shows them that they really existed and Waverly Hills Hospital existed too and its heartbreaking b/c most of these people died and are forgotten and remember no more. Some people in Waverly Hills also had damaged patients that were on the 5th floor and they would hit you or get angry with you and they had to be put in a different place in the hospital. They even had children there too. All died of TB and this was back in 1910-1930's and its so sad.
Waverly Hills looks like a skelton of a building now and its just dead and I hear its haunted I wouldn't be surprised if it was. They are restless souls that are trapped and lost. They have shadow people they look like people and they had EVPs of ghost children one child saying " I am 3 yrs old" Waverly Hills is a monster of a building and I would like to visit Waverly Hills. Just to pay my respects to those people who lost their lives.
No it wasn't a bad place Angel. It was a good place dealing with a bad disease.
Good people worked there. People were cured there. I'm writing this in 2023 because of Waverly Hills.
I used to hike back in the park behind the hospital. I remember coming up an old service road on Halloween and going through the hospital some scary shit
I live in kentucky that's where wavely hills is xD no joke
So many hope, so much death .They are all fighting and perhaps some of are winning.Its a beautyful film.
were these pics of nurses/patients? they looked pretty happy not morbid or unhappy like we are told when spoken of waverly hills
kingzimage How did you find all these old photo's ?
ElectronicsTech09 I tell it all in the video description, but I know it doesn't always pop up. Some of the pics I found online but the majority of them were personal family photos from the owners that they never shared before. The gentleman leaning on the car was some relation. Their family worked there I believe. And some were from their friends.
Meu Deus é incrível ver essas fotos antigas deu até vontade de chorar
love it #Ky
Nice vídeo.
I fell asleep listening to the music
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Comenta , presente
I can’t understand that why all doctors worked here did not wear a mask despite it was a contagious desease
My mama went here and she was a Mirical lady🌈
Muito interessante fotos antigas
Essa história ainda tem muita coisa escondida
Did any people ever get cured there?
Yes, not sure how many though. But I have read that some patients survived and left Waverly.
good
movie history
What if I told u.... Kid in Africa could have eat that hospital
Do the dead have something to say maybe they do.. These pictures tell a story and these people are forgotten and no longer remembered anymore its very sad to see the pictures and doctors and nurses they helped these people and they even had children and babies and a playground too. GOD help these people I hope they are in a better place Waverly Hills was like Hell what the doctors and nurses did they thought were helping the patients but they were hurting these people. The past can tell a story and so can the future. We seriously have a major problem with mental illness and its getting worse.. these people were in alot of pain and endured hardship and nobody loved them.. so sad. They should make Waverly HIlls into a museum and so the forgotten can be remembered b/c these are human beings.
They want their stories to be heard and told.
I've always wonders what lousville looked like back then
I have been trying to find out if any of the children servived and where they are now.
Kitty Nova I know some people survived but not what happened to them. When I made this video the last surviving nurse was there to see it. I talk about it in the description of the video.