Waverly Hills: The History & The Hauntings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- A much requested episode on the history of Waverly Hills, a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Kentucky. These days, it features in just about every bad cable TV show on ghosts all around the world, but whats the reality behind the decrepit walls that are left standing today? And how much truth is there to the ghosts that allegedly walk the halls?
Sources:
Thomas, C. C. (2007) With their dying breaths: A history of Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium. C C Thomas, 2007
Opening of Waverly Hill Sanatorium (1910, October 2), The Courier Journal, p. 18.
Waverly Hill Sanatorium Dedicated Tomorrow (1910, October 11), The Courier Journal, p. 10.
Dedicated to the Cause of Humanity (1910, October 13), The Courier Journal, p. 12.
Mullin, E. (2016). How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion. [online] Smithsonian. Available at: www.smithsonia...[Accessed 25 Mar. 2019].
Schuleit, A. (n.d.). State Hospitals of Massachusetts: Historical Overview.[online] 1856.org. Available at: www.1856.org/hi... [Accessed 25 Mar. 2019].
Shafer, S. (2014). Waverly Hills hospital rezoning likely. [online] Eu.courier-journal.com. Available at: eu.courier-jou... [Accessed 25 Mar. 2019].
Lovan, D. (2013). Former TB hospital now attracts ghost hunters.[online] NBC News. Available at: www.nbcnews.co... [Accessed 25 Mar. 2019].
Spooky Southcoast. (2006). Charlie Mattingly of Waverly Hills.[podcast] Available at: spookysouthcoa... [Accessed 26 Mar. 2019].
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My great Uncle had this. "He lived in Louisville" His sister, my gorgeous great aunt cared for him. He was grumpy to a young child and I didn't care for him.
He accompanied my Aunt and Uncle down to visit us - They stayed in a local Hotel.
But I visited there - can't imagine what he was thinking being around children and younger adults of his own family.
But his Sister, my Great Aunt was such a loyal living family member - Gorgeous, born in 1888 - Louisville, family founded Lynchburg, VA - she was friends with Henry Ford's Son and they had dinner often.
Gorgeous I tell you - she was a model level gorgeous. I have a photo if her in Edwardian Style Dress and Hat in 1908 - ❤
Irish. - fam
More creepy than ever listening to this during these pandemic days. Similarities galore. Sunshine is good for you. And other unlikely health concerns, like a slovenly lifestyle and obesity (which is bad for the health, yes). The startling thing, to me and maybe to the host and other listeners, is how prevalent and insidious TB still is, now, in the present day. Shedding light on its past, both as a fashion statement then as a source of discrimination, was enlightening to me; I hadn’t known that before and non sequiturs from books and films make more sense. Not all ghost hunting is bad, if it helps people. I’ve had to help out on occasion, and it’s definitely suitable to my analytic brain to delve into the research and unearth the truth of urban legends. The stories from Waverly Hills are compelling for their compact representation as local myths perpetuated by media and, yes, bad ghost hunting shows, but also as a glimpse into the development of legends themselves. Anyway, tl;dr. Cheers. Ah, PS: Glad this mentioned the doctors and nurses at TB sanatoriums, that they were already carrying TB when they went to work there, but were still risking their health.
My dear mum died young of TB..Probably one of the last in England to do so... She had caught it very young..
Treatment was vicious..but can't see why the mainly young people would want to haunt a hospital...? Poor souls.
Well done for debunking the myths, too.{exaggeration by the stupid ghost shows}
I agree...the reality of TB is the real scary thing...and the horrid treatments {plombage}..
My grandmother contracted TB and went to a sanitarium in Colorado. Luckily she made it to be 88. She would tell us when we were little, "if you don't eat your greens you'll get TB." Lol
Vivien Leigh, (played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind) also died from TB. Sad....suffocating to death. Horrible way to die.
Wonderful oratory voice and content Ben, I can't get through an episode without falling asleep, I know that may sound bad but trust me for an insomniac your a God send. Keep up the good work mate.
Beethoven also died of "Consumption".
Great show but I know the stories of mistreatment of the elderly and DD/MR populations is rampant as I was part of the evolving care of these populations in Tennessee. The description of the facility was typical of the facilities in the 80's and earlier. Nashville's version of a facility called Clover Bottom was well documented and even had the national news program 20/20 do an exposé in the 80's that led to statewide changes to care of these populations.
Nonetheless great episode. Death need not cause hauntings but the toll of sorrow and misery of the people may have scarred the environment to which paranormal activity could be a result. My two cents worth.
Let’s not forget Arthur Morgan in the notable victims lost of TB.
One for the algorithm.
Advertising makes the world go around,Ben. You already know that.
America's Chillingham castle. It's all in good fun. Better than being abandoned or ripped down.
Lovely episode Ben. If you wanna try covering something less well known I always recommend the Cats Eyes of St. Josephs. Otherwise the Villisca Axe Murders might be a good one to cover.
Great episode! Glad we all like to watch some bad paranormal investigative shows. Love me some creepy TH-cam shows too! 😉
Oh definitely! I found a few amateur ghost hunting channels that were a lot more fun than the big shows too! Do you have any recommendations for channels? :D
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I know you're British, but I have to say this: Lou-uh-vuhl. It is pronounced "Lou-uh-vuhl."
Otherwise great episode!
This always makes me smile. I live in Louisville and, being native to Michigan, for a year I was corrected on the pronunciation of the city name. However my husband, who’s second language is French (third language English), insists that Louisville is in fact a French word and the original pronunciation is actually Louii-vii 😂😂 so if that’s true, we must all be wrong.
@@miagracev I have to ask, what happened when he found out about Versailles? 🤣
@@ikreer9777 haha 😆 good question. Something unreasonable that I can’t pronounce Vakh- sai I think. But his real pet peeve is with the word croissant.
At least he didn't pronounce it, "Lewis-ville".
You didn't let us down with waverly....Waverly let us down! Pure PR bs.
I’m curious why it is bad to be a skeptic with a capital “S”. And why do you want things to be haunted? Why be open to the idea of ghosts? Openness requires that the ideas put forward are sturdy.
Purely from a childlike perspective that they're fun and I loved them as a kid. Call it an escape maybe. Openness to me just means entering into a topic accepting that I don't already it all wrapped up. There's nothing wrong with being a sceptic. What I mean when I say a 'sceptic with a capital S', however, is a person who enters into a topic thinking they have all the answers from the go and will be just as happy to back a non-truth without fact-checking for themselves, purely because it supports their argument. Subjects become more about proving their worldview correct rather than being rational and separating truth from falsehoods and knowledge from belief. I wouldn't have thought any legitimate sceptic would find much in common with those kinda attitudes either. Perhaps I didn't really express my meaning very well but that's pretty much what I meant by that.
Dark Histories no worries. I’m not an internet troll or hassling you, I promise. I am finding, through a number of different videos I watch, a recurrent theme against skeptics, or being a skeptic as an undesirable stance. Skeptics do the opposite of what you are offering here. They instead would ask that the person offering the idea to present their thesis fully and with evidence. For example with ghosts a skeptic wouldn’t accept the idea until it was made clear what is meant by a ghost, why does one believe the incomplete evidence leads to the proposed conclusion, and ask to see facts around this as, unlike beliefs and world views, facts are what we share. I apologize for the public reply and comments. Feel free to contact me if you’d care to discuss further. I don’t want to turn this into comments that seem like you need to defend, as opposed to discuss. In any case, I enjoy the podcast and videos, thanks for the work you put into them.
no no, not at all, I'm always a bit defensive at first with TH-cam comments because they can be.. well, you know.. but I think we're probably closer to the same page than it might seem :) I'm naturally very skeptical and I definitely don't think being skeptical is a negative default position. Honestly I think it's the healthy position to enter into most things in life haha. I think more than anything I probably just didn't express that very well by using that phrase. Especially following me saying that I want this place to be haunted! Perhaps I should've said something else, not sure what it'd be though, Militant debunker maybe. Either way, I don't disagree with your argument at all. I just like entertaining the possibilities, despite it taking a certain degree of suspension of disbelief :)
Because the ones with capital s are less concerned with probing truth than with just being jerks to be jerks. I’m sure you’ve encountered them too.
You totally spoil it by talking out of character / breaking your narration flow. If you want to make a thank you video make a separate thank you video.
That's a bit harsh.