The Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Louisville Kentucky has it all-- cold spots, disembodied voices, and ghosts roaming the halls. It sits on a hill overlooking the city and seems like a reigning fortress of gloom in its eerie, decaying state.
The atmosphere is further darkened by a chilling history of mass death and of patient abuse during the years it was used as a geriatric hospital.
An estimated claim of 63,000 people died in Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and the deaths were stopped or minimized after the discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin, which was very successful in treating tuberculosis.
Ghosts have been seen in the form of shadow people and ectoplasm clouds, and even in full apparition form. Cries and screams are frequently heard in the lonely, moldering halls.
The most notoriously frightening room of all is the nurse's station also known as room 502.
People have supposedly jumped to their deaths from this room. Others have seen spectral images floating in the windows and heard disembodied voices say: "Get out!"
The story goes that in 1928, the head nurse was found dead in the room. She had hanged herself from the light fixture.
No one knows why the 29-year-old woman would take her own life, but it's believed that Mary Hillenburg hung herself in room 502 after becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
It is unknown how long her body hung before she was finally discovered. The county coroner's office attributed her death to suicide.
In 1932, another nurse who worked in room 502 supposedly committed suicide when she jumped from the balcony of the roof. No one knows why.
In addition to hearing voices on this floor, witnesses have seen the full body apparition of a female nurse in white and have reported that room 502 gives them an "unsettling" feeling of great despair.
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