VIDEO: The Truth about Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Super Scary REAL Horror Stories!

If you are into scary things then you know that sanatoriums are the mother-load of all scary things and that so many things go on in them that they are used in every truly scary story. When a lot of people suffer and die in a certain place, even if you do not believe in ghost stories and such things you will see that the place has a weird feeling to it.

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According to ranker.com, Louisville, KY, is home to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, which many people believe is one of the most haunted place on earth. While the building is now primarily a tourist attraction for those with creepy predilections, it used to be a functioning tuberculosis hospital.

In 1910, when the hospital was established, this meant a place where between 8,000 and 63,000 people died bloody, excruciating deaths, as there would be no real cure for tuberculosis until streptomycin was invented in 1943. Waverly Hills was also the site of at least two suicides, which strangely enough took place in the same room.

With all of that suffering, it’s not surprising that rumors of creepy doppelgängers, ghostly children, demonic forces, and more have cropped up. It is one of the most famous Kentucky ghost stories, and the haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium is known worldwide.

While spooky stories like these can’t truly be proven, there are plenty of people who will swear on their lives that they’re true. Haunted sanatoriums are scary, but the spooky stories from Waverly Hills Sanatorium are downright terrifying.

Because there was no real way to treat tuberculosis while the sanatorium was open, doctors did what they could to treat the illness. While some treatments were pleasant if ineffective, like fresh air, sunshine, rest, and good food, others were basically torture.

As a last resort, doctors would sometimes insert balloons into patients’ lungs, and manually fill them with air to help with breathing. Doctors also removed ribs and muscle tissue to give the damaged lungs more room to expand.

These bloody treatments were painful, ineffective, and often fatal. Despite this, they were considered some of the most advanced methods for treating tuberculosis at the time.

When people in a sanatorium die, you’d expect it to be the tuberculosis patients, not the healthy staff. Despite this, Room 502 seemed to be a center for disaster.

According to local legend, in 1928 the head nurse of Room 502 was found hanging from a light fixture. This was believed to be a suicide, triggered by depression over an unwanted pregnancy. No one knows how long she hung there before somebody found her.

Not four years later, another nurse who worked in Room 502 jumped off the roof patio to her death. While no records exist to explain why she did this, some believe she was pushed off the edge. Who might have done it, and why, are unknown.

One of the saddest ghost stories is that of an elderly woman who supposedly roams the hospital, moaning and bleeding from her chained hands and feet. Though she cries for help, when outsiders approach her, she runs away screaming in terror.