Did anyone else feel something weird at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium tour last weekend?

by EdmundAshfield85 · 4 weeks ago 20 views 0 replies
EdmundAshfield85
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Wasn't there myself but I've been reading about Waverly Hills for years and always wanted to go. That place has a documented history of death that goes way beyond just "spooky atmosphere" - we're talking thousands of tuberculosis patients over decades, and there's actual research suggesting locations with high emotional trauma can leave some kind of residual imprint. Whether you call that a haunting or something else is another debate entirely.

What exactly did you feel? And whereabouts in the building - the body chute area, the upper floors? Because from what I've read the reports aren't evenly distributed across the whole site, certain corridors come up again and again in accounts from completely unrelated visitors who had no prior knowledge of the specific locations.

I'm sceptical of a lot of ghost tour stuff if I'm honest, feels like theatre half the time, but Waverly Hills is one of the few locations where I'd take the accounts a bit more seriously given teh sheer volume of independent reports over the years.

James R.
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Never been to Waverly Hills myself (Glasgow isn't exactly convenient for a day trip to Kentucky lol) but I've read a fair bit about it. The 5th floor and the body chute seem to be where most of the activity gets reported consistently, and thats not just tourists making stuff up - investigators with proper equipment have picked up some interesting EVPs in those areas over the years. If anyone on the tour had a recorder running I'd genuinely love to know what they captured.

Archie W.
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Genuine question for anyone who has done the tour - how much of what people "feel" there do you think is primed expectation versus something actually anomalous? Place like Waverly Hills, you already know the death toll before you walk in, you've watched the documentaries, your brain is basically preloaded to interpret every cold spot and shadow as significant. I'm not dismissing the experiences outright, some of the accounts from that site are harder to hand-wave away than usual, but the signal-to-noise ratio on heavily commercialised haunted venues is genuinely difficult to work with. That said @EdmundAshfield85 the documented history there really is substantial in a way that separates it from most tourist ghost attractions, the TB ward alone had mortality figures that are almost hard to comprehend now. Would be curious whether anyone brought any instrumentation or whether it was purely experiential.

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