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Waverly Hills Sanatorium II

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I visted Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky. It's one of the most haunted places in America, and we stayed over-night from 12am-8am.

This is what they called the "Death Tunnel."

In the 30's when it was a tuburculosis hospital, they would send the dead bodys down this chute.
I got to walk down in it. Yeah, had fun walking back up it too :-X (its a 45% angle, and it's not easy) haha.

63,000 people died there.
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Hewlett-Packard
Model
Photosmart M425
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Feb 13, 2008, 2:23:20 AM
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The 63,000 deaths is a rumor, isn't it? I personally want to see if Timmy is there. Timmy is the children's ward ghost....the story of this place IS really sad. Tuberculosis was also referred to as the white plague, because it spread, I think... but it's true, there was no cure then. Just fresh air and high morale...the 'death tunnel' or 'body chute' was used for bodies, yes, because the doctors and nurses knew that seeing bodies of men, women and children with the same disease the other patients had would make morale drop, so they used teh body chute to take them out and put them in a Hearse, discreetly removing the dead. TT^TT Sad, but true.