In 1962, cases of tuberculosis patients declined to a point where the Waverly accepted geriatric dementia patients. A children’s wing for younger patients was even added, however as the numbers of cured children improved, feeble adults who had tuberculosis and could not care for themselves in the outside world were sent to live in this wing. Roughly beginning in 1911, for the next three years more and more beds and building extensions were added to create a five-story, four hundred bed building for those stricken with tuberculosis. Subsequently, the building and land were massively expanded and hospital construction was done so as to house the influx of tuberculosis patients. At the turn of the 20th Century, the region was hit very hard with a severe tuberculosis outbreak and the land the Waverly school was on was purchased. Major Hays needed a name and found Lee’s penchant for the Waverly Novels to be the perfect name and the Waverly School was formed. A woman named Lizzie Lee served as the first teacher there and she held a special fondness in her heart for author Walter Scotts’s Waverly Novels series. Due to the remote location at the time, the initial building was fashioned into a large one-room schoolhouse as the nearest school was several miles away. The location and former building where the sanatorium stands now was originally purchased in 1883 by a military man, Major Thomas Hays. Rife with reports of moving objects and cold spots to malicious appearances of ghostly doppelgängers mimicking the visitors to the sanatorium themselves. Many experts place Waverly Hills Sanatorium in the top 3 of the most haunted and scariest places preserved. Situated in the southwestern area of Louisville, Kentucky the sanatorium is renowned for being the most haunted asylum in the entire world. Waverly Hills Sanatorium is chronicled on many of the “scariest places” lists by paranormal historians.
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