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THE FIVE FLOORS: (separate chapters) An exclusive tour and walk through the fiver floors of WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM. Exclusive Video, Stills, Voice over, Text, Narration and rare interviews from former patients and employees guide us as we explore this monster of a building.

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For Weds telecast SPOOKED performed very well : 1.1 MILLION VIEWERS JUNE 7

I just wanted to drop you fellas a note to say thanks for your due diligence on delivering all the SPOOKED materials to us...our staff was very pleased with your desire to make sure we had the best of everything available.

For Weds telecast SPOOKED performed very well for the time period...1.08HH rating with a healthy amount of persons 18-49 & 25-54. From a demographic standpoint SPOOKED delivered +34% in P18-49 and +24% in P25-54 compared to the time period average for the previous 4 weeks.

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Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium

The Kyonsi staff took a break last night and sat down and watched the SPOOKED film on SCI-FI Channel.

The movie was the most impressive ghost research documentary we have seen in some time. I myself found the film to be well researched and it had lots of real people that in the past had dealt with the going on at the creepy now closed Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky (USA). The film had a vast amount of actual accounts as well as haunting images and video from the Sanatorium. Unlike some ghost documentary's SPOOKED was interesting and informative. This DVD is now avail in what looks like a more extensive version than was shown on SCI-FI.

SPOOKED is a highly recommended DVD for ghost fans and horror fans alike.

Review By Allen F. © 2006 KYONSI

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TV Review Spooked Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium by Regan C. Vacknitz

Paranormal Investigations hosted by Keith Age: LGHS/Louisville Ghost Hunters Society

Tonight I watched the documentary on the Waverly Hill Sanatorium in Kentucky, presented by SciFi Channel. http://www.scifi.com/spooked/ . This documentary was a far cry from the boring sleep inducing documentaries watched in primary and secondary schools. The producers did a wonderful job mixing emotions, from fear and unease to sadness felt for those trapped and dying from their disease.

Waverly Hills was built to house people dying from “The White Plague” back in 1928. Over 63,000 people died in this beautifully constructed sanatorium. Horror stories, whether true or weaved from the mouths of local kids around a bonfire, have been told for over 70 years. Both children and adults a like fled from as far as 500 miles to come to this hospital for a cure. Bizarre experiments were forced upon the dying in the name of finding a cure. Upon death, prior to the cure, the bodies were in mass amounts without proper disposal. They were forced to dig a chute 500 ft down.

Spooked was beautifully produced, with a poetic entwining of old vintage photos and today’s technology used by paranormal investigators. It married the tragic history filled with disease and death to the intrigued felt by paranormal investigators world wide. You see imagery in black and white of families, bed ridden patients, and the hospital. You are pulled into the photographs by the vintage music that plays. You are also shown paranormal investigators doing their job, telling you the stories and tales of the locations they ventured into. You are shown snippets of video, Electromagnetic Field Monitor readings, and photographs from various investigation teams, as well as historical researchers.

The program started out with first hand accounts and interviews by investigators, owners, current and past employees. There were also interviews with previous residence, inpatients, of Waverly. It covered the year the sanatorium was built to current day status. As a viewer you learn the different floors, four total, and their lay outs. First floor was for registration and gift shops. Second and Third floor were for general public patients, not wealthy. Fourth floor were for the well off, however this floor also housed experimental surgeries.

The accounts of hauntings, as well as evidence shown on the program are some of the most convincing phenomenal evidence I have ever seen. From random photographs of ghostly images to Electronic Voice Phenomena, this program could make even a skeptic partially believe. It is educational and informative in both the history of the location and the key lingo used in paranormal investigations.

Most of the documentary is footage and interviews left over from the making of a movie called Death Tunnel: http://www.deathtunnel.com/ . This engrossing documentary is something worth looking into; especially if you want to learn about the specific entities that haunt Waverly Hills Sanatorium. The producers, Booth Brothers, did a wonderful fear enticing documentary. I know I am personally going to look into both purchasing the documentary, as well as the movie Death Tunnel, for my own personal collection

by Regan C. Vacknitz

Vice President
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http://www.theunexplained.net/waverly.htm

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http://www.scifi.com/spooked/

http://www.spooked.org/

http://www.deathtunnel.com/

http://movie-box-review.blogspot.com/2006/05/spooked-trailer-teasers.html

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- Real Good, June 7, 2006
Reviewer: William Skillman (Belcamp, MD usa)
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This seriously is the best supernatural documentery ive seen. It Has so much HISTORY, true accounts, photos, EVPs, all the good stuff. The Waverly Hills Sanotarium is investigated through all five floors, breaking it down and giving background, history, legends of each floor. It's seriosly creepy, u need it in your collection if you are into this sort of thing.

Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium

USA 2005, 93 minutes
Dir. Christopher Saint Booth, Shane Dax Taylor
Rating: [M]
Genres: Documentary / Paranorma



A 'haunting' documentary, made during a horror film shoot, about a Kentucky hospital built in the 1910s to combat the growing numbers of deaths due to tuberculosis ("The White Plague"), which has become a presentday attraction for ghosthunters due to its grisly history and paranormal activities.

The most grotesque feature of the imposing, now derelict facility was the chute or 'death tunnel' down which dead bodies were put for lack of space, which extended half a kilometre and is now saturated with bad vibes of the dead. This film not only details the background, but provides a journal of the filmmakers' experiences, perhaps capturing on film some actual ghosts! You decide...


http://www.arovideo.co.nz/film.php?FilmID=10617

Taps Ron Milione Review June 10, 2006

Haunting

Room 502 is perhaps the most notable location in Waverly Hills and the number has sometimes been adopted symbolically. One story claims that a nurse hanged herself after finding she was pregnant out of wedlock and attempting surgery upon herself to abort the illegitimate child. Another tells a different nurse who jumped from a balcony. However, the SciFi Channel series Ghost Hunters turned up no records or death certificates to confirm the legends, although there is confirmation of the nurse's suicide by hanging and her discovery in official records. Some sources claim there is also confirmation of the second death, but it is currently disputed. Other common sightings in Waverly Hills include the vista of young children running through the halls, as the hospital had a large number of children and families housed there.

Apparitions & Other Strange Events

The most common experience of visitors seems to be "moving shadows" or "shadow people". These are shadows that appear to have some substance - able to "walk" across doorways and, demonstrated in the Sci-Fi Channel special "Spoooked", able to block some light when a laser is pointed at them. There are many reports of these shadows both inside and outside the building.

Glowing Orbs (nicknamed "Soul Orbs" by some) have also been photographed there. These small balls of light appear almost like lightbulbs or specks of dust when captured on film, but there has been no electric power to the building in years. They are often reported to fly around corridors and spawn other orbs.
Some photos show indistinct "brown imps" outside the grounds too, but these humanoid shapes are a less common sighting. The existing photographic evidence of the imps is dubious to say the least.

There have been many Electronic_voice_phenomenon recordings made in the building and grounds. Varying from the more common "Get out" or "Go away" to more specific statements like "What kind of hospital is this?" and "The winch" (referring to the winch that powered the Death Tunnel's body card, and recorded in that area). The makers of the movie Death Tunnel (and the documentary "Spooked") recorded many such voices and sounds while filming.

Ghosts

Often a boy bouncing a ball is seen and at least one small, old, leather ball has been found in the building. Investigators once found a ball rolling towards them, and it being moved by an unseen force. Electronic_voice_phenomenon recordings feature a child saying "I am three". There have been numerous sightings and recordings of small children.

Another notable vision is the sight of a woman - reports vary as to the age and appearance - bearing chains around bloodied wrists chanting or screaming "Help me!" at the entrance of the building. The most common apparition though is of a young girl with no eyes which has appeared on photos and been encountered by witnesses. This girl is called "Mary" by staff and researchers, based on a recovered photo of a young woman that was recovered and was signed "Love, Mary Lee". However, the girl in the photo is older than most reports of the ghosts perceived age. Mary is the most conversational of the ghosts and has spoken to many people, usually wanting to play games with them.

Also of note is the "death tunnel" or "body chute" which was first constructed to move supplies to the building during the cold winters. Because of the increasing number of dailies deaths from the horrible disease, the staff also transported dead bodies in the tunnel to the bottom of the hill on which the sanatorium was built. They believed this would help keep up the morale of the patients by not allowing them to see the hearses picking up the deceased. At the height of epidemic, as many as seven to ten deaths each day. At one point in time, it was reported that as many as three per hour died there, but there is no independent confirmation of that figure.

Estimates vary wildly of how many died at Waverly, though the owners of the building say that it was around 63,000. This estimate would be consistent with other TB hosptitals, considering Waverly's size.

DEATH TUNNEL

The Death Tunnel!  This tunnel has to be the most famous tunnel up at Waverly Hills.  It has been a major subject of discussion among people who have been to visit Waverly on tours during October.  For some reason...this tunnel has come to be called “the body chute."  Actually however, this is an incorrect term...because a chute is a slide.  Bodies of deceased patients were never slid down this tunnel and piled up at the bottom in heaps - a popular misconception that a lot of people have come to have about this tunnel.

In reality, this tunnel was originally a supply tunnel and was also a good way for employees to get up and down the hill during the winter time and keep warm at the same time.  Transporting the bodies of deceased tuberculosis patients was only ONE of the uses of the tunnel.  During the peak years of tuberculosis there were alot of deaths at the sanatorium, and the staff realized that it would be very discouraging for patients to look out the windows and see hearses pulling up and taking away people who had died.  Try to imagine yourself being administered to the sanatorium with a diagnosis of having TB.  It is the late 1920's, and antibiotics have not been invented yet. So, you realize that you have a chance to get cured and live, but...you could die too if the treatments they gave you didn't work well enough.   Now, imagine how discouraged you would feel if you looked out from your assigned room, and when you pull the curtains back...you see people who have died being picked up with a hearse.  And to make matters worse...you see that perhaps many times throughout a day.  It would be so emotionally depressing to you that you might give up the fight to live.  Then ....your body’s defenses dwindle.  It is a known fact that if a person gets very depressed emotionally....it can affect their body’s defense system to the point that it may not fight off a disease as well as if the person is in good spirits.  So, that is the reason why the staff at Waverly would sneak the bodies down through this tunnel!

More to come – Stay Tune!

Taps Ron Milione
Review June 10, 2006

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SPOOKED in the NETHERLANDS (FOREIGN VERSION - 68 MIN)



Spooked
Door Wilbert Rietman
Datum: 19-07-2006
Genre: Horror - Documentaire
Regio:2
Jaar van uitgave:2006
Regisseur: Shane Dax Taylor & Christopher Saint Booth
Uitgever: Indies Home Entertainment
Speelduur:67 minuten
Leeftijd:16 jaar
Verpakking:Keep Case
Acteurs:  n.v.t.
Beeldformaat:
1.33:1 niet anamorf
Geluidssporen:
  Dolby Digital 5.1 - Engels
  Dolby Digital 2.0 - Engels
Ondertiteling:
  Nederlands
Extra's:
  Ghosthunt Promo
  Trailer Death Tunnel
EAN:
8717568540139
 




SPOOKED - NETHERLANDS (FOREIGN VERSION - 68 MIN)

Net zoals in vele plaatsen in de Verenigde Staten heerste in Louisville, Kentucky rond 1900 een tuberculose-epidemie. In deze streek had ‘The White Plague’ echter veel meer vat vanwege het feit dat het laag lag en het gebied nogal moerassig was. Daarom opende in 1928 het Waverly Hills Sanatorium haar deuren. Een ziekenhuis wat compleet geïsoleerd van de buitenwereld lag en waar men experimenteerde op de geïnfecteerden in de hoop een medicijn te vinden tegen T.B.C. Indertijd vielen er enorm veel slachtoffers. Om de enorme hoeveelheid doden te verbergen voor de andere patiënten werd er een ‘Death Tunnel’ gebouwd, een soort van stortkoker, maar dan 175 meter lang. Hierdoor werden de vele lijken afgevoerd naar gereed staande treinen. In de jaren ’60 werd er dan een medicijn gevonden. Het gevolg was dat het sanatorium moest sluiten. Sindsdien gelooft men dat het er spookt en vanaf eind jaren ’90 vinden er spooktochten plaats. In deze documentaire komen alle vijf de verdiepingen van het gebouw aan bod, inclusief haar (klop)geesten, de verdere uitdieping van de ziekte, de behandelkamers en de vele legendes. Dit alles aan de hand van video- en audio-opnames, foto’s en interviews met deskundigen, oud-patiënten en oud-medewerkers.

In 2005 kwam de horrorfilm Death Tunnel uit gesitueerd in het Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Het leek de makers een goed idee om een documentaire te maken over dit inmiddels befaamde sanatorium. Ditmaal kropen Death Tunnel producers Shane Dax Taylor en Christopher Saint Booth op de regiestoel en trad Philip Adrian Booth (broer van Christopher) op als editor. Het resultaat is een onderhoudende documentaire. Veel archiefbeelden komen aan bod in deze film, net als interviews met enkele nog levende oud-patiënten en oud-werknemers en dat geeft het geheel een authentiek tintje. Ook is het vooral grappig om met name van de oudere betrokkenen te horen dat zij absoluut niet het idee hebben dat het er spookt, terwijl de jongere generatie er heilig van overtuigd is. Jammer genoeg wordt deze documentaire pas echt interessant als je Death Tunnel ook hebt gezien en dat geldt eigenlijk ook andersom. Daarom is het spijtig dat deze 2 DVD’s niet samen worden aangeboden.

Beeldkwaliteit
Qua beeldverhouding switcht deze documentaire vaak tussen 1.33:1 en 1.78:1 niet anamorf wat behoorlijk irritant kan werken. Dit heeft ongetwijfeld te maken met het feit dat de documentaire voor televisie-uitzending bedoeld was en sommige beelden wellicht voor een bioscooprelease. De beeldkwaliteit is nogal wisselend, omdat er vrij veel archiefbeelden zijn gebruikt. In het algemeen kent het beeld veel filmgrain en ook edge enhancement wordt in lichte mate toegepast. Het geheel oogt desalniettemin over het algemeen scherp, behalve wanneer de echt oude beelden worden gebruikt. De optionele Nederlandse ondertiteling is door zijn smalle lettertype en een witte achtergrond soms onleesbaar en net iets te hoog in beeld geplaatst. De film is verdeeld in 6 hoofdstukken wat aan de magere kant is.

 
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Geluidskwaliteit
De Engelstalige soundtrack staat zowel in Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbit/s) als in Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbit/s) op de schijf, waarbij de eerste beter klinkt als de tweede. Toch geldt hier wel dat een 5.1-track een beetje overbodig is voor een documentaire als deze. De basis qua geluid zijn hier namelijk voice-overs en interviews en die zijn bij beide tracks goed te volgen. Hetgeen de 5.1-track niet geheel overbodig maakt is de muziek die goed ruimtelijk verspreid wordt en waarbij zelfs het LFE-kanaal wordt aangesproken. De geluidskwaliteit is over het algemeen zeer goed en vrij van ruis of andere storingen. Wel is het zo dat het 5.1-spoor een stuk zachter klinkt als het 2.0-spoor.

 
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Extra's
Het statische menu wordt weergegeven in 1.33:1 zonder achtergrondmuziek en geeft toegang tot de volgende extra’s:

Ghosthunt Promo (2:18 min.)
Een promotioneel filmpje met beelden uit Spooked en Death Tunnel, maar ook beelden van de spokentocht die gehouden worden in het Waverly Hills Sanatorium. De bedoeling van dit filmpje is om mensen te lokken en mee te laten doen aan deze ‘Ghosthunt’. Het beeld is in de verhouding 1.78:1 niet anamorf en qua geluid heeft de promo een Engelstalige Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbit/s) track meegekregen.

Trailer Death Tunnel (2:38 min.)
De officiële bioscooptrailer van Death Tunnel, waarvan het beeld de verhouding 1.78:1 anamorf heeft. Voor het geluid heeft men gekozen voor een Engelstalige Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbit/s) track.

 
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Conclusie
Spooked hoort bij Death Tunnel en andersom ook. Los van elkaar zijn ze ook goed te verteren, maar bij elkaar geven ze elkaar zeker meerwaarde. Jammer dat ervoor gekozen is deze twee titels los van elkaar uit te brengen. Desalniettemin is dit een aardige documentaire voor diegenen die geïnteresseerd zijn in geesten en panden waarin het spookt. Als er één ding duidelijk wordt na het zien van deze documentaire, is het dat Waverly Hills Sanatorium alle redenen heeft om geesten te huisvesten. Een aanrader voor een ieder die zijn interessegebied heeft bij het bovennatuurlijke.

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