Movie Box Review

Mary?

Although not taken during our investigation, I am posting this photo here. It was taken by Christopher Saint while on location scouting for the film, Death Tunnel. www.deathtunnel.com This documented ghost photograph will be featured in the documentary, SPOOKED, The ghosts of Waverly Hills. www.spooked.org
"I was starting to head up the death tunnel, when a real bad feeling came over me, it was so heavy, I felt very sick. So I clicked my camera in front of me, and trucked up that tunnel and I swear there was something behind me. It was the most twisted feeling that anyone could have."
When Saint saw his photo, he was shocked to find what looks like little girl from the third floor of the building that some call "Mary." Mary is said to be playful, running up and down the hallways playing hide and seek with trespassers, but Mary's descriptions state that she has no eyes.
As you look at the original photo, it was taken from the bottom of the tunnel shooting up. The anomaly is on the right side, showing her left side profile. You can see her hollow eyes and "pixie" nose.

Mary? Inverted

Another interesting thing about this photo, is that it appears to be two photos. When it is turned upside down, three robed figures appear. Some think these figures look foreboding, but I saw them more as nurses, or nuns.
Both this photo and the original definitely show super-charged paranormal energy of some kind.
Christopher Saint's feelings on taking this photo are, "This photo has changed my life, her haunting image standing in front of me in the Death Tunnel, I will remember forever. The feeling of overwhelming sadness and loss, a bottomless pity reverberates her screams on my EVP recordings."
To see either the original or the inverted photograph in its entirety, click on the enlargement.

Courtesy of Paranormal Activity Investigators Report; Dr. Becky Ray
http://www.ghost-investigators.com/photographs/photographs.php?inv_num=19

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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 7:58 pm Post subject: Waverly Hills TB Sanatorium
I live in Louisville, KY and Waverly Hills (More commonly called Waverly Manor) is bar far one of the most haunted places on earth. During the tuberculosis scare it was a place to send TB patients and many died of TB/suicide/unkown reasons. I've been here and it is ridiculosly scary. It was on foxfamily's World's Scariest Places, and is being considered for MTV's Fear series. The official website is www.waverlyhillstbsanatorium.com/. I will be investigating it in the near future but i think you guys could do a MUCH better job than I considering I am only starting out. There is a chute where they would slide 100's of dead bodies down a day to keep the patients from seeing all their colleagues die. There is also the story of the nurse who hung herself because of the depressing atmosphere. I have talked to some security guards and have been told that when doing their morning walk everyday they can smell breakfast being cooked in the kitchen but the no one is ever cooking and the kitchen is completely trashed and vandilized/unusable. They also told me that one security guard was on duty by himself late one night and out of no where a Hearse drives up and pulls up to the crematory part of the building and two men in white suits get out open the door to the creamatorium (there is no door there anymore) and wheel out 2 bodies on a stretcher, put them in the hearse and drive off. I think this site is very worthwhile.
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justsimple



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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: Waverly Hills TB Sanatorium
Wow, I'd give about anything to go with! How do you get permission to go in there? Will you be spending the night? *sighs, shakes head* THAT would be a GREAT hunt!



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LPE1



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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject: umm
its very hard to get in...u basiclaly have to sweet talk the guards into letting u in. Every now and then they give tours of the place for 20 bucks a head. I went earlier in the year for a school photography project, and got in good with the guards then. My friend who went with me is looking into getting on the security staff there and is always talking the the gurads online. But an interesting note is that many of the pictures I took for school contained orbs. It was broad daylight too. Where are you from? We might be able to get u in with us. As far as what our plans are once we investigate...I don't know. Like I said its very rundown and unsafe so the owner might not want us there overnight (for insurance purposes). I believe the tours are for 2 hours and as far as I know thats all we might be able to get...but I think that would be enough...I mean this place is THAT haunted. We're working on a website once I get it up I'll post a link and stuff but we're always lookin for people with similar interests to join us on hunts. There is a message board somewhere that people share their Waverly experiences at...i'll post that link sometime too...once i remember it. We're called Louisville's Paranormal Exerience by the way. Hince my name LPE1
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justsimple



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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: umm
We're way up in the hills just north of Knoxville TN. It'd be just a little more than a quick trip up there.



If you're on the tour, could you slip away easily, and set up the gear where it's quiet? As long as you weren't there more than a couple of hours, and managed to leave when the group leaves...



I'll put this one on my list of weekend trips! Thanks for the info!



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tinkerbel218



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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:09 am Post subject: reply
I read your comment and as one of the security guards up there, nobody is allowed up there, but I will be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have about the tb hospital and send you pictures of the place if you would like. In fact that place is really haunted, I personally and a couple of other security guards have encountered some scary things happening. The hospital when you walk in to it you think of just an old building when in fact it is one of the scariest and most haunted places around, but as you walk through and get to the fourth floor you start to feel things happening all around you and you will get spooked. BEWARE OF THE FOURTH FLOOR.



All the sayings about this place are not just rumors or myhts they are 100% true if the right people are telling you the truth.



Take my word for it.
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bfinch



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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject: ??
so there is no way to get in?? are they doing tours tmw night? they could make a killing
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stinkycheez



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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:18 am Post subject: Re: ??
duuuude!! guess what. i live a couple of roads from the tb hospital! GO ME!



and the so called "body chute" is actually a coal chute! my guitar teacher knew somebody that worked in the tb hospital. they said that coal would be slid out the chute for the train. you know the set of train tracks along dixie highway? (well, you would only know about them if you lived around here) that's where the coal was dropped. near the tracks.

and people are staying the night there this summer. they know the owner. Tina something.... i forgot her last name....



did you know that the tb hospital was actually a nursing home from 1967 to 1980? 1980 was when the building was finally shut down for good.



another story about the tb hospital is that sometimes you'd see a woman running out the front screaming and crying and her arms flailing with bloody wrists...



and they open the tb hospital for about a week every year around halloween i still haven't been there though... *damn*



and when my guitar teacher was little, him and his friends would go into either the main building or the building where the black tb patients were housed, and they went up a bunch of steps with a big metal door at the top, and then he decided to pound no the door 3 times. then somebody on the other side did the same thing. creepy. cool, but creepy.



would you like me to see if i can think of any other info about the tb hospital? i might be able to go on for a long time
Edited by: stinkycheez at: 4/7/04 6:20 am

http://www.ghostpix.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=5941&sid=b22db7de5b4aeca85ab7f29d047bdc86

2004
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* Renovation of the laundry building continues.
* Another upgrade to the building... windows have started to be replaced.
* The movie "Death Tunnel", was filmed on location at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Story is based on local Legends, lore, & hauntings. Set to be released in Halloween 2005.
* The documentry "Spooked" also filmed at Waverly by the same production company as the movie "Death Tunnel". The documentary explores local legends, lore, history, and hauntings. Due to be released in Halloween 2004?
* Halloween - Waverly is reopened again for tours & a haunted hospital attraction. Proceeds go to renovation of the Waverly building & property.

Copyright © 2003, 2004
Waverly Hills Memorial & Historical Research Group

Yeah, I have many crazy story's about stuff that has happened to me and other ppl I know up there. In 96 or 97 , I went up there with family and friends and took a video camera. We caught some amazing things on film. We have orbs, and this strangse mist/smoke. I have seen that in some pic. on Keith's site. The best of all was a ghost! An old man in the tower. He is transparent,but he is visual. He turns and look's right at us when were filming him. Spooky!!! Many other things. I will post other story's on your site. I love that place. I have been going up there since I was a little girl. But none here recently.
Also I was wanting to know if you have ever heard of a man named Peter Moscow?
He's speaks with ghost and records there voice's on tape. My mom talked to him first when he was a guest on a local news show early in the morring. She talked with him about the ghost that is in our home. A previous owner killed himself here and his sprit remains. Many of strange things have happened here also with him. But now we are kind of used to him and we just give him his space.lol. Well you can write me back any time you want, I would like to talk to you more about things. Thank you for your time. -


I got my pictures back today and I am absolutely THRILLED! I dont know how well they are going to scan....they are ofcourse dark, so I dont know if you will be able to se what everyone who has looked at them will see. In one, there looks like there is something at the end of a dark empty hall. In another, there seems to look like someone at the end of a flight of stairs...and the other is the best...I tried very hard to keep all people out of my pictures. I only wanted to capture whatever the film would see. In the room where they did the arts and crafts....there is soemeone standing to the vey far left hand side of the picture. I thought that maybe someone had stepped into the picture. After letting about 10 diff people look at it, they all said the exact same thing.....it looks like a little girl, maybe 10 - 12 years old and she has on a either a sleeveless (or very short sleeve) bluish colored dress or gown. It stops right above the knees or right at it. She has her arms hanging down, byt crossed in front of her and she appears to be holding onto something. I kept looking at this pic off and on all day.....then it dawned on me like a load of bricks....could this be mary? I am not sure of Mary's age....but it would fit really well....a young girl, and of in all places, the arts and crafts room? It is very plain to see, but you cant make out a face. The hair seems to be shoulder length. I thought and thought back to that night, and there was NOONE there in a blue dress or blue shorts with a matching blue shirt that I can recall. I will try to get them scanned if you would like to see them. I hope to go back in October as well, Thanks so much!

This account of the Brooch is a chilling, yet heartwarming true story about an experience that a lady named Victoria L. Hall had when she was a young child visiting the sanatorium when it was Woodhaven Geriatrics Center.


As a young child I was always eager to help others. While in grade school at St. Paul's on Dixie Highway a group of my friends and I formed a little after school-club. We would make little trinkets and cookies for the sick and shut-in.One fall day we had made arrangements to visit the Old Waverly Hills Sanatorium. During the early 60's the TB hospital had been turned into one of Louisville's first nursing homes.
As we entered the massive building we all huddled together. At first it was startling.
The air in the building was musky and bursting of stale urine. As we moved along the shadowy and dungeon like corridors crying and ear-piercing moans filled our ears.

Unprepared with what we had heard and smelled a couple of the girls ran from the building. Guardedly the last two of us took hands and began to peer over half doors into ominous and dingy rooms. Even at the young age of 11 or so our hearts were touched. To this day I can still conjure up the sounds, sights, and odors of years long ago that I encountered in that building.

Some of the people were lying on beds. Others huddled in corners. Suddenly turning around the other girl had run and I found myself all alone in the shadowy and fear-provoking corridors.
As I turned the corner I peered over the half door at a teeny frame of a lady huddled in a corner. She was naked, but quickly moved toward me. Frantically I backed away from the half door.
Without any forewarning she reached over the half door grabbing my sweater. The room and halls were cold with a draft that swirled around my legs. I pulled away from her, but not before she grabbed my sweater again. I soon realized that she wanted my sweater and without hesitation I quickly pulled it off handing to the skeleton like figure.

Like a flash she moved across the room grabbing a cardboard box. Opening the box she frantically dug through it searching for something. She stood up and tossed something shiny over the door. Clicking down the hall I couldn't imagine what it might be. Scouring the floor I found a beautiful pearl brooch. I quickly picked it up and laid it back on the half door. Through the whole event the lady never spoke a word, but her piercing green eyes spoke a thousand words to my heart. Several times I placed it back on the half door and repeatedly she tossed it over the door towards me.

I soon understood that it was her gift to me for giving her my sweater. I certainly wanted nothing in exchange for my gift. She would not accept the broach back no matter how many times I put it back on the half door. She simply continued to pick it up and throw it towards me. I remember kissing the brooch in front of her and walking away. My heart had been touched by an act of love and appreciation that to this day some 40 years I have never forgotten. I can still see the microscopic lady huddled in the corner wrapped in my sweater. Over the years I wondered about her. Who she was, did she have family?
I know that from that day forward I was propelled into a destiny of compassion and caring for others in a way that only God could refine over the years as I journeyed through life.

When I saw the Waverly website and talked with Ron I knew that through that experience others would be touched by this story.

Are you wondering whether I have the brooch today? I don't know how over the many years of moving and growing and life itself, but I do!

It's as beautiful today as it was to a young girl of 11years old with wide sparkling eyes as she left such a sorrowful place with her treasure.

I wear it often and have had many people comment on it and so it opens a conversation whereby I can share such a cherished experience.

The journey of that day started me on a wonderful nursing career of many years allowing me to cherish and love the suffering and dying in ways I don't think I would have ever been able to do.
Please feel free to email me and share with me your story or questions.

God bless,

Victoria L. Hall

Courtesy of The Brooch by Victoria L. Hall

November 2003 - Waverly Hills Sanitorium - Louisville, Kentucky

http://www.spookhunters.com/spookhunt/waverly/hunt.php