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The "Shadow People" are not evil or demonic, but simply represent a different configuration pattern than the previously documented orbs, vortices and ectoplasmic swirls and vapor that are the shapes of the spirits of the dead. The spirits of the dead may manifest in many configuration patters according to what they choose. It does take more energy to be displayed as a full body apparition than being a ball of light or an vapor of energy.

No one understands the science behind the "Shadow People". Consider a shadow passing across the wall in front of you. You see a human shaped shoulders and head, perhaps arms moving across the wall. If you are a fundamentalist, you call this dark form a demon. However, if you have an open mind, you would say, "WOW" and attempt to understand what was happening.

We must understand that in our Western culture, the bad guys wear black hats and the good guys wear white hats. Therefore, anything black is considered evil and demonic and anything white is considered okay. However, in science, we consider that perhaps the anomaly represents a spirit whose body is composed of spirit matter that is not visible to the human eyes.

Light will not pass through this spirit matter because it is still too dense. The light is blocked by the spirit matter and is casting a shadow onto the wall. The shadow is not alive, but the spirit whose shadow is being cast. This concept has been proved time and gain by photographic images showing shadows being cast by orbs and vortices.

We cannot see x-rays, gamma rays and all of those particles beyond our human visual spectrum, yet they exist. Sometimes we feel that we must see something in order to believe it exist. While this is true in many areas, it is not true when dealing with the electromagnetic spectrum, including those frequencies that exist beyond our human vision range.

We cannot see or hear in the spectrum that dogs are capable of doing. I do not recall people claiming to be able to hear dog whistles, for example, yet dogs can hear it. We accept this as normal and do claim dogs are demonic.

Some have proclaimed the Shadow People to be evil or demonic, this reeks of fundamentalism at its worst. The term "Shadow People" is relatively new and is being used to promote fear and doom. We fear what we do not understand and therefore we try to destroy what we fear.

This age old philosophy was employed against the Native Americans as European settlers arrived to condemn the Indians because they were not Christians and force them from their lands as the settlers advanced West. This was the philosophy of the Mother Church as she promoted Crusades to expand her power base and financial interest in Europe.

We have been teaching that "Shadow People" are just another configuration pattern that the spirits of the dead may display, according to their choice. We have documented this pattern with photos and with video recordings. Those seeking demons must look in new areas as the "Shadow People" do not qualify.


The shadow people at Waverly Hills seem to congregate and are commonly seen next to room 423. They do move about in curiousity. I saw them many times while making my security rounds. Sometimes the room will glow different shades of color. Usually a bluish or greenish, even orange. Jon, Ron, and myself even had experiences with the orange light on separate occasions out in the solarium on the 4th floor.

1906* Waverly Hills Sanatorium was created by an act of the legislature.
1907* The first tuberculosis dispensary was opened.
1910* Waverly Hills Sanatorium, (original hospital) was opened with a capacity of 40 patients.
1913* The open-air school for undernourished and pre-tubercular children was opened.
1923* Started health program in public and parochial schools.* Sanatorium was granted additional accommodations as the hospital had outgrown the original buildings. $1,000,000bond issued.
1926* The present commodious buildings were completed in August with the new capacity of 435 beds. This building was erected at a cost of $3,625 a bed.* Nov. 1st - 8th, 1926 -Dr. C. H. Harris, City Health Officer, issued a proclamation, asking the people of Louisville to join the Louisville TB Association in observing “Open Window Week,”.* The 5 story, 435-bed building was formally dedicated.
1928* Oct. 31, 1928, Waverly Halloween Party -King - James Abraham (Rex) LileQueen - Juanita (Regina) Powers Jester (Appointed by the King & Queen) - Abe Netter
1929* Oct. 24, 1929 - Only residents of Louisville & Jefferson County were admitted to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in the future treatment of TB. Dr. O. O. Miller, superintendent of the institution, a conference with A. H. Bowman, made announcement.* Dec. 12, 1929 - The land of Waverly Hills Sanatorium was increased by 159.52 acres when the board purchased for $5,000 from I. Sidney Jenkins the farm of the Hoertz estate. The board made the purchase because of the advantageous price.
1932* May 1st, Waverly Hills Sanatorium had a total of 480 patients. Between 75 and 100 applicants were on the waiting list. Kentucky Death Rate Soars.
1942* A nurse at Waverly received a monthly wage of $71.50 included meals, laundering, and uniforms.* A janitor, one of the unskilled workers not included in the proposed merit system, got $85 a month,* The telephone operators got $80 a month and worked 8 hour days, 7 days a week, with 1 day off per-month.
1955* Dec. 11, - Waverly Hills spends about $5.19 a day per-patient.
1961* Waverly Hills Sanatorium was closed as a TB hospital in June 1961.
1962* October - Woodhaven Geriatric Center / Woodhaven Medical Services was opened.
1980* July 25 - Woodhaven Medical Services was court ordered to close due to improper patient care.
1996 *Seavers sells Waverly and surrounding property to Bob Alberhasky.
1997-1998 Abandoned\* (Date Unconfirmed) 1998 - Waverly is considered for demolition as Bob Alberhasky seeks funding for the erection of a 150 ft. tall statue of Jesus Christ and an adjoining Christian meditation center. The project was later abandoned due to the lack of funding.
1999* October 28th & 29th "The Awakening of Waverly Manor" - The Lobby, 1st floor, and east wing reopened for tours, Halloween party, & concert from local bands. Psychic Dr. Peter Moscow conducted
2001* Charles & Tina Mattingly purchase 29 acre property from Bob Alberhasky. * July 19th,- "Fox's Scariest Places On Earth," films an episode on location at Waverly.* Halloween - Waverly is reopened again for tours & a haunted hospital attraction. Proceeds went to begin renovations of the sanatorium.
2002* Renovation of the laundry building starts with the roof.* Halloween - Waverly is reopened again for tours & a haunted hospital attraction. Proceeds went to renovations of the Waverly building & property.
2003* Renovation of the laundry building continues.* September - Building gets an upgrade for the haunted hospital attraction. Sprinkler system is installed and safety provisions are added to provide for a safe & fun attraction. * Halloween - Waverly is reopened again for tours & a haunted hospital attraction. Proceeds go to renovation of the Waverly building & property.
2004* 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, & haunting..* The documentary "SPOOKED" also filmed at Waverly by the same production company. The documentary explores local legends, lore, history, and haunting. Due to be released.* Halloween - Waverly is reopened again for tours & a haunted hospital attraction. Proceeds go to renovation of the Waverly building & property.

Used with permission. Roy Muir /Waverly Hills Historian (featured in SPOOKED) http://whsmemorial.tripod.com/id28.html

E-rays (from German Erdestrahlen, earth-rays) are believed to originate within earth and penetrate the crust to form invisible square lattices. Local circumstances such as underground streams, rock crevices, mineral ores, etc. also cause fields to radiate from the ground. These fields are believed to affect health, animal behavior, 'human auras', plant growth, and many other things. In addition, the fields can easily be detected by the use of the dowsing rod, and, to this day, by the dowsing rod only"

Found here: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~rasmus/skepticism/dowsing.html

E-rays are something currently new to science, as far as I can tell, and are a bit of a mystery. However, they are one of the more scientific theories that revolve around dowsing rods & how they work. If they can pick up on energy, and these e-rays bounce off of the surface differently when coming into contact with water, and also change in accordance to the amount, speed, or depth of the water...this means that by the time the e-rays penetrate the surface of the earth to where the dowsing rods can detect them, they will have been affected by the underground obstacles enough to the point where the way they have changed can tell you what is below the surface & how deep/fast it goes, etc. Because dowsing rods can pick up on energy, they will react to the e-rays, and the way they react is how you determine what you've found.

Generally speaking, the stronger the EM field, the more the rods will cross. At the strongest point they may cross over each other as far as possible. This is why they don't cross until you've entered a field of energy. The field is strong enough that it begins to pull the metal rods closer to one another until they cross. Once they cross, you are in an EM field. If you've ever used rods you'll notice that if they start to cross, and you continue in the direction of the center of that field, then they will continue to cross further along the length of the rod. I'm assuming that this is because once they have crossed, that point of crossing is directly over the center of the EM field.

Now, with the wooden "Y" dowsing rods this works differently. You have one hand (palm up) on each branch of the Y, and you create tension by pushing the branches out as you hold them. Now if you can imagine this situation, you'll realize that it's probably difficult to keep the branch from wobbling. However, once you've gotten used to holding it steady with the tension you're putting on it, you'll find it easier to use. If you are able to hold it steady with the tension, then you can probably imagine that it take quite a bit of concentration to do so. With this in mind, lets say you are holding it steady, but you begin to enter a field where the e-rays are slowly becomming more prominent. Because the e-rays bounce off of the more solid obstacles underneath the surface, you can imagine that they would also bounce off of the underside of your branch. This is what causes the branch to wobble; the stronger the wobble, the the higher the number or speed of the e-rays there are penetrating the earth's surface. Now you can imagine that with all the effort you've made to keep it steady that you would feel the slightest wobble. I think the reason this style is so effective is because of the way you hold the branch while putting tension on it; it makes it very unstable, but once you've learned to keep it stable you will feel the slightest movements it makes.

E-rays are like X-rays (they're everywhere! lol); we still don't know exactly what they are, but we somehow managed to find them & eventually learned to use them to our advantage through trial & error. We eventually realized that concentrated amounts of X-rays were bad & we found out that lead could prevent penetration. We still don't know what X-rays actually are, or what causes them, but they've been here all along. It's the same thing with E-rays, aside from the fact that they've been pretty much ignored by science thus far.

Then there's the use of dowsing rods for divining, but I've come to learn that when you program the rods for any form of divining, the answers you get are really coming from within yourself. Whether it simply answers coming forward from your subconscious, or you using your mind to tap into your abilities to get answers (even if you don't realize it); things like intuition, etc. The divination aspect is really just the person tapping into other areas of their mind that will translate the correct answer into the corrosponding muscle twitches that will cause the tool to give you the correct answer in accordance with your programming of it. Basically you program your mind to twitch certain muscles to move the tool a certain was for yes/no, and when it finds the answer (in old memories/esp/intuition/whatever) it translates it back to muscle twitches to move the tool.


More on Dowsing Rods can be found at: www.sdanet.org/atissue/ books/dowsing/d02a.htm

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SPOOKED - Fearful Feature... State Hospital and THE SHINING Overlook Hotel combined, the Waverly Hills sanitarium was so creepy that the filmmakers got SPOOKED.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium & SPOOKED featured on thousands of web sites. Below are a sample few. ( paste into your browser)

WHS Tours (Year Round Tours) http://whsron46.tripod.com/id43.html

Waverly Hills Memorial Site http://whsmemorial.tripod.com/

Waverly Hills Haunted House http://www.hauntedhouse.com/search/Haunted_Attraction_Directory/_USA_,040All_50_States,041/Kentucky/1393.html

Waverly deemed Kentucky's most paranormally active site http://www.louisvillecardinal.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/28/3f9e1f9096040

Waverly Hills local curiosity http://www.louisvillecardinal.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/21/3f94b487286b5
Haunted Memories http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=3&threadid=18040

Wikipedia http://www.answers.com/topic/waverly-hills-sanatorium

Ghost Hunters- Paranormal Researchhttp://ghostsagogo.com/waverly.html

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005509260374

http://www.graveaddiction.com/waverlyh.html

http://www.ghostlytalk.com/displayarticle819.html

http://www.underworldtales.com/waverly.htm

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

http://www.paratexas.com/waverly.htm

http://www.courier-journal.com/reweb/community/placetime/southend-waverly.html

http://www.quadrangleonline.com/media/paper528/news/2005/01/28/WhatDoYouWantToBe/Lights.Camera.Scream-863594.shtml

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Death Tunnell's Christopher Saint Exclusive Interview: http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_3984.html

Fed By : Meh, Wednesday Dec,31, Via: Source
Filed Under : Death Tunnell, Horror Interviews,

We had a chance to talk to Christopher Saint about his upcoming film "Death Tunnell" which is easily one of the most creepiest flicks we have heard about in awhile. So lets not waste time on introductions and jump right into the interview.

I just watched the trailer and I must say the movie looks fantastic. I have to say I have never been on my toes for an indie movie, but this one looks amazing. What was the film shot on because, it looks like 35-mm?

Thank you, everyone took great pride in the making of this epic horror film, they literally worked themselves to death. We shot twenty-one days solid in an actual sanatorium in Kentucky that has been abandoned for many years. After we arrived, they locked the gates behind us. No one checks in, no one checks out. The cast, crew and the Spooked. Locals lived and breathed the real horror story that took place in this five story haunted hospital.

Our intense and real FEAR brought this supernatural story and Sanatorium back to life! The film was shot on a customized tweaked HI-DEF 24P HD SONY CINE-ALTA camera rig, similar to Robert Rodriguez’s set up on, SIN CITY.

35-mm Panavision prime lenses with on-set paint boxes; over 80K of lighting were used to immortalize this monster of a building. We were armed and ready to shoot anything that moved. European Cinematographers, PHILIP ADRIAN BOOTH, ROBERTO CORREA and DP, MARCEL CABRERA along with the production design and the ART department, greatly influenced the film and helped to capture the true-grit you see on film.

What kind of movies are you watching? Judging from the trailer it looks like you guys have a taste for Asian cinema.

We are both very influenced by European and Asian films of the seventies as well as Salvador Dali, dark comic books and web cam girls.

What was the budget for this film?

Let's put it this way, it looks like it was made for 4 times the amount we spent. We went over the initial estimated budget, so hmmmmm let me think… When we got there we couldn’t leave, everyone felt strangely attached to this real life sanatorium.

It was important to us that we capture the truth; the cold and deathly feel that runs through your body if you dare walk down the long prison like halls. We couldn’t get enough of it. There was no way we were leaving till we shot the real Death Tunnel. Our Executive Producer Corky Taylor was an angel. He wanted us to do it right. Staying there cost us as we went over budget, but it was worth it; after all, there is only going to be one, “DEATH TUNNEL‿.

Where did you come up with the idea for this film?

Originally Co-Producer SHANE DAX TAYLOR (a native of Kentucky) had the idea. As a teen he had been dared to spend a night in the abandoned sanitarium. There were rumors of murders, missing people and of the course the fact that it was haunted by five ghosts. Shane brought the concept to Co-Producer CHRISTOPHER SAINT BOOTH and Director PHILIP ADRIAN BOOTH. (Aka the BOOTH BROTHERS). We all flew to Kentucky to check it out. It was unbelievable. It was like waking up from the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had and finding out it was real.

When we did our location scout and research there we found that the disease and devastation that took place was real. When we crawled back to Los Angeles, we decided to write a script that would be more than just frightening and full of raw fear. We wanted to include the emotional journey of the patients that were sent there to die. This place has a lot of misery and sadness within it’s walls; a tragic history. These elements were strong motives for the sanitarium to be haunted in the first place. The history of the sanitarium contains a sick truth and we were able to bring art to death that took place there. We strove to create a masterpiece of horror.

How did you get access to the Sanitarium?

Co-producer, Taylor contacted the owners and we all hit it if off instantly, funky hat, fur coats and all. We were not sure who scared whom more. Us, the rock and roll filmmakers or them the obsessed townsfolk that guarded this destroyed Sanitarium.


Did anything unusual happen while you guys were filming?

Many strange things happened; fully charged camera batteries were dead instantly; doors closed by themselves; we heard voices in the distance that didn’t belong to us, (the sound-man just loved that). Sounds that were not present in the shoot showed up on the sound masters when we began to edit the film and they were loud yet showed no presence or waveform of being there. The Director saw the ghost of a little girl on the third floor run through the hallway, the Producers saw SHADOW PEOPLE, ORBS and a terrifying entity in the DEATH TUNNEL, which we were able to capture with photos.

We were constantly walking through strange cold spots in the rooms. Sometimes we felt a spine tingling breeze but when would look outside the trees were still.

We even had a few people quit because they were too spooked to continue working in the Sanitarium.

I heard that the sanitarium might be torn down. Is it still there?

Yes, though most all of America’s Sanitariums have been marked for demolition or have been demolished. This beautiful one still stands, though new condo suburbs are being built all around it. Hope they enjoy their view, “a tomb with a view‿.


I’ve heard a sweet rumor that Lions Gate might be picking up the rights to “Death Tunnel‿. Is this true?

Yeah, they’re great, though many studios have offered distribution for the film to date. Currently we’re waiting to see who gives us the best plan for a US release and are awaiting contracts.

I’ve also heard that Paramount is involved in distributing this film to the European market, is it true and how are things going on that end?

We sold all major foreign rights in the first two days at AFM, We sold Japan in 5 minutes, and they wanted all rights. Everyone there treated us like rock stars. They told is we had an incredible horror picture, in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, “Dracula‿.

I’ve read that during the shooting of this film that actual poltergeist (EVP’s) were recorded as well as shadowy figures and menacing faces of the past. Can you give us some more detail about what was actually recorded, as well as the shadowy figures? Also, what was your reaction when you first discovered this?

Three words, “OH MY GOD!‿ Our hearts dropped to the floor, did you hear that, rewinding the tape, and we played them over and over again. Sounds of screaming, breathing, voices mocking us, almost guiding us to find some hidden truth.

We were obviously there for a reason.


Will you be posting any of the actual EVP recordings or pictures on the films official site?

They have been left in the film’s final edit and are also in the opening titles. A lot of them are also posted and documented on many different paranormal web sites. We have been asked to speak at the International Ghost Convention in September on the haunted old cruise ship, the “Queen Mary‿. That should be interesting.

Death Tunnel is “Based on a true story about the haunting of the Waverly Hills Sanitarium.‿ For our readers, what is that story?

We can’t reveal the whole story because the plot line unveils it within the movie. But the film is based on the actual tragedies and sightings of five ghosts within the doomed walls of this diseased sanitarium built in 1910. An upscale college initiation goes bad and strands five girls in this haunted hospital.

Within the five floors these girls encounter the five ghosts of it’s tortured past. As the girls, one by one become infected; we soon uncover the shocking link that binds them. A 500-foot underground body chute, built to remove the dead bodies of its patients may be the only way out; they call this the Death Tunnel. Creepy but TRUE!


What can you tell us about the “Women of Death Tunnel‿ or as they are also known as “The 5 Girls.‿ ? On the official site, each of their picture spells out the word “DEATH‿ is this a foreshadowing of things to come?

Each girl has something hidden in their past lives that links them to this sick place, it wasn’t a coincidence they were all picked to spend the night in the “Scariest Place On Earth‿. The five girls awaken on the five separate floors of this five-story sanitarium.

They cannot see, for they have been bound in hoods. Once the hoods are removed, they are free to try and find their way out, though they are watched closely by cameras to make sure there is no cheating. They have only five hours to find their way out.

The girls are left dirty, cold and afraid clad only in retro nighties with the first letter of their name painted on the front of the nightie in blood. D is DEVON, E is ELIZABETH, and A is ASHLEY, T is TORI, H is for Heather.

What’s the gore level and scare factor for this film?

We went for the raw fear factor. The blood is the true color of infected blood, and there is plenty of it. The death scenes and the Body Collector Creature is original and twisted. I can see the creature as a horror-action toy I would want for Christmas.

Tell us about the “Body Chute‿ and how it was filming the climatic scene for Death Tunnel?

We spent 18 hours straight in that tunnel, no one could breathe, mutiny was in the air, we lost some of our crew, and they were scared beyond imagination. It was raining, three feet of mud, madness and mayhem.


The new “preview art‿ you just sent us looks really great. Can you tell us a little bit more on what looks to be the main antagonist in this film?

You have got to remember that our favorite film is Kubrick’s “ A Clockwork Orange‿. Death Tunnel plays with your head. This film is complete madness, it is not a teen- slasher film, or a boob fest, though it has its erotic scenes; it’s get right to the point in the jump scare factor.

The film colorizations are incredible to look at, though you may find yourself turning away due to the intense subject matters. This an “A‿ film in which the TRUE star is the Sanitarium and its tragic past.

To go along with the “5 Girls‿, the official site also mentions “5 Floors‿ and “5 Ghosts‿ Can you tell us a little about each?

There are Five Floors to the Sanitarium, Each one has it’s own creepy personality, and you can deeply feel it as you walk through this ex-quarantined structure. For example the Fourth Floor is the operating room, and the Fifth Floor is for the insane TB victims; with the morgue and draining room in the basement, where they would slit you open and drain all your infected blood out and hang you there to dry.

Each girl in stranded on a separate floor except the fifth floor, this is part of the mystery in the film. They have five hours to escape. The Five ghosts are based on real paranormal characters that locals have sighted. All the legends behind each character are true. For instance, the Dead Nurse had hung herself and swung in Room 502 for 12 hours in front of the patients before the shift change and the little girl with no eyes who plays ball on the third floor, for example. Really creep.

The imagery used to create the Death Tunnel site is really creepy and somewhat disturbing. Can you give us some insight into them?

Why thank you, disturbing is good! We had just come back from the SANITARIUM, and we felt somewhat affected or (infected)? For, as anyone that has been there can tell you, you can never forget the place when you leave. We used old real stills for the layout.

The voices come from the actual townsfolk; the locals that dared to spend the night there. The older man’s voice you hear had worked there as a gurney body pusher. He was incredible, recently he passed away, and we will miss him may he rest in peace.

The website represents the eerie allure and the initial creepiness. The movie expands on this taking us into a journey of morbid curiosity, revealing a humanistic face to face with death and the last hopes of a dying incurable!

Tell us about “Spooked‿: The Ghost of Waverly Hill Sanitarium Documentary DVD?

SPOOKED is a true documentary, a film journal of us, the filmmakers, making a horror movie in the real haunted sanitarium with real ghosts, real people and real terror. You can see and hear everything we have been talking about for yourself. Spooked is in post-production with a release date of October. You can check it out at: www.spooked.org.

Can we expect a SE DVD 2 Disc release of Death Tunnel, with the documentary included? Now that would be a sweet package.

Yes, it would be, you never know though, we have had extreme interest from distributors, and cable TV etc, for the exclusive story. It would be cool to share all this crazy messed up stuff with the world, we have to wait and see who will let us.


After “Death Tunnel‿, what’s next? What other projects can we look forward to?

First we need a little sleep! We have had many offers by the studios for our next film but we need to think that through. Sometimes studio film can lose the reality, impact and imagination. We are all about real emotion with no boundaries. To use a quote from Death Tunnel, “You make me sick, NO…. I make you sick!‿

For your last question, is there anything else you would like to add about the film or say to the readers of Horror-Movies.ca?

We would like to dedicate the film to the lost souls of the Waverly Hills Sanitarium, May you find your way home.


"An upscale college initiation party strands five girls in the "Scariest Place in the World". Within the five floors of an abandoned hospital built in 1910, haunted by five ghosts of it's tortured past.

As the girls, one by one become victims of it's tragic history, they soon uncover a shocking link they all may have to it's past. A 500 foot underground body chute, built to remove the dead bodies of it's patients.

With each door opens up a new terror, and each corridor leads to unimaginable horror, the only way out is through the Death Tunnel."

By Horror Movies Canada