![]() ![]() ![]() Ghost Adventures filmed a paranormal investigation in 2010. In 2008, an episode of Most Haunted aired. Terror Normal, a paranormal investigative series, filmed at Waverly in 2007. Celebrity Paranormal Project taped here in 2006. In 2004, the horror film Death Tunnel and the documentary Spooked were filmed here. In 2001, ABC Family’s taped Scariest Places On Earth. Waiting for spirits or shadow people to jump out? Some entertainment history: Ghost Hunters features three episodes that took place at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, MaOctober 31, 2007, (a live Halloween special) and November 9, 2011. The area where his extensive digging took place can still currently be seen.” Photo #42 by Aaron (ConspiracyofHappiness) Fortunately, the structure refused to give way and his efforts failed. If this happened, then he believed he could get the building condemned and would be able to legally tear it down. The owner then dug around the foundation, in some places as deep as 30 feet, to try and make the foundation crack. After breaking windows, porcelain sinks, toilets and doors, they began spraying graffiti on every available wall. He let vandals come into the building and tear it up. “He then decided that if he couldn’t legally tear it down then he would do everything in his power to get it condemned. He succeeded in demolishing all of the buildings except for the main hospital and was only stopped by an injunction because the building is on the National Historic Register’s ‘endangered’ list,” according to Thomas-Industries. “The second owner of the property wanted to tear all the buildings down to construct the world’s largest statue of Jesus Christ. It was not known at the time that tuberculosis was an airborne disease.” Photo #29 by © Christopher Drake & #30 by © Christopher Drake When the visit was over, the visitors left Waverly and ventured back out into the community. Once you went to Waverly Hills, you became a permanent resident ‘on the hill.’ Oddly enough, despite that fact, many patients received visits from loved ones on visiting day. Everyone at Waverly – patients, nurses, doctors and other employees had to say ‘goodbye’ to everything they knew on the outside world. Waverly Hillshad it’s own post office, water treatment facility, grew it’s own fruits and vegetables, raised it’s own meat for slaughter and maintained many of the other necessities of everyday life. Because tuberculosis was so extremely contagious and at epidemic proportions, those living with it could not be allowed to live and exist among the general population. A city in and of itself, complete with it’s own zip code. The owners state, “Waverly Hills was a self-contained community.
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